POLITICS

The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) has been allowed a week to reconsider its decision to deduct “unearned allowances” from the pay of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) employees. If the allowances are not reinstated within the next week, the workers claim they would be obliged to start an ongoing …

Ben Effah, the constituency chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Assin North in the Central Region, has refuted reports that the government has rapidly begun building roads there in order to gain support for the approaching by-election. Over 15 road construction machines have been deployed in various communities …

All parties involved in the Bawku conflict have been urged by Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia to work together with the government and other important stakeholders to find solutions to any problems impeding the peace and development of the region. On May 31, 2023, in Bolgatanga, Dr. Bawumia addressed the Chiefs, …

For the New Patriotic Party’s primary to choose a parliamentary candidate for the Assin North by-election, two people have chosen to run. They are Charles Opoku and Frederick Amoah Kyei. Evans Nimako, the party’s director of elections, told media that the party has taken steps to expedite the procedure because …

According to Global Info Analytics, a polling organization, NDC is expected to keep the Assin-North seat in the upcoming by-elections. The most recent surveys on the attitudes of Assin-North constituents, according to Musah Dankwa, Executive Director of Global Info Analytics, were performed in April 2023. Speaking to Evans Agyei Sikapa …

Due to a recent approval of an increase in tariffs by the Public Utility Regulatory Authority (PURC), Ghana’s consumers of water and electricity will see their prices rise as of today, June 1, 2023. While water rates will climb by 19%, the price of energy will rise by 18.36%. The …

Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, a New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer candidate, feels optimistic about winning the contest. After picking up his nomination form on Thursday at the NPP headquarters in Accra, his team announced this. Since the party launched nominations, the flagbearer candidate who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) …

James Gyakye Quayson has announced that he will run in the forthcoming by-election scheduled for June 27, 2023. The Electoral Commission (EC) has been informed in writing of the vacancy in the Assin North Constituency by the Clerk to Parliament, Cyril Kwabena Oteng Nsiah. The date of the by-election for …

Following the Supreme Court decision that removed former MP James Gyakye Quayson as an elected member of parliament, the Electoral Commission announced Tuesday, June 27, 2023, as the date for a by-election in the Assin North seat. The Court ruled that his election was invalid because, at the time he …

The Majority Leader, Hon. Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu, and the Minority Leader, Hon. Cassiel Ato Forson, received a courtesy visit from a three-person team from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) at Parliament House. The mission is in Ghana to assess the nation’s readiness for hosting the 66th CPA conference, which will …