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+ Monday, February 15, is Day 4 of the ministerial vetting by Parliament’s Appointments Committee chaired by First Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei Owusu. The Communications and Digitisation Minister-designate Ursula Owusu-Ekuful and Minister-designate for Local Government, Decentralisation & Rural Development, Dan Botwe will be facing the Appointments Committee. Mr Dan Botwe will take over from former Local Government Minister, Alima Mahama, should he pass the vetting process.

+ Monday, February 15, is Day 4 of the ministerial vetting by Parliament’s Appointments Committee chaired by First Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei Owusu. The Communications and Digitisation Minister-designate Ursula Owusu-faced the Appointments Committee. Mr Dan Botwe, Minister-designate for Local Government, Decentralisation & Rural Development will take over from former Local Government Minister, Alima Mahama, should he pass the vetting process today.

It is ticking, but slowly and tactically, as suspicion starts to rise among NPP leadership on who takes over from President Akufo-Addo, after the end of his constitutional tenure as President and Leader of the NPP in 2024.

  The Okere District Assembly has congratulated Mr Daniel Kweku Botwe on his new appointment as the Minister for Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development designate. Mr Daniel Kenneth, Okere District Chief Executive, in a statement copied the GNA, said "the appointment did not come as a surprise, as Mr Botwe had extremely performed as Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development in the last four years." The statement said Mr Dan Botwe’s commitment, loyalty and love for...

  Parliament is set to vet persons nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for ministerial positions by asking the House to consider the nominees and approve them to their various portfolios. Speaker Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, who read the communication from the President to the House at the plenary, referred the nominations to the Appointments Committee of Parliament. The 26-member Appointments Committee, chaired by First Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei-Owusu, would vet the nominees...

President Akufo-Addo and his former ministers The special ministries created to allegedly reward party boys and girls when President Akufo-Addo assumed office on January 7, 2017, are going to be scrapped to make it possible for a leaner government. They include Aviation, Office of the Senior Minister, Planning, Zongo, Special Initiatives, Regional Reorganisation and Development, Public Procurement Ministry, Monitoring and Evaluation which left in its wake 125 ministers serving in the Akufo-Addo...

Trust Me, Yaw Gyampo, NDC Is Not the Least Bit Attractive Listen to article He spent most of the last four years caustically lambasting the Akufo-Addo Administration, rather than proffering constructive criticism, so it comes as quite refreshing that Prof. Ransford Yaw Gyampo, the University of Ghana’s political scientist, should be offering the President what he deems or appears to be his candid opinion about what Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the leaders of the ruling New Patriotic Party...

54-year-old man remanded for pouring acid on SHS graduate and mother The suspect carried out the crime after the lady rejected his marriage proposal. Mr Mante turned himself up to the police after committing the crime. His remand was ordered after the case was sat on by Her Honour Felicia Antwi Anane of an Akuapem Mampong Magistrate Court. The accused person will reappear before the court on Wednesday, December 23, 2020. The police has on the other hand launched investigations into the matter. ...

Awukugwa acid suspect in the cooler; family pleads for public support to treat victims An Akuapem Mampong Magistrate Court, presided over by Her Honour Felicia Antwi Anane, has remanded a 54-year-old Awukugua-based businessman, Nana Yaw Mante, into police custody for allegedly pouring acid on one Deborah Osei, a Senior High School graduate  suspected to be his former girlfriend, and supposed mother in-law, Madam Asi Jacklyn, for rejecting his proposal of marriage. Nana Yaw Mante, after committ...

NDC to contest 5 parliamentary results in court The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has hinted that it will in the next few weeks use legitimate means to contest the parliamentary results of five constituencies. According to the party, results for Techiman South, Sefwi Wiawso, Zabzugu, Tarkwa Nsuem and Essikado Ketan were illegally declared in favour of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Speaking on Joy FMs Top Story on Thursday, a member of the NDC legal team, Baba Jamal Mohammed Ahmed noted th...