Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has a clear lead in the presidential race following Thursday’s vote, official preliminary results show. But his main challenger, pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine, said that tally was the result of the worst rigging in Ugandan electoral history. Election monitors say confidence in the count has been …

A staunch member of the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP), now the Managing Director of State Transport Company (STC) Nana Akomea has hinted that the party would be compelled to trigger a by-election at Fomena Constituency should the Speaker of Parliament not declare NPP caucus majority. Both the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the ruling New …

“I haven’t stated that the NPP has a majority in Parliament, I haven’t said that,” these are the words of the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin. He was responding to a request for clarity on his earlier declaration that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and an Independent Candidate constituted ‘the …

The Management of Adom TV has rendered an unqualified apology to the director of Urban Roads, Alhaji Abass Mohammed Awolufor wrongly associating him with an alleged bribery scandal linked to the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.   Prior to the apology, lawyer for the Urban Roads Director, Ralph Poku-Adusei, …

A private car belonging to Abdul Hayi Moomen, a journalist working with the GBC, Ghana’s state broadcaster, has been broken into and some valuables made away with. Moomen, announcing the robbery in a post on his Facebook page shared pictures of the salon car which shows one of the back …

The Effutu Constituency MP, Afenyo-Markin, says his colleagues arrived in Parliament Friday dawn as a mark of punctuality. The member of parliament for Effutu Constituency, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, has said decision by New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs to storm Parliament as early as 4am Friday was to adhere to the …

  The senior minister in President Nana Akufo-Addo’s first term,Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has bowed out of government, sources close to him have told Asaase News.     Asaase News can also confirm that Osafo-Maafo communicated his decision to President Akufo-Addo after the 9 December results declaration. Osafo-Maafo is considered to be …

  In Ghana, the media has been one of the fastest platforms by which credible facts are passed down to listeners and viewers. The ability for a journalist to keep their audience tuned in to their channel is one key factor that can never be ignored not forgetting being eloquent …

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) lawmakers say they do not have “any difficulty” sitting on the left side of the Speaker “Let me assure the Ghanaian people that the NDC 137 MPs have no difficulty sitting to the left of the Speaker so long as our numerical strength is respected …