President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday opened the Ghana Diaspora Celebration and Third Homecoming Summit, with an assurance that the government would soon place before Parliament a bill that would allow Ghanaians with dual citizenship to hold public office. “The question of the political rights of dual citizens is a matter for Parliament and an opportunity is going to be ...

Source: My Joy FM Jeffrey Nyabor : 29 October 2021 8:17am   Akim Swedru MP, Kennedy Osei Nyarko, has laid before Parliament a Bill, that if passed, will allow persons with dual citizenship to hold public office in Ghana. The Citizenship Amendment Bill presented on Thursday has been forwarded to the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee. Currently, Ghanaians who ...

General News of Wednesday, 10 May 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com   Late Jerry John Rawlings and Atta Mills on a campaign trail It wasn’t until the fourth general electoral cycle that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) held its first competitive primary for presidential candidates. Late president Jerry John Rawlings was elected flagbearer for the 1992 and 1996 elections which he won comfortably ...

General News of Wednesday, 10 May 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Dr. Kwabena Duffuor Dr. Kwabena Duffour, flagbearer hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has filed an interlocutory injunction against the party’s upcoming presidential and parliamentary primaries slated for Saturday, May 13, 2023. The lawsuit specifically named as respondents the General Secretary of the NDC, the Director of the Elections Directorate, along ...

General News of Thursday, 27 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu (right), Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng (left) The Majority Leader and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has questioned the motive behind the report on illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) activities in Ghana issued by the former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng. According to him, Prof Frimpong-Boateng was the chairman ...

General News of Thursday, 27 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com   File photo The National Communications Authority (NCA) has announced a short code for checking the number of SIM cards registered with a National Identification Card (Ghana Card). The announcement comes after complaints by some citizens that their Ghana Cards have been used to register SIM cards that do not belong to ...

General News of Thursday, 27 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com   President Akufo-Addo has written to Al Jazeera The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has demanded an immediate retraction and apology from Al Jazeera Media Network over one of its recent documentaries that named him as having been involved, in a way or another, in some illegal activities. The documentary, Gold ...

General News of Thursday, 27 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Majority Leader and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu   The Majority Leader and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has explained why successive governments have failed to operationalise the Komenda Sugar Factory. According to him, the main challenge of making the Komenda Sugar Factory work is that there are no longer arable lands ...

Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Chairman of the dissolved Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal The Chairman of the dissolved Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has detailed how NDC members established themselves in small-scale mining especially in the Western Region during the long reign period. According to the report, the NDC did not only sponsor their candidates but also supported ...

Business News of Wednesday, 12 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Ports and Harbours   A French billionaire, Vincent Bolloré was accused of fraud in 2021. According to a special report, Vincent obtained the right to build and run a state-of-the-art container terminal at Ghana’s Tema port. The report likened Bolloré’s concession of Ghana’s port to one he won for his operations at ...