I don’t need any politician in my Palace- Kurasehene warns as he personally rehabilitates community road The Chief of Kurase Nana Adu-Boahen is brimming with rage as politicians have over the years denied the community the needed development. The community developmental projects, including roads, and schools among others. Kurase which …

The newly-elected Member of Parliament for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson is expected to be sworn in tomorrow Friday, June 30, the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi has said. Sammy Gyamfi explained that as the law requires,  the Electoral Commission (EC) will have to …

Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch Ben Emmanuel Ephson says the only election predictions he usually gets wrong are internal party elections. For general elections, he said except for the 2016 elections, he has got all the results spot-on since 1996. This, he intimated, motivates him to continue to predict …

Official results from the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) as regards Tuesday’s by-election in Assin North make James Gyakye Quayson of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) winner with 17,245 of the total valid votes cast. He beat Charles Opoku of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Bernice Enyonam Sefenu of the …

The Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has directed all bodyguards of members of Parliament (MPs) and other state officials who will be in Assin North in the Central Region for Tuesday’s by-elections to hand over their weapons. They are not to carry such rifles with them, the …

Two staff of Media General were over the weekend honoured for media excellence by the Ashanti Regional chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association The Editor of Akoma fm , Broadcast Journalist Beatrice Spio-Garbrah and Head of Camera for TV3 Kumasi Office Victor Opoku was honoured alongside 15 other seasoned journalists …

The lifeless body of the third victim of the Daboase drowning disaster has been retrieved after traditional leaders of the community poured libation. The deceased, Richard Baidoo, a first-year Technical Student, was among a group of seven students who defied school rules and went swimming in the Subri River last …

The Minister for Education, Hon.Dr.Yaw Adutwum has rejected claims that the government’s Free SHS policy has affected the quality of education at the secondary school level in Ghana. According to him, such claims are unfounded and should be disregarded completely. The government has been criticized for introducing the double-track system …

Independent Power Producers (IPPs) have told the Minister of Finance that if their arrears are not paid by June 30, they will not be in a position to continue the generation of electricity. The IPPs said their earlier request to Finance to pay an interim 30 per cent of their …

The Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has vehemently opposed taxes on sanitary pads. He says it is a cardinal sin for Parliament to have allowed a tax to be imposed on sanitary pads. Parliament has been petitioned by some stakeholders for the government to reduce or scrap taxes on sanitary pads. …