The National Democratic Congress has postponed its presidential and parliamentary primaries to November 21.The decision was taken at a National Executive Meeting held Monday.The ruling party was expected to hold the primaries on Saturday, November 7, but the general secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia announced Monday, that challenges with vetting, printing of ballots […]
Former Head of the Political Science Department at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Dr. Richard Amoako Baah, has declined to serve as board Chairman for the Kumasi Polytechnic.Dr. Baah was appointed by the Government through the Education Ministry to serve as Board chairman of the Kumasi Polytechnic early this year
The New Edubiase Government Hospital in the Ashanti region was Monday razed down by fire.The fire, according to an eyewitness account, started around 2am Monday dawn.It is not clear what caused the fire, but fire service personnel from the Asante Bekwai, New Edubiase and Adanse Fomena fire stations are reportedly still at the scene struggling
An Accra based pastor has been arrested for illegally connecting electricity to his church.Founder of the Global Prayer Palace at East Legon, Michael Mensah denied the Electricity Company of Ghana close to 4,000 cedis through his action.He has been charged on two counts of power theft and intentionally interfering with supply of electricity.Manager for prosecutions
Ghana’s Power Minister Dr. Kwabena Donkor has reiterated his promise that the energy crisis that has bedeviled the country for over three years would be over by end of December 2015.Speaking at a sod cutting ceremony of a Ghanaian-owned power distribution firm, Enclave Power Company on Friday in Accra, Dr. Donkor stated that several infrastructural
A deputy communications Minister with the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has lashed out at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) describing it as the most chaotic and disorganized political party in Ghana. Felix Kwakye Ofosu was responding to claims by the NPP that his party induced some smaller political parties to speak in their
Three men are currently in the grips of the police for killing a fifty (50) year old man for stealing a fowl at Techimantia in the Tano South District of the Brong Ahafo. The deceased only named as Yakubu was found dumped at the roadside for an alleged crime his complicity is yet to be
National Youth Organizer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, Sammy Awuku, has warned of dire consequences if his Party’s call for a new voters register is not met halfway or heeded to. In a Facebook post Friday afternoon, Awuku, whose party is taking part in a two-day stakeholders’ forum to speak to issues surrounding
The Founder and Leader of Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), has blamed the growing number of minors on the country’s voter’s register to telecommunication giants Mobile Telephone Network (MTN) mobile money system. She observed that the company demands for some form of national identification before allowing persons to transact with its mobile money transfer system which
The Chairperson of Electoral Commission of Ghana, Charlotte Osei, has revealed that the Commission has written to the Togolese Electoral Commission for a copy of their voters’ register. The request by the EC is to verify claims that Ghana’s voters register has thousands of foreigners on it including Togolese nationals. The EC boss was speaking
