POLITICS

Former Local Government Minister under the Jerry John Rawlings administration, Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi has recounted how he and some advisers in the then government threatened the former President to put an end to the reckless execution or risk losing them. Rawlings’ administration prior to the introduction of Democracy according to history saw a number of individuals being executed for crimes ...

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has described his colleague General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu as a lunatic who sits on television and spews garbage. “If John Boadu was in his right senses, he will not come and sit on television and be claiming they were sent [alleged ...

Former president John Mahama says the violence at Dormaa that led to the death of an activist of the New Patriotic Party over the weekend is an indication that President Akufo-Addo has lost control of his party. During the Electoral Commission’s mop-up of the voter’s registration exercise on Sunday gunshots were fired at a registration centre at Dormaa. It still ...

A former PNDC/NDC appointee and local government expert, Professor Kwamena Ahwoi, has said that the former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, was always playing with his toy planes during Cabinet meetings. In his Working with Rawlings book, the former Minister for Local Government and Rural Development and a close ally of John Dramani Mahama has intimated that whilst serious ...

Angry youth of Enyan Denkyira in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam Constituency have warned the ruling NPP Parliamentary Candidate for the Ajumako Enyan Essiam Dr. Rashid Kwesi Etuaful to apologize to them after his bodyguards allegedly brutalized one of their members into critical condition during the Voters Registration at Ajumako Bisease. At a press conference, the youth warned that Dr. Rashid ...

The suggestion that there is something suspicious going on in the strongholds of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in terms of the registration for Voters’ Identification Cards is completely apocryphal and high fantasy, Bright Simmons has said. “There is no evidence whatsoever that there is something peculiar about the situation in the Volta Region”, Honorary Vice President of IMANI ...

pposition NDC is demanding the prosecution of persons implicated in the ECG-PDS concession deal almost a year after cancellation of the agreement. The party says although Energy Minister Peter Amewu publicly admitted that PDS was fraud committed on the country, no individual has been brought to book. According to the NDC, the country has lost about a billion dollars as ...

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has lauded the Electoral Commission for successfully conducting the voter’s registration exercise amid legal battles it has been faced with. The group described the process as ‘generally fine’, considering setbacks during the pre-registration period. Speaking on the Morning Star on Monday, CODEO Project Lead Rhoda Afful noted “if you look at all the ...

A Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Jonathan Asante Otchere, is calling for an urgent probe into the activities of the current Commissioners of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC). Speaking on ‘Decision 2020’, a political show on 3FM on Sunday, the Senior Lecturer said there is no significant difference between the numbers the EC says it has ...

Ghana needs GHc3.5 trillion in order to provide adequate nutrition to 850,000 pregnant women and over 4,000 infants in the country. The nutritional value should include multiple micro nutrient and calcium supplementation, exclusive breastfeeding of infants and improving complementary feeding interventions. It is expected that adequate nutrition would reduce maternal death by 82% and 16% stunted growth in children under five years ...