POLITICS

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has started returning 100 tricycles to their owners after seizing them on August 7, 2023. This comes after the KMA’s transport reorganization exercise, which from Monday, July 24, 2023, banned tricycle operation within the center of the Central Business District (CBD). In a statement released …

According to Virginia Palmer, the US ambassador to Ghana, discriminating against members of the LGBTQI community will only make Ghana less appealing to other American businesses as well as investors and exporters from the LGBTQI community and other transgender and gender nonconforming (LGBTQI) communities. The remarks were made by the …

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has announced that it will stop building cocoa roads once current projects are finished. In order to address transportation issues for delivering agro-inputs to cocoa growers and to allow cocoa bean evacuation, COCOBOD established the Cocoa Road Programme. At the 50th Anniversary Celebration symposium of …

The Bank of Ghana’s response to its published annual report and financial accounts for 2022 has received a response from the Minority group in Parliament. The Bank of Ghana’s statement, in the opinion of the Minority, ignores the most important problem, which is the printing of money by the BoG …

The Chief of Bekwai-Abodom, Nana Saforo Koto, has been destooled by Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene. The destoolment occurred as a result of Nana Saforo Koto’s failure to refute approximately 20 allegations made by concerned members of his community. The main accusations against him center on the purportedly unlimited …

The government has received praise from the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) for including some of its members in the Pokuase housing program. On August 1, President Akufo-Addo turned the first sod for the start of a project to build 8,000 homes on a 203-acre site in Pokuase, Greater …

In relation to Cecilia Abena Dapaah’s bank accounts, which have been frozen as a result of a Special Prosecutor’s order, the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has rejected providing or exposing any information or specifics. Therefore, the OSP has warned the general public to reject media reports on allegedly …

Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, the Speaker of Parliament for Ghana, has declared a fundamental change to the way votes are cast in the House. This is a change from the previous procedure and allows deputy speakers to vote in private. Mr. Bagbin emphasized that the purpose of this amendment is …

Former president John Dramani Mahama said that the governor of the Bank of Ghana is concealing suspected central bank mismanagement by using the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP). The Bank of Ghana (BoG) claimed that the government’s Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) was responsible for GH53.1 billion out of the …

According to Mr. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, Speaker of the Parliament, chiefs must be permitted to take part in active party politics in the nation. In light of this, he has suggested that the constitutional clauses that forbade chiefs from actively engaging in politics be reviewed. He also stated that …