POLITICS

The Electoral Commission says there are minors and foreigners among the 16.9 persons who have registered so far to vote in the upcoming December 7 general elections. The EC has however assured that such ineligible persons will be removed from the electoral roll before the elections. The electoral management body …

The Bono Regional Youth Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Efo Worlanyo Tsekpo, is hot for gambling with his ‘balls’. The young politician, who was opposed to the compilation of a new biometric voters’ register for the December general election, said he should be castrated if the Electoral …

Education Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh said Tuesday that the Progressively Free SHS policy by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) when it was in government left GH¢30.1 million arrears for the 2015/16 academic year. That, he said, was when the programme started with day students only, but that debt has since been …

A member of the Communication team of the ruling New Patriotic Party,(NPP) Engineer Nana Afari Kwagyir Aggrey has indicated angrily that because he is a member of the ruling government he wouldn’t retract insults he hurled at late ex-President Prof.John Evans Atta Mills and running mate of John Dramani Mahama for the 2020 …

In a letter written to the office of the president through Ghana’s embassy in Tokyo, Japan, to appeal to the president and other authorities to re-consider the ban on importation of Japanese made right-hand vehicles.    Alhaji Abdul Razak, chairman of the Tokyo chapter of the ruling NPP, expressed his …

The Police in the Dormaa West District of the Bono Region has arrested seven more persons in connection with bloody clashes at Nkrankwanta that resulted in the death of one person. This brings to 10 the number of people currently in police custody for their alleged roles in the Nkrankwanta …

Prof Tina Abrefa-Gyan an aspirant at the just ended NPP parliamentary primaries for Wenchi Constituency has on behalf of other defeated candidates pledged their unflinching support for the wining candidates across the country.   She said loosing an election should not discourage you from working hard to support the winning …

The incumbent NPP has declared August 22 as the date to launch its manifesto as the party heads for the December polls. The 2020 manifesto was drafted by a team of experts led by the Vice President Dr Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia. It hopes that the policies stated in the manifesto …

Former President John Dramani Mahama has accused President Nana Akufo-Addo of losing control of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) with his all-die-be-die mantra which, according to the flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), is to blame for the weekend’s violence that marred the Electoral Commission’s mop-up voter registration exercise at Nkrankwanta …

Opposition NDC is demanding the prosecution of persons implicated in the ECG-PDS concession deal almost a year after cancellation of the agreement. The party says although Energy Minister Peter Amewu publicly admitted that PDS was fraud committed on the country, no individual has been brought to book. According to the …