POLITICS

The largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has estimated that a minimum of one million potential voters will be disenfranchised should the Electoral Commission adamantly continue to hold the limited registration exercise for the Assembly election at its district offices instead of at the electoral levels. The EC recently announced plans to undertake a limited voter registration exercise ...

Volta Regional Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) says party officials in the region will soon sign a performance contract with its presidential candidate John Dramani Mahama. James Gunu says parliamentary candidates would also sign a performance contract with constituency executives and other stakeholders going into next year’s parliamentary and presidential elections. Speaking to journalists in Ho, he disclosed ...

Minority Chief Whip in Parliament, Hon. Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka has revealed that, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led government has so far spent GH¢18 billion to collapse local banks in the country that needed just GH¢ 9 billion injection for them to survive. Also READ: NDC Regional Chairman FIGHTS Kwaku Skirt over Wontumi’s V8 BRIBE claims The New Patriotic Party (NPP) ...

Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has justified the controversial comments by the senior minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, which many say, suggested the trial of ‘galamsey queen’, Aisha Huang, was compromised to save Ghana’s bilateral relations with China. Yaw Osafo Maafo, while addressing a town hall in the US, had said jailing the Chinese national, who was standing trial for ...

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission(EC) has strangely defended the shake-up at the Commission’s Headquarters in Accra which has seen the transfer of some key officials. Head of Communications at the EC, Eric Dzakpasu has been moved to the Volta Region. The former head of the EC’s Public Affairs Department is now the Deputy Volta Regional Director. Mr Kofi Dzakpasu ...

A Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Osei Bonsu Amoah, has entreated Ghanaians to ignore vile propaganda by the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on the creation of new constituencies across the country. First Deputy Minority Whip in Parliament, Mr Ibrahim Ahmed claimed that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) was compelling the Electoral Commission (EC) ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday broke his silence on the recent cases of kidnapping in the country and gave an assurance that tough decisions were being taken by the government to deal decisively with the matter. He stated that unlike Nigeria, Ghana had not known such unfortunate phenomenon of kidnapping, adding that “we need to do something about ...

President Akufo-Addo has condemned the leakage of part of the Emile Short Commission report of the Awayaso Wuogon by election describing it as irresponsible. He said the government will rather err on the side of caution rather than make any hasty decisions. President Akufo-Addo said until the government is satisfied with response that is up to it’s sense of responsibilities, ...

The Citizens Movement Against Corruption has called for the prosecution of a former minister of state Rockson Bukari for “obstructing justice.” The former Upper East regional minister resigned on Monday, April 29, 2019 after a tape leaked implicating him in a move to prevent a Starr FM journalist Edward Adeti from publishing a story against a judge and a Chinese ...

The contribution made by the Attorney-General and the Minister of Justice, Madam Gloria Akuffo in the three kidnapped girls and the announcement by the CID that they had actually located where the girls are has been described by the Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. as exceedingly interesting. Reading from page 2 of the Daily Guide report ...