POLITICS

The Electoral Commission has canceled its arrangement to get media personnel vote early on December 10, ahead of the district assemblies and local level elections. Media personnel are usually added to the lists of groups of people who partake in the special voting to enable them monitor elections on main polling days. A statement issued by the Commission on Tuesday ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dayi, is optimistic the major opposition, National Democratic Congress (NDC) will win the 2020 general election considering the analysis and results produced by the Afrobarometer survey on “Who is Winning 2020?” Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor on PM Express on Tuesday indicated the ruling government’s major flagship programmes, including Free Senior High School, One village-One dam (1V1D), One district- One ...

The founder of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings, has laid the stage for the continuous mistrust between the Electoral Commission (EC) and political parties as seen and heard on secret audio recordings at the Inter-party Advisory Committee (IPAC), to fester further with his endorsement of the Eminent Advisory Committee. Mr Jerry John Rawlings’ position and comments ...

play videoJJ Rawlings with John Mahama Major (Rtd.) Osahene Boakye Gyan has revealed why former Military leader and founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), President Jerry John Rawlings, used to criticise the late John Evans Atta-Mills and Ex-President John Dramani Mahama ‘without any justifiable reason’. He told Neat FM’s Adakabre Frimpong Manso that he [Boakye Gyan] had advised the ...

Ghana’s Communication Service Tax threatens digital inclusion ahead of elections Posted 10 December 2019 9:31 GMT Man on a cell phone in Ghana. Photo by Arne Hoel via The World Bank. As Ghana prepares for presidential elections in 2020, about 75 percent of the population access the internet via mobile phones. On October 1, 2019, when the government’s proposed increase in Communication Service Tax (CST) ...

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has challenged the opposition NDC to a show of records in office to enable Ghanaians judge who has met their aspirations the most. Vice President Bawumia is convinced that when pushed to a debate of facts and achievements, the NDC would have no leg to stand on and would resort to their usual refuge ...

One of the architects of the June 4 Uprising Major [Retired] Osahene Boakye Gyan has come out with some shocking revelations about former President Jerry John Rawlings, 40 years after the 1979 coup d’état. The coup arose out of a combination of corruption, bad governance, frustration among the general public and lack of discipline and frustrations within the Ghana Armed ...

PNC National Chairman Bernard Mornah says the ambassador-at-large Dr Edward Mahama has no office, and he is not being supported by the government. According to Mr Mornah, the Akufo-Addo government has made appointments which are unnecessary drain on the coffers of the state. “Ambassador at Large does not have any office to operate from as we speak. The government doesn’t ...

The opposition NDC is confident about a win in the upcoming 2020 general elections and has thus said it is closely monitoring the activities of the Electoral Commission to ensure no foul play arises. The party says it is currently undergoing research on its chances of winning and if statistics continue in the current trendit may bag a win with ...

As he approaches the final year of his four-year mandate, President Akufo-Addo is expected to make some major changes to his cabinet, Flagstaff House insiders have predicted. The president, GhanaWeb has learned, would fast-track the long anticipated ministerial shake up in the wake of the botched referendum amid widespread speculation that some key personalities could be booted out. “The scale ...