POLITICS

Dr. Kwabena Donkor, the party’s candidate for the Pru East Constituency in the Bono East Region, lost the parliamentary primary contest. He received 371 votes, falling short of Emmanuel Kwaku Boam’s 474 votes. With 4 votes being disqualified, Fiaworno Bright Amedo received 66 votes. John Mahama received 875 votes for …

A.B.A Fuseini, the current Member of Parliament(MP) for the Sagnarigu seat, will not be re-elected to office in 2025 after finishing last in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) primary held on Saturday. The politician received 333 votes, but that was not enough to defeat Atta Issah, who received 801 votes …

Supporters of Muntaka Mubarak and his rival Masawudu Mubarak engaged into a fight, which the Ghana Police Service quickly put an end to. The police officers’ involvement stopped the confusion from getting worse. The incumbent Asawase MP was allegedly booed by some Masawudu Mubarick supporters as he left the polling …

Juliana Kinang Wassan, a National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the Ejura Sekyeredumase seat, was caught throwing money to delegates during the NDC primaries on Saturday, May 13, 2023, in violation of the law. In full front of the security personnel and Muhammad Bawah Braimah, the incumbent MP, she …

Charles Asiedu, son of Johnson Asiedu Nketia and National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has won the Tano South constituency seat. Charles Asiedu served as the NDC’s immediate past organizer in the Brong Ahafo Region. By 698 votes, he won. The other two candidates, David and Osman, …

For the Ningo-Prampram constituency, Sam Dzata George has been re-elected as the NDC’s member of parliament. He won by 1,036. The congressman promised to put in more effort in the following parliament when speaking to journalists. In the election of 2024, he has pledged to secure 100,000 votes for the …

The provision of financing assurances following the formation of the Creditor Committee by the Paris Club, co-chaired by China and France, is a significant step towards securing the eagerly awaited IMF facility for Ghana, the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, informed representatives of the Catholic Bishops Conference. …

Dr. Kwabena Duffour Jr., the son of the former finance minister and unsuccessful NDC presidential candidate, was unable to win the nomination to represent the party in the House of Parliament for the Sekyere Afram Plains Constituency. He received 203 votes, compared to his leading opponent Hajia Nasira Afrah’s 211, …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has acknowledged that Galamsey is still active and poses a threat to Ghanaians’ ability to survive. The president stated, “Even though a lot has been achieved in this area between 2017 and 2021, illegal small-scale mining remains a challenge and continues to pose as a threat to …

After China and France jointly established the Official Creditor Committee, Ghana was granted funding assurances by the Paris Club. This comes months after Ghana attempted to secure funding guarantees from its foreign creditors in order to qualify for the requisite bailout assistance from the International Monetary Fund. This action will …