POLITICS

Prior to the laying of the constitutional amendment that would make the Ghana card the only document used for voter registration in the election of 2024, Speaker of the House Alban Bagbin has called for more engagements from the Electoral Commission. Given the difficulties in obtaining the Ghana card, lawmakers, …

John Dramani Mahama, a former president, has criticized Nana Akufo-Addo once more for failing to change the ministries. According to Mr. Mahama, the President’s inaction on that matter has rendered his ministers inviolable in their various ministries. He asserts that some ministers are establishing their own kingdoms inside certain ministries. …

John Dramani Mahama, a former president, is remembering the eight Ghanaians who died during the 2016 elections. Mr. Mahama lamented in a Facebook post that “two years ago, for the first time in the history of our country, a President and Government unleashed armed men who ruthlessly massacred eight innocent …

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta would face hostility in parliament from his side, according to deputy minority whip Ahmed Ibrahim, if he continues in office in spite of public outcry in Ghana. According to him, if the administration wants smooth operations in the House’s business, it should take a lesson from …

Less than 183 MPs voted to oust the beleaguered Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, in response to the Minority in Parliament’s Censure resolution. On Thursday, 136 members of the National Democratic Congress voted in favor of Mr. Ofori-dismissal, Atta’s but this number fell short of the constitutional threshold of two-thirds needed …

On December 8th, the majority in parliament staged a walkout in order to skip the secret vote on the censure motion against Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. The procedure came to a sudden halt when the majority leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, washed his hands and those of his fellow members of Parliament. …

According to Ghana’s former president John Dramani Mahama, this is the country’s worst time since the Fourth Republic began. Mr. Mahama said that the events in the most recent elections were the first to take place under the present administration as he described the alleged brutalities that marked the 2020 …

The nation “would not be in this situation economic crisis but for the government’s failed, risky economic strategy that borrowed heavily from the international market to fund expenditures, pay maturing debt, support the cedi and possibly control the effect of the depreciation on inflation,” according to a statement released by …

Given that Ghana is experiencing an economic crisis, OccupyGhana has advised the government to halt all public spending on the projected National Cathedral. The organization stated in a statement that “any justifications there may have been to warrant investing now non-existent money on the projected National Cathedral, have been destroyed …

According to Minister of Roads and Highways Kwasi Amoako-Attah, Ghanaians have the lowest tolls in the world yet still need quality roads. In a recent interview with the media, the Atiwa West MP compared the situation overseas to that in Ghana and stated that the nice roads in foreign countries …