The Bank of Ghana has taken strict action against Fidelity Bank and First National Bank Ghana Limited, imposing a combined penalty of 1000 penalty points each. The penalties have been levied due to the banks’ breach of sections 3.4, 3.5, and 3.9 of the Ghana Interbank Forex Market Conduct rules. Furthermore, as a consequence of their actions, the Bank of …

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says the Assin North by-election is a wake-up call which requires the party to evaluate its approach and make rational retrospective assessments. The NPP’s candidate Charles Opoku received 12,630 votes, representing 42.15%, while the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) candidate, James Gyakye Quayson polled 17,245 votes representing 57.56%, after the by-election on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. …

The election managers and supervisors, especially the police have allowed too many non-election participatory actors into the constituency, and that is where they have lost the plot. Behaviour and negative attitudes of these actors is what is fuelling the violence which cannot be immediately comprehended, and has the tendency of marring the otherwise peaceful nature of the elections so far. …