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The Member of Parliament for Tolon Constituency in the Northern Region, Hon. Habib Iddrisu, has lamented how politicians currently use money as their way out through elections. In an interview with the media, he bemoaned that money alone cannot guarantee a candidate a win in an election. The lawmaker educated …

Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in the Birim Central municipal assembly in the Eastern region have received items worth thousands of cedis to help them support themselves and their families. The distribution through the disability common fund is intended to alleviate the plight of PWDs by assisting them in establishing their …

Changing the December 7 election date has nothing to do with SDA’s petition, the EC clarifies. The Electoral Commission of Ghana says its push for a change in the December 7 election date is unrelated to the petition submitted by the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church. The SDA church, about a …

A senior lecturer at the Department of History and Political Science at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Kwasi Amakye Boateng, has stated that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will lose the 2024 presidential elections. Dr. Boateng attributed his forecast to what he perceives as the …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has promoted the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Thomas Oppong-Peprah, to the position of Chief of Defence Staff. The appointment was announced in a statement issued by the Director of Communications at the Office of the President, Eugene Arhin, on Wednesday, January 24. Major …

The Akyem Oda Divisional Police Command has arrested Nana Afia Henewaa Adontehemaa of Akyem Akroso and Solomon Obeng Asante, the campaign manager for New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary aspirant Alex Owusu Adjei. The arrests came after supporters of the parliamentary aspirant held a press conference expressing their disagreement with the …

The Chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, Madam Jean Mensa, has proposed the date for both Presidential and Parliamentary elections, be moved from December 7 to November 7. The EC also wants election days to be designated as national holidays. The proposals were put forward during the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) …

The Eastern Region has been chosen to host the 67th Independence Day National Celebration scheduled for 6 March 2023. Lord Commey, director of operations at the Office of the President, led members of the national planning committee to the Eastern Region, where they informed the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs …

An economist, Dr. Sidi Ali, has charged the government to improve private sector businesses in the country to create an enabling environment for employment and other job opportunities. Dr. Sidi Ali indicated that the leadership of the country must lay down effective mechanisms that will produce decent jobs for the …

Ahenkan FM’s presenter, Adwenpa-Hene Kofi Mensah, secretly known as Mensah Francis, has provided a metro high-speed ceiling fan to the Akyem Aboabo Health Center to help circulate air to staff and patients within their various facilities. The ceiling fan was presented to the administrator of the healthcare facility on Thursday, …