POLITICS

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, received a Medal of Merit in Leadership Award from the Africa Bar Association at its 2023 Annual Conference in Pretoria, South Africa. President Akufo-Addo received the award because, in the words of the Association’s president, Hannibal Egbe Uwaifo, he is “a …

Former President John Mahama has criticized President Akufo-Addo for having a misguided focus in spending enormous sums of Ghanaian cedis on the National Cathedral’s development while ignoring the Saglemi Housing Project. This follows President Akufo-Addo’s directive to the Ghana Police Service’s Criminal Investigation Department to look into the criminal court …

Candidates for president have been warned by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to refrain from giving the impression that the party’s electoral roster for its presidential primaries is unreliable. Some aspirants’ campaign teams expressed worries about the register, stating it is rife with mistakes. However, the NPP claimed that …

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 …