POLITICS

Full-fledged investigations by GhanaWeb have found evidence that the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation’s (GNPC) board in 2018 made large payments to some government and private firms in the country for no work done. The biggest beneficiaries of the suspicious payments, GhanaWeb gathered, included the Rebecca Foundation – a charity organisation founded by the First Lady, Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture, ...

The Volta regional secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress James Gunu has advised agitating youth in the region to stop mounting pressure on the party’s flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama to choose his running mate from the Volta region for the December general elections. Reacting to media reports that suggest that some groups have petitioned the party hierarchy to impress ...

Nana Agyenim Boateng, popularly called Gyataba, the 2016 presidential candidate of the United Front Party (UFP), has accused Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah of colluding with the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) to torch the Electoral Commission’s office. “The NPP should understand that the data centre is not in the EC office, so that ploy would come to nought,” Gyataba told host ...

The Domestic Violence and Victim Support (DOVVSU) division of the Ghana Police at Adenta in Accra, is on the heels of one Elvis Kwesi Asamoah, for employing the influence of his uncle, Kakra Kojo Duncan, who works at the Jubilee House, to get heavily-armed soldiers to kidnap a five-year-old boy from the New Nation International School at Adenta, during school ...

The Ghana Health Service has dismissed calls for President Akufo-Addo to be quarantined when he returns from his European tour. There are calls for the President to undergo detailed checks and quarantined upon return from his trip abroad in the wake of the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Europe. Kumbungu MP Ras Mubarak in a speech in parliament last week ...

The coalition of NGOs in Health says the ¢2.5 million Ghana government has committed to the fight against the deadly Coronavirus is not enough to even embark on proper clinical research on a disease or a virus. Government has committed ¢2.5 million to support the activities of the National Coordinating Sectoral Committee leading the implementation of the prevention plan against ...

A failed presidential aspirant of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Stephen Atubiga, has threatened that there will be chaos in Ghana if any institution invites Mahama to answer to queries about his involvement in the Airbus saga. “It is a decision taken by the party that Mahama will not honor any invitation on Airbus, put me on record” Atubiga warned ...

The Paramount Chief of Edina (Elmina) in the Central Region, Nana Kojo Kondua XI has banned the Flagbearer hopeful of the Ghana Union Movement(GUM) Rev. Christian Kwabena Andrews, a.k.a Osofo Kyiri Abosom from campaigning in his (Chiefs) jurisdiction. This decision comes after Osofo Kyiri Abosom who says he has a divine direction from the Almighty God to destroy lesser gods ...

December 7 will remain the statutory day for holding Presidential and Parliamentary elections across the country. Chairperson of the Electoral Commission Jean Mensa confirmed same to state publisher Graphic, ending speculations of a change in date. Earlier media reports suggested the date for the general elections could be moved to November 7 to allow for smoother power transitions following a ...

The Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Former President John Dramani Mahama, says his party’s political campaign towards the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary elections will be based on the track record and achievements of the NDC. The Former President emphasized that “This year’s campaign would be issue-based, it will be campaign of records, we shall compare our records and ...