The Volta regional secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress, James Gunu has indicated that his party would have no problem holding onto all the 18 parliamentary seats in the region during the December, 2020 polls. According to Mr. Gunu, the NDC remains attractive and solid in its stronghold [Volta] and would secure another 100 per cent representation in parliament ...

Former President John Mahama says he will return mining concessions which have wrongfully taken from their original owners back to them if he wins the December polls. Speaking at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi Wednesday while introduidng his runningmate to Otumfuo Osei Tutu, Mr Mahama said an NDC government will ensure equitable distribution of national resources. “The other time, I ...

Former President Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings has detailed one incident at Afiadenyigba between Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and Ernestina Naadu Mills, former first and second lady respectively, which Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi has stated in his book Working with Rawlings that, it was the main reason Rawlings fell out with his vice president Prof. J.E. Atta-Mills. Prof Kwamena Ahwoi wrote that ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has instructed constituency executives in Offinso South to recall all suspended NPP members who invoked curses on leadership over attempt to disqualify their preferred parliamentary aspirant. The two members, Mr Kwasi Adu Gyemfi and Mr Offeh Collins Kingsley known as hon Bonti on 5th June, 2020 resorted to invoking deities to register their dissatisfaction with ...

Seven people infected with COVID-19 in Ghana have died, taking the country’s death toll to 270, the Ghana Health Service. Also 95 new cases have been recorded with Ghana having a total of 43,717 cases since COVID-19 first entered the country in March. The active cases have drastically reduced to 1,604 with a total of 41,843 recoveries or discharges. Cumulative ...

The Association of Pentecostal and Charismatic Clergy (APCC) has apologised to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for saying that persecution of the Church will be one of his legacies in a communiqué it issued a few weeks ago. In a statement signed by its General Secretary Rev. John Armaah, APCC said: “Upon sober reflection on the heading of our recent ...

Heritage Bank Ghana Limited was the only solvent bank that was deliberately targeted and collapsed by the Bank of Ghana and no amount of lies and propaganda churned out by Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong on his NET2 TV station can change that fact, pressure group Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has said. A statement signed by ...

Despite significantly higher credit impairments and the material impact of the lockdowns on transactional volumes, Absa Group, including all business units, remained profitable. In addition, revenue increased by 3% while cost-to-income ratio reduced from 56.7% to 53.9%. The group also reported an 82% decline in normalised interim earnings after impairments increased four-fold to 5.01 billion cedis. Impairment charges rose as ...

Results of a fact-check conducted on #As3mYiDziKa on Connect FM 97.1MHz in Takoradi indicate that 31 out of the 66 urban roads completed in Sekondi-Takoradi Metro on the delivery tracker were duplicated. Only 4 of the 66 were not duplicated. Interestingly, there was one project titled unknown road. The data, however, could no longer be accessed after the Member of ...

The infrastructure debate between the opposition NDC and the governing NPP seems not to be going away anytime soon, as the vice-president has dared the opposition party to also set up a website to showcase what they did while in government. Speaking on Accra-based Peace FM, Dr Bawumia who was responding to claims by the opposition party that twenty-six of ...