POLITICS

The winner of Saturday’s presidential election, according to the electoral commission of Nigeria, is Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a candidate for the governing party. The statement comes a day after opposition candidates dubbed the vote a “sham” and asked for a new election. Bola Ahmed Tinubu was named the new president …

The Electoral Commission of Ghana’s (EC) reasons for the new CI, which aims to make the Ghana card the only form of identity for voter registration, have been denied by the minority in parliament. On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, EC Chairperson Jean Mensah informed Lawmakers that the new CI’s goal …

As part of the Green Ghana program, the government hopes to grow at least 10 million trees this year, according to Samuel Abu Jinapor, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources. Despite the government’s goal of 20 million trees being planted throughout Ghana’s 16 regions, at least 22,671,696 million trees were …

If a new Constitutional Instrument (CI) suggested by her group to regulate the 2024 elections is passed by Parliament, the Electoral Commission (EC), according to Chairwoman Jean Mensa, will register between 450,000 and 550,000 Ghanaians yearly. Before the general elections in 2024, the EC wants the Ghana card to be …

Professor Kenneth Attafuah, Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), claims that his organization is prepared to fulfill its mandate to issue Ghana cards in order to assist the Electoral Commission(NIA) in carrying out its proposed Constitutional Instrument for the general elections of 2024. The Ghana ID is being …

The Ghana Card won’t be used to cast a ballot in the general elections of 2024, according to EC boss Jean Mensa. She claimed that the Commission only intends to use the ID for voter registration purposes. “Mr. Speaker, I wish to emphasise that the Ghana card will not be …

In order to address concerns regarding the scarcity of vaccines in some areas of the country, the Minister of Health Kwaku Agyeman-Manu did not appear in Parliament on Tuesday. The Ghana Health Service, the Minister of Finance, and other agency leaders had been called to an emergency conference on Tuesday, …

According to Ken Ofori-Atta, the finance minister, an arrangement has been made with CalBank for a GH100 million fund to guarantee the release of the more than 3 million Ghana Cards that are held in secured storage. The Ghana Cards have been withheld from the National Identification Authority (NIA) because …

Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president, has pleaded with Mahmood Yakubu, the head of the Independent National Election Commission (INEC), to avert imminent peril by fixing the mistakes made in the most recent elections. The request was made in a letter that Obasanjo directly endorsed on Monday. Over 80 million Nigerians …

In Nigeria’s recently concluded general elections, counting is still going on. In particular, among young people, who make up about one-third of the 87 million eligible electors, turnout seems to be strong. The two-party system that has ruled Nigeria for the past 24 years has faced an unusual threat in …