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The Electoral Commission (EC) has revoked the certificates of seventeen political parties in Ghana. This means that eleven parties are now existing in good standing, the Director of Electoral Services Dr Serebuor Quarcoo said on the Ghana Tonight show with Alfred Ocansey on Monday November 14. “We have 15 new ones who have applied and we are assessing them,” he ...

Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, on Tuesday, 8 November 2022, officially inaugurated the Premium Application Center (PAC) in London. This is a premium service to complement the existing consular services provided by the mission. Prior to the establishment of PAC, the ministry, led by Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, in charge of ...

The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and his Deputy John Kumah must also leave office immediately, a member of the Peoples National Convention (PNC) Bernard Mornah has said. In his view, Mr Ofori-Atta is not the answer to the economic challenges facing Ghanaians. “Investors don’t have confidence in the economy because of Ofori-Atta,” he said on the Big Issue on TV3 ...

The second prosecution witness in the case of Aisha Huang has told the High Court in Accra that the Chinese galamsey queen used a forged marriage certificate and Ghanaian passport to gain an indefinite residence permit. The witness, Superintendent of Immigration David Essien is attached to the Kumasi Enforcement Unit of the Ghana Immigration Service and has worked for the ...

The principle of natural justice will play out properly when the Minister of State at the Finance Ministry who has been sacked by the President, Charles Adu Boahen, gets his day before the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to answer allegations of corruption made against him, a member of the Government’s communication team, Kofi Tontoh has said. Mr Tontoh ...

The lack of confidence in Ghana’s market is one of the issues affecting the performance of the Cedi against the Dollar, Director of Research at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Dr John Kwakye has said. He has proposed to the government to take very drastic confidence-building measures to stop the fall, including severe cuts in spending, cuts in staff ...

Vice President Bawumia has announced that he’s committed to embark on a fundraising effort to support the party’s agenda of registering all members to help with its data and membership analyses and shall raise funds for the party membership registration especially with the registration of Polling Station Executives, Electoral Area Coordinators, Constituency Executives, Regional Excutives and National Executive Commmitee. Dr. ...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is asking suffering Ghanaians to blame the myriad of economic hardships on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and not the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta. The National Communications Officer of NDC, Sammy Gyamfi, reminded Ghanaians to lay the blame on the president and not his debilitating finance minister while reacting to calls for ...

A Former Speaker of Parliament Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye has admitted that he could not deal with the issue of absenteeism among Members of Parliament successfully during his tenure in the 7th Parliament. Although he attempted, he could not succeed in that action, he said. Speaking in an interview with TV3’s Alfred Ocansey on the Ghana Tonight show on Wednesday ...

The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana School of Law has denied reports that members have been directed to submit social media accounts to authorities for monitoring. “The SRC wishes to state that, no such directive has been given to any student by the Management of the Ghana School of Law,” the Council stressed in a press release on ...