The former Deputy Eastern Regional Minister and Parliamentary Candidate for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Lower Manya Krobo Constituency is yet to come to terms with the defeat he suffered in the December 2020 parliamentary elections. A pained Samuel Nuertey Ayertey who suffered a shattering defeat to the incumbent Member of Parliament for the area, the NDC’s Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi with almost ...

Your most trusted news website MyNewsGh.com has authoritatively confirmed that the next Minister for Youth and Sports in the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia administration goes to Member of Parliament for Yagaba Kubore, Mustapha Yussif while former Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame has been elevated to full minister. Until his ministerial appointment, Mustapha Yussif was the Executive Secretary of the National Service Scheme. ...

The hearing on the presidential election petition filed by Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama begins today. The petitioner, Mr. Mahama, is seeking a rerun of the December 7, 2020 elections between himself and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) because he believes both leading candidates did not obtain 50 percent of the valid votes as ...

Member of Parliament for Asawase constituency Muntanka Mubarak in 2019 apologised to fellow lawmaker Kennedy Agyapong after calling him a drug dealer. The two MPs were engaged in a near brawl following Mr Mubarak’s referral of Mr Agyapong to the Privileges Committee of Parliament over his comments prior to the murder of undercover journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale. Mr Agyepong was displeased with his referral to the committee ...

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 ...