Ghana politics and election news

The Majority in Parliament is kicking against a proposed amendment to the NPP constitution to bar dual citizens from contesting for national executive positions.

The Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, NDC, Koku Anyidoho has called for the head of the Minister of Education Mathew Opoku Prempeh over what he described as a bad implementation of government free SHS policy, leading to the outbreak of meningitis in some schools which has claimed the lives of some students.

Member of the NDC legal team, Abraham Amaliba, has said Ghana will not be peaceful if the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Charlotte Osei, is removed from office.

The Deputy General Secretary of the NPP has said there is no chance for the NDC to rule Ghana again unless he Nana Obiri Boahen is dead and buried.

Some Migori residents have expressed their anger after Nasa leader Raila Odinga called off his planned inauguration as the ‘people’s president’.

Popular NDC sympathizer Kweku Appiah aka Appiah Stadium has accused the invincible forces of burning down his house and car at Ahenema Kokoben in the Ashanti Region.

A 2016 Presidential Aspirant of the Convention Peoples Party, CPP, Joseph Agyapong has said: “Ghanaians are waiting for a Convention Peoples Party (CPP) government again for the resurrection of the nation’s development”.

Former Member of Parliament for the Nabdam Constituency in the Upper East Region, Boniface Gambila, has said the implementation of the free Senior High School programme is a cardinal human resource opportunity for the country’s development.

Former President John Mahama’s aide, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, has described as irresponsible and reckless claims by Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, that the land on which the former president’s residence is sited, belongs to the Ghana Armed Forces.

It was an atmosphere of thankfulness, jubilation and ecstasy at the Accra International Conference Center (ICC)  Thursday when the NPP rallied its highest ranking executives to mark a year since the party triumphantly kicked the Mahama led NDC out of the Flagstaff house.

CHRAJ has vindicated two presidential staffers of corruption allegations made against them by A-Plus a sympathizer of the governing NPP.

The leadership of Parliament has stressed the need for the citizenry to develop in-depth knowledge of their legislative functions.

The Volta Regional capital, Ho, will host this year’s 36th anniversary of the 31st December revolution under the theme ’Uniting around the principles of probity, accountability, and social justice”.

A former Deputy Power Minister, John Jinapor, has cautioned government against the implementation of the planned reduction in the price stabilization and recovery levy on some petroleum products without parliamentary approval.

Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid has blamed African leaders for the slave trade crisis going on in Libya.