Former broadcaster, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has won the Ofoase Ayeribi Parliamentary seat in the Eastern region under the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. he polled an impressive 17,141 votes to head into parliament of the NPP. Mr. Oppong Nkrumah went into the primaries to contest for the elections after the incumbent MP Mr David … Read more
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, popularly known as General Mosquito has urged party supporters to vote massively for President John Mahama as well as all NDC parliamentary candidates contesting in this year’s general elections. He said, the party was determined to increase its majority number in parliament as … Read more
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, popularly known as General Mosquito has urged party supporters to vote massively for President John Mahama as well as all NDC parliamentary candidates contesting in this year’s general elections. He said, the party was determined to increase its majority number in parliament as … Read more
The flag bearer of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr Henry Herbert Lartey, has described portions of Ghana’s electoral laws that require presidential nominees to fill nomination forms as draconian that must be scrapped from the statute books. Dr Lartey was among 11 other presidential aspirants disqualified by the Electoral Commission (EC) for errors … Read more
Some grassroot supporters of the National Democratic Congress(NDC) under the umbrella name VICTORY FOR JDM 2016, have accused incumbent Member of Parliament(MP) for the Ningo-Prampram constituency, Mr. E. T Mensah of working against the interest of the party in the area and clandestinely lending his support to the NPP to see the NDC’s defeat in … Read more
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante Akim North constituency of the Ashanti Region, Kwadwo Baah Agyemang is alleging that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the area Andy Appiah Kubi, is promising alien Fulanis permanent stay in Agogo. While observing that Fulanis remain a major security threat to residents of Agogo and … Read more
Last week, billionaire real estate tycoon and reality television personality Donald Trump was elected as the new President of the United States of America. Born in 1946 in New York, the 70-year old real estate developer had been strategically involved in hugely profitable building projects in Manhattan before he began to nurse political ambitions. Trump … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for the Asante Akim North constituency of the Ashanti Region Lawyer Andy Appiah Kubi, has promised to decline parliament if the party’s flagbearer fails to garner over 30,000 votes at the close of polls next month from the area. He is optimistic that Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo will … Read more
Shock! Disbelief! Total surprise! Those media (and politicians) who have in the preceding election campaign totally uncritically, but systematically supported Hillary Clinton, try by using such words to convince the public opinion (and themselves most probably) that the election of Donald Trump as the next American President is a total surprise (a mistake, almost). But … Read more
Elizabeth Warren gets real, dings Obamacare: ‘We failed not in our messaging but in our ideology’ The senator is rapidly emerging as a leader of the opposition. Elizabeth Warren delivered a blunt message to a large group of wealthy liberal donors Monday, arguing that the Democratic Party’s failure to connect with working and middle-class people … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump has awarded key roles in his incoming team to a top Republican party official and a right-wing media chief. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), will be his chief of staff. In this role, he will set the tone for the new White House and act as a … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump has awarded key roles in his incoming team to a top Republican party official and a right-wing media chief. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), will be his chief of staff. In this role, he will set the tone for the new White House and act as a … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump has awarded key roles in his incoming team to a top Republican party official and a conservative media chief. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), will be his chief of staff. In this role, he will set the tone for the new White House and act as a … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), as his future chief of staff. He is said to have good ties with both Mr Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who opposed many of Mr Trump’s policies during the campaign. As chief of staff, he will set the … Read more
Since the presidential election, pundits have struggled to explain Donald Trump’s upset win. Liberal columnists are united in shock that so many people voted for a man who inflamed racial, ethnic and religious tensions, insulted and mistreated women, and was deemed temperamentally unfit to be president, even by many of his supporters. Conservatives are divided. … Read more
From the start, there were things that were under Hillary Clinton’s control, and many, many things that never would be. She was a technocrat facing an America demanding revolution. She was a scarred but stalwart fighter in her third decade of battle, facing a new generation of enemies. Her instincts, oriented toward substantive debate, were … Read more
Ghanaians go to polls to elect presidential and parliamentary candidates on December 7, 2016. One of the constituencies to be keenly contested in the Northern Region will be the Savelugu Constituency. The incumbent Member of Parliament, Hajia Mary Boforo, lost in the primaries to the current Municipal Chief Executive, Mohammed Abdulai Red, to contest on … Read more
This election, surely the most extraordinary in American history, was a revolt against the political establishment. And few people personify the political establishment more than Hillary Clinton. During this campaign, for millions of angry voters, she became the face of America’s broken politics. Donald Trump managed to persuade enough voters in enough states that he … Read more
Political science lecturer with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kwesi Amakye Boateng has cautioned Ghanaians and politicians against the wrong interpretation of the outcome of the just ended elections in the United States of America. He said the issues and factors that influence the outcomes of elections in America are entirely different … Read more
Prof Edward Akuffo In a conversation with some friends on November 7, 2016, I argued that Donald Trump will win the presidency of the United States of America and that should not be surprising at all. To the majority of people, Hilary’s win was largely written on the wall. Yet, the outcome of the elections … Read more