POLITICS

Provisional list of Ghana’s new voter population compiled by the Electoral Commission (EC) shows Dome-Kwabenya in the Ga East District of the Greater Accra Region with the highest number of voters. This is followed by two other constituencies in the Greater Accra Region – Ashaiman, in second place; and Amasaman in third place. A total of 16, 963, 306 voters ...

The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),Mr John Dramani Mahama, has advised members and supporters of the party to verify their names on the provisional voters register when the Electoral Commission opens it for exhibition at polling stations in all constituencies from 18th September to 25thSeptember 2020. Addressing the chiefs and people of Amanten in the Atebubu Amanten ...

Professor Ransford Gyampo has described as politically wise the efforts by former President John Mahama and the NDC to touch base with voters in the stronghold of the ruling NPP. The NDC on on Tuesday held a Townhall meeting in Kumasi to elaborate on their recently launched ‘people’s Manifesto’ as well as highlight achievements of the party in the area. ...

Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated government’s commitment to continuously create an enabling environment for the private sector while ensuring that cost of doing business in Ghana becomes competitive. The Vice President reaffirmed this during the commissioning of a new multi-million dollar Liquid Bulk Terminal at the Port of Takoradi in the Western Region. The facility which was ...

Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, a Deputy Minister for Education, says he did not see the vision of former President John Dramani Mahama who said that he had a vision of a progressive Free SHS but did not want to pay for the progressive. The deputy minister explained that despite the introduction of the progressive Free SHS under the Mahama administration, the amount of ...

President Akufo-Addo has said the conduct of a free, fair, and transparent election, one whose result is beyond dispute, forms a good basis for strengthening cohesion amongst the Ghanaian citizenry and preventing needless disputations. Speaking at the Annual Conference of the Ghana Bar Association, albeit through virtual means, on Monday, 14th September 2020, President Akufo-Addo explained that from 1992 to ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says it is his integrity and abhorrence for thievery and lying that ensured that he stayed in office for almost nineteen years. “I did not come to public office to steal and never did. We had to go through a lot of sacrifices to get to today as a country, and there’s no way I ...

The 2020 Campaign Manager of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says Ghana’s economy would witness a boost when the commercial motorbike business popularly called ‘Okada’ is regularised. Mounting a spirited defence of the party’s campaign promise, Professor Joshua Alabi said the ‘Okada’ business presently supports other sectors of the economy despite it being illegal, including the retail and supply ...

The youth of this Country deserve better and decent jobs with well paid salary than okada business which serves as a means to an end. Most of the youth who are okada riders are doing it because of lack of available jobs. Most of them too were unable to have access to free SHS due to the incompetence of John ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will this afternoon, September 15, 2020, at 1:00pm hold a town hall meeting in Kumasi, Ashanti region. The meeting comes as part of the NDC’s efforts to acquaint its supporters and citizens with policies outlined in its just recently outdoored manifesto ahead of the upcoming 2020 general elections. One of the initiatives outlined in the manifesto ...