POLITICS

Anchoring Democracy Advocacy Movement Ghana (ADAM-GH has advised Ghana Police Service and Ghana Armed Forces not to allow politicians use them to cause violence ahead of the 2024 December polls. A worrying development is the recently leaked audio of a senior police officer criticizing the work of the current inspector …

Numerous residents of the Akuapem North Constituency have made it clear that Mr. Samuel Awuku, the Director General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA) and prospective parliamentary candidate for the Akuapem North Constituency, is the person they want to represent them in parliament in 2024. On Friday, August 4, 2023, …

A special committee has been established by lawmakers to conduct a probe into the National Cathedral project and any connected issues. The goal is to put forth appropriate suggestions for the House’s consideration. A private member’s resolution submitted by six minority members, including Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of …

After conducting an audit, the campaign team for New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen claims to have found irregularities in the proposed album for the party’s upcoming super delegates’ convention (SDC). In a letter dated August 2, 2023, written to the head of the presidential elections …

The second installment of the $3 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) financing will be given to the government once all structural reform requirements have been completed. The benchmarks, also known as conditionalities, call for the creation of a thorough inventory of the payment arrears accumulated by all ministries, departments, and …

In the mid-year budget review, Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin criticized the government for not eliminating the tariffs on sanitary pads. The Speaker had previously encouraged the administration to use the mid-year budget review to eliminate the levies on sanitary napkins, but this was not included in the Finance Minister’s …

Minority Leader Cassiel Ato Forson and a few other minority members criticized the finance minister’s presentation, which was disputed by Deputy Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo Markin. Afenyo-Markin emphasized the $3 billion petroleum-based China Development Bank (CDB) loan arrangement from 2011 in order to show that Ato Forson was unsuccessful in …

The National Democratic Congress (NDC), at their propagandist best, made a deliberate attempt to draw a wedge between the Majority Leader and the Dormaahene, Oseadeyo Agyemang Badu, in their recent press statement on a case involving the Electoral Commission of Ghana and Hon Gyekye Quayson (MP for Assin North). In …

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has the backing of Sammi Awuku, Director General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), who has reaffirmed his support for him. The NPP will be led by Bawumia in the 2024 elections. Sammi Awuku is confident that Dr. Bawumia is the best person to assist …

The minister of Interior Hon, Ambrose Derry has assured the family of a mobile money vendor Abubakar Razak who was shot and killed at his shop by unknown armed robbers in Sawla, that the police are working hard to arrest the culprit and bring them to book. Answering Hon, Andrew …