POLITICS

Details emerging from the Electoral Commission (EC) indicate that the election management body was paying a whopping $4 million annually to a vendor for the servicing of biometric verification equipment. The Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, who made the revelation, said the annual financial obligation was met irrespective of whether there was an election or not, a retainership of ...

MyNewsGh.com has confirmed that two of three police investigators who were assigned to the office of the Special Prosecutor barely two months ago have been fired. The Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu recommended the removal of the two from his office in a petition he is reported to have sent to the Inspector General of Police, David Asante ...

There was drama in court when a special adviser to the Minister of Agriculture fumbled, for greater part of cross-examination, as he tried strenuously without much success to remember names of American NGOs he claimed he worked with between 2014 and 2016. Dr. Yaw Adu-Ampomah had in previous sitting told the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Clemence Honyenuga ...

Special Aide to former President John Dramani Mahama, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, wants the Electoral Commission (EC) to consider engaging public relations personnel to handle the communications of the Commission urgently. According to her, the practice where the commissioner and her deputy continuously engage the media is hurting the reputation of the Commission. The EC has said that its former Director ...

Abdul-Rahman Sarikin Samari, the Nasara Coordinator for the Tamale Central Constituency says it will be unfair for the former President, John Dramani Mahama to secure 33percent of total votes in the upcoming 2020 presidential elections. The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) defeat to the ruling New Patriotic Party in the 2016 elections is considered the most “embarrassing” in which the ...

The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says former President John Mahama is being dishonest when he said the government had prioritised roads in the President’s hometown, Kyebi. Mr. Mahama suggested that goverment was undertaking such road projects at the expense of the more socio-economically significant Eastern Corridor road. In his response, The Minister said the Kyebi road was a ...

Government has provided a total of 21 mechanised water supply systems to the Ghana Prisons Service to alleviate the challenges faced by the Service in the provision of water for drinking and for the maintenance of personal and environmental hygiene in the prisons all over the country. The water supply systems will serve the inmates and correction officers of 21 ...

The Special Prosecutor has begun the prosecution of Bawku Central MP after charging him for fraudulently evading tax and dealing in foreign currency without a license. Mahama Ayariga has been charged with the fraudulent evasion of taxes after he paid the duty of ¢6,000 when he imported three Toyota land cruisers instead of approved duty of ¢36,000. The former Information ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has launched what it calls “Operation 50/50 Campaign” in the Affigya Kwabre South Constituency of the Ashanti Region, with the aim of reducing the votes of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the area. The party says it wants to reduce NDC votes by 50 per cent in the various polling stations in ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appended his signature to the Right to Information Bill (RTI) to make it a law. The President signed the bill on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, at a short ceremony at the Jubilee House and stated it was handed over to him on Monday, but because he promised not to delay it further, he decided ...