POLITICS

The Ashanti Regional Youth Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Brogya Genfi has warned that there will be turmoil in Ghana if the President attempts to remove the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana Madam Charlotte Osei. Some faceless staff of the EC have petitioned President Akufo-Addo calling for the removal of the EC Chairperson. They alleged ...

The Parliamentary, Constitutional and Legal Committee of Parliament has rejected a request by government for the office of the Special Prosecutor’s Bill to be passed under a certificate of urgency. The committee has therefore recommended the bill be taken through all the normal processes. The minority raised issues of constitutional breaches, stating the bill had not been gazetted when it ...

The announcement by the Attorney-General and cousin of President Akufo-Addo that, she may drag former President John Mahama’s brother to court, if investigations into tax underpayment by two of his companies are concluded, has stirred trouble within the government, with experts asking who miscalculated the tax paid by Ibrahim Mahama in April, this year. It has also led to revelations ...

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission Mrs Charlotte Osei has been summoned to appear before Parliament next week. She will be there to respond to questions about how much the Commission raised from monies it collected from journalists during the 2016 elections. