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Bragha Ghana Limited, a leading company of fast-moving consumer goods in the country, has donated more 100 packs of their product, Bacchus energy drink, to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Accra. According to the Managing Director of the company, Mr. Patrick Wontumi, the donation of Bacchus Energy Drink – a premium non-alcoholic beverage – is to help energise party ...

Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome yesterday told the Supreme Court that he was not engaged in any form of business because he had sold his shares in his companies to fund his legal battles with the state. According to him, since his arrest and subsequent prosecution after the state had paid him GH¢51.2 million in judgement debt, he had become a ...

Former Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan allegedly superintended over corruption while in office, Majority Leader and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has accused. “Corruption within EC was there before Charlotte Osei assumed office as chairperson”, he alleged. “I will not lay the allegations alone on the doorstep of Madam Charlotte Osei and her ...

Some women groups in the Northern Region led by Constituency women’s organizers of the governing New Patriotic Party are calling for investigations into the recent recruitment exercise under the Ghana school feeding program. According to the women, one Hajia Safia Mohammed who is purported to be from the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection had asked some women to ...

Sam Kofi Mills, son of late President Prof. John Evans Atta Mills says he is glad to see Ghanaians still remember is father even after five years of his demise. Speaking to www.ghanaweb.com at the five-year commemoration of the death of his father Monday July 24, Mr. Kofi Mills said, his father deserves to be celebrated because he was a ...

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) is demanding that all the Commissioners of the Electoral Commission (EC) step aside for investigations to be conducted into the allegations and counter-allegations between the Chairperson Mrs. Charlotte Osei and her deputies, Georgina Opoku Amankwa and Amadu Sulley. Mrs. Osei is being accused for “single-handedly” dishing out contracts without recourse to the Public Procurement Act ...

Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) in charge of Corporate Services, Georgina Opoku Amankwaa, who is alleged to have signed contracts without proper authorisation has refuted the allegations, insisting that she breached no regulations. Mrs Opoku Amankwaa’s rebuttal is the latest twist in the thickening internal row at the Electoral Commission (EC), Ghana’s independent elections management body. Chairperson of ...

The Campaign Director for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Martin Agyei Mensah Korsah, Director of Elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described as worrying the recent controversy that has struck the Electoral Commission (EC). According to him, the development affects the integrity of the Commission and as such urgent steps must be taken to resolve the brouhaha. The ...

A third prosecution witness in the trial of Gregory Afoko, Mr Azigri Quinn, yesterday confirmed to the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court that the late Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Mahama Adams, told a close associate that it was Afoko and an accomplice who caused his death. Mr Quinn said while lying ...

The 2016 flag bearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga has described the former chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan as a ‘shining example’ in Africa. According to him, Dr Afari-Gyan was far better in handling election matters in the country than the current chair, Madam Charlotte Osei. “I miss Afari so much because of ...