All roads lead to the Accra Sports Stadium this Saturday as nine thousand delegates of the National Democratic Congress will converge at the facility to elect National Executives for different positions. The Publicity Committee Chairman for the election, Sammy Gyamfi who is going unopposed for the National Communications Officer position outlined some arrangements in place for the media as well as other dignitaries expected to grace the congress. Story by George Yawson Vineh

Member of Parliament for Wa West, Peter Lanchene Toobu believes that the country’s current economic outlook poses a serious security threat to the public due to the rising cost of living hence raised concerns about government’s domestic debt exchange program. He therefore called for an immediate resolution to the country’s economic woes by government to avert this threat. The Finance Minister at a meeting earlier today with the Ghana Individual Bondholders Forum has disclosed that scrapping of domestic debt exchange program is not an option for government in the fight to curb the current economic woes of the country. This the group fear that the modality may bring untold economic hardship to the country and would potentially make

A total of eighty-one members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been approved to contest for various National Executive positions in the upcoming Delegates’ Congress of the party. We take a critical look at some key positions been vied for by some aspirants ahead of the event scheduled for December 17, 2022. After some pockets of violence in the just-ended tenth Delegates Congress in the Central Region last weekend, where National Women and Youth Organizers were elected, many hoped that the upcoming elections to elect the rest of the executives of the biggest opposition party, NDC will be devoid of violence. The highlight of the event is the Chairmanship position of the party which is being keenly contested

A year has already passed since Land and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor promised on the floor of parliament to make reports by the Appeatse Disaster Committee public. At a press confab earlier today to launch a report on the incidents themed, ‘analysis of the situation a year on’, WACAM, a human rights and environmental mining advocacy in Ghana cannot fathom why government is still holding on to the public document. Today marks exactly a year since the Appeatse incident which wiped away almost the entire community of about 1,000 residents and left almost half of them injured. Some of the survivors of the tragedy are still fighting for their lives while others now live with permanent disabilities, such

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia earlier today joined the Works and Housing Ministry to launch the National Rental Allowance Scheme, a loan which will be granted to the youth to allow them pay for their rent allowance to their respective landlords which will later be deducted on a monthly basis. The move comes at the back of the governing New Patriotic Party’s pledge made in their 2020 manifesto to pay rent for Ghanaian youths. The government in 2022 hinted of plans to roll-out the National Rental Assistance Scheme to support low-income earners to have a decent rented accommodation in the country. The move comes at the back of the New Patriotic Party’s pledge made in 2020 manifesto to