POLITICS

The Electoral Commission (EC) says its current system is outdated and weak hence the request for ¢444,846,663 to compile a new voters’ register before the 2020 general election. EC’s Director of Electoral Services, Dr Serebour Quaicoe during the PM Express show on Tuesday said the Commission is currently facing numerous challenges with the biometric verification system which need to be ...

President Akufo-Addo has drawn the attention of some forty-five (45) newly appointed Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature (High Court and Court of Appeal) to the fact that the people of Ghana will not in any way accept the repetition of the 2015 Judicial Corruption exposé by Anas Aremeyaw Anas, that led to the removal of several Judges from ...

President Akufo-Addo’s list of 58 One-District-One Factory (1D1F), has come under severe scrutiny, following the announcement last Friday, at the President’s Media encounter inside the Jubilee House, and subsequent release. While, some have doubted the existence of these 58 factories across the country, others have said that most of the companies on the list, had long been in existence before ...

Two leaders in Parliament have traded insults over the vetting date for the President’s nominee for Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah. First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Osei Owusu, and Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mohammed, called each other liars in an interview on JoyNews’ Newsnite on Monday. Joe Osei Owusu was close to tears after learning the Minority had ...

Polls have opened for elections to elect District Assembly and Unit Committee members across the country. The Electoral Commission (EC) says some 57,000 candidates have registered to contest the polls. Out of the figure, 18,519 are vying to become assembly members, while 38,520 want to be in the Unit Committees. There are a total of 6,700 electoral areas and each ...

The Minority in Parliament has said it has no scores to settle with Chief Justice-nominee Justice Anin Yeboah. The NDC caucus in Parliament has noted it will boycott the vetting of the nominee because the majority is rushing the process of his approval. “The refusal of the Minority in Parliament to participate in the scheduled vetting of the President’s nominee ...

The Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia has cut the sod for the construction of a ¢35 million watermelon processing factory in Walewale in the North East Region, under the “One-District, One-Factory” initiative. The factory, upon completion by the end of 2020, would eliminate the yearly post-harvest losses by watermelon farmers, especially, in the Walewale enclave and its surrounding communities to improve ...

The Electoral Commission has justified the decision to change the voters’ register with just a year to the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. According to the Commission, the current register has been over-stretched, hence, the need for a new one with enhanced features to protect its credibility. Addressing the media Monday ahead of Tuesday’s assembly elections, the deputy electoral commissioner ...

Deputy Minister of Information Pius Enam Hadzide has said the methodology applied by IMANI Ghana in measuring the implementation of President Akufo-Addo’s campaign promises is faulty. “IMANI’s methodology was wrong and we know it. We worked it out and we noticed that the processes IMANI used for coming to the conclusions they made are problematic. A true and proper reading ...

Former President John Mahama says he is hopeful President Akufo-Addo will hand over a peaceful Ghana in 2020. In a Facebook post Monday, the former President while expressing his gratitude to the people of Adidome for their support for the NDC over the years said: “At the Grand Durbar to climax the Mafi Hogbetsotso Festival at Adidome on Saturday, I ...