POLITICS

Outgoing Guinean Ambassador to Ghana, Arafan Kabine Kaba, on Wednesday shed tears as he bade goodbye to President Akufo-Addo. Arafan went to the Jubilee House for a short but a colourful farewell ceremony with his other colleague ambassadors from India, Shri Birender Yadav, and Olifemi Michael Abikoye from Nigeria, after a five and- a-half-year duty tour of Ghana. The fact ...

National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has criticized communicators of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) who are backing some comments made by Hawa Koomson in 2019. The Minister for Special Development Initiative, Mavis Hawa Koomson, while she was being interviewed about the delay in the distribution of ambulances on Neat FM, said the ...

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has indicated that activities of the Electoral Commission (EC) will be keenly monitored by the Coalition of Political Parties backing it to compile a new voters’ register. The Coalition which is made up of the NPP and twelve other political parties say the EC’s decision to compile a new voters’ register ahead of the ...

The 2016 Presidential Candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, has said the 1992 Constitution stood the risk of being reduced to a complex ‘Ananse Story’ (a local fable), giving Ghanaians an illusion that their lives can be improved by its contents. He made the comment while speaking on the fundamental meaning of constitutionalism and related issues ...

The Managing editor of the daily Insight newspaper, Mr Kwesi Pratt Jnr has said Ghanaians will reject the results of the general elections in December if any individual or political party uses any hanky-panky means to win power. Mr Pratt’s comment comes on the heels of the Electoral Commission’s resolve to compile a new voter roll ahead of the December ...

Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority, Professor Ken Attafuah has described the Volta as the most cooperative region throughout the Ghana card registration process. He praised the comportment of both NIA personnel and indigenes during the process. “Volta region was our best experience, queues were orderly, the elderly were respected and taken care of. By and large, the beautiful ...

President of the Coalition of aggrieved Menzgold customers, Timothy Binab has alleged that, embattled CEO of now-defunct gold dealership firm Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah(NAM1) told them he used part of their locked-up cash to sponsor the Nana Addo-led government. NAM1 and Menzgold have not been able to pay back the customers’ investments since August 2018 after the Securities and Exchange ...

Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, is advocating a downward review of the number of legislators in Ghana’s Parliament from 275 to 200. This according to the Member of Parliament for Asawase, will help deal with persistent absenteeism by members, while keeping them on their toes. “Some of our MPs are not doing the work they were elected to do. ...

Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, NAM1 says political parties in the country cannot gain political capital from the woes of his company. NAM1 on his Instagram page has alleged that some political parties in the country are behind the decision of some of his customers to besiege his residence. According to him, he has already made his ...

The Electoral Commission has rejected calls for it to depend on the Database of the National Identification Authority (NIA) in the quest to compile a new voters’ register for the December polls. According to the Commission, the NIA has no timelines in its data compilation exercise making it impossible for the EC to resort to their system since they have ...