POLITICS

The Vice Chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and the Majority Leader of Ghana’s 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic, Hon Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu (MP), joined scores of other dignified leaders from around the globe in grieve as the world mourns the longest serving Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II of United Kingdom. …

King Charles III and his wife Camilla have made their official entrance into Buckingham Palace. Cheers erupted as he approached the cheering onlookers outside the palace, and he shook their hands. At Buckingham Palace, the crowd anxiously awaited the entrance of the new King. As the King’s footguards formed up …

In a pompous ceremony rich in historical precedent and political allegory, King Charles III was formally installed as the ruler of the United Kingdom. This was the first time the event was streamed live online and on television. Following the ceremony on Saturday, London and the other capital cities of …

The Constitutional Instrument (CI) for the 2024 general elections has been notified that the Minority in Parliament will not permit it to be presented to Parliament next month. The EC is anticipated to present the CI to Parliament to support its choice to make the Ghana Card the primary registration …

Two years ahead of the next general elections, the Electoral Commission (EC) has announced significant changes to voter registration and voting. With the development of a constitutional instrument that has not yet been laid, these will have an impact on the source papers for voter registration and the voter ID …

Today Monday, September 12, 2022, a few irate clients of the now-defunct gold collectible company Menzgold have been given notice to go to the president’s office to intervene in the payment of their locked-up monies. According to the group, the walk will begin at the customs parking lot opposite the …

The National Communications Authority (NCA) and the Attorney-General (A-G) have been sued by Pressure Group, the People’s Project on the ongoing SIM card re-registration exercise. The group is requesting that the Supreme Court annul the registration deadline and any accompanying sanctions for failing to register. It makes the constitutionality of …

The Ghanaian Electoral Commission (EC) has urged political parties to urge its followers who are eligible to vote but are not registered to vote to do so during the approaching voter registration drive. The decision was reached by the EC during a news conference on September 8, 2022, in Accra. …

The Ghana cedi is not the weakest currency in Africa, as claimed by Dr. John Kumah, the deputy finance minister. He asserts that such a claim is untrue and just intended to discredit the government’s budgetary policies intended to stop the free slide of the cedi versus the dollar. Despite …

The Ghana Cocoa Farmers Association and its Chief Farmers in the Bono Region’s Berekum East Municipality have urgently urged the Ghanaian government and the Ghana Cocoa Board to raise the price of cocoa from the present GHC660 per bag to GHC1,000 during the 2022–2023 cocoa harvest. An untold burden has …