POLITICS

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 ...

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 ...

Special Prosecutor Mr Kissi Agyebeng has indicated that when it comes to law, it is not the truth lawyers and the court are looking for because no one knows the truth apart from God. He stated the courts normally look for evidence to back claims made in case. This is contrary to long-held views that the courts determine the truth ...

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has summoned three teacher unions which jointly announced an intention to embark on a strike action on Friday, October 1. At an August 10, 2021 press conference, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) together with the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and Coalition of Concerned Teachers, Ghana (CCT-Ghana) served notice to strike as ...

Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng has warned: “If you are an electoral officer or a returning officer and you change results, I am going after you”. In an interview on Wednesday, 29 September 2021, Mr Agyebeng added: “Immediately you declare the results, I am going after it and matching polling stations and matching pink sheets with pink sheets and if they ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Nicodemusly arrived in Ghana after attending the 76th session of the United Nation’s General Assembly in the United States of America (USA), North Tongu lawmaker Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said. While in the US, President Nana Addo Danwak Akufo-Addo met the US Vice President Kamala Harris and had bilateral discussions with her. After the President’s ...

The Savannah Regional Executive Committee of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has slated Friday, October 1 for its regional delegates’ conference. In a statement issued by the regional Communications Director, Mohammed Issah, the conference is scheduled to take place at Daboya in the North Gonja District. “The conference is expected to have all 17 constituency executives from the seven ...

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Kwaku Afriyie, has announced that cabinet has taken a decision to dedicate 1% of Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to research and innovation. This, he said would be disbursed through the Ghana National Research Fund. He said this at a press conference moderated by Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in Accra on ...