POLITICS

Ghana is focused on redusing COVID-19 cases to zero to ensure that life returns to normal, the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has stated. Speaking on the Morning Starr on Monday, the Information Minister said the country can only achieve the target if citizens strictly keep to the preventive measures. “Ghana’s mortality rate is one of the lowest in the ...

The Ashanti regional branch of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dismissed claims by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the Electoral Commission was forced to admit anomalies in voter registration figures in the Ashanti region after they complained of it. According to the NPP, the assertion of the NDC is false as the EC itself had earlier informed ...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says Ghana’s mortality rate of COVID-19 is among the lowest in the world. According to him, that is because the country has been efficient in its response to the virus. So far, 148 Ghanaians have died of the virus with about 27,667 confirmed cases and 23,249 recoveries. The country still has 4,270 active cases, according ...

Former Member of Parliament(MP) for Zebilla Constituency, Lawyer John Ndebugri has described the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as an untruthful person. According to him, due to the President’s untruthful nature, the people of Ghana will vote massively to boot him out of office. “I want to let everyone listening to your radio within the Kusang kingdom to ...

Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Marfo has tested negative for COVID-19 after going through the treatment procedure for the virus, Information minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah announced. “Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo you recall instructed us to announce his positivity to the country a couple of weeks ago. He has taken a voluntarily test again and he wants me to update you that ...

The founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, has taken a swipe at one Mr. Kwesi Adu, asking him to open his “mind and eyes to some political machinations and vicious politics” in Ghana. In a statement sighted by Angelonline.com, Mr. Rawlings said, “I had also hoped that since your return you would also have ...

The Supreme Court has released a 29-paged judgment detailing the reasons behind its decision to dismiss a suit challenging the compilation of the new voter’s register. A seven-member panel of the apex court on June 25, 2020 affirmed the ECs move not to accept the old voter’s cards and birth certificates as a proof of eligibility of an applicant for ...

The Member of Parliament for Ejura Sekyere-Dumase in the Ashanti region Bawa Braimah says the Police and the Military dispatched to the area have taken sides in the chaos that has engulfed the constituency since the voter registration exercise began. According to the lawmaker, personnel of the security agencies show open bias and protect the ruling party members even when ...

Former Minister for Gender Children and Social Protection, Madam Otiko Afisa Djaba has invoked curses on the National Democratic Congress for peddling falsehood about her saying Ghanaians will punish them for that singular act There were reports that suggested that the former Women’s Organiser for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said that she left the NPP because they disregard women. The ...

Amid the coronavirus pandemic and the fast-rising cases recorded in the country, Ghanaians have expressed massive interest in taking part in the December 2020 general elections to vote for a president and parliamentary representatives. The first wave of results of the Ghana Election Poll conducted online via the renowned market research firm MSI-ACI from May 1 through to June 30 ...