POLITICS

Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed his disappointment with the Electoral Commission’s refusal to receive the post-2020 electoral reform proposals submitted by the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Speaking in an interview on URA Radio in Bolgatanga, Mr. Mahama said the Commission in refusing to receive the proposals asked the NDC to rather send the proposals to the IPAC. This, ...

Former President John Mahama says the NDC has learnt its lessons following the controversial loss in the 2020 elections. Addressing party executives and supporters in Bolgatanga in the Upper East region, President Mahama assured them that the NDC, in the 2024 elections, would put all measures in place to win on the ground and avoid going to the Supreme Court ...

A former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho has said any effort to expand access to healthcare in Ghana should be embraced by all Ghanaians. Commenting on the Agenda 111 project commissioned by President Akufo-Addo on Tuesday August 17 which will lead to the construction of 111 hospitals across the country, Mr Anyidoho who is ...

The Ghanaian community in Houston, a city in Texas of the United States of America, is concerned that the Ghana Consulate in the city has been shut down. The Consulate, according to the Executive Board of the Ghana Association of Houston, has been shut since May 2021, depriving Ghanaians living in the city of consular services. Ghanaians in need of ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said the youth are disappointed in the country’s democratic governance and its leaders and has, therefore, called on the political class and traditional leaders to listen to the cries of young people and create sustainable jobs for them. According to Mr Mahama, youth unemployment is a threat to the nation and no leader will ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, has disclosed that President Akufo-Addo is making moves to get him to help Members of Parliament (MPs) who double as Ministers of State in the House. This, according to him is occasioned by the unique make of the 8th Parliament of the 4th Republic which he said neither has a majority nor ...

A member of the communication team of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ms Awo Kekeli, has observed that her party’s weakness in selling its achievements to the Ghanaian people is what leads to its defeat at the hands of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), which, in her view, always comes to destroy whatever the NDC administration builds while ...

Ghana’s Minister of Energy, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, on Monday, 16 August 2021, cut the ribbon to launch the country’s delegation pavilion at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2021 in Houston, Texas, USA, with a call on investors to take advantage and invest in the vast opportunities available in Ghana’s upstream and downstream petroleum industry. Speaking at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, ...

The governments of Ghana and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have completed processes for the visa waiver agreement for diplomatic and service passport holders. The agreement which is now operational saw the country’s Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecelia Dapaah, entering UAE on August 16, 2021, without any visa requirements. This was revealed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs ...

The People’s National Convention (PNC) has notified the Electoral Commission (EC) in a letter dated Monday, 16 August 2021, of some of its executive members who were not properly elected for certain positions and, thus, cannot be recognised as such. The party said on 30 September 2020, it held a Congress in all the 16 regions of the country simultaneously ...