President Nana Akufo-Addo has appealed to the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives to take the upcoming referendum for the election of MMDCEs seriously. He said that government cannot afford to fail in delivering on the campaign promise it made to the Ghanaian populace since that is critical for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 general elections. The …

Thousands are gathering to march through central London calling for a second EU referendum, as MPs search for a way out of the Brexit impasse. Demonstrators from the “Put It To The People” campaign will march from Park Lane to Parliament Square, followed by a rally in front of Parliament. It comes after the EU agreed to delay the UK’s …

The just-ended referendum in the Volta Region to create the proposed Oti Region seems to have united Ghana’s two main political parties – the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). The usual acrimony, suspicion, accusations and counter accusations and tension between the NDC and the NPP during elections in the Volta Region, which is …

  Perhaps the new Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa, did not expect her baptism of fire to come so early. Even before she could adjust herself on the hot seat of managing elections in the country, the NDC-hated referendum over new regions came knocking on her office. Only a few heads get tested so early into their …