POLITICS

Mr. Joseph Yammin, Former Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports has observed that the Ashanti region which is the stronghold of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has regretted voting for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and looking for ways to appease Mahama it treated unfairly. Mr Yammin noted that the only way the Ashanti Region can atone for its ...

Assin Central lawmaker Kennedy Agyapong has posed a direct question to a woman – who recently made a desperate call on President Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene in the Menzgold imbroglio – whether she shared the profits she made from the same investment, during the good times, with the president, for which reason she now desires his intervention to recover her ...

The Nkwanta south municipality must be given the Oti regional capital for the Oti regional coordinating council (ORCC) to have the needed facilities and the serene working atmosphere to deliver for the following reasons : 1: The Nkwanta south municipality has two bigger hospitals thus ( *medical village and St. Joseph hospitals*) which will serve the heath needs of the ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to publish the findings of its investigations into alleged malpractices during the just ended referenda for the creation of new regions. In an interview with Citi News, Deputy General Secretary for the NDC, Peter Otukonor said the party wants to prevent a recurrence of such alleged malpractices in ...

Lydia Seyram Alhassan, a widow of the late Ayawaso West Wuogon MP, Emmanuel Kyeremanteng Agyarko, has been elected by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) as the parliamentary candidate for the forthcoming 31 January 2019 by-poll. Ms Alhassan was among six aspirants who were given the go-ahead by the party to run for the primary. However, Rev. Edward Agyekum Kufuor, ...

President Akufo-Addo has patted the “new leadership” of the Electoral Commission on the back for holding a “free, fair and transparent refenda.” Six new regions will be created, making the total 16 in Ghana after a section of Ghanaians voted overwhelmingly on Thursday for the new regions. In a congratulatory message on the results of the referenda, Akufo-Addo said: “The ...

A parade and durbar of chiefs and people marking the 37th anniversary of the 31st December Revolution will be held at the Ashaiman Mandela Park on Monday December 31, 2018. A statement from the planning committee of the event confirmed that the leader of the Revolution, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings and leading members of the revolution will be present ...

Ex-president John Dramani Mahama has said he is a Canteen Yaaro and proud to associate with Canteen Yaara. He made this stunning revelation at the grand durbar of the 2018 second homecoming event of the Canteen Yaara Development Association(CAYDA) held at the Canteen Central Park in the West Gonja District of the soon to be declared Savannah Region. The former ...

Actor John Dumelo has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Hohoe Constituency, his hometown in the Volta Region, wants him to run for the MP slot – although he would not say if he has decided to do so and when. Mr Dumelo recently pulled out of the NDC’s Ayawaso West Wuogon contest for “personal reasons”. A ...

Mrs Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, has said that all six proposed regions in the December 27 Referendum have met the constitutional threshold of 50 per cent voter turnout and 80 per cent voting “Yes”. Mrs Mensa said this on Friday at a press briefing in Accra to make the results known to the people of Ghana ...