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The chairman of the National Peace Council, Most Rev. Emmanuel Asante, has cautioned against actions that could mar the independence of the Electoral Commission. His call follows a petition by some unknown staff of the Commission, demanding the removal of their chairperson Charlotte Osei, claiming she lacks the managerial skills needed to lead the commission. Also, they alleged that she ...

A former Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh has dismissed claims by an NPP presidential staffer that the Chairperson of Electoral Commission Mrs. Charlotte Osei attended Cabinet meetings under the John Mahama administration. Ibrahim Adjei, who is a presidential staffer made the allegation on Morning Starr Friday. Despite efforts by the host Francis Abban to get Mr. Adjei to retract until ...

Ten Chinese suspected to be illegal miners have been arrested at Efuanta, a suburb in Tarkwa, in the Western region. The Tarkwa Police command made the arrests in collaboration with a taskforce of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources. According to the leader of the anti-galamsey taskforce Richard Addo, the Chinese were arrested upon a tip-off. He said upon ...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) must stop defending the Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC) as far as a petition filed with the president for her removal is concerned, founder and leader of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has said. The 2016 flag bearer of the APC also said the NDC must leave President Nana Akufo-Addo ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) bigwig, Dr. Kofi Dsane Selby, former Ambassador to France in Busia’s time and again during the Kufour regime, has died. Dr. Selby, died on Tuesday July 18, at the National Cardio center, Korle Bu in Accra. The medical doctor, once aspired to lead the NPP as its flagbearer, placing second to the late Prof. Albert Kwadwo ...

An Accra High court will today [Friday] hear a case brought against Interior Minister, Ambrose Derry and the Comptroller General of Immigration, Kwame Sakyi by an Indian national who is contesting his deportation from Ghana. Mr Ashok Kumar Sivaram who had lived in the country for a number of years is accusing the two officials of unlawfully deporting him over ...

A law lecturer and legal practitioner says lawyers for the Electoral Commission (EC) Sory@Law are not in breach of conflict of interest situation with decision to represent the Commission’s Chairperson. Yaw Oppong told Evans Mensah on Joy FM’s Newsnite Thursday the lawyers are at liberty to represent Charlotte Osei in an impeachment petition against her because the body is not ...

At least fifteen persons were arrested on Thursday after they were found in possession of what is suspected to be cannabis by police at Salaga, in a raid on local sitting joints in the East Gonja district capital. District police commander ASP Sulemana Sulley disclosed the operation followed an order by the regional command to clamp down on suspected criminals ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is alleging that budget allocated for the office of the president in the first six months of President Nana Akufo-Addo, represents that of former President Mahama’s four year term when he was in office. Addressing the press at the party’s headquarters on Thursday, Kofi Porturphy lambasted the president for spending lavishly on parties, gold ties ...

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei has described a petition by some unidentified persons of the EC asking for her removal as “frivolous, baseless” and actuated by “malice and ill will”. Some aggrieved staff of the commission on Wednesday July 19, 2017 in a petition to president Akufo-Addo called for the removal of Mrs. Osei because she ...