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…NDC doubles its shareBy Leo Nelson A new political analysis by Mussa Dankwa, based on Global InfoAnalytics polling, has documented a dramatic realignment among Ghana’s high‑income voters a demographic long considered an NPP stronghold. Between October 2024 and March 2026, NPP identification among this group collapsed from 33% to 15%. The NDC, meanwhile, surged from 23% to 50%.The 2024 vote and the memory gapWhen asked before the 2024 election about their voting intentions, 52% of high‑income respondents said they would vote for Mahama, 43% for Bawumia. But post‑election polling in March 2026 tells a different story: 78% reported voting for…

New KPIs aim to stop $200,000 trucks falling into inexperienced hands By Leo Nelson Ghana’s National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is preparing a regulatory crackdown on the fuel haulage industry after a spate of near-fatal tanker accidents. CEO Godwin Edudzi Tameklo, Esq., told an industry safety week that new Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and safety checklists would be required before any Bulk Road Vehicle (BRV) is registered.“Why put a $200,000 tanker in the hands of an inexperienced driver?” Tameklo asked tanker owners. The answer, insiders say, is a systemic reliance on cheap labour that prioritises margins over lives. A recent Nsawam…

Movement accuses NPP infiltrators, targets Samira as ‘curse’ – ‘Bawumia will never be president’Political Desk A powerful new political storm is brewing. The BASE Movement a breakaway force loyal to firebrand politician Kennedy Agyepong is gathering speed. Behind closed doors, strategic meetings, resource mobilisation, and regional office openings are underway. The goal? To outdoor a new political party that could shatter opposition NPP’s dreams of a Bawumia presidency.On 2 April 2026, BASE’s national planning committee met in Accra. The agenda was clear: translate Ken Agyepong’s ideas into reality and dismantle the NPP’s propaganda machinery.Oti Bonsu, a leading member, pointed fingers.…

…but critics ask: why didn’t you act when you held power?By Prince AhenkorahThe Minority Caucus has delivered a fiery ultimatum to the Mahama government: depoliticise enterprise, fix credit, slash the tax stack, and start consulting businesses before making policies.Hon. Jerry Ahmed Shaib, speaking for Minority Leader Afenyo‑Markin at the 2026 Kwahu Business Forum, listed five deadly ailments and seven urgent remedies. The theme: “Leaders Committing to Sustenance of Ghanaian Businesses.” The message: today’s leaders are failing.But a growing number of Ghanaians are asking a different question: Where was this Minority when the NPP held the levers of power just 18…

Caught Drawling Salaries From 3 Sources The Executive Secretary of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), has been smoked out for drawing monthly salaries from three different institutions. Isaac Bampoe Addo, per information intercepted by The New Republic is currently under serious investigations. The serial striker and protestor has the monumental task to explain to authorities why this is the case. The implicated institutions are CLOGSAG, the Controller and Accountant General Department (CAGD) and Hedge Pensions Trust Limited. The Executive Secretary, who recently led his members to a nationwide strike before his appointment as CLOGSAG boss, was an employee…

Us Judge Orders Release from Ice CageFormer Finance Minister rejoins family in America but Ghana’s Special Prosecutor still wants his headBy Gifty BoatengHe was labelled an “illegal alien.” He was locked up in America’s immigration detention system. His name was on the wanted list of Ghana’s Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). And for three long months, Ken Ofori‑Atta Ghana’s most wanted former finance minister sat in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cell.A judicial order signed on April 8, 2026, has sprung Ofori‑Atta from custody. His legal team broke the news in a statement, confirming that the former…

By Prince Ahenkorah Fitch Solutions has projected that Ghana’s economy is likely to remain largely insulated from the effects of the ongoing US- Isreal and Iran conflict, due to high gold prices and strong foreign exchange inflows from exports. In its latest report, the global research and credit rating firm highlighted that despite a 14% drop in gold prices worldwide since the conflict erupted in late February 2026, caused by rising US yields, tighter monetary policy expectations, and a stronger US dollar, the March 27 spot price of US$4,413 per ounce is still nearly three times the average price between…

The Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA) has hit back hard at recent media reports alleging massive under-invoicing in raw rubber exports. In a detailed rejoinder, the Authority calls the coverage “misleading, unverified” and most provocatively “paid propaganda.”The target is a trifecta of publications: the Daily Graphic (31 March), The New Republic (2 April), and MyJoyOnline (1 April). Their headlines spoke of vanishing millions $70 million, even $700 million unaccounted for. TCDA says the numbers are fiction.First, timing. TCDA notes that a permit system for raw rubber exports was only introduced on 2 May 2025. Comparing 2024 export data when no…

Five nurses vanished. Two army captains shook hands. And a nation still waits for answers. By Gifty Boateng More than five years after former President Jerry John Rawlings died at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, a founding father of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dropped a bombshell that threatens to tear open one of Ghana’s most sensitive political mysteries.Dr Nyaho Nyaho Tamakloe, a statesman and retired military officer, is no longer whispering. He is declaring: Rawlings did not die a natural death.In a viral interview, Tamakloe laid out a chilling sequence of events that he says points to a well-planned elimination…

…as alarm blows on Extortions, Conspiracy and Stealing at Ghana’s Premier HospitalBy Phillip Antoh More than ten months after a fire gutted the mammography unit at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital’s Radiology Department, newly obtained CCTV footage has blown open questions that management would rather keep buried. The footage, seen by The New Republic, suggests that a female staff member, a national service personnel detected the blaze a full 30 minutes before the inferno raged out of control. Yet instead of raising the alarm, she made a phone call, locked the room, handed the keys to security, and drove off with a…