The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has settled on November 4, 2023 to hold a presidential primary to elect a flagbearer for the 2024 general elections Graphic Online has gathered from sources within the party. Before then the party will hold a special conference on August 26, 2023 if the aspirants are more than five. That […]
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, says nothing untoward occurred in the passage of the new tax laws regardless of the absence of one of the Majority side MPs due to an accident. MP for Nanton, Mohammed Hardi Tuferu was involved in an accident on his way to take part in a vote on the […]
Parliament has rejected the Electoral Commission’s (EC’s) use of the Ghana Card as the sole source of identification to register people onto the voters register. The House unanimously recommended to the EC to include the guarantor system in the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulation, 2023 before it could present it for consideration. Legislators were […]
Former President John Dramani Mahama will be the first name on the ballot in the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) presidential primaries, according to the party’s Vetting Committee Chairman, Edward Doe Adjaho. The balloting process followed the successful vetting of all three candidates, which also saw former Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly Chief Executive, Kojo Bonsu, and former […]
A former Finance Minister and Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, yesterday filed his nomination forms to contest the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flag bearer race at the party’s headquarters in Accra. Dr Duffuor was accompanied by some party bigwigs including former Deputy Minister of Health, Rojo Mettle Nunoo; former NDC National […]
Former President John Mahama on Tuesday filed his nomination forms to contest the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flag bearer election. A month after picking the nomination form, the campaign manager of the former President in the 2020 elections, Professor Joshua Alabi, led a team to submit the completed forms on behalf of Mr Mahama at […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that it will not compile a new register for the 2024 elections. Rather, the commission said it would begin an all-year-round limited registration exercise for only people who would turn 18 years and persons who had not previously registered as voters. The Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, who […]
The National Council of the New Patriotic Party has advised that the party should engage in a broader consultation before fixing a date for the presidential and parliamentary primaries ahead of 2024. What it means is that the party has no specific date yet since consultations are still ongoing. Graphic Online’s Justice Agbenorsi reports from […]
A former Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen, has said he would ensure that the sitting Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, wins the party’s flagbearer contest and subsequently the 2024 general elections to become the next President of Ghana. Nana Obiri Boahen, who described himself as a president of […]
Zebilla MP, Cletus Avoka, says his colleague lawmaker, Haruna Iddrisu and his team are still leaders of the Minority Caucus in Parliament. This is depsite a letter by the leadership of the NDC which replaced Haruna Iddrisu as the Minority Leader on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference on Thursday, the former Majority Leader, Cletus Avoka, […]
The Minority Caucus in Parliament is expected to meet with the leadership of the National Democratic Congress on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, to settle some differences over the recent reshuffle. The leadership of the party had, this week, announced a reshuffle of the party’s parliamentary leadership. As a result of the reshuffle, MP for Tamale […]
The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the party carefully planned the change in its leadership in Parliament. Johnson Asiedu Nketiah said election 2024 will be fought on the economy and thus the party had the obligation to put its best foot forward. According to him, the party’s campaign message ahead of […]
