AS a newspaper, we are obliged to inform, educate and entertain the reading public. This mandate of ours enables the public to be abreast of the goings-on in the country and around the globe. Furthermore, it helps the citizenry to make informed decisions. HOWEVER, one key role which the media does is to set the agenda for … Read more
The People National Convention (PNC) is considering forming a vigilante group to help it during elections, Atik Mohammed, General Secretary of the party, has stated. According to him, it has become clear that the main political parties in the country – the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) – have the … Read more
The People’s National Convention (PNC) has threatened to raise a vigilante group to provide security for its national officers. PNC General Secretary, Atik Mohammed, said the party will not allow the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) to have monopoly over these groups. Speaking at a programme held by the Coalition … Read more
A Senior Lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Legon, Dr. Kwesi Jonah, has advised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to inspire confidence and hope in his maiden State of the Nation Address scheduled for today. According to the IDEG fellow, Ghanaians will expect hope, above everything, from the President in … Read more
TODAY, the President, H. E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will address Parliament for the first time as he delivers the State of the Nation Address (SONA). Today’s address will be Mr. Akufo-Addo’s maiden SONA since he was inaugurated as Ghana’s 5th President under the Fourth Republican Constitution. ACCORDING to Wikipedia, SONA is an annual address … Read more
President Akufo-Addo will today deliver his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament amidst high expectations from Ghanaians. Article 67 of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution requires that: “The President shall, at the beginning of each session of Parliament and before the dissolution of Parliament, deliver to Parliament a message on the state of the … Read more
A senior lecturer at the Political Science department of the University of Ghana Dr. Kwesi Jonah has advised President Akufo-Addo to inspire confidence and hope in his maiden state of the nation address scheduled for Tuesday, February 21, 2017. According to the IDEG fellow, Ghanaians will expect hope, above everything, from the President in his … Read more
Dr. Kwesi Jonah, Senior Research fellow at IDEG and Lawyer Ayikoi Otoo, former Attorney General have called for the Council of State to be reformed as the current advisory council is not nonpartisan, impartial and nationalistic in character. Discussing the relevance of the Council of State with Nana Aba Anamoah on GHOne TV’s current affairs … Read more
The Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) and Civic Initiative Forum (CFI) would engage 1,100 electoral agents to observe and monitor the December Presidential and Parliamentary elections. They would also establish 10 Civil Society Elections Situation Rooms (CESR) in all the regions with a national coordinating centre in Accra to disseminate credible information on the polls … Read more
An anti-corruption campaigner, Sydney Casely-Hayford, wants government to dissolve the Secretariat solely charged with the responsibility to disburse the District Assembly Common Fund, saying it is a waste of resources. According to him, the fund, together with its managers, only slow down development, and cost the country additional money that could be used for other … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) has said it is hoping to reduce spoilt ballots during the upcoming December 7 elections to below one per cent by simplifying the voting process. The high number of rejected ballots recorded during national elections has been a major concern to stakeholders over the years and have been attributed to the … Read more
Political scientist and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Dr. Kwesi Jonah, has warned of a possible turbulent political atmosphere in the forthcoming elections. According to him, the danger of upsetting the two term power alternation between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), rise in intemperate … Read more
A call by the Greater Accra regional Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Bala Maekanka, for the presidential nominee of the party, Dr Edward Mahama to resign because the party is unable to acquire the needed logistics and resources to prosecute campaign activities for the December 7 polls, is totally out of place, Mr … Read more
Some political parties in the country are unhappy about the Electoral Commission’s decision to exclude them from a ten-member committee to oversee the proposals for electoral reforms in Ghana. The committee has General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, Peter Mac Manu of the National Patriotic Party (NPP), Anim Kofi … Read more