Some Political parties are demanding a review of the 500% hike in filing fees for Presidential candidates in this year’s election. At an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on Thursday, the EC revealed that presidential candidates of the various political parties would be required to pay GH¢50,000 while parliamentary candidates will pay GH¢10,000. in 2012 […]
Ghana is today dolling out more to pay interest payments than it spends on infrastructural or capital projects annually, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said. Speaking during a public lecture on the state of the economy, Dr. Bawumia said while the norm is to have a situation where infrastructure expenditure is far above interest payments, Ghana
The New Patriotic Party flagbearer has warned that another four year tenure of the Mahama administration will do “considerable damage” to Ghana. Nana Akufo-Addo told a partisan crowd of NPP supporters who had thronged the National Theater for a lecture that they have a responsibility to persuade the good people of Ghana to “put away
Ghanaians must be fortunate they have an analytic mind in Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to solve the challenges facing the economy, former President John Agyekum Kufour has said. Speaking Thursday in Accra at a public lecture on the Ghanaian economy delivered by Dr. Bawumia, Kufour said
President John Mahama has said he will not campaign on the supposed ill health of his main opponent Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party. The comment by the President comes on the back of reports by the Africa Watch Magazine that the former Attorney General is suffering from an acute cancer. The report has
Some Civil Society Groups are divided over the motion filed by The Minority New Patriotic Party, asking Parliament to investigate The Ford Expedition Gift Saga, donated to The President, by a Bukinabe Contractor Jibriel Kanazoye, in return of juicy contracts. The motion was struck out by The Speaker Of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, on the
With just a few months to the parliamentary and presidential elections in Ghana, an independent candidate has emerged from the stables of the ruling NDC in the upper west region. The candidate Francis Pharuk Bandanaa who contested Joseph Yileh Chireh in the NDC primaries at the Wa West constituency but lost is set to launch
Former Director General of the Ghana Health Service and avowed Nkrumahist, Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa, has written on why he believes the likes of Obinim flourish in this country. It’s a really simple formula, one which GhanaCelebrities.Com editor Chris-Vincent and myself have enumerated on many times – research shows the most religious nations in the
The Paramount Chief of the Tumu Traditional Area, Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton VI, says he approves of the ‘1-District-1-Factory’ and the ‘1-Village-1-Dam’ policies of the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. According to him, these policies are the surest ways by which the teeming masses of unemployed youth in
The Acting National Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddie Blay has hinted that the party will have a landslide victory in the upcoming general elections. According to Mr Blay, the massive endorsement accorded the party’s Flagbearer Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in the three northern regions is an indication that
