POLITICS

The People’s National Convention (PNC) has removed from office, the National Chairman of the party Mr Moses Dani Baah and the National Leader of the party, Mr David Apasera. The party has also reinstated madam Janet Nabla as the party’s General Secretary. These decisions were taken by the party at its extraordinary National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held in Kumasi ...

Pollster and Managing Editor of Dispatch, Mr Ben Ephson has said that winning an election in Ghana is not a do-or-die affair. He explained that winning an election requires trained party loyalists as polling agents who will ensure that vote numbers are properly collated and filled on the pink sheets. His comments come after Former President John Dramani Mahama has ...

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today, Wednesday, 8 September, 2021, chair a virtual Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting on the coup in Guinea. This was announced by the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin. “The president will chair an emergency virtual summit of heads of state and governments of the Economic Community of ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has returned GH¢237,974, being the salary increment granted to him from January to August, this year. The funds, paid into the Pensions and Salaries Account of the Controller and Accountant – General’s Department, is in fulfillment of his pledge during this year’s May Day celebration, not to raise his salary, that of the Vice President, ...

Former President John Mahama has served notice the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will not take chances with the 2024 elections insisting polling stations will be “do or die” affair. According to the 2020 flagbearer of the opposition party, the electoral commission deliberately took measures to ensure that President Akufo-Addo and the NPP won the 2020 elections. “It is said that ...

Member of Parliament for Effutu in the Central Region, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has pointed out that every campaign promise that was made by President Akufo-Addo on his campaign trail during the has been fulfilled to the letter. He said unlike the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), every promise that was penned in the manifesto of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) ...

A concerned group within the New Patriotic Party (NPP) known as Concerned Northern Grassroots of NPP has petitioned the party’s Council of Elders in the Northern Region to sanction some regional executives over Bawumia for 2024 declaration. According to the group, the series of declarations has put the party in a very awkward position considering the fact that Dr. Mahamudu ...

Found some really chilling statistics about teenage pregnancies across the country, while preparing for a radio programme last week. We must all support the call for the development of a policy that will help prevent and stem the rising risk of teenage pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases and its attendant social issues. And this must be urgent! We are already in ...

The Chairman of the Parliament’s Select Committee on Finance and former Deputy Finance Minister, Kweku Kwarteng has challenged the National Democratic Congress’s 2020 Flagbearer, John Mahama to table his alternative economic proposals before Ghanaians rather than resort to politicking. The former President has criticized the Akufo-Addo-led NPP government over what he describes as a ”wanton dissipation of state resources and ...

The government has defended its borrowing over the years saying the monies are to settle debts incurred by the erstwhile Mahama administration. According to government, borrowing in the covid era is being done by many countries across the world and it is only in Ghana that borrowing has been made a political matter. Ghana’s current debt stock stands at over ...