Founder and leader of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) Madam Akua Donkor has revealed that former President John Dramani Mahama in 2016 called her to leave GFP and contest the presidential race as an independent candidate. Her resistance against that suggestion from the then president, according to her, led to …

Total confirmed Covid-19 cases in Ghana now stand at 7,616 with 2,421 recoveries and 34 deaths. According to the Ghana Health Service, the active cases are 5,161. Regional breakdown: Greater Accra Region – 5,331 Ashanti Region – 1,160 Western Region – 395 Central Region – 376 Eastern Region – 117 Western North Region – 63 Volta Region – 59 Northern Region – 36 …

The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability-ASEPA has taken the fight against the Electoral Commission’s (EC’s) quest to compile a new voter register to the supplier of the Biometric Verification Devices BVDs and BVRs, Thales Gelmatos. The Civil Society group is asking the Company to suspend any delivery of …

Bernard Mornah says his recent statement that has generated controversy was only offering counsel to the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana. His comments rebuked the EC over their attempt to compile a new voters’ register amid concerns from political parties. The CID of Ghana Police Service invited Mr. Mornah for …

Kwame Baffoe (Abronye DC), the Bono regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has stated that the brother of the late President John Evans Atta-Mills, is someone who always speaks under the influence of alcohol. Previously, a furious Samuel Atta Mills, a relative of President Atta-Mills cum MP for Komenda-Edina-Eguaafo-Abirem (KEEA), …

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has given the government a five-day-ultimatum to ensure that loans due students are paid before the examination begins. According to them, despite their efforts to engage government on the challenges students are facing, including loans, e-learning amongst others, the government has refused to …

Political Science lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Jonathan Asante Okyere has questioned the resolutions taken by the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter registration in late June regardless of opposition from some political parties and in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking to Nana …

Outspoken New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart, Paul Collins Appiah-Ofori, has kicked against the relentless move by the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voters’ register ahead of the 2020 elections. He rather suggested that the EC opened the electoral register for fresh voters to register, remove names of the dead and foreigners and …

“The inter-party conflict over the ideal register for the December 2020 elections has intensified the political polarization of the nation and driving it toward potential electoral violence and constitutional crisis” and disclosed that “if this trend continues, it could cause the breakdown of multiparty democracy in the Fourth Republic.”(Dr Kwesi …

The President of Educate Ghana Summit(EGS) is of the view that, the Electoral Commission of Ghana should plan of limited registration to get citizens who have turned 18 years old registered and forget about the new Register for the absence of disturbance; peacefulness.   The cause of this call is …

The communications Director of NDC’s Young Democrats Mr. Japhet Festus Gbede has warned that Ghana is heading of cataclysm if President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo does not stop Electoral Commission from throwing away a register that brought him to power. Mr. Japhet Festus Gbede, who is the NDC Ward Coordinator …

The right to vote is not to be determined by any institution or individual once the 1992 Constitution of Ghana has set out in strict terms, who has the right to vote. The supposed independence by the Electoral Commission as being used as the last card by Jean Mensah and …

Ghana has 186 new COVID-19 cases to put the current confirmed case count to 7,303, the Ghana Health Service has announced. On the official website of Ghana Health Service, 2,412 persons who tested positive for COVID-19earlier have also recovered. This implies that as of the last update, 95 more persons …

The 2016 Parliamentary candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Jomoro Constituency of the Western Region, Mr. Thomas Yankey popularly known as ‘Nobody’ has indicated that his party will not sit aloof and allow EC boss Jean Mensa to rig the upcoming General Elections for President Akufo-Addo …

There is a heavy security presence at the premises of the EC as personnel of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) have been deployed to the premises where IPAC meeting on the compilation of a new voters register is ongoing. The reason for the presence of over 70 police officers at …

Members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are emitting confusing signals about their position on the new voters’ register, with their two recent actions pointing palpably at their befuddlement. The lull in their demonstrations among other forms of resistance to the compilation of a new voters’ register gave way …

Founder and leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai Odike has faulted the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa for wallowing in the same mistakes that led to the dismissal of her predecessor, Madam Charlotte Osei. On June 28, 2018, President Akufo Addo removed from office the …

Dr Samiu K Nuamah, incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwadaso on Monday presented 150 pieces of complete streetlights and 1500 bulbs to the 15 communities in the famous constituency in the Ashanti Region.    The MP had earlier on presented 30 complete streetlights to the authorities at the University …

Peter Kojo Appiah, NPP chairman for Mpohor constituency, is reported dead at the Crystal Hospital, West line Anaji, Takoradi Chairman Appiah as he was affectionately called, became chairman of the constituency in 2011. A native of Adum-Banso, he was also a former vice principal of Takoradi Technical Institute (TTI), where …

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dragged the Electoral Commission (EC) to the Supreme Court over the compilation of a new voters register. The NDC is praying the court for an order directed at the EC, to include “all existing voter identification cards duly issued by the 2nd Defendant (EC) as one …

The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) says claims that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) are better managers of the Ghanaian economy are inaccurate. According to ASEPA, available evidence backed by documents from Ghana International financial donors suggest that the opposition National Democratic Congress does better with …

The opposition NDC has requested from the Electoral Commission a training manual for voters registration officials ahead of the planned exercise. The party has also asked for the training manual for political party agent for the exercise, including other documents and forms relevant to the 2020 election registration exercise. A …

The Bono Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC has asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to invite former President John Mahama for further questioning after levelling three counter-accusations against the latter. Abronye DC was invited by the Police following an …

The outspoken communication team member of the ruling party, NPP, in the central region, Dr Nana Yaw Agyenim-Boateng, is begging the government to consider reopening schools for only final year students in junior,senior high schools and universities. Dr Agyenim-Boateng believes these students should be government’s immediate focus when the ban …

The Gauteng Department of Health on Sunday confirmed that 53 employees at AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng mine in the Merafong district have tested positive for COVID-19. According to the latest update on the company’s website, the number of positive cases has now been confirmed as 164, of which the vast majority are …

The National Council for Parent-Teacher Associations (NCPTAs) has appealed to government to further delay the reopening of schools in the country in the wake of COVID-19. According to the Council, there is no scientific and fact-based basis to believe that coronavirus spread in Ghana is reducing hence the need to …

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has been elected to serve on the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation (WHO). He is among the 34-member executive board who will serve a three-year term for the organisation. The Ministry of Health shared the good on its Facebook page. It said the main …

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is yet to announce its vice-presidential candidate. Reports that five persons have been already selected emerged a few days ago but the NDC debunked it saying “the general public is therefore advised to ignore any such frivolous and fictitious letter, which is clearly a …

The Executive Director of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe has downplayed the Electoral Commission’s (EC) justification for the compilation of a new voters’ register. The EC is bent on compiling a new register over claims that the existing one is not credible enough for the polls. Director of Elections at the …

“The main problem of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana plans to prepare a new voters’ register for the December 7 polls is the party’s flagbearer, John  Dramani Mahama, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Bernard Antwi Boasiako alias Chairman Wontumi claims. “Mahama …