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With an eye on the highly anticipated 2024 elections, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has launched a strategic campaign to fortify its support base in the Greater Accra Region, recognizing its pivotal role in shaping electoral outcomes. Central to this effort is a recent reshuffle orchestrated by President Akufo-Addo, which is aimed at optimizing the party’s electoral position. The reshuffle ... Read More »

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release 5/08/22 The attention of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been drawn to news attributed to officials of the Electoral Commission that the Commission has agreed with political parties and civil society organizations that the Ghana Card should be the sole document for the impending limited voter registration exercise. For the avoidance of doubt, the ... Read More »

  At the outset, the government must be commended for extending the deadline for the SIM registration to 30th September, 2022. This is a mark of a listening and empathetic government determined to promote inclusive development and growth, through and through. The master stroke in all this is the introduction of the SIM Registration App which will be available for ... Read More »

  WHAT IS DESTROYING US? What is destroying Ghana and by extension Africa is NOT Lack of Leadership. It’s rather Lack of Truthfulness in every spheres of our lives.   Lack of Truthfulness has led to Lack of Justice which has resulted in Lack of Development in All Sectors and Spheres of our country Ghana and continent Africa. Be it ... Read More »

The Deputy Communications Director for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Richard Nyamah has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of hypocrisy in relation to the execution of the free senior high school plan. He stated that the NDC went to the Supreme Court in an attempt to halt the policy’s implementation and also sponsored over 40 anti-free SHS campaigns in ... Read More »

  The National communication officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Lawyer Sammy Gyamfi has said that the government’s decision to reverse benchmark value discounts is one of the most insensitive and wicked decisions government has taken. It will be recalled that in April last year, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia at a town hall meeting in Accra on the state ... Read More »

Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo has appealed to the assembly members to reconsider their threat to reject the nominee for Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Samuel Pyne. He said this on Pure FM, a Kumasi-based radio station while speaking on the develepments at th Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA). Assembly members in the Kumasi Metropolitan area threatened to reject President Nana Addo ... Read More »

Mr Phanuel Kadey Donkor, President Akuffo Addo’s nominee For the position of District Chief Executive for Adaklu on Monday became the first casualty so far in the Region. Seven nominees before him were endorsed in the same Region and Nine assembly members voted yes representing 44.36 percent while 9 others voted No with one ballot rejected. The election was supervised ... Read More »

The government is anticipated to receive an additional 18 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to help with the virus’s national fight. The expected vaccine delivery will include 1,330,270 Pfizer vaccine doses from the US government via COVAX; 834,729 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from the governments of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, and the European Union via COVAX; and a bilateral agreement ... Read More »

The Right to Information (RTI) Commission has been prevailed upon to expedite action on the processes would see the passage of the needed Legislative Instrument to fully operationalize the Right to Information Act. On March 26, 2019, the 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic enacted the Right to Information Bill, which was signed into law by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ... Read More »