POLITICS

Sam Kofi Mills, son of late President Prof. John Evans Atta Mills says he is glad to see Ghanaians still remember is father even after five years of his demise. Speaking to www.ghanaweb.com at the five-year commemoration of the death of his father Monday July 24, Mr. Kofi Mills said, his father deserves to be celebrated because he was a ...

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) is demanding that all the Commissioners of the Electoral Commission (EC) step aside for investigations to be conducted into the allegations and counter-allegations between the Chairperson Mrs. Charlotte Osei and her deputies, Georgina Opoku Amankwa and Amadu Sulley. Mrs. Osei is being accused for “single-handedly” dishing out contracts without recourse to the Public Procurement Act ...

Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) in charge of Corporate Services, Georgina Opoku Amankwaa, who is alleged to have signed contracts without proper authorisation has refuted the allegations, insisting that she breached no regulations. Mrs Opoku Amankwaa’s rebuttal is the latest twist in the thickening internal row at the Electoral Commission (EC), Ghana’s independent elections management body. Chairperson of ...

The Campaign Director for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Martin Agyei Mensah Korsah, Director of Elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described as worrying the recent controversy that has struck the Electoral Commission (EC). According to him, the development affects the integrity of the Commission and as such urgent steps must be taken to resolve the brouhaha. The ...

The 2016 flag bearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga has described the former chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan as a ‘shining example’ in Africa. According to him, Dr Afari-Gyan was far better in handling election matters in the country than the current chair, Madam Charlotte Osei. “I miss Afari so much because of ...

A lecturer at the University of Ghana Political Science Department has expressed disappointment at the responses given by the Electoral Commission Chairperson Charlotte Osei, in relation to a petition filed by some concerned staff of the commission accusing her of misconduct and fraud. Prof. Ransford Gyampo says he was not expecting the EC Chair to respond in a manner that ...

President John Mahama’s 2016 running mate Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur has revealed he could be in the race for National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential primaries for the 2020 general elections. “I am not considering it. But people have come to me and I am thinking about it”, Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur told Joy News’ Beatrice Adu at a ceremony to ...

The Northern Regional Director of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Sule Salifu, is convinced, party faithful deserve preferential treatment when it comes to government jobs. “I am going to ensure that only NPP people will get job first before any other person”, Mr. Salifu said at the annual delegates’ conference of the Tamale Central Constituency in the Northern Region. Explaining ...

Upper West Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Abdul Rahman Abubakar has revealed that the NPP needs to be in power for at least 20 years to develop Ghana to the fullest. Addressing supporters of the party at the Upper West Regional delegates’ conference, Alhaji Abubakar was emphatic stating that 8 years is too short for any ...

Sam Kofi Mills, son of late President John Evans Atta Mills, has disclosed that five years after the death of his father he is yet to know what killed him. “I still don’t know [the cause of his death], the hospital never gave the family any autopsy report to show that this and this was the cause of why he ...