The June 3 disaster which claimed over 150 lives also shooked the nation. Government announced measures to curb the situation and also allotted some amount of money to the victims.<\/p>\n
Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n On the political front, there was turmoil in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) which saw the death of the party\u2019s Upper East Regional Chairman, Adam Mahama.<\/p>\n This was followed by internal party wrangling which subsequently led to the suspension of the NPP\u2019s National Chairman, Paul Afoko, General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong and Second Vice Chairman, Sammy Crabbe.<\/p>\n Prior to that the NPP held primaries nationwide to elect parliamentary candidates to represent it in the various constituencies in the 2016 general elections.<\/p>\n The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) also held its primaries later in the year.<\/p>\n Dumsor<\/strong><\/p>\n 2015 was also the year the term \u2018Dumsor\u2019 became prominent. \u00a0This was because the lingering power crisis worsened and caused many job losses while many businesses collapsed. Government received a lot of bashing from unhappy Ghanaians. Government\u2019s unfulfilled promises to solve the situation triggered demonstrations including the popular Yvonne Nelson Dumsor Vigil. This was after President John Mahama had created the Power Ministry to put an end to the power crisis.<\/p>\n The Power Ministry promised to resign if he fails to solve the load shedding in the country, unluckily for him, he on the last day of the year resigned because he could fulfill his promise.<\/p>\n \u00a0JANUARY<\/strong><\/p>\n January 1:\u00a0<\/strong>President John Mahama promised that his government will banish dumsor<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from the country \u00a0in 2015.<\/p>\n The president’s comment was not taken lightly as political commentators and opposition parties descended heavily on him.\u00a0<\/b>Energy think-tank African Center for energy Policy (ACEP) dismissed\u00a0the\u00a0promise to “banish\u201d the erratic power supply\u00a0and described it as a \u201cwet dream<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n January 2:<\/strong> The death toll from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa reached 7,905, out of a total 20,206 confirmed cases<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).\u00a0The outgoing Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) observed that “we are\u00a0nowhere near eliminating the deadly Ebola Virus<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.”<\/p>\n January 3:\u00a0<\/strong>The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mahama Ayariga warned Ghanaians against discussing the salaries and other benefits paid the Black Stars<\/a><\/strong><\/span> players.<\/p>\n January 4:<\/strong> The Black Stars Players left to Spain<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to begin preparations for the 2015 African Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea which starts on the 17th.<\/p>\n January 5:\u00a0<\/strong>The trial of hiplife artiste Emmanuel Botwe popularly known as Kwaw Kese begun today<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and was adjourned to Febraury 5.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n January 6: <\/b>Nayele, the woman busted at the Heathrow Airport for carrying cocaine into the United Kingdom (UK) appeared before a London court\u00a0where she changed her lawyer<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. She was later sentenced to 8 years in prison<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0The NPP claimed that the governing NDC is complicit<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the controversial \u00a0cocaine scandal.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n January 13:<\/strong> The Commissioner of \u00a0the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Lauretta Lamptey was suspended<\/a><\/span> by President John Mahama for\u00a0spending about $180,000 on rent and about GHC182,000 to renovate her official residence.<\/p>\n January 13:<\/strong> Ace broadcaster KKD apologized<\/a><\/span> for what he described as the \u201ctrauma\u201d he has caused the 19-year-old woman he allegedly raped. The lady also on that same day withdrew the case<\/a>. KKD was granted bail<\/a> on January 15.<\/p>\n January 26:<\/strong>\u00a0The former Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Real Estates Developers Association(GREDA), Dr. Alexander Tweneboah was arrested for SIM box fraud<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n FEBRUARY<\/strong><\/p>\n February 1:\u00a0<\/strong>The Volta River Authority (VRA) acknowledged that Ghana is facing serious power crisis<\/a><\/span> as a result of accumulated problems which have remained unresolved over the years.<\/p>\n February 2:\u00a0<\/strong>The Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor directed the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to publish the load shedding timetable<\/a><\/span> and adhere to it.<\/p>\n February 3:\u00a0<\/strong>Some mining companies shut down heavy equipment<\/a><\/span> and mills in a bid to save power and remain in business.