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South Africa’s 2024 general elections will be held on May 29, says presidency

South Africa will go to the seventh democratic general elections on May 29. The presidency announced that President Cyril Ramaphosa has, in accordance with the constitution and the Electoral Act, determined May 29 as the date for the 2024 general national and provincial elections. Ramaphosa consulted the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) …

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Presidency bags two billion cedis ahead of 67th Independence Anniversary

Parliament has approved the 2024 Budget Estimates of the Office of Government Machinery, the sum of two billion and seventy-four million, eight hundred and twenty-seven thousand, one hundred and sixty-four Ghana Cedis (GH¢2,074,827,164.00) for the 2024 financial year. The finance Committee chaired by Kwaku Kwarteng in the report presented to …

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George Afriyie declares candidacy for Ghana FA presidency

Former Vice President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), George Afriyie declared his candidacy for the upcoming 2023 presidential elections of the local football governing body. After much speculation and anticipation, Afriyie unveiled his bid to lead Ghana’s football governing body on Sunday, marking a significant development in the upcoming …

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Nogokpo war: Agyinasare should ‘run’ to the presidency for help – Ajagurajah

Ajagurajah Movement founder, Bishop Kwabena Asiamah, has suggested that Archbishop Charles Agyinasare should seek help from the presidency to help resolve his fracas with the people of Nogokpo. The Perez Chapel founder’s reference to Nogokpo as the “demonic” headquarters of the Volta Region has since attracted a series of responses …

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Alan sacrificed his presidency for you, yet you have refused to return the gesture – Buaben Asamoa slams Akufo-Addo

Yaw Buaben Asamoa, former Member of Parliament for Adentan Constituency, has leveled allegations against President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, accusing him of being ungrateful towards Alan Kyerematen, a former Minister of Trade and Industry and a flagbearer hopeful for the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Buaben Asamoa claims that Alan Kyerematen sacrificed his own presidential …

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Is Mahama signalling that Jubilee House will revert to Flagstaff House under his presidency?

Former president John Dramani Mahama in an address to party faithful in Nsawam last week had cause to speak extensively about the office of the president. Among others, Mahama who is campaigning for the presidential flagbearership of National Democratic Congress (NDC) boasted of knowing the place well having been the …

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VIDEO: Miracles Aboagye provides breakdown of workers at the presidency

The Director of Local Government Services at the Office of the President, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has refuted assertions that there are over 1000 political appointees of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (presidential staffers) at the Office of the President. According to him, the majority of the workers at the presidency are public …

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How presidency spent GH₵191m in nine months; including GH₵15m on car tyres, batteries

The presidency spent over GH₵191 million cedis in a space of nine months (i.e. January to September 2022) according to official documents analyzed by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa. The North Tongu Member of Parliament disclosed in a January 31, 2023 social media post that he was poring over the expenditure items, …

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What Kufuor saw in Malaysia in 2005 that changed his mindset about Ghana’s presidency

At the invitation of the then Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, Ghana’s former president, John Agyekum Kufuor, experienced something in the southeastern Asian country that forever changed his mindset about presidential tenures. Narrating how that came to be, during his engagement with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) on …

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‘What can be done in 4 years?’ – Kufuor suggests extension of tenure of presidency

Ghana’s oldest former president, John Agyekum Kufuor, has suggested that the tenure of office for a president or an elected government should be relooked at. According to him, the current four-year tenure is quite problematic, leaving very little room for any leader to effectively cause a major developmental change in the …

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