POLITICS

The Nigerian government has announced that President Akufo-Addo has apologised to President Muhammadu Buhari over the demolition of a building at the Nigerian High Commission in Ghana. “President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana Tuesday spoke with President Muhammadu Buhari, expressing his sincere apology for demolition of a building on the premises of Nigerian High Commission in Accra, Ghana. “In a telephone ...

The Electoral Commission has been hit with a third suit as it prepares to embark on a mass voter’s registration exercise for the December polls. The suit, filed by the NDC MP for Ashaiman, Ernest Norgbey, was filed at the High Court Tuesday. The opposition lawmaker is asking the court to rule that the election management body does not have ...

Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, the Assin Central Member of Parliament, has recounted a bitter experience he had with former President John Agyekum Kufuor during which the latter sacked him from his house over an alleged lie told by a young man called Ato Eshun Kufuor. According to him, President Kufuor was not patient to listen to his side of the story. ...

An amount of GHC1.5 billion petroleum revenue cannot be accounted for in the 2019 fiscal year, the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has disclosed. According to the committee, out of the 2.7 billion cedis accrued into the annual budget funding amount, the state only used 1.2 billion cedis with the remaining 1.5 billion not utilized and not accounted for. ...

The Eastern Regional Secretariat of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has warned the party will stop defeated aspirants from contesting as Independent candidates in the December polls. Speaking to the media on the sidelines of a press conference held Tuesday, the Regional Secretary Jeff Konadu said the party’s rules of engagement bars all aspirants from going independent. “Anyone who ...

Former Member of Parliament for Navrongo Central, Mark Owen Woyongo is of the view that he was defeated in the 2016 elections because his contender Joseph Kofi Adda at the time came up with outrageous and unachievable promises. “I think there are so many factors, you know NPP promised the people of Ghana heaven. We will do this for you, ...

Numerologist and Philosopher, Mallam Sham-una Uztaz Jibril, has sent a strong warning to a particular political party that no amount of manipulation or rigging can save them of defeat in the 2020 elections. Mallam Jibril is credited for accurately predicting in 2015 and 2016 respectively with numbers that Trump, Akufo-Addo and Buhari will win the polls. He has made another ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has described as “regrettable”, the breaches of COVID-19 safety protocols in some constituencies during the New Patriotic Party’s Saturday, 20 June 2020 parliamentary primaries. “I commend all party executives, delegates and aspirants for the peaceful, credible, efficient and successful manner in which the elections were held, albeit, regrettably, with some breaches of the COVID-19 protocols in some ...

Let me commend the national peace council for their immense contributions towards the protection and promotion of peace in the country, peace is something wealthy which must be protected, sustained and promoted by all well meaning people in a society. The national peace council must take this from me once for all that, political vigilantism will be inevitable and inalienable ...

Loudmouth political activist, Kwame Asare Obeng, also known as A Plus, has dragged politicians through the mud, claiming that, plenty of them are chain weed smokers. According to A Plus, about 90 per cent of people who have been in power over the years, smoked the substance yet, the poor, the ordinary and the street boys were those who suffered ...