POLITICS

The Founder and leader of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga has labeled Charlotte Osei as someone who is ‘not matured enough’ to be an Electoral Commissioner. Hassan Ayariga who was disqualified from contesting the 2016 Presidential Elections said the embattled EC Boss lacks the wherewithal to manage such an honourable institution. “Personally, I think she was not that ...

Four personnel of the Ghana Police CID stormed the Accra residence of the former Minister of Power Dr. Kwabena Donkor to search his house over investigations into the Ameri deal. The team led by an Assistant Superintendent of Police went with a search warrant and searched the “whole house” and took away the former Minister’s laptop and pen drives. Speaking ...

The Deputy Commissioner in Charge of Operations at the Electoral Commission (EC) Amadu Sulley has disclosed he’s seeking advice from his lawyers over the corruption allegations levelled against him by the Chairperson of the commission, Charlotte Osei The EC Boss, in reaction to a petition by some anonymous staff of the commission seeking her impeachment, alleged that Mr. Sulley has ...

The absence of the Education Minister, Dr. Mathew Opuku-Prempeh and his counterpart in-charge of Tertiary, Prof. Kwasi Yankah at the congregation of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in the Volta region has stoked controversy among attendees including some members of the UHAS community. Dr. Opoku-Prempeh, who was prominently featured in the Congregation brouchure as the Guest of ...

It may be a mere coincidence when President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last week during his encounter with some selected journalists in Accra hinted that his government will do a thorough research on alleged corrupt appointees of former President John Dramani Mahama before proceeding to court for any prosecution. But Today can report that even before the governing New Patriotic ...

A remembrance ceremony is expected to be held today, July 24, in Accra to mark the fifth anniversary of the passing of former President John Evans Atta Mills. Prof. Mills passed away on July 24, 2012, at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra where he had been rushed to for treatment. He was laid to rest on August 10 of ...

The Deputy Commissioner in charge of operations at the Electoral Commission Amadu Sulley has said he is seeking legal advice over the corruption allegations made against him by the chair of the commission. The EC chair, Charlotte Osei, in reaction to a petition by some anonymous staff of the commission seeking her removal from office, alleged that Mr. Sulley has ...

Chairperson for the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei has said that Georgina Opoku Amankwah in her capacity as Deputy Chair of the commission evidently exhibited general incompetence severally. Citing a number of occasions where her deputy exhibited ineffectiveness, she maintained that Ms. Amankwah “without authorization and notice to the Chairperson, approved 2015 financial statements of the commission, increased the amount ...

Deputy General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen is urging the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to make the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) their flagbearer for the 2020 general elections. According to him, the NDC by jumping to the defense of the Mrs. Charlotte Osei on the petition asking for her removal from ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako has descended heavily on the National Chairman of the opposition NDC, Kofi Portuphy, describing him as a weak political leader who is allowing himself to be ordered around by the ‘boys in their party to engage in trivialities in the name of politics.’ Further describing the ...