A large crowd of aggrieved subscribers have besieged MTN offices across the country to express their frustration and disappointment over the telecom company’s blocking of phone numbers.

As the December 2024 presidential campaign front inches towards the home stretch, the political scene has been inundated with lofty promises, and sometimes audacious pledges that somehow promise to overhaul the debt-ridden Ghanaian economy into an instant paradise.

THIS week, I had a political wish. I asked the elections fairy if presidential and parliamentary elections can be held on July 31.  The fairy just smiled. 

Africa will overtake Asia as the continent with the highest number of people experiencing hunger in the world by 2030, the UN has predicted.

Research by a Ghanaian market research company, SumsureIQ,  indicates that the standard living for the average Ghanaian consumer has declined by 8%.

Al Nassr, one of the leading clubs in the Saudi Pro League, is making headlines with its ambitious move to sign West Ham United's star midfielder, Mohammed Kudus. 

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has regretted the dearth of courageous people who can speak truth to power.

The founder and leader of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Akua Donkor has made 18 promises which she will oversee once she is elected as Ghana’s next President in the 2024 presidential election.

The Plateau Commissioner for Information and Communication, Musa Ashoms, has confirmed that about 200 students were trapped in the Jos school building that collapsed in Jos.

The United Nations has again predicted that 82 million Nigerians, about 64 per cent of the country’s population, may go hungry by 2030, calling on the government to tackle climate change, pest infestations, and other threats to agricultural productivity.

Britain woke Friday to the scene of a political earthquake. The opposition Labour Party, after 14 years in the political wilderness, has handed a brutal defeat to the ruling Conservatives.

Retired Rear Admiral Alison Madueke has petitioned the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere to stop his ex-wife and former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, from using his surname.

When Martha Karikari Asiamah felt a harsh substance on her face and body four years ago, she screamed in pain. 
Her skin, she said, was literally boiling and melting away and to her dismay the cause was acid. 

All three constituencies in Bono Region’s Dormaa areas have offered favourable reception to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) over the years, despite Dormaa West swinging between the NPP and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in three elections.

The Ghana Statistical Services (GSS) reported last week on multidimensional poverty in Ghana which showed that overall, a little over seven million (7,317,555) or twenty-four per cent (24%) Ghanaians are multidimensionally poor.

Election 2024 is five months away. As candidates for President and Parliament travel the length and breadth of the country and respective constituencies, several promises are being made to voters. It is sometimes intriguing to hear some of the promises as it begs the question of whether it is the supply side (candidate-initiated) or demand side (voter-initiated). Whether candidate or voter-initiated, election promises assume that there is a fair sense of what voters want.

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has named its national campaign team for the upcoming December 7 general election.

Seen as a swing constituency since acquiring its current name, the Tain Constituency in the Bono Region has contributed its fair share to shaping the local political landscape.

“I have slaughtered a ram every year starting from 1976 but this year I can't, I just can't.”

Like many other Muslims in Nigeria, 78-year-old Mallam Kabiru Tudun Wada is not celebrating Eid al-Adha as he normally would because of the cost-of-living crisis.

The leading presidential candidates are keen to stress the importance of Ghana’s churches for the country’s development.

THE board of governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a fresh general capital of $117billion making the lender’s capital reach a historic $318 billion.