POLITICS

Ghana’s former Chief of Staff under the erstwhile Mahama adminstration, Hon. Julius Debrah, has debunked claims being bandied on social media suggesting he contracted the novel Coronavirus. Some apparatchiks of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) mentioned the politician and philanthropist, over the weekend, on various social media platforms, as one of the persons who had recovered from the virus ...

Managing Editor of the Dispatch and Pollster, Ben Ephson has challenged herbal medicine producers who claim to have a cure for the coronavirus to infect and heal themselves with their products. Mr Ephson said this is the only way most Ghanaians will believe the herbal medicine practitioners who claim to have a cure for the COVID-19. Some herbal medicine petitioners ...

Deputy Information Minister Pius Hadzide has called on former President John Mahama to reprimand his spokesperson for questioning the number of COVID-19 recoveries in Ghana. According to him, the former President risks creating the impression that he supports the position of Joyce Bawa Mogtari if he fails to condemn her actions publicly. Mrs Bawa Mogtari asked for further probe into ...

On Thursday 14/05/20, I read two media statements on Election 2020, one from NDC chairman Ofosu-Ampofo and the other from former NPP chairman, Peter Mac Manu. But please read the letter below, which I wrote to the NIA about my experience regarding the Ghana card registration, providentially, dated 15/05/19 – almost exactly one year to the day of the exchanges between the two party leaders ...

A former National Democratic Congress(NDC) Member of Parliament(MP) for Nabdam constituency in the Upper East region Moses Aduku Asaga has expressed doubts over an easy win for his party and the governing New Patriotic Party in the upcoming elections. Describing the 2020 elections as one that is close to call, the one time Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of the National Petroleum ...

Once upon a time (2yrs ago) the current National Identification Authority (NIA) said to Ghanaians it had acquired some huge sum of money to be used to continue the Card issuance the previous Government started. We were all excited. The previous government was issuing cards to all Ghanaians of all ages. It was a National Card. In fact my children ...

Jean Mensa is decreeing that over 392, 455 Ghanaians from the Central Region will not vote in 2020, because they don’t have a Ghana Card as a requirement to register. The question is, are they not citizens? Jean Mensa’s Electoral Commission and Ken Attafuah’s National Identification Authority are like square pegs in round holes As Sydney Smith once famously said, ...

The coalition of Unconsented Nurses and Midwives group, comprising over 2000 nurses and midwives are raising red flags over what they describe as “deliberate delay” of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives’ Association to refund their salary deductions to them. According to the group, even though they have provided all material proof to the GRNMA and its related partners to ...

“This is my take, 54 countries on the continent and we are leading and showing the way. Why should we let our strength be on the fact that it should have been South Africa first before Ghana or Mauritius before Ghana. “Bottom line, where is Ivory Coast, where is Botswana, where is Nigeria? All these countries are lagging and we ...

Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, a former youth and sports minister, has advised Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana broadcast on Metro TV to think deeply about his TV programme following his ‘Stop Misbehaving’ editorial about the Klottey-Korley MP. According to Afriyie Ankrah, the feedback from that particular episode of his programme was in bad taste. “I didn’t watch it ...