The mass re-registration of subscriber identification module (SIM) cards across the country is scheduled to begin today, Friday, October 1. The six-month exercise is expected to take data from all SIM card users across the country. The National ID card, the Ghana Card, is the only document of identification for the exercise. Announcing this early last month, Minister of Communications ...

More than seven in 10 Ghanaians (76%) favour election of MMDCEs, a survey by the Centre for Democratic Governance has found. “Only 20% want them to be appointed by the President”, the findings said. It noted that while over two-thirds of the respondents (71%) say they prefer MMDCEs elected on nonpartisan election format similar to that used in local government ...

The ruling party will from Friday, October 1 begin its regional delegates’ conferences across the 16 administrative regions of Ghana as it rallies its grassroots for the next elections in 2024. The Savannah Region will begin it all for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as new regional executives are elected. This is the start of activities ahead of the 2021 ...

Three MMDCE nominees by President Nana Akufo-Addo in the Ashanti region have been rejected by their respective assembly members. The rejected nominees are David A. Asare, the nominee for Offinso North who had 57.60% of the total votes cast, Michael Awuku Amoah nominee for Atwima Nwabiagya South with 61.30% and Juaben nominee Alex Sarfo Kantanka the constituency chairman also secured ...

Guinea’s military leader Col Mamady Doumbouya will on Friday be sworn in as the interim president. The ceremony will be held at the presidential palace and will be attended by those who have been invited only. Col Doumbouya led the coup that ousted President Alpha Condé early last month. He is expected to form a government in the coming weeks. ...

The Association of Magistrates and Judges of Ghana (AMJG), has appealed to the government to pay allowances due to members on time. According to them, the way their allowances are paid is disrespectful. “We feel disrespected about the way our allowances are paid as if it is a favour being done to us,” Justice Senyo Dzamefe, the President of AMJG, ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will begin a two-region tour from Friday, October 1. President Akufo-Addo will take seven days to tour the Ashanti and Eastern regions. Addressing journalists at the Presidency on Monday, Director of Public Affairs at the Jubilee House Eugene Arhin said the President has toured 12 out of the 16 regions of Ghana. From the Ashanti Region, where ...

The Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG) has cited the government for going contrary to a Supreme Court ruling of appointing civil servants as members of metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs). Executive Secretary Isaac Bampoe Addo warned that the earlier government desists from that practice the better. Speaking at the 4th Nathan Anan Quao Public Lecture in ...

For the first time in about 60 years, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has purchased gold to augment its gold reserves and shore up the country’s foreign assets. The bank bought 280 kilogrammes of the precious metal this year under a historic gold purchase programme meant to double its gold reserves and supplement the traditional ways that the country has ...

Zimbabwe’s clash with Ghana in Harare will be played without fans following the latest decision by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). CAF has denied Zimbabwe’s request to have a limited number of fans at the stadium for the World Cup qualifier scheduled for October 12. “The Confederation of African Football has once again turned down our request to allow ...