The World Health Organisation (WHO) has laid down some guidelines to be adopted by countries who want to hold elections despite the Coronavirus pandemic. The novel Coronavirus outbreak has brought many events to a standstill, while others have been postponed. Countries who are scheduled to hold their general elections this year have also been left pondering whether to go ahead or otherwise. Citizens of ...

The General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu has disclosed that the opposition NDC boycotted the last meeting of the Interparty Advisory Committee (IPAC) held on March 25, 2020, at the EC conference room, citing the Covid situation in the country as their excuse. According to him, it was at this very meeting of the political parties’ platform with the ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has in a no holds-barred statement punctured numerous holes in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) press conference last week which sought to throw spanners in the works of the commission. By the time the commission had exhausted the bullet point treatment of the NDC’s whining accusations, it had succeeded in describing the opposition statement as ...

Suspended former Central Regional Chairman of the oppositionNational Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs says the beginning of his hatred in his party started when he refused to criticize President Akufo-Addo’s free Senior High School policy. According to him, he hit hard at the Akufo-Addo government when the free Senior High School policy was implemented as it has always been ...

Ghana’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic continues to attract global acclaim as nations intensify their search for solutions to deal with the pandemic. The Washington Post, the renowned American publication, is the latest to applaud Ghana for the decisive way it has responded to the crisis since it broke out earlier in the year. In article titled “When it comes ...

An International Trade and Investment Lawyer, Francis Korankye-Sakyi, has said that Ghana has an adequate legal regime on money laundering but the main problem facing it is the satisfactory implementation of the laws. He intimated for example that apart from Act 930 and the supervisory mandate of the Bank of Ghana over the activities of financial and banking institutions, Ghana ...

Details of the 28 persons who have so far lost their lives in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic have finally been released. The list which is included in the latest update on the Ghana Health Service site, provides the underlying health condition responsible for the death of the 28. Though the list doesn’t mention the names of the victims, ...

The Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, Richard Ahiagbah has described the Member of Parliament(MP) for Bolgatanga CentralIsaac Adongo as always being in a haste to impress his paymasters, saying “Adongo is accustomed to the ‘NDC way’ of doing things” of lying. “It is inappropriate for Hon. Adongo to make false allegations against the government on double budgeting and inflating ...

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, has described as “senseless”, a statement made by former military officer Major Osahene Boakye Gyan (rtd) on a possible “civil war” should the Electoral Commission goes ahead with the new voters’ register compilation. The lawmaker said the former coup plotter is ignorant of the electoral process of the country and ...

The Deputy General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Obiri Boahen has warned that anyone who attempts to disrupt the upcoming compilation of the new Voter’s register would be beaten mercilessly. According to Nana Obiri Boahen, the violence that happened during the Ayawaso West Wuogon bye-election was just a tip of the iceberg, warning of more grievous ...