POLITICS

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei has cleared the air about some reported missing monies the commission generated from accreditation fees paid by journalists and funds for the replacement of Voter’s ID cards. The Electoral Commission, prior to the 2016 polls required that all media houses who sought coverage of the elections pay an amount of GHC 10 ...

Government will today Thursday, July 27, announce the implementation plan for its flagship policy- Free SHS. The absence of a clear road map on the rollout of the policy has generated various discussions especially on the qualification criteria for beneficiaries. President Akufo-Addo at his recent media encounter hinted that well-endowed schools would be required to reserve a percentage of admissions ...

The board chairman of COCOBOD Hackman Owusu Agyemang has pledged to ensure the judgement delivered in his favour by an Accra High Court against Daily Post newspaper is executed to the letter. The court presided over by Justice Norvisi Aryine Tuesday ordered the newspaper to pay the former minister in the Kufuor administration GHc800, 000.00 for defamatory publications made against ...

The Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu has said the much anticipated meeting between the leadership of Parliament and commissioners of the Electoral Commission (EC) over the chaos that inundated the Electoral Management body is unnecessary. The meeting is expected to commence immediately after the EC boss finished briefing the House about how much the commission made from the controversial fees it ...

The Electoral Commission Chairperson says monies the Commission took from journalists for accreditation during last year’s elections, are intact. Charlotte Osei said the money estimated at over ¢2.5 million is sitting in the EC’s bank accounts at the GCB Bank. In her response to an urgent question filed over the failure of the Commission to capture the money in its ...

The number of media houses, both local and international that turned up to cover the 7 December 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections showed that the decision to charge practitioners for accreditation was not a bad practice, Mrs Charlotte Osei, Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), has told parliament. Media houses were asked by the EC to pay an amount of ...

Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, has withdrawn the Special Prosecutor Bill from Parliament. He also withdrew the Zongo Development Fund Bill. The Minister who is also Majority Leader withdrew the corruption-fighting bill without explanation. But the Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu has been demanding, the government withdraw the bill because it was improperly laid before the House. According ...

The election dispute of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and other related matters on the mandate of the current executive of the association have been referred for an out of court settlement. Consequently, labour expert Mr Austin Gamey has been appointed to mediate the impasse. This was made known on Wednesday, when the case came up for hearing at the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has today, Wednesday July 26, 2017, referred the petition seeking to impeach the chairperson of the Electoral Commission Charlotte Osei to the Chief Justice. Some faceless staff of the Election Management Body have petitioned President Akufo-Addo to impeach Mrs. Osei over misconduct and abuse of office. “Whilst the President was out of the country, the ...

Reverend Isaac Owusu-Bempah was instrumental to see Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo win the presidential election in the 2016 election. Many doubted his prophecy about Nana Addo’s victory but he was unperturbed and continued to preach a massive victory for Nana Addo which came to pass. However, the controversial founder of the Glorious Word Power Ministry has again prophesied that former ...