POLITICS

The Greater Accra Zabarma Chief, Alhaji Pro-Umar Abubakar Tanko, has urged all Zabarma people who are Ghanaian citizens and are 18 years and above with sound mind to go out in their numbers and register without fear of intimidation. According to him, Ghana practices rule of law with high level of respect for democracy, to that end Ghana has been ...

The Electoral Commission has announced it will begin a two-day voter registration exercise in Secondary Schools across the country tomorrow Friday, July 10, 2020 in order to register students who are eligible to vote in December. The EC in a statement called on all students who are 18 years and above to make themselves available for the registration exercise. It ...

Listening to Kweku Baako recount stories of how political prisoners under the Provisional National Defense Council administration were tortured will send chills down your spine. It’s a heart-wrenching and ‘difficult to listen’ to narration of inhumane and dastard acts meted out to some Ghanaians supposedly under the command of former President Jerry John Rawlings, who was the chairman of the ...

The Kwahu Traditional Council has banned the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) from conducting party activities in the area. This is after the party defied the Council’s directive against the invoking of curses within the Traditional Area. The executives of the NDC in the Eastern Region including the party’s Regional Communications Officer Dallas Williams, Sidi Bello Deputy Regional Youth Organizer, Daniel ...

Security Analyst, Dr Kwesi Anning, has cautioned individuals who own guns, whether licensed or not, to desist from intimidating others and instigating violence during the December 2020 elections. He made the statement in reaction to the increasing gun-related crimes in the country and the effect it may have during the December polls in an interview with GhanaWeb on July 8, ...

The Communications Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi says the selection of Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang as the party’s running mate for the 2020 polls is a masterstroke which will propel them to victory. In his view, the NDC has leverage in the elections because of the appointment of the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of ...

The NDC UK & Ireland Chapter led by the affable and indefatigable Chairman Alhaji Alhassan Mbalba has sent their congratulatory message to the newly elected running mate Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang. Excerpts from the press statement signed by the NDC UK & Ireland Chapter Chairman Alhaji Alhassan Mbalba read; “On behalf of the entire membership of the NDC-UK & ...

The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) will compile a new voter register without accepting the existing ID cards, 3news.com can confirm. This was contained in the judgement delivered by the Supreme Court on Thursday, June 25. There was confusion following the judgement as the plaintiff, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), claimed that its relief to stop the EC from rejecting ...

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam George, has described as flawed and unfortunate the ruling by the Supreme Court on the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) suit against the National Communications Authority (NCA) and Attorney General (AG). GIBA sued the NCA and the Attorney General over the decision by the Ministry of Communications to introduce conditional access for free-to-air (FTA) ...

The Municipal Chief Executive of the Sagnarigu Municipality, Hajia Mariam Idrissu, has cut sod for 700m road and 800m storm drain to be constructed at Ward-K, Kalpohin area, in the Sagnarigu Municipality. Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony yesterday, Hajia Mariam indicated the project is under the Ghana Secondary Cities program with funding from the World Bank. She added that, the ...