Author: SAMUEL

Popular TikTok content creator Priscilla Wan, known as Priscy, has sparked intense social media debate after claiming that “baby mamas” are financially benefiting more from men than legally married women in contemporary Ghanaian society. Speaking on Adom TV on Monday, the social media personality asserted that women who have children outside wedlock now enjoy greater privileges and financial support than wives, despite not being married to their partners. “Not saying this to disrespect married women, I’m not married yet but I want to get married one day. In this era, baby mamas are the ones cashing out,” Priscy stated during…

The Executive Director and Head of Global Research at Global Info Analytics, Mussa Dankwah, has dismissed claims of bias in the organisation’s recent polls ahead of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) internal elections scheduled for January 2026. Speaking at the International Hausa Day celebration in Kumasi on Tuesday, August 26, Mr. Dankwah emphasised that his work is grounded in facts and data, not personal preferences. “As far as we are concerned we believe in data… Sometimes I do a poll and I don’t feel well about it but that is not my view, that is the view of the people.…

Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has dismissed suggestions that declaring a state of emergency is the solution to illegal mining, also known as galamsey. The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) stressed that although government efforts to tackle galamsey are ongoing, extreme measures such as suspending the constitution would create more problems than solutions. “Work is being done about the galamsey fight, and we hope to be able to find solutions to it. But I don’t subscribe to the declaration of the state of emergency as other people are suggesting,” he said in an interview on Channel One TV. He…

Vice President Jane Opoku-Agyemang has stressed the government’s commitment to harnessing data for effective governance, innovation, and policy-making. She made the remarks at the Pre-Global Data Festival Ghana High-Level Meeting, held under the theme “Driving Data Innovation, Policy and South-South Collaborations.” Welcoming delegates on behalf of President John Dramani Mahama, the Vice President underscored the centrality of data in governance. “Data are central to evidence-based solutions, fiscal discipline, and effective planning. Recent reductions in inflation demonstrate the positive impact of data-driven decisions,” she said. Highlighting ongoing initiatives, she pointed to the 1 Million Coders Program, aimed at boosting digital and…

Lydia Quist of IMANI has argued that Ghana’s retail sector needs a shift from protectionism to openness, following President Mahama’s announcement at the Japan–Africa Summit to scrap the $1 million minimum capital requirement for foreign trading companies. Her analysis, published in IMANI’s Criticality Analysis of Governance and Economic Issues (August 17–23, 2025), points out that the rule under the GIPC Act was meant to protect local traders but has instead discouraged smaller foreign investors and stifled innovation. “The $1 million threshold has been a blunt instrument, a deterrent that blocked investment without meaningfully safeguarding local traders,” she noted. The Ghana…

Six people have been killed and 18 others injured in Gbiniyiri, a farming community in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of the Savannah Region, after clashes over land ownership turned violent on Sunday. The conflict forced women and children to flee, while properties were destroyed, leaving the community tense and unsettled. In response, the Inspector General of Police, Christian Tetteh Yohuno, led a team of top security officers to the area. About 300 personnel have been deployed from Accra to Gbiniyiri and adjoining communities to reinforce security and restore calm. Before his visit to Gbiniyiri, Mr. Yohuno met with the Regional Security…

Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Asiedu Nketia, has responded to reports suggesting that he is nursing a presidential ambition. According to him, it is too early to have such conversations, and therefore, “If we get to the bridge, we will cross it.” General Mosquito, as he is popularly called, believes the focus eight months after winning an election must never be about who takes over from President Mahama, but rather on how to ensure the government succeeds. He was speaking to Channel 1 Media when he espoused this position. The chairman of the NDC’s name has featured…

Johnson Asiedu Nketia has charged members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its appointees to focus on ensuring that the current government succeeds. He says if there is success in the current government, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) stands to gain, as it will improve their chances in the 2028 elections. However, if the party, its members, and appointees focus on who will take over from John Dramani Mahama, then the party stands to lose gravely. Asiedu Nketia made this known in an interview with Channel 1 Media. “I have been monitoring this whole discussion about who is running…

National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Asiedu Nketia, has responded to claims by some elements in the opposition that John Dramani Mahama wants to amend the constitution to allow for a third term for himself. According to him, the NDC has never run the party in ways that conflict with the national constitution. He says the party will stick to the country’s constitution and will not do anything to hamper the constitution. “We have never run our party in ways that conflict with the national constitution, and we don’t intend doing that. We will stick by the tenets…

A farmer named Baba Takwara from Kpasenkpe working in Yama near Walewale, drowned in the White Volta River on Monday evening, August 25, 2025. According to local Assembly Member Jacob Nluki, Takwara stayed behind to fetch water and food while his colleagues began harvesting across the river. He never returned, and his body was later found. He has since been buried under Islamic rites. Officials link the tragedy to rising river levels caused by the Bagre Dam spillage in Burkina Faso, which regularly floods northern Ghana during the rainy season. Just days earlier, SONABEL and NADMO had warned farmers to…