GENERAL NEWS

These are the major news headlines captured on the frontpages of the various news papers in Ghana today, Wednesday, May 24, 2023   Daily Guide          The Informer         The New Publisher          The Metro Lens       The Custodian …

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has released the timetable for their 2023 presidential and parliamentary primaries. The party announced that the nominations for presidential primaries will open on Friday, May 26, 2023, and close on June 24, 2023. The Special Electoral College Elections, if any, will be held on August …

The Board Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and former chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Frederick Worsemao Armah Blay (Freddie Blay), has brushed aside the accusations and demands by some 29 Civil Society Organisations calling for his resignation. This comes after the GNPC’s intention to sell …

The Minority has said since 2017 when the free Senior High school programme was implemented, they cautioned the government to hasten slowly so that a proper rollout of the policy would be meaningful and beneficial to Ghanaians. However, they said, this was not heeded and was described as propaganda. The …

The electoral officer who supervised the signing of the pink sheet in the ongoing by-election in Kumawu even before the voting will end has received flak from the Electoral Commission (EC). The Director of Electoral Services at the EC Dr Serebuor Quaicoe said the officer did not do well. He …

Some 29 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are demanding the immediate removal of the Board Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Freddie Blay and the acting Chief Executive Officer, Opoku Ahweneeh Danquah.   The CSOs, made up of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), Centre for Democratic Development …

Some residents of Wonoo are bitter over alleged money inducement by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the ongoing by-election in Kumawu. They claim officials from the camp of NPP are sharing GH¢20/GH¢10 to electorates who willingly show their voter’s ID card.   This is to ascertain whether they …

An unexpected development has arisen during the ongoing by-election in the Kumawu constituency, as allegations of an already signed pink sheet surfaced at a voting center. At the Oyoko Methodist Primary School polling station, reports say an officer was seen forcing agents to append their signatures on the sheet even …

The Akatsi North Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Godfred Root Kudalor, and Zakari Nasiru, the Constituency Youth Organiser, have been suspended by the Volta Regional Executive Committee of the Party. In a letter dated Sunday, May 21, and signed by Mr Pope Yao Yevoo, the NPP …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), has revealed details about how Ghana’s four collateralized loans from China have exposed the country to losing parts of its mineral resource revenue in addition to electricity sales. For Ghana, Chinese loans have been a reliable funding source four major projects since the year 2000. …