Nana Frimpomaa Sarpong Kumankumah has emerged victorious in the Convention People’s Party (CPP) presidential primary, securing her place as the party’s flagbearer for the 2024 general elections. At the end of the voting process, a total of 1,360 votes were cast. Nana Kumankumah garnered 763 votes, defeating her contender Yaw Anokye Frimpong, who received 586 …

The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Briphildon Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, Bright Philip Donkor, has emphasised the urgent need for Ghana’s national discourse to pivot from sensational distractions towards substantive policy discussions. This call for change comes in response to the growing trend of focusing on personal attacks and unfounded accusations in the …

The Ghana Bar Association (GBA), a professional association of lawyers in Ghana, is set to election its next president at its 2024 annual general conference which will take place at the Great Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) from Monday, 9 to Friday, 13 September 2024. Themed: “Peaceful, Fair and …

The governing New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) parliamentary candidate for the La Dadekotopon constituency, Joseph Kwashie Addo, has organised a free medical screening for residents of the constituency. The health outreach, which took place over the weekend, was aimed at improving the overall well-being of constituents and addressing pressing health concerns in the community. The screening …

A professor of Accounting and Finance at the University for Professional Studies, Isaac Boadi, has asserted that no president is clothed with the power to issue banking licenses since that is the job of the Bank of Ghana. Speaking on Asaase Radio’s political and current affairs show “The Forum” on Saturday, 31 August 2024, the …

President Akufo-Addo has reaffirmed the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) unwavering commitment to democratic principles, declaring that election rigging is fundamentally incompatible with the party’s core values. Critics have questioned the credibility of the Electoral Commission (EC) accusing the election management body of attempts to compromise the elections to favour the governing party. Speaking at the …

Small-scale mining in Ghana is considered a major source of livelihood for many people in rural areas, with about one million citizens engaging in it. However, the increase in unregulated mining (Galamsey) activities over several decades has resulted in severe land degradation, biodiversity loss, contamination of our water bodies, and the acidification of soils that …

The Institute of Progressive Governance (IPG) has chided the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for deluding itself into thinking that it left a robust economy in 2016. In a statement to the media, IPG explained that it is an insult to Ghanaians for NDC to indicate in its 2024 Manifesto that it left a very robust …