Dr. Kojo Asante, Director of Advocacy and Policy Engagement at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), has urged Ghanaians to actively support efforts to change the 1992 Constitution. He pointed out that this is the third major attempt in 15 years and shows that there is broad agreement on the need for reform. He…
Ken Ofori-Atta, a former finance minister, is set to appear in a U.S. court on Tuesday, January 20. This is because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has decided that he no longer has legal status to stay in the country. This could lead to his extradition to Ghana. Dr. Dominic Ayine, Ghana’s Attorney-General and…
Former Energy and Lands Minister John Peter Amewu has backed Assin Central MP Kennedy Ohene Agyapong as the best candidate among those running for the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) 2028 flagbearership contest. He says Agyapong best represents the current mood of the country. Mr. Amewu told Joy News’ PM Express that he was backing one…
The ongoing water crisis in Teshie, Nungua, and many parts of Accra, which worsened from late 2025 into early 2026, is not an accident. It is the direct result of poor leadership, weak supervision, and deep neglect by the NDC government. This crisis is devastating, painful, and completely unacceptable in a modern capital city. For…
In Ghana’s evolving democratic landscape, one thing has become painfully clear: the National Democratic Congress (NDC) continues to lean on cheap publicity as a substitute for real leadership and genuine performance. In early January 2026, this pattern was yet again exposed when the NDC government celebrated its US$1.47 billion energy sector debt clearance, as if…
In 2025, the Health Sector of the Effutu Constituency witnessed a remarkable transformation under the purposeful leadership and compassionate intervention of Hon. Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, Member of Parliament for Effutu. His contributions during the year were not symbolic gestures, but strategic, data-driven, and people-centered interventions that directly addressed access, infrastructure, disease control, and inclusive healthcare…
The recent intermittent power outages in Ho, other parts of Ghana, especially Kumasi, have once again reignited national concern over electricity reliability, popularly referred to as DUMSOR. While some in the NDC camp hurriedly downplay the scale of the problem, businesses, households, and everyday Ghanaians continue to feel the sting of recurring outages. These outages…
Ghanaian PhD students in the UK are in a major crisis because the government has not been able to pay their tuition and stipends through the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat for a long time. Some of these students have even dropped out of their programs. Students are now facing more and more debts, threats of eviction,…
Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, a former Education Minister and NPP flagbearer hopeful, has asked Ghanaians to respect due process when it comes to former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. He has asked people to be calm and follow the law. He warned against judging people in public before the legal process is over on JoyNews’ Newsfile….
The government has promised that the West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo) will not cause too much trouble with the electricity supply while it does scheduled maintenance on its gas facilities in Ghana on Sunday, January 18, 2026, from 6:00am to 3:00pm. The Ministry of Energy and Green Transition and the Ghana Grid Company Limited…
