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  NPP Cannot Sell Leadership: The GHS 4.5 Million Filing Fee Is an Insult to Our Democracy There comes a time in every political tradition when silence becomes betrayal. The New Patriotic Party has reached that point. How did we arrive at a place where a presidential aspirant must pay GHS 4.5 million to exercise the basic right of internal political participation? Out of this amount, GHS 4 million is labeled as “party development fees,” with only GHS 500,000 being the actual cost of nomination forms. Let us be blunt this is not fundraising. This is monetization of leadership. This is the commercialization of internal democracy. This is not the NPP that Danquah, Busia, and Dombo envisioned. This is not the NPP we sold to the Ghanaian people as the party of merit, competence, and fairness. Instead, we are gradually becoming a franchise where leadership is auctioned to the highest bidder. If this continues, then we are no longer electing leaders we are buying them.  Competent Pat...

KGL Group’s Alex Apau Dadey Calls on Africa to Build Global Business Giants at the Forward Africa Leaders Symposium 2025. New York, USA — [22 / 09 /2025] — The Executive Chairman of the KGL Group and former Board Chair of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Mr. Alex Apau Dadey, delivered a resounding opening address at the Forward Africa Leaders Symposium 2025, held in partnership with the Africa Peer Review Mechanism at the iconic home of global enterprise — NASDAQ, New York. Sharing the global stage with distinguished leaders and innovators such as H.E. Dr. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah President of Namibia, Prime Minister of Lesotho Ntsokoane Samuel Matekane, Deputy Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament and Chair of Cleopatra Group H.E. Mohamed AbdulEnien, and CEO and President MTN Group  Mr. Ralph Mupita, to share best practices, build meaningful partnerships, and chart pathways for the future of digital transformation and innovation across the continent. Opening his keynote, M...