POLITICS

The Socialist International’s Secretary General, Ms. Benedicta Lasi, visited Speaker Rt. Hon. Alban S. K. Bagbin as a courtesy in an effort to highlight the urgent need to promote more Ghanaian women into positions of leadership on a global scale. Ms. Lasi thanked Speaker Bagbin during the meeting, which took …

James Gyakye Quayson and the residents of Assin North have received congratulations from John Dramani Mahama, a former president of Ghana and the NDC’s flagbearer, for their resounding victory in the just completed by-election. This was said by the previous president in a tweet.   Mahama thanked the voters in …

James Gyakye Quayson, the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) parliamentary candidate in the Assin North by-election, is reporting victory and is inundated with congratulations from his supporters. According to preliminary results, he defeated Charles Opoku of the New Patriotic Party and Bernice Enyonam Sefenu of the Liberal Party of Ghana. As …

According to the Ghana Police Service, there have been no incidents of people or vehicles being shot at during the by-election in the Assin North seat. They have recognized the existence of a few rare events, including one in which a gun is said to have been shot into the …

The police have detained five people who were involved in activities that endangered the ongoing by-election in Assin North. Three of them were involved in an assault, while two others were detained for pretending to be security guards. One person was decked up in a police uniform, while the other …

The New Patriotic Party (NPP), according to the Minority Leader in Parliament, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has been accused of purchasing votes in the ongoing Assin North by-election. In an effort to convince voters in favor of their candidate, Charles Opoku, the NPP is distributing monies ranging from GHS200 to …

In the ongoing by-election in the Assin North constituency, the police detained a man in a military uniform who they believe to be a fraud at Assin Bereku. The man was detained after some citizens alerted the police. The man reportedly had a weapon on him when he was detained. …

The Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) laments the delay in the Controller’s payment of monies to the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) for distribution to trainees throughout the nation’s Public Colleges. Following the recent release of GHS241 million for the payment of allowances to teacher trainees at the country’s …

James Gyekye Quayson, a troubled former member of Parliament, has been accused by Ernest Owusu Bempah, the NDC’s deputy director of communications, of being purposefully pushed into prison by the NDC. Ernest Owusu Bempah stated that it is obvious that Mr. Quayson has flawed country laws that he stands high …

To review security preparations for the approaching by-election set for Tuesday, 27 June 2023, the Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, came in Assin North today, Monday, 26 June 2023. He met with leaders of both the dominant opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the ruling New Patriotic …