POLITICS

The Central Regional Police Command has said it has invited the Minister for Special Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson, for questioning after she fired a gun at a registration centre at Kasoa on Tuesday. Public Relations Officer of the Central Regional Police Command, DSP Irene Oppong, the invitation is to assist in …

More than half of Ghanaians surveyed in the Ghana Election Poll do not think President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has fulfilled his promises well enough to deserve re-election as President of Ghana in the December 2020 presidential election, a Ghanaweb poll has suggested. The first wave of results of the …

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has said the decision by Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East, Mavis Hawa Koomson, to fire warning shots at a registration centre in the constituency was selfish. Project Manager for CODEO, Rhoda Osei Afful, said the incident was unfortunate and must be …

Mavis Hawa Koomson, the MP for the Awutu Senya East, says she fired a gun at a voters registration centre in her constituency. “None of my men had guns on then when we got to the centre. I fired the shots myself,” the MP, who is also Special Development Initiatives …

The Minister for Special Development Initiative has admitted to firing gunshots at the Step to Christ registration centre in the Awutu Senya East constituency. Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson in an interview on Adom TV said she fired the shots because some hooligans had come to the centre to cause chaos. …

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has cleared the air regarding claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that its agents were prevented from monitoring the registration exercise in some two senior high schools in the Ashanti Region. The NDC had accused the EC of preventing its agents from observing the exercise at …

The Municipal Chief Executive for West Mamprusi in the North East Region has dismissed claims by NDC  General Secretary Johnson Aseidu Nketiah that Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia would never be allowed to lead the New Patriotic Party. The NDC General Secretary is reported to have cautioned Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia …

We have intercepted a leaked video involving the Northern Regional Treasurer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Hajia Shamima and Popular Facebook Naa Tia Salifu alias Mallam Naa Tia cooling off and making love in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is not known when the video and …

The Management of the Cape Coast University (UCC) has announced the cancellation of the John Atta Mills commemorative lecture which was scheduled for its campus this week. In a statement, the university said the decision was informed by the COVID-19 pandemic which makes it impossible to hold large gatherings. The …

A total of 7,279,237 eligible Ghanaian voters have been registered so far by the Electoral Commission in the ongoing voter registration exercise. A lot of those captured are in the Greater Accra Region (1,524,600) followed by the Ashanti Region (1,319,498). From the EC’s data, 63.8 per cent of the registered …