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The Right Reverend Dr Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye, Moderator of the General Assembly of The Presbyterian Church, has asked the Electoral Commission, Political Parties and Civil Society Organisations to work towards peace in the upcoming General Election. He said the citizens also had a crucial role to play to maintain …

  John Boadu, the former general secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), believes that Kennedy Agyapong can leverage his numbers to acquire sufficient clout inside the party following this Saturday’s presidential primary. He says for a man whose ambition to become President started less than a year ago, becoming …

A Political Analyst, Clement Adu Acheampong believes that financial constraint is one factor that pushed flagbearer hopeful of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Alan Kyerematen, to withdraw from the race. The former Minister of Trade and Industry who came third in the party’s August 26 special delegates conference stated that one of …

Senegal’s foreign ministry announced Tuesday it was temporarily closing its overseas consulates amid raging political tensions that have fuelled attacks on its diplomatic missions in Paris, Bordeaux, Milan and New York. Deadly protests broke out last week in the Senegalese capital Dakar and other cities, following the sentencing of popular …

Renowned economist, Kwame Pianim has opined that commercial banks that were ‘wrongly’ collapsed due to political reasons must be granted back their operating licenses following the clean-up undertaken by the Bank of Ghana. He believes that once it has been proven that these banks were collapsed for the said political …

A political scientist at the University of Winneba (UEW), Dr Isaac Brako, has said that the overwhelming victory of the former President, John Mahama, in the just-ended primaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) makes it possible to recapture power in the 2024 general election. Speaking on Kumasi-based Oyerepa TV and monitored …

A number of political associations in Mali have joined forces to oppose the military government’s decision to hold a referendum on a new constitution on June 18. The referendum, announced on Friday, is a milestone on the country’s path towards elections promised for February after a coup three years earlier. …

A group of Fetish Priests in the Ashanti region have threatened to curse any political leader who will undermine the passage of the anti LGBTQ bill in parliament The group calling itself Traditional Healers Association says they will deal severely with any political authority who will try to sabotage the …

New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, Kennedy Agyapong has stated that bad governance in the country has resulted in untold hardship on the average Ghanaian. Agyapong who doubles as the Member of Parliament for the Assin Central Constituency in the Central region contends that, if the country had a visionary leader in charge, …

Five political parties with no representation in Parliament have endorsed the new Constitutional Instrument (CI) proposed by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana for the 2024 general elections. The Political Parties namely, the Liberal Party of Ghana, LPG, The Great Consolidated peoples Party GCPP, All People Congress APC , the …