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A former Finance Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffuor has entered the race to challenge former President John Dramani Mahama for the Presidential Candidate slot of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). He picked forms to officially run for the flagbearership of the NDC on Thursday as the party readies to attempt to take over the reigns of power from the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). Dr Duffuor joins a growing list of personalities who have picked forms in this regard. Ahead of the gesture, supporters of the businessman massed up at the NDC Headquarters. They hoisted posters and placards in solidarity…

Popular actor Yul Edochie has warned Nigerians against engaging in any form of violence on election day.The actor encouraged people to refrain from being used as pawns by any of the candidates to generate electoral mayhem since they could lose their lives in the process with the presidential election on Saturday February 25.“Any candidate who wants to engage you to cause mayhem on election day, tell him to bring his children to lead the squad, Say ‘NO’ to election violence. Vote peacefully,” Edochie repeatedly wrote.Reiterating his point, Edochie advised against electoral violence and its dire consequences. Edochie added, “Say NO…

Aspiring flagbearer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwabena Agyei Agyepong has cautioned executives of the party not to attempt to force their preferred presidential candidate on the party. According to him, all flagbearer aspirants must be given an equal chance to campaign and be elected by the NPP delegates on their merit. His comments follow suggestions by some NPP members that Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia should be given the nod to replace President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo for the 2024 elections. But speaking on the Citi Fm, the former Press Secretary to former President John Kufuor said nobody…

After he was removed as the Minority Chief Whip, some members of opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) belonging to the camp of former President John Dramani have pooled together resources to pick nomination forms for one Mubarak Masawudu to contest the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak in the Asawase Constituency parliamentary primary. The resources went down to some branch executives of Asawase Constituency to get the former NDC leader in Parliament out of the House. Speaking at a pressconference, Abubakar Ahmed Ibrahim, branch secretary for Asawase B-LINE, said “We the undersigned branch executives have contributed an amount…

Former Deputy Minister For Health and a leading Member of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, has said the former Finance Minister Dr. Kwabena Duffor has more integrity than former President John Dramani Mahama. According to the the NDC guru, who a lead witness in former President John Mahama’s 2020 election petition, but has now joined the camp of Dr. Duffour for the NDC Presidential race, “Dr. Duffour is a man of integrity, and he is the man that the grassroots of the NDC and Ghana needs now”. Speaking on Citi Fm, he said the current challenges of governance…

The Food and Drug Board Authority (FDA) has alerted the public and health workers on the circulation of counterfeit antimalarial drug- Combiart Tablets (Artemether/ Lumefantrine) on the Ghanaian market. According to the FDA, it market surveillance activity samples of the counterfeit antimalarial from the Northern Region revealed that the drug did not contain any of the two active pharmaceutical ingredients stated on the label. “The FDA as part of its market surveillance activities wishes to bring to the attention of health workers and the public, the presence of falsified (counterfeit) antimalarial drug- COMBIART Tablets (Artemether/Lumefantrine 20/120) on our market,” statement…

Dr. Kwabena Duffuor lift nomination forms as the Ashanti Regional Women’s Organiser, Gloria Huze and others look on The Ashanti Regional Women’s Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Gloria Huze, has endorsed Dr. Kwabena Duffuor’s bid to contest for the flagbearership race of the party. Gloria Huze, who was accompanied by some branch executives of the party from the region, made this known in an interview with a cross section of journalists after presenting the nomination forms to the flagbearer hopeful, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, at his Osu residence in Accra yesterday. The Women’s Organiser described Dr. Duffuor as the…

Majority and Minority Leadership flank Speaker of Parliament A.S. Bagbin THERE WAS a sharp disagreement yesterday between members of the NPP Majority and the NDC Minority over the Electoral Commission’s (EC) proposed new Constitutional Instrument (C.I.) to replace the existing Instrument (C.I.) in preparation for the election in 2024. This occurred during the Special Budget Committee’s report on a briefing session on the draft Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2022 and other related matters. However, the toxic polarisation of the normal back-and-forth of political debate erupted into heated exchanges in the aftermath of a motion moved by Majority Chief…

The Met Office has warned that the UK could be hit with snow as early as next week, with “severe cold weather” on the way. Temperatures have been dropping this week, but the Met Office has warned it’s about to get even colder as temperatures plummet towards 0C. A spokesperson for the Met Office warned that the South East in particular will be hit with a “few light showers” and because of the cold weather, this could turn into sleet or snow. Regardless, the Met Office said it was confident that there is some cold weather on the way this weekend…

Parliament has invited the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) to brief the Committee of the Whole on a new Constitutional Instrument (C.I.) ahead of Election 2024. The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin has directed that the Chairperson herself, Jean Mensah should appear for the briefing. According to the Speaker, the EC must be represented at the highest level at the next meeting of the committee with officials of the commission and the National Identification Authority (NIA). The Speaker told the House that the appearance of Mrs Jean Mensah would help members obtain the required assurances into how…