POLITICS

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission has proceeded to court with a suit against the lawyer for some faceless petitioners to court. Charlotte Osei is seeking damages from the court against Maxwell Opoku Agyemang, who on behalf of some unnamed workers of the Electoral Commission petitioned the president to remove the Chairperson of the Commission over stated misconduct. In a ...

Cabinet has given its approval for the submission of the appropriate legislation to Parliament to place a cap on Ghana’s fiscal deficit. The proposed amendment to the Public Financial Management Act is expected to limit the fiscal deficit to between 3% and 5% of GDP from the year 2018, to ensure greater fiscal discipline. Fiscal deficit is the difference between ...

The Minority in Parliament has for the third time insisted the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s Bill must be withdrawn from Parliament with immediate effect. The leader of the Minority Haruna Iddrisu said while the spirit behind the Bill may be well intended, it was improperly laid before the House. He is demanding that the Attorney-General goes through the full ...

Chairman of the National Peace Council Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante has said calls for the commissioners of the Electoral Commission to step aside following mud-slinging among themselves are premature. The Chairman of the Council said stepping aside is “jumping the gun”. There is a leadership crisis at the electoral management body. What began as a petition from some staff ...

Pressure group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) is demanding immediate action from the Presidency on the fallouts from the EC. According to the group, affiliated to the ruling government, President Akufo-Addo must within a week set up a commission of inquiry to ascertain the merits or otherwise of the barrage of allegations against commissioners of the EC. AFAG’s calls come ...

Bent on getting his preferred candidate to become the next National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, President Akufo-Addo has cannily baited former National Vice Chairman, Stephen Ayenso Ntim, with a lucrative post in his government to get him to back down on his ambition. The President and his strategists, The aL-hAJJ has gathered, fear Mr Ntim could go pass ...

A member of the Minority in Parliament, Ni Lante Vanderpuye has threatened, Parliament will be made ungovernable if the state continues to harass their colleague MP, Kwabena Donkor. Kwabena Donkor’s house was raided by security officials on Monday on suspicion that he caused financial loss to the state in helping secure the AMERI power deal. But condemning the raid, National ...

The Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey-Jacobs has called on the President to tread cautiously in dealing with the alleged corruption allegations at the Electoral Commission (EC). Tensions at the EC were dragged into the public domain after some employees of Commission petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to remove Charlotte Osei from office for alleged financial ...

An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Norvisi Aryine has ordered the Daily Post newspaper to retract by means of a front page publication a defamatory story written against board Chairman of the COCOBOD Hackman Owusu Agyemang. The court further awarded a cost of GH¢800, 000.00 against the newspaper. Delivering the judgment Tuesday July 25, 2017 Justice Aryine held ...

What appeared to be a meeting to boost the morale and whip up enthusiasm in the Virginia branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), ended up being the panacea needed to revitalize the NDC, USA chapter in general. The once strong NDC USA chapter has been reduced into two warring factions for four years now. As fate would have it, ...