Current Affairs

ELS: MBN360 NEWS A conflict unfolding thousands of kilometres from Ghana is once again exposing a weakness at the heart of the country’s energy system: its heavy dependence on imported refined petroleum products. Renewed tensions involving the United States and Iran have pushed global oil and fuel markets back into a period of heightened uncertainty, […]

ELS: MBN360 NEWS Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, legal scholar and CDD-Ghana Democracy and Development Fellow, has proposed a system of concurrent voter and party registration as a potential replacement for Ghana’s delegate-based primary elections, following the Supreme Court’s declaration that such systems are unconstitutional. Professor Asare outlined his proposal in written commentary addressing what should come next […]

ELS: MBN NEWS The National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party, Henry Nana Boakye has argued that the Supreme Court’s decision on the delegate voting system will not by itself eliminate vote buying in political party elections. Therefore he called for a specific legal framework that clearly defines electoral inducement and establishes penalties for offenders. Mr Boakye […]

ELS: MBN360 NEWS The Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Mustapha Gbande has described the Supreme Court’s decision to end the delegate voting system in political party elections as a development with both positive and challenging implications for Ghana’s democracy. He explained that while the ruling could expand participation within political parties, practical issues surrounding […]

ELS: MBN360 NEWS The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has assured the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, that the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, popularly known as the anti-LGBTQ Bill, will be reconsidered and passed before Parliament rises for recess on Friday, July 31, 2026. Mr Bagbin said the bill, in […]

ELS: MBN360 NEWS Public outrage in Ghana reaching a boiling point, following the high-profile judicial reversal in the Sedina Tamakloe case, is no surprise. Almost everywhere on earth, when a convicted former public official walks free in a case where there is general perception of wrong doing, scepticism grow. The latest shockwave came Thursday, July […]

ELS: MBN360  Politics The government has accepted a major recommendation from the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) to extend the tenure of the President and Members of Parliament from four years to five years. Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, announced the decision on Thursday July 30, 2026, while presenting the government’s White Paper on […]

ELS: MBN360  Politics The Minority Caucus in Parliament has called on the government to immediately publish full details of its proposed “strategic equity capitalisation” plan for the Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO), arguing that Ghanaians deserve complete transparency about the future of one of the country’s most strategic national assets. In a statement signed by […]

ELS: MBN360 BUSINESS Parliament has passed the Excise Bill, 2026, completely abolishing the 20 percent excise duty on locally manufactured fruit juices, marking a major turning point for Ghana’s beverage industry and directly addressing long-standing advocacy from domestic agro-processors. The legislation, initially proposed by Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson during the 2026 Mid-Year Budget Review, forms […]

ELS: MBN360  Politics The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has officially inaugurated a nine-member National Elections Committee to oversee its upcoming national executive elections. The committee is chaired by former Member of Parliament for the Suhum Constituency in the Eastern Region, Frederick Opare-Ansah. The members were unveiled at a brief ceremony held at the party’s national headquarters […]