A delegates-based survey conducted by Outcomes International Ghana and Centre for Sustainable African Development Initiatives (C-SADI) UK has projected Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to win the flagbearer elections of the governing New Patitoc Party (NPP) ahead of the 2024 general elections. the survey stated that Ghana is an emerging democratic country seen as a good example for countries in sub-Saharan Africa. There are several political parties in the country but the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are the two dominant parties. In spite of the current economic challenges triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and precipitated by the Russian-Ukraine...
Asiedu Nketia gives ‘real’ reason why Haruna, Muntaka changed
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) cannot accept a situation where New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament are cooperating with Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin when NDC lawmakers are not doing same even though Mr Bagbin is from the NDC, National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has said. Addressing the NDC UK/Ireland Chapter during a visit to London after accompanying former president John Dramani Mahama for a public lecture engagement at Chatham House, Mr Nketia said “My priority in Parliament is to see our parliamentary caucus working together and also cooperating with the Speaker of Parliament. Why did we struggle to...
I faced a situation where I either resign or change Haruna and others – Asiedu Nketia
National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said he was confronted with a situation where he needed to ensure that the previous Minority Leadership was charged or he resigned as National Chair of the NDC. But he said, he was not ready to resign hence, had to ensure that Haruna Iddrisu, Muntaka Mubakark, and James Kuste Avedzi were replaced as Minority Leader, Minority Chief Whip and Deputy Minority Leader respectively. Addressing the NDC UK/Ireland Chapter during a visit to London after accompanying former president John Dramani Mahama for a public lecture engagement at Chatham House, Mr Nketia said “My...
Angry NDC youths storm radio station, beat up deputy General Secretary over Haruna’s removal
Mustapha Gbande, the Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress was attacked and beaten up by some angry youth suspected to be members of the party who stormed a radio station where he was speaking to justify the reshuffle of the leadership of the party’s caucus in parliament. According to the media house, Gbande was eventually saved from the irate men and whisked away, but he received verbal assaults and several slaps. “A group of Haruna supporters, who were not happy listening to the responses and reasons given by the deputy secretary, besieged the radio station attempting to assault...
Be on standby; we may need you for other duties – Asiedu Nketiah to former minority leaders
The Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has said that Haruna Iddrisu, Muntaka Mubarak and James Klutsey Avedzi who have been removed from the party’s caucus leadership in parliament should be on standby and that the party may need them to perform other duties in the future. His call follows agitations that have greeted the reshuffling which saw Leader Haruna Iddrisu replaced with Dr Cassiel Ato Forson as Minority Leader, Muntaka Mubarak replaced with Kwame Governs Agbodza as Minority Chief Whip and James Klutse Avedzi replaced with Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah as the Deputy Minority Leader. The unpopular decision...
The Haruna I know won’t take it if decision to remove him is reversed – Sam George
The outgone Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu will not even accept it if the decision to remove him by the National Executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is reversed, Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament Samuel Nartey George has said. Sam Goege has problems with the way and manner the changes were done to the leadership of the Minority. In his view, the entire process of removing the officials could have been done in a tidier manner through consultation given the caliber of personalities involved. Sam George said “Many of us had eggs on our faces, we thought [the letter announcing the changes]...
20 Ghanaian referees receive FIFA badges
The Ghana Football Association has presented FIFA badges to 20 male and female Referees and Assistant Referees for the 2023 football season. FIFA gives badges for the calendar year to the top-ranked referees for the year under review. Each year, referees in each country are ranked by the Classification and Assessment Committee based on their performance during the previous year and in the FIFA Test. FIFA then takes a cut per the number of referees it assigns to each member Association. The lists include six (6) male referees, six (6) Assistant male referees, four (4) female referees, four (4) female Assistant referees...
Here are the pastors who have resigned from the National Cathedral Board of Trustees
Three senior members of the Clergy who are members of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral have resigned. The pastors, Mensa Otabil, General Overseer of International Central Gospel Church; Dag Heward-Mills, founder and leader of the Lighthouse Chapel International; and Cephas Omenyo, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church. They cited reasons for stepping down from the board. Work on the National Cathedral has come to a halt months after the project contractors RIBADE Company LTD, allegedly sacked over 200 of its workers over a lack of funds. The site for the edifice, which is a 14.5-acre land next to the Parliament House of...
Court jails Nigerian man 450 days for trying to get Ghanaian passport twice
A Nigerian Computer Engineer, Peter Michael Ifeanyi aka Peter Yaw Asare will spend the next 450 days in prison for attempting to obtain a Ghanaian passport twice. A Madina District Court has sentenced, the 26-year-old man after he pleaded guilty to the charge of attempting to obtain Ghanaian passports by false declaration. According to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), the court sentenced him on his own plea without an option of a fine. The convict was arrested on January 4, 2023, at the Accra Passport Application Centre, around Tema Station in Accra. The Prosecution led by Chief Superintendent of Immigration Adolf Assenso...
Tread carefully on Minority leadership changes – CDD to NDC
The Senior Programmes Officer for the Centre of Democratic Development (CCD-Ghana) Paul Aborampah Mensah has cautioned the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to tread carefully on its decision to change the party’s leadership in Parliament. Mr Aborampah said the NDC should have considered the ethnic sentiments of some of the supporters of the previous leaders in Parliament before embarking on the decision to replace them. “We have to be very cautious in order not to read ethnic sentiments in every decision that we take. If you watch television yesterday, you would realise the NDC supporters were reading meaning into the decision.”...