Outspoken founding member of the governing NPP, Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has expressed what he says are his “deep worries” about events in Ghana since President Nana Akufo-Addo took the reins of power. In a press statement issued on Monday, June 8, 2020, the senior citizen said these events risk plunging the country into anarchy if care is not taken. “There ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that the underlying legal reasons for its decision not to include the existing voter’s Identification Card (ID) in its upcoming registration exercise is because the Supreme Court itself has held that the register is reasonably not credible and that by implication, the cards issued pursuant to it are also reasonably not credible. The EC ...

Executive Secretary of Care Ghana, David Kumi has disclosed that the policies of the African Union are highly against reforms being instituted by the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC). According to him, per the African Union’s policies, no country is expected to make major reforms to their electoral processes a year prior to elections. He made this disclosure in an ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has directed its constituency executives to suspend members who have been involved in cursing party executives over th upcoming parliamentary primaries. It comes after viral videos of some party members agitating and visiting rivers to invoke curses on executives of the party for disqualifying their preferred candidates. Addressing a press conference in Accra Monday, ...

Some delegates of the governing New Patriotic Party, (NPP) in Nsuta Kwamang Beposo constituency of the Ashanti region have rejected bribe amounting to one thousand Ghana Cedis (GHc. 1,000.00), a mobile phone and GTP cloth. The items were allegedly given to delegates by Adelaide Yaa Ntim, one of the parliamentary aspirants seeking to unseat the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) ...

A memorial has been held in Texas for George Floyd, the African American whose death sparked global protests, with members of United States’ Democrats clad in kente – the Ghanaian cotton fabric made of interwoven cloth strips. Led by Nancy Patricia Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the members, with the sashes around their necks, observed silence ...

Political Scientist Dr. Amoako Baah has described the disqualification of some contenders in the upcoming parliamentary primaries of the NPP as inappropriate and undemocratic. Also, he said, the idea of party executives deciding a candidate after a flawed primaries is problematic. There is raging anger among some branch executives and supporters of NPP after the National Executive Committee (NEC) of ...

Details are emerging about how $200 million earmarked for the construction of 5,000 housing units by the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration was started and could not be completed despite huge sums paid to the contractor. The deal was approved by Parliament but by the time it was being executed, the number of housing units had reduced drastically from ...

Tension is escalating at the Abeka District Court as family and friends of the late Benjamin Okyere, who was shot dead by his landlord at Ofankor, are demanding Justice. According to the family present, the accused ought to be killed in the manner their relative was murdered for Justice to prevail as “an eye for an eye and a tooth ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has postponed its mass distribution of Ghana Cards across the 16 regions of the country. The NIA last week announced that it will from Monday, June 8, 2020, distribute over three million printed Ghana cards to applicants across the 16 regions of the country. According to the NIA, the cards are being made available in ...