POLITICS

Seth Asare Bediako, NPP Bono Regional Communication Director has urged government to beef up security in Banda in the Bono Region. According to him, the behaviour of the NDC gives cause for alarm. This comes on the back of complaints by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that residents of Banda are being intimidated by some security officials. If you ...

The biometric data of 16,663,669 Ghanaians has been captured by the Electoral Commission (EC) in the just ended compilation exercise of a new voters register. These were the figures provided by the commission as those recorded as at August 6, 2020, ahead of the December 7 polls. According to the Deputy Chairman of Corporate Services at the EC, Dr Bossman ...

Former President John Mahama has accused President Akufo-Addo of setting Ghana’s democracy back. According to the NDC flagbearer, the President has compromised state institutions with politics and oppressed Parliament. “This particular tragedy is in the destruction and politicization of our institutions. A judiciary that lacks impartiality, an oppressed Parliament, a pliant Electoral Commission, an Auditor General hounded out of office, ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has filed a complaint of ethnic profiling against the Akufo-Addo administration at the United Nations (UN), General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia has revealed. According to the NDC, Ewes in border towns across the country have been denied access to register in the ongoing voters registration exercise on the basis that they ...

He made a promise, took steps to construct a 5,000-seater interdenominational cathedral with a baptistery, a music school, an art gallery, and a Bible museum. A promise which booked him a free ticket to becoming a friend of the church and most pastors. A president after God’s own heart it seemed. Ghana’s “King Solomon” maybe? And the stone! that particular ...

President Akufo-Addo has nominated a former Takoradi Constituency chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Abdul Mumin Issah as the new Metropolitan Chief Executive for Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly. The nomination of Chairman Mun, as he is affectionately called, comes following the unfortunate demise of the late mayor Anthony KK Sam. In a statement, local government minister Hajia Alima Mahama ...

Dr Nii Moi Thompson, one of the people tipped to be named as the running mate to John Dramani Mahama, has stated that some people started sending requests to him demanding things they wanted to be done for them if he became a vice-presidential nominee for the opposition NDC. According to Dr Thompson, even though his name came up as one ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has dismissed three local government chief executives and replaced them with new appointees, a statement from the sector minister, Hajia Alima Mahama has announced. They are Metropolitan Chief Executive of Secondi-Takoradi in the Western Region, Anthony Kobina Kurentsir Sam, District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Amansie South District in the Ashanti Region, William Asante Bediako and Akwapim ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress in the Ashanti region has accused the Electoral Commission of registering minors in the region as the voter’s registration exercise comes to a close. According to the party, the EC is embarking on the alleged illegality with the help of the National Identification Authority. “The concurrent ongoing NIA mop-up registration exercise and the EC’s registration ...

The General Legal Council, on Thursday July 30, 2020, dismissed a complaint of misconduct brought against Lawyer Charles Zwennes, by his colleague, Lawyer Phillip Addison. The Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council upon hearing the complaint laid before it, said that it found no evidence whatsoever of misconduct on the part of Lawyer Zwennes in the ongoing case of ...