NPP National Organizer, Sammi Awuku has assured the party members and supporters that the NPP will bounce back stronger in 2024. According to him, the NPP leadership is working assiduously to ensure they don’t lose Parliamentary seats in the next elections. The party lost 32 seats this year as compared to the 2016 elections where they gained more Parliamentary seats. In 2016, ...
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EC reviews leave arrangement; senior staff to continue working
The Electoral Commission has reviewed its leave notice to staff saying senior leadership of the commission will continue to work while juniors proceed on leave. In a revised statement Wednesday, the commission said:” The Senior leadership and some key operational staff of the commission will continue to work during the break”. It comes after the massive backlash from civil society ...
Read More »The old electoral certainties are fading away and we should welcome the challenge
On January 7th 2021, when His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and two hundred seventy-five members of parliament are sworn in for a constitutionally assured four year term, Ghana will be entering a new and somewhat uncertain epoch. Four years ago, after the New Patriotic Party’s commanding performance in the 2016 elections and with a comfortable majority of over sixty ...
Read More »Minority MPs broke Public Order Act with EC protest march – Hadzide
Deputy Information Minister Pius Enam Hadzide says the Minority caucus in Parliament broke the Public Order Act with their protest march at the Electoral Commission headquarters on Tuesday. “I think that the request by the NDC minority, even though they don’t have any locus on the matter and they broke the public order act, their request doesn’t stand on any ...
Read More »I’m not guilty – Fake lawyer tells court, remanded into police custody
The alleged fake lawyer Dennis Benson Seyram who has been arraigned for impersonating as a lawyer in the Volta secessionists case has pleaded not guilty at the Kaneshie District Court in Accra. Seyram, has been slapped with six charges three each of defrauding by false pretence and deceit of court by impersonation. The Kaneshie Court Magistrate, Her Worship Rosemond Agyiri ...
Read More »Your leave decision unacceptable – CSOs to EC
Some Civil Society organisations in the country have appealed to the Electoral Commission to rescind their decision to go on recess following agitations over the 2020 election results. The EC in a statement Wednesday noted it is breaking for Christmas and will return on January 19. The statement comes as the opposition NDC continues to challenge some of the results ...
Read More »Withdraw from Ghana’s Agyapa deal – Transparency International to UK Authorities
Transparency International has urged the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to make detailed inquiries into the Government of Ghana’s application to list Agyapa Royalties Limited on the London Stock Exchange, and to reject the listing if corruption concerns are not satisfactorily addressed. The banks and lawyers involved in the deal have also been urged to withdraw their engagement. Agyapa Royalties ...
Read More »COVID-19: Govt’s free water package ends Dec. 31 – GWCL
The Ghana Water Company Limited has announced the free water package announced by President Akufo-Addo following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Ghana will end on December 31, 2020. In his fifth address to the nation on the Coronavirus outbreak on April 5, this year, President Akufo-Addo announced that the public would enjoy free water supply from the GWCL for the ...
Read More »Looming by-election as NDC MP-elect is fingered in dual citizenship blue
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has given an indication that it will challenge the legitimacy of the National Democratic Congress‘(NDC’s) Member of Parliament(MP)-elect for Assin North Constituency in the Central Region. According to the NPP, the Member of Parliament (MP)-elect was not qualified to partake in the just-ended election. This according to the NPP is because James Joe Quayson has dual citizenship. The party through its ...
Read More »GPL: Olympics to play Dwarfs on Thursday
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has fixed the outstanding league match between Great Olympics and Ebusua Dwarfs on Thursday, December 24. The match fixed for the Accra Sports Stadium was originally fixed for December 27 but had to be rescheduled to Thursday, due to the unavailability of the Accra Stadium of the venue. However, the Medeama would host Asante Kotoko in their Week four ...
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