POLITICS

Former President John Mahama has waded into the cantoon brouhaha which saw the national communication officer of the NDC Sammi Gyami trending on Twitter Tuesday. The former President who did not comment directly on the George Floyd cantoon artwork – centre of the controversy – appeared to suggest people criticising the NDC communicator are playing double standards. Mr. Mahama, however, ...

Mr Eric Dzakpasu, Deputy Volta Regional Director of the Electoral Commission, said the Commission has fixed the technical glitches that interrupted the pilot of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits and processes in Ho on Tuesday. He said the BVR machine rejected all inputs after working smoothly from 0700 hours to 1427 hours compelling the Commission to terminate the exercise. ...

The Minority Caucus in Parliament has formally written to the Auditor General to audit the GHC280.3million government spent on food and other relief packages under the Coronavirus Alleviation Program (COP). The Minority at a press conference on Tuesday called on the Auditor General to probe the use of the money fearing the ruling party has channelled the funds into their ...

The Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Yaw Buaben Asamoa says it is ‘heartwarming’ to see members of the opposition NDC participating in the pilot exercise for the upcoming mass voter’s registration. The NDC, despite its opposition to the new register, directed its regional and constituency officials to participate in the piloting as requested by the electoral commission. ...

Former President, John Agyekum Kufuor has thrown his weight behind the compilation of a new voter’s register for the 2020 general elections in December. The former president claimed most people on the register used foul means to get their voters identification cards (ID) and that does not make the voters register clean. The debate on the compilation of a new ...

The Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh has revealed that parents and guardians will not be allowed to visit their children when school finally resumes for final year Senior High School students on June 22. According to him, the move is to ensure that children who are being protected in the various Senior High Schools from the COVID-19 are not allowed ...

The Oti Regional Minister, Nana Akwesi Owusu, is appealing to the Local Government and Rural Development Ministry (LGRDM) to speed up processes of finalizing the transition of some agencies and institutions headquarters from Volta Region to Oti. According to the Minister, even though the region has weaned itself from the Volta Region, some institutions and agencies still operate their headquarters ...

Azumah Nelson has confirmed that firebrand politician Kennedy Agyapong’s narration about how he bought his first house was true. It can be recalled that politician and business tycoon Kennedy Agyapong, the first guest on the Y Leaderboard series in his submission, spoke about his early life in the USA as a taxi driver and Azumah Nelson’s role in the very ...

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws” – Plato (Greek Philosopher) The preamble to the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana (hereafter variously referred to as the “1992 Constitution” or the “Constitution”) invokes the divine eternal universal jurisdiction of the Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Alpha and ...

The Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL) has accused the Jean Mensa-led Electoral Commission (EC) of undermining Ghana’s democracy by setting out conditions they say will make it impossible for the vast majority of Ghanaians to register to vote in the general election in December. In a press statement signed by its President, Caleb Nartey and General Secretary, Abraham Koomson, the ...