<\/p>\n February 3:\u00a0<\/strong>The Ministry for Gender, Children and Social Protection temporarily shut down the Countryside Children\u2019s Home pending investigation after the Anas Aremeyaw Anas\u2019 expos\u00e9<\/a><\/span> on the orphanage.<\/p>\n February 3:\u00a0<\/strong>The opposition NPP accused the John Mahama led government of misleading Ghanaians on the power crisis that has bedeviled the nation.<\/p>\n February 8:\u00a0<\/strong>For the second time in 5 years, Ghana\u2019s hopes of lifting the Africa Cup of Nations trophy were dashed<\/span><\/a> despite coming so close.\u00a0After 120 minutes of football, the two teams settled for the penalty shootout after which Cote D\u2019Ivoire won 9-8.<\/p>\n February 11:<\/strong> Government spent about $5.717.869 on preparation and participation<\/span><\/a> in the 2015 AFCON tournament in Equatorial Guinea. Minister of Youth & Sports, Mahama Ayariga made this known when he appeared before Parliament.<\/p>\n February 16:<\/strong> Chief of Staff Prosper Bani was relieved of his position<\/span> <\/a>by President John Mahama and\u00a0\u00a0appointed Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Julius Debrah, to replace him.<\/p>\n February 18:<\/strong>\u00a0An Audit report presented to Parliament showed that the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum spent $1,745, 159 on 38 luxurious \u00a0vehicles<\/a><\/span>.The\u00a0amount according to the report was meant to extend electricity to about 1,200 communities in the country under the Multi-Donor Budgetary Support Programme between 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n February 18:\u00a0<\/strong>Nana Akufo-Addo, the New Patriotic Party(NPP) flagbearer led supporters of the party onto\u00a0the streets of Accra to demonstrate against the government dubbed\u00a0\u2018W\u0254n Gbo<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n February 20:\u00a0<\/strong>The Muslim Community in the Western Region took to the streets of \u00a0Sekondi Takoradi to protest what they call human right abuses<\/span><\/a> of Muslim students in the country. The demonstrators numbering over 300 were given strict police protection throughout the process.<\/p>\n February 24:\u00a0<\/strong>An Accra Circuit Court acquitted and discharged all six persons accused of aiding Nayale Ametefe<\/span><\/a>, <\/strong>jailed for trafficking 12 kilogrammes of cocaine into the United Kingdom in 2014.<\/p>\n February 25:\u00a0<\/strong>The Office of the President was ranked as the second most corrupt institution in Ghana<\/span><\/a>. <\/strong>This was revealed in a Socio-economic and Governance survey conducted by the Institute of Economic Affairs(IEA).<\/p>\n February 26:<\/strong>\u00a0President John Mahama gave his State of the Nation Address in Parliament where he promised to \u2018fix the energy crisis\u2019<\/span><\/a> and transform the Electricity Company among others. Full speech here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n MARCH<\/strong><\/p>\n March 1:\u00a0<\/strong>Over 100 men and women who turned up at various Police training institutions for recruitment later found out they had been duped by fraudsters. Two suspects were subsequently arrested<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n March 2:\u00a0<\/strong>The Supreme Court directed the Electoral Commission [EC] to call off the much publicized District Assembly elections\u00a0which was scheduled for\u00a0March 3, 2015.\u00a0Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan was later summoned<\/a> <\/span>by Parliament to answer questions on the suspension\u00a0of the elections.<\/p>\n March 5:\u00a0<\/strong>The Police arrested five more suspects<\/a><\/span> including two serving Police officers, in connection with the Police recruitment scam.\u00a0The five included Director General of Police Human Resource and Administration, COP Patrick Timbilla<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n March 9:\u00a0<\/strong>The Member of Parliament (MP) for Obuasi West, Kwaku Kwarteng, together with Mr Elijah Adansi-Bonah, the Research Director of Development Data (a policy research organisation) sued the\u00a0National Communications Authority<\/a><\/span> (NCA) over the Interconnect Clearing House project being initiated by government.<\/p>\n March 11:<\/strong>\u00a0President Mahama sent the strongest indications yet that his government will not be coerced into over spending in 2016 by the weight of demands and strikes of workers saying he has the “dead goat syndrome<\/a><\/span>.”<\/p>\n March 23:<\/strong>\u00a0The national executives of the NPP agreed to hold its Parliamentary primaries on May 24, 2015<\/a><\/span>. Nominations for the party\u2019s primaries was to be opened on March 30 2015.<\/p>\n APRIL<\/strong><\/p>\n April 1:\u00a0<\/strong>NPP\u00a0deferred<\/a><\/span>\u00a0the controversial affirmative action policy which sought\u00a0to secure seats for female Members Parliament (MPs) and indigenous Gas but many of the party members disagreed.<\/p>\n April 3:\u00a0<\/strong>Former Attorney General Martin Amidu revealed that construction firm, Waterville Holdings, owed the state \u20ac47,365,624.40 and not \u20ac25m<\/a><\/span> as\u00a0being reported by the media.<\/p>\n April 5:<\/strong>\u00a0Former Joy FM morning show host, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah officially announced his intention to run as\u00a0 parliamentary\u00a0 candidate\u00a0 for the Ofoase Ayeribi constituency<\/a><\/span> in the Eastern Region, on the ticket of the NPP.<\/p>\n April 10:<\/strong>\u00a0Ghana lost between GH\u00a2320 million and GH\u00a2 924 million<\/a><\/span> in 2014 alone due to the ongoing power crisis, \u00a0a report by the\u00a0Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) revealed.<\/p>\n April 14:\u00a0YFM’s Western Regional presenter, Ms Ada was allegedly abducted<\/a><\/span> and sexually assaulted. It later emerged that the act was staged<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n April 16:<\/strong>\u00a0The Ghana Employers\u2019 Associations confirmed that close to 13,000 workers were sacked<\/a><\/span> in the last four months due to the power crisis.<\/p>\n MAY<\/strong><\/p>\n May 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Outspoken award winning Ghanaian actress, Lydia Forson lashed out at President John Mahama for his failure to solve the numerous challenges facing the nation, especially\u00a0the power crisis<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n May 1:<\/strong>\u00a0The Ministry of Finance cleared the Agriculture Development Bank (adb) to proceed with the sale of its shares<\/a> on the stock market saying parliamentary approval is not required.<\/p>\n May 4:<\/strong>\u00a0The Minority in Parliament threatened to drag government<\/a> and the management of the Agricultural Development Bank (adb) to the Supreme Court over the bank\u2019s failure to get Parliamentary approval to float shares on the stock exchange.\u00a0It was later suspended<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0May 13:<\/strong>\u00a0The National Coordinator for the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Kofi Portuphy resigned<\/a>.\u00a0Ghana\u2019s largest opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had\u00a0been advocating for his resignation indicating that Portuphy\u2019s continuous stay in office as NADMO boss is a clear violation of Article 78, section 3 of the constitution.<\/p>\n May 16:\u00a0<\/strong>Thousands of Ghanaians led by Yvonne Nelson and other celebrities including DKB, Sydney, Van Vicker \u00a0attended the much anticipated \u2018Dumsormuststop vigil<\/a>\u2019 in Accra. \u00a0The peaceful protest was aimed at pressurizing government to resolve the power crisis.<\/p>\n May 21:\u00a0<\/strong>The Upper East Chairman of the NPP, Mahama Adam was attacked with acid<\/a> and later died from his injuries at the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital where he was receiving treatment.<\/p>\n An Autopsy report revealed he died from shock lungs<\/a> (acute respiratory distress syndrome) and extensive acid burns. Gregory Afoko<\/a>, brother of suspended NPP Chairman, Paul Afoko and other accomplices were arrested for their alleged involvement in the murder.<\/p>\n May 28:<\/strong>\u00a0Some supporters of Paul Afoko clashed<\/a> with the \u201cInvisible Forces,\u201d a security group guarding the party\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n May 31:<\/strong> Doctors served notice to begin strike on July 1 if government fail<\/a>ed\u00a0to provide them with a codified working condition.<\/p>\n JUNE<\/strong><\/p>\n June 1:<\/strong>\u00a0A one week fasting<\/a> and prayer session aimed at seeking God\u2019s intervention to solve the current crisis within the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was launched at the party\u2019s headquarters in Accra.<\/p>\n June 2:\u00a0<\/strong>The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) deregulated price of petroleum products. The NPA boss, Moses Asaga told Citi News<\/strong> that they trust the Bulk Oil Distribution Companies (BDCs) to fairly price petroleum products<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n June 3:<\/strong>The GOIL fuel filling station near the GCB bank towers at Circle in Accra was gutted\u00a0by fire<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>amidst heavy flooding in the city. Over 96 bodies<\/a><\/span> of persons who were seeking shelter at the fuel station were burnt to death. The death toll of victims that died through the flooding later increased to 150.<\/p>\n President John Dramani Mahama later declared three days of mourning<\/a><\/span> for the victims of the floods and the GOIL fuel station fire.<\/p>\n June 9:<\/strong>\u00a0The Minority in Parliament threatened to sue government if it fails to seek parliamentary approval before issuing guarantees for the Karpower purchase agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n June 10:<\/strong> Memorial service<\/a> was held for victims of the June 3 disaster in Accra.<\/p>\n June 13:<\/strong> NPP held its parliamentary primaries; some party big wigs lost their seats while new ones came on board.\u00a0Former broadcaster, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah<\/a><\/span> beat off competition from two candidates in Ofoase Ayirebi constituency to represent the party in the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n June 25:<\/strong> President John Dramani Mahama in accordance with Article 70(2) of the 1992 \u00a0Constitution, appointed Mrs. Charlotte Osei<\/a> as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana.<\/p>\n![\"94-620x330](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/94-620x330-1.jpg\")
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