POLITICS

The Criminal Investigations Department of the Police Service has invited National chairman of the PNC Bernard Mornah over an alleged threat to resist attempts by the Electoral Commission to compile a new register for the December elections. A Police invitation sighted by Starrfm.com.gh asked Mr Mornah to report to the CID boss on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. The statement also ...

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako has revealed that June 26, 2020, has been set by the Accra High Court for pronouncement of judgment in a defamatory case he filed against Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong. “…I have a case against Kennedy Agyapong for a year and a half now. The judgement would have ended much ...

The Tema High Court presided over by Justice Eugene Nyante Nyadu, has struck out an application by Ningo-Prampram MP, Sam George, that sought to restrain the Electoral Commission from holding a scheduled workshop in the Ningo-Prampram constituency. The decision of the High Court was motivated by order 55, rule 6 (2 and 3) of the High Court Civil Procedure Rules, ...

Political Science lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Jonathan Asante Okyere has questioned the resolutions taken by the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter registration in late June regardless of opposition from some political parties and in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking to Nana Yaw Opare on the Yensempa morning show on Onua FM, ...

The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by His Honour Emmanuel Essandoh has granted bail in the sum of GHc100, 000 to a private security man, Bless Amedegbe, alias Don Dada Bless, 24, charged with assault on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In addition to the bail sum, he is to produce two sureties, one of whom must be a ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, says his investigations so far have revealed that about 80% of fake pastors in the country are from the Ashanti Region. According to the MP who has sworn to expose fake pastors in the country, these fake pastors from the Ashanti Region are young men who have promoted themselves from magicians ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zones Authority Michael Okyere Baafi says he will beat the incumbent member of Parliament for New Juaben South Mark Assibey-Yeboah at the polls if elections were held today. According to the aspiring member of parliament, his support for the constituency and the NPP over the years informs his confidence to win in ...

The Attorney General (AG) has responded to claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the Electoral Commission (EC) is enjoined to compile the register of voters only once at the inception of the Constitution and not on multiple occasions, describing the position of the party as “patently absurd, far-fetched, outrageous and grossly erroneous.” In its response to a ...

What may appear elitist and impossible for the man on the street became a reality when Mercy Adu Gyamfi, a hairdresser, was voted as Member of Parliament to represent the people of Akwatia. The MP who is unable to speak the Queen’s language like most of her colleagues said she “wept” the first day she walked into the chamber. “I ...

Some Members of Parliament (MPs) have opted to undergo private testing for coronavirus instead of what Parliament House is offering for them and other staff. The Member of Parliament for Bia East Constituency in the Western North Region, Richard Acheampong, who revealed this, explained that some of the members fear the leaking of their results to the media should they ...