POLITICS

Former President John Mahama may have suddenly changed his views on the credibility of the Electoral Commission (EC) but memory of his strong faith in the integrity and credibility of the EC ahead of the 2016 elections still lives on. Mr. Mahama on November 18, 2016, emphatically pointed out that the Electoral Commission cannot rig elections. Reacting purported claims by ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is elated that a demonstration exercise organised by some opposition political parties including the National Democratic Congress (NDC) against the compilation of a new voters’ register recorded no casualties. Speaking at the 71st New Year School at the University of Ghana on Tuesday, Nana Akufo-Addo complained that the situation was not the same in the ...

Armed police officers were deployed on Tuesday morning to the Subin Constituency office of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) after some delegates threatened to lock up the facility. The aggrieved NPP delegates accused the Member of Parliament of the area, Eugene Boakye Antwi, and some party executives of bias. According to them, the MP and the executives are holding on ...

Minister for Parliament Affairs and Majority Leader Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has denied the argument that the NPP is likely to lose the 2020 election without a new voters’ register. According to him, a statement he made in parliament has been taken out of context by the opposition NDC. Speaking on Okay FM’s ‘Ade Akye Abia’ program, he explained ...

With barely 11 months to the 2020 Presidential Election, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has for the third consecutive time been tipped to retain power in 2020. The latest prediction was made by the influential London-based Pan African Magazine, Africa Confidential, and is consistent with two earlier predictions. However, the magazine predicted that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) may ...

The founder and leader of the All People’s Congress [APC], Mr Hassan Ayariga has said the decision to compile a new voters’ register by the Electoral Commission [EC] is absolutely neeedless. “No, not this time,” he disagreed with the electoral body. According to him, the EC has not given a firm proof that a new voters’ register is crucial for ...

The Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Mr Bernard Mornah who has been leading a campaign against the Electoral Commission’s proposal for a new voters register has been accused of being ill-informed about issues surrounding the new register. According to the Director of Research and Elections at the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Evans Nimako who accused Mr Mornah ...

National Communication Officer for the largest opposition National Democratic Congress [NDC], Sammy Gyamfi, has said Madam Jean Mensa cannot rescind her decision over the compilation of a new voters’ register just because it was a contract she signed with President Akufo-Addo before her appointment as Electoral Commission Chairperson. “Indeed, the compilation of a new voters’ register for the up-coming general ...

Nana Obiri Boahen, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Deputy General Secretary, has mounted a spirited defense for the Minister of National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah, insisting there is nothing wrong with a married man having a side chick. He disclosed in an interview monitored by MyNewsGh.com that almost all married men are guilty of having side chicks. Reacting to the ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stated that the government must reinstate some abolished taxes and expand some existing ones in other to meet its short-term revenue projections. The Board of the Fund in its recent report on Ghana stated that the government must consider urgent tax measures like the reintroduction of the controversial 17.5 percent VAT on financial services ...