The Africa Center for Parliamentary Affairs is predicting a dysfunctional Parliament when the eight Parliament convenes. It follows the absence of a clear majority in the wake of the closeness in the number of seats the two major political parties currently have. Out of the 274 seats declared by the EC, 136 of them are for the NPP, the NDC ...

Former U-20 talisman Dennis Tetteh who now plies his trade with Belarusian Top-flight FC Slavia Mozyr on Tuesday 15th December 2020 paid a working visit to the Afro-Arab Group Chairman Alhaji Salamu Amadu. Alhaji Salamu Amadu affectionately called ‘One Chair’ on his part showed gratitude to Dennis Tetteh for making time out of his busy schedules to visit him. ‘I’m ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo may have won the presidential elections but the success of his next government hangs in a balance, as he is on a brink of being supervised by a hung parliament. As it stands, there is no clear majority in parliament per the data released by the Electoral Commission. The NPP caucus which initially held 169 ...

Veteran Trade unionist Abraham Koomson has sounded the alarm bells over the fallouts from the December 7 elections in Ghana. The opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) had rejected the results announced by the Electoral Commission and a declaration of the incumbent Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo as president-elect. The NDC is also challenging the parliamentary results, insisting that it will form ...

Dr Serebour Quaicoe, Director of Electoral Services for the Electoral Commission (EC) has admitted that omitting the results of Ayensuano Constituency from the collated results of the Eastern Region was avoidable. According to him, the Regional Collation Centre collated 32 instead of 33 but later corrected the error which was used in announcing the national figures contrary to claims the ...

The Member of Parliament for Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam, Cassiel Ato Forson, says some Ghanaians believe the opposition National Democratic Congress will not obtain justice if they go to court over their concerns on the results of the 2020 polls. According to the MP, who has retained his seat, calls he has received since the results were declared indicate lack of confidence of ...

Civil Society groups in the country have called on the Electoral Commission as well as political parties to take the necessary steps to solve all disagreements as regards the just-ended presidential and parliamentary polls. The coalition, comprising sixteen organizations, in a statement on matters arising after the declaration of the 2020 election results condemned all acts of violence during the ...

The preponderance of mathematical errors being committed by the Electoral Commission has made it a butt of jokes on social media platforms. The EC which came under fire after admitting to making errors in the presidential results appears to have committed another mistake, causing some public figures as well as social media users to taunt the institution. The first paragraph of an ...

The youth wing of the opposition NDC has called on stakeholders of peace in the country as the Clergy and Civil Society groups to intervene in the ongoing feud between the two leading parties over the declaration of Nana Akufo-Addo as President following the December 7 polls. The group wants the EC to nullify its earlier declaration and announce NDC’s ...

The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has indicated that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has not been able to retrieve pink sheets from the Techiman South constituency which will serve as concrete evidence to show that the party won that seat because it has been destroyed. According to the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale South, the returning officer ...