POLITICS

Former CEO of COCOBOD, Dr. Stephen Opuni has filed a suit against the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Kwame Baffoe popularly known as Abronye DC, seeking 10 million cedis in general damages for accusing him of embezzlement. Also joined in the suit is U2 Company Limited owners of United Television (UTV), and the Despite Media Group, all ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has stated that the Electoral Commission can use its data for the 2020 elections instead of compiling a new voters’ register. The EC had earlier rejected calls to use the NIA database since it has no timelines for compilation. But NIA Boss Professor Ken Attafuah said more than half of the voting population have been ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for the Adansi Asokwa Constituency, Kobina Tahir Hammond has lashed out at the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for mounting a resistance to the Electoral Commission’s (EC’s) decision to compile a new voters’ register. He argues the opposition party knows it “cannot get more than 10 votes in any election in Ghana if a new electoral ...

The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of secondary education, Dr.Yaw Osei Adutwum, says the implementation of the Free Senior High School Education policy will break the cycle of poverty in the country. Ghana has reduced poverty levels by half between 1991 and 2014. But it estimated that more than 2.8million Ghanaians representing 8.5% of the population are living in ...

The EC wants to rip out a system worth $60 million, of which value at least $40 million has accumulated since just 2016, and spend $150 million (plus contingency) constructing a new one. A careful analysis of best practice in procuring biometric technology for elections in Africa shows that the EC’s proposed spending plans are inflated by about 60%. In ...

IMANI-Africa has slammed the Electoral Commission(EC) for its flawed justification for the procurement of new BVRs and BVDs ahead of this year’s general elections. According to IMANI, the wear and tear rate of these electoral technologies have been exaggerated describing as false, the comparison of the BVRs and BVDs with normal laptops and POS terminals. “The thing about these BVRs ...

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has dismissed reports that the award of a contract to Persol Systems Limited to construct a data centre for the commission was as a result of links with the Chairperson, Jean Mensa. According to the reports, the data management company is owned by the husband of the EC Chair. “This is an outrageous lie since ...

It was challenge after challenge to the National Democratic Congress, from the camp of the New Patriotic Party. Under the Mahama administration and with the late Kwesi Ammissah Arthur as Vice President and Former Governor of the Central Bank, then Economist, and running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia threw some 170 questions about the economy after a lecture on the state ...

Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu has said that the National Democratic Congress will control cedi depreciation through expanded exports aside using fiscal and monetary policy when John Dramani Mahama returns to power after the December 7 elections unlike the current government. He said Dr. Bawumia’s promise to arrest the cedi was just an imagination as he thought he could control the ...

President Akufo-Addo has left Accra on Friday to attend the UK-Africa Investment Summit being held in London, in the United Kingdom. The UK-Africa Investment Summit, being hosted by British Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson, MP, on Monday, 20th January, will bring together “businesses, governments and international institutions to showcase and promote the breadth and quality of investment opportunities across ...