POLITICS

On Saturday, June 20th, the governing party, NPP, will be electing candidates at places where they have sitting Members of Parliament. The contest which was slated for April 24th had to be moved to this date due to the Covid_19 pandemic. Indeed, most party members want to see this day in their rare view mirror due to the acrimony and ...

Sekou Nkrumah has advised the opposition NDC to change their flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, in order to come back strong to contest Nana Akufo-Addo for the presidency in the December elections. According to Dr Sekou Nkrumah, son of Kwame Nkrumah, the corruption and incompetent scars of the eight-year rule of the NDC under the late President Mills and later under John Dramani ...

The Minority in Parliament has rejected a decision by the Electoral Commission to knock off over 6,000 polling stations from the upcoming voters’ registration exercise. The EC told the special budget committee of Parliament Tuesday that 6,300 out of the existing 33,000 polling stations will not have registration centres. Voters in the affected areas will have to move to nearby ...

The government of Ghana has so far evacuated 856 stranded Ghanaians from various parts of the world due to the COVID-19 closure of borders. Addressing the press on Tuesday, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey said the government will continue to bring Ghanaians who are stranded home as restrictions around the world begin to ease. “So far 856 ...

Ghanaian highlife musician, Rex Omar has begun a massive campaign for NDC’s presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama. In a post sighted by Zionfelix.net, Rex Omar, who also doubles as a Board Chairman for the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO) listed all the promises that Ex-President John Mahama has made prior to the launch of his 2020 manifesto. He couldn’t fathom why his opponents are ...

Mark Assibey-Yeboah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for New Juaben South, has petitioned John Boadu, the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), over what he claims is an attempt to alter the constituency’s album ahead of the party’s parliamentary primaries slated for June 20, 2020. He has asked Mr Boadu to use his office to ensure that the ...

Government has slammed the Opposition NDC over claims that the ruling party has only achieved about 14% of its manifesto promises. Addressing journalists in Accra on Monday, June 15, 2020, Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah described the claims by the NDC as distortion of facts “one that the leading opposition party is engaging in to serve their own parochial ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress has scored the Akufo-Addo led government an F, saying the administration has only achieved 14 per cent of their 2016 manifesto promises. According to the NDC, claims by the Vice President, Dr Mahammudu Bawumia that the government had achieved 78 per cent of their promises are mere exaggerations. On 11 February 2020, Dr Bawumia declared ...

There are strong indications that former President John Dramani Mahama may in the coming days announce the former Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and Bulk Oil Supply and Storage (BOST) Kingsley Awuah-Darko, as his Vice Presidential Candidate for the upcoming Presidential elections. Mr. Awuah-Darko is said to have snatched the much-awaited NDC Running Mate slot, at the ...

Legal practitioner and former National Vice-chair aspirant of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Vida Agyekum Acheampong says the party’s Communications Director Yaw Buaben Asamoa will lose the Adenta primaries on Saturday. According to her, delegates of the party have had challenges with the lawyer’s handling of the party’s communications since he assumed the role. Speaking on the Campaign Trail ...