POLITICS

President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced that all National ID Card numbers will this year be used as Tax Identification Numbers (TIN) and SSNIT numbers. The President made this known when he delivered his first State of the Nation address of his second term on Tuesday, March 9. According to him, there has been more progress in formalizing the Ghanaian economy ...

2016 flagbearer hopeful of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Professor Joshua Alabi, has denied having anything to do with posters of himself as a potential candidate for the 2024 flagbearership race currently making rounds. The poster which is fast spreading on social media platforms, captures the renowned academician in a suit adorned with the NDCs party colours in the background, with the ...

Former Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, has disclosed that going to court over the 2020 election dispute was the best decision former President John Dramani Mahama has ever made. According to him, with president Akufo-Addo having shown the way in the 2013 election petition, the former president could not have done anything worse. Speaking on Okay Fm’s Ade ...

Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said government may be compelled to impose sanctions on persons who refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Ghana commenced a vaccination exercise last week with over 200,000 persons vaccinated so far. Speaking at a press conference on Monday at the Peduase Lodge, Hon. Oppong Nkrumah stated that the government believes it will have ...

The first impact of the race for the leadership of the New Patriotic Party in the 2024 elections appears to have been felt with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo having to settle on the more neutral Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu as the presenter of the 2021 budget. As already known, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is currently indisposed as he undergoes treatment for ...

Former Upper East regional Minister Prof. Avea Nsoh is calling for the resignation of the Minority Chief Whip Mohammed Muntaka. According to him, his failure to whip Members of Parliament for the NDC in line with the position of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). “Hon Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak, MP for Asawase must resign immediately. He has failed Ghana and the ...

“I never saw the Vice President of His Excellency President John Evans Atta-Mills pay the kinds of compliments Vice President Bawumia pays to President Akufo-Addo,” NDC’s Koku Anyidoho wrote on Twitter recently, adding a photograph of Vice President Bawumia bowing to President Akufo-Addo when the Supreme Court dismissed Mahama’s election petition. Samuel Koku Anyidoho has been incessantly taunting former President John Dramani Mahama especially, and the ...

Former President John Mahama and former First Lady Lordina Mahama have received their first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Police Hospital in Accra. On Monday, President Akufo-Addo and Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia took their first doses of the vaccine to shore up public confidence in the vaccine. The Ghana Health Service will today begin the national rollout ...

The minority members on the Appointments Committee of Parliament have rejected three ministers-designate, put on hold the approval of five others and unanimously approved 22 nominees. Below are the full reasons by the Minority 1 SUMMARY OF REASONS FOR THE DECISIONS BY THE NDC CAUCUS ON THE APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEE (MARCH 2021) REJECT LIST 1) Hawa Koomson (MP) a) The Minister-designate ...

Ghana has joined the world to mark this year’s 2021 Global Rare Disease Day which falls on the 28th of February every year. On Sunday 28th February 2021, a symbolic observation of the 2021 edition of the Rare Disease Day, saw the lighting up of the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, a national monument performed by the Rare Disease Ghana Initiative team. ...