As I See This Sort Of Defection
On a busy news day, this story would not have made the headlines at all…. A former campaign coordinator of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) from the Bole-Bamboi Constituency, Northern...
Tag: general election
NDC To Employ 10,000 ‘Kayayei’ – Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has promised that the next NDC administration his watch will train about 10,000 female head porters popularly known as ‘Kayayei’ for employment if he is retained...
Political Fallacies
Yes! It's time! Ghanaian politicians who avail themselves to every ghetto in the length and breath of this country only when there's an impending elections as in the current state of the nation with...
Poultry Farmers Demand Plans To Revamp Industry
Poultry farmers in the country are calling on all political parties to unveil their plans to revamp the ailing poultry industry ahead of the December 7 general election. They have subsequently...
EC Registers 2,276 Prisoners For December Polls
The Electoral Commission (EC) has registered a total of 2,276 prison inmates across the country, to enable them participate in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections. About 40,433 new...
NDC Catches Cold; Lines Up Six Ministers Against Bawumia
The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is oiling its propaganda machinery to ‘douse’ the flame ignited by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) vice presidential candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia,...
NDC, NPP Fight In Takoradi
There was pandemonium during the broadcasting of the Joy News flagship programme dubbed, “The Ballot Box,” in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis last Friday evening when supporters of the ruling...
David Cameron Resigns From UK Parliament
From world leader to the wilderness in just under three months. David Cameron, the former British Prime Minister, has announced he will stand down as a member of Parliament for his constituency of...
Kwabena Agyepong Raps NPP With Eid Al-Adha Message
The suspended General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyei Agyepong has extended his felicitations to Muslims in the country and around the world, especially, those in...
NHIS?not Dead
The Minister of Health, Mr Alex Segbefia, has given an assurance that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is doing well and is not dead as some people are claiming. He said even though the...
David Cameron To Stand Down As An MP
Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron is to stand down as an MP, triggering a by-election in his Oxfordshire seat of Witney. Mr Cameron, who resigned as prime minister after June's EU referendum,...
Nana Addo Will Clasp Victory In the 2016 Elections If.
On 7th December 2016, the eligible Ghanaian electorates will go to the polls to choose the politicians they so wish to steer the country to the right direction. Although it has been documented that a...
Would Donald Trump Or Hillary Clinton Make The More Effective Executive?
French soldiers in Lalain France, in 1794, reported a Rain of Toads. The 2016 presidential race makes one nostalgic for such relative normality. Underneath the media’s current Rain of Toads this...
Ato Forson, You Cant Eat Numbers
There are at least two Deputy Finance Ministers in the Mahama-led government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and so I had to do a double take to ensure that I was responding to the...
Police Trains Personnel For Special Anti-Terrorism Duties
The Ghana Police Service has trained 365 police personnel drawn from the 10 regions to form an anti-violence advocacy group to combat violence and other crimes in the run up to the general election...
‘Give It To God and Let’s Move On!’
By Cameron Duodu On 3, September 2016, Myjoyonline.com reported that a former Clerk of Ghana’s Parliament, Mr S N Darkwa, had described as an error, the “outright dismissal of a motion brought...
Greenstreet Pulling Out of Dec Polls Comment Was On ‘lighter Note’
The CPP says comments by its flagbearer, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet that he may pull out of the 2016 presidential race in protest against GHS50, 000 filing fee was meant to be taken lightly. CPP...
Talensi Paramount Chief Urges Peaceful Campaigns Ahead of Polls
The paramount chief of the Talensi traditional area, Tong-Raana Kugbilsong Nalebegtang has appealed to all political parties to eschew violence in their campaigns and on the day of election...
Presidency Not About Height – Chief Advises Electorate
Nana Saforo Okoampah, the Chief of Akuapem-Apirede in the Okere Constituency of the Akuapem North Municipality, says choosing a leader is about competence and the ability to deliver and not about the...
Omane-Boamah, Butchers Are Trained To Cut Heads, Not To Count Them
Violent cowards are morbidly afraid of death. But if they were good Christians, as they claim to be, the NDC apparatchiks would have since long learned from the great teachings of Jesus Christ that...