The vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, has exposed plans by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) which is desperately seeking to retain power to smear the NPP with some unfounded corruption allegations. The move by the NDC is to divert peoples’ attention from the NPP and to put confusion and doubts in them […]

President John Mahama has said he is not a violent person and, thus, will not be the one to spark any violence in this year’s elections. “By my nature, I’m not a person who encourages violence and I’ll never encourage violence. If any such thing will happen, it will not be because I have provoked it,” he told some leaders […]

Thousands of National Democratic Congress supporters (NDC) in the Bawku Central constituency poured out for the campaign launch of Mahama Ayariga. Present to support Mahama Ayariga’s bid for a third term as MP was the the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hanna Tetteh. Mahama Ayariga was first elected into Parliament in 2004 when he beat the late Hawa Yakubu who stood […]

President John Mahama has assured the incumbent Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, E.T. Mensah, that he will not be sidelined in his next administration if he wins the election. According to the President, E.T. Mensah, who lost the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) parliamentary primary in the Ningo-Prampram constituency to Sam George, should not despair despite his loss. Mahama, who made […]

The Electoral Commission(EC) has indicated that it will not accept the plea of any political party disqualified in the 2016 presidential race. Deputy Communications Director of the EC, Yussif Ayuba said both Presidential and parliamentary candidates had ample time to vet their documents themselves and ensure that all details were in line with the law before proceeding to submit them […]

The National Patriotic Party (NPP) launched its 2016 manifesto in Accra, this Sunday and a team of fact-checkers subjected five claims made by the party’s Vice Presidential candidate, Dr Mahamud Bawumia to scrutiny. It was found that only one of them was entirely true. Two claims were found to be true but misleading, whiles one claim was found to be […]

There was a tussle between Member of Parliament for Assin North Kennedy Agyepong and the District Chief Executive of the area over who has the power to commission a newly built market complex at Assin Fosu in the Central Region. The MP who built the market with his share of the Common Fund decorated the market in the hope of […]

It is emerging that the Fire Officer whose genital was bitten, has claimed that the lady is his girlfriend, a claim she has strongly disputed. Eric Ansah, the Techiman Municipal Fire Officer in the Brong-Ahafo Region, reportedly told the police in his statement that his subordinate who bit his penis is his girlfriend. The Fire Officer, who has been suspended […]

The GHC50,000 filing fee set by the Electoral Commission for presidential nominees for the December elections should have been pegged at GHC120,000, the All People’s Congress (APC), led by Hassan Ayariga, has said. At an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting held in Accra on Thursday September 8, the EC announced that parliamentary candidates would have to pay GHC10,000 to file […]

The 1st Vice Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), F.F Anto says he has no hatred for President John Dramani Mahama after government described his ‘firing squad’ comment as a ‘hate speech’. He noted that “I was just making comparison and never incited anyone to kill the President”. F.F. Anto on a Kumasi-based radio stated that, President John […]