POLITICS

Sources close to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have revealed that Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has received the endorsement of the Council of Elders of the NDC to compete as John Dramani Mahama’s running partner in the general election scheduled for December 2024. Next week is anticipated to see the …

Concerns have been raised by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region over President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s failure to mention the conditions of those impacted by the recent flood calamity in the State of the Nation Address (SONA) for 2024. According to the NDC, those impacted by the …

The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential candidate, Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has tasked his campaign and manifesto teams with carrying out their responsibilities with unity in order to secure victory in the general election of 2024. In order for the party to win the elections, he continued, all of its …

The Appointments Committee of Parliament will soon begin the vetting procedure for the newly nominated Ministers of State. The nominee are expected to go through vetting sometime between Tuesday, March 5, 2024, and Tuesday, March 12, 2024. On the first day of the vetting process, the committee will hear presentations …

Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin stated, “Frankly, the argument to legalize LGBT was a non-starter in the first place,” after the anti-gay bill was passed by the legislature on Wednesday, February 28, 2024. “Africans have already lost too much of our values to the slave trade and colonialism,” the speaker …

The US Embassy in Ghana has issued a warning that the passing of an anti-LGBTQ+ law by the Ghanaian Parliament will cause a stir of dismay, especially among those who highlight the measure’s possible effects on human rights and wider social ramifications. The US Ambassador to Ghana, Virginia Palmer, expressed …

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the vice president of the republic and the New Patriotic Party’s presidential candidate, has charged that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is stealing the policies of the NPP administration. Bawumia made this statement on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, in Accra, during the party’s inauguration of its campaign …

The Parliament House in Ghana and Job 600, the MPs’ office complex, are no longer receiving electricity because of an unpaid debt of GHS23 million. The disconnection was done on Thursday, February 29, by the National Taskforce as a part of the Electricity Company of Ghana’s (ECG) ongoing “Operation Zero …

The government erred in passing the Emissions Levy when the Excise tax was already in place, according to former Finance Minister Seth Terkper. Ghana joined South Africa and Mauritius as the third African nation to implement a carbon tax in January 2024. Seth Terkper maintains that there is already a …

Following his announcement that the government has finished paying all debtors under the domestic debt exchange, President Akufo-Addo is already the target of criticism. President Akufo-Addo revealed that bondholders have received payments totaling an astounding GH¢5.8 billion during his State of the Nation Address, which he gave in Parliament on …