The Deputy Communications Director at the Presidency, Fatimatu Abubakar, has reiterated that the NDC’s election petition will not overturn the outcome of the 2020 election. According to her, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Ado has selected competent lawyers including Akoto Ampaw and Frank Davies to face the NDC in court, adding that the NPP will win the court case. Speaking on ...

Jacob Osei Yeboah, has opined that it would be impossible for the Electoral Commission (EC) to rig an election. He believes the systems in place in organizing elections in Ghana makes it impossible for an election to be rigged. To him, parties need to present competent party agents in an election so they will follow the processes thoroughly. JOY as he is ...

Rising gold prices and the dwindling appeal of South Africa as a production source should be the perfect backdrop for Ghana to extend its lead as Africa’s biggest producer of the yellow metal. Gold has risen about 30% over the last 12 months even as mining majors have sought to diversify away from South Africa, due to problems such as ...

Parliament has approved a $162, 931,563.27 Barclays Bank PLC loan to finance the design, construction and furnishing of seven district hospitals and provide an integrated IT systems by NMS Infrastructure Limited. The money is part of the amendment agreements to the ECGD Loan Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Ghana, Barclays Bank PLC (as Coordinating MLA) and Her ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has admitted that it is possible that the December 9, 2020, declaration of the presidential-elect may have been characterised by “computational and mathematical errors” made in the course of the collation of the results, “but these did not have a material effect on the overall results as declared”. John Dramani Mahama, who contested the ...

Former Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, has described Members of Parliament(MPs) as pubescent [teenage] boys and girls who misconducted themselves and therefore must be corrected. According to the former Director of Campaign of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, he was saddened and dismayed by the misconduct of the MPs prior to their swearing-in on Thursday dawn to commence work of the ...

Amid uncertainty over which party takes control of parliament as the Majority, the New Patriotic Party has named its members for leadership positions in the house. The National Council of the party met on Monday, December 4, 2021, to firm up proposals by the party’s Steering Committee. The Council overwhelmingly accepted the recommendations and settled on them as their leaders ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo today, Thursday, January 7, 2021, took his second term oath of office as President of the Republic of Ghana in Parliament. The president having been sworn in, will be head of state for another four years ending on January 7, 2025, having already led the country for four years between 2017 to 2021. The president ...

Professor of Law and Governance at Kings University College, Kwame Agyenim- Boateng has championed the institution of pension schemes for Members of Parliament (MP) retiring from the house. According to him, the paying of huge sums to Parliamentarians at the dissolution of every parliament is an unhealthy practice which retards Ghana’s development. “We need special funds for parliamentarians bowing out ...

Radio stations in the Ashanti Region have been warned against the advertisement of sexual enhancement medicines on their platforms. The warning by the regional branch of the Food and Drug Authority (FDA) follows the continuous flouting of the directive laid down by the regulatory body by some radio networks. According to the Head of the Ashanti Regional FDA, Nora Narkie ...