The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced Saturday, March 11, 2017, as the new date for the District Level (District Assembly and Unit Committee) elections that was postponed in September 2015. The affected regions, districts and electoral areas in which the election will be held include Nkoranza North and South Districts of the Brong Ahafo Region, … Read more
I premise this short article on two quotes. Immediately after the quotes are pretty simple and yet critical considerations for any serious aspiring candidate into leadership of any sort; especially at the regional/ national/ global level. Article accommodates some poetic ‘touches’. Quote 1: Victory in election campaigns is the resultant effect of well researched and … Read more
I join many across the world in extending my warmest congratulations to the President-Elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump, on his victory in the November 8 election. His competitor, Secretary Hillary Clinton, is also to be applauded for graciously conceding defeat. The result of the election, which has resulted in a change … Read more
Executives of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Bekwai Constituency, Friday, called on three local deities in the area to curse whoever destroyed a billboard of their parliamentary candidate, Mary Gyantua. A billboard of the candidate located in one of the junctions in the community has been destroyed by unkwown persons. It is … Read more
The Municipal Chief Executive of Evalue-Gwira in the Western region James Attah Kakra has reportedly ordered the NPP’s parliamentary candidate in the constituency to relocate her campaign billboards or risk having them pulled down by the assembly. A letter addressed to the former lawmaker said: “the statutory planning committee of the Nzema East municipal assembly … Read more
Communications team member with National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Mawuli Nanegbe says it will be a joke for the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), to express their optimism of winning the elections. Koku Nanegbe said, ”I have no doubt that President Mahama will win the elections. His achievements alone speaks volumes. It will be a … Read more
Seven out of 10 Ghanaians have said government is steering the country in the wrong direction, according to a survey conducted by the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana). A pre-election survey conducted by the think tank identified that Ghanaians wanted political campaigns ahead of the December general elections to focus on how to resolve … Read more
With 120 days more to the December 7 elections, an online opinion poll indicates that if the elections were held in July, leader of the largest opposition party, New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo would obtain 49% of votes cast while the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) candidate, President John Dramani Mahama, would secure 44% of … Read more
An aspiring Member of Parliament for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Domeabra-Obom Constituency of the Greater Accra Region has dragged a leading Akan station in Ghana, Peace FM, and its online portal, www.peacefmonline.com, to court over what the candidate claims are false publications against her. Madam Sophia Karen Ackuaku has sued these two … Read more
Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby, the presidential candidate of the United Ghana Movement (UGM) in 2000. He was born in Kumasi in March 1953. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Fuel and Combustion Engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Solar Energy Engineering, both from the University of Leeds, UK. The UGM presidential candidate … Read more
Mr. Daniel Augustus Lartey, the 2000 presidential candidate of the Great Consolidated Popular Party, was born on August 1, 1926 at Winneba in the Central Region. In 1940 he obtained a diploma at the London Chamber of Commerce and Sloan’s Shorthand Certificate of Proficiency in 1942. He also obtained a diploma in commerce and industry … Read more
Voting in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Super Delegates’ Congress has officially ended at all centres across the country and counting has started. Nana Akufo-Addo, the 2012 presidential candidate is in the lead with the results received so far. The congress was to reduce number of aspirants seeking to lead the party in the 2016 … Read more
Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, a leading contender in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearership race, has asked the party’s delegates not to vote for what he called ‘a candidate that (only) NPP people want.’ Rather, he said, the delegates should select a candidate that “non-NPP people will vote for,” referring to what he has tagged ‘floating … Read more
In April 2014, when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) elected its New National Party Executives, most of the party’s supporters were of the view that the party would now have a unified front that could provide stiff opposition to His Excellency President John Mahama’s 2016 re-election bid. Three months after the election of the NPP’s … Read more
A former presidential candidate of Ghana’s biggest opposition party says contrary to the “propaganda” that he is too old and weak at age 70 to run for president again, he is “fit and strong” for the task. “Ladies and gentlemen, I am fit and ready and my appetite is as keen as ever to go … Read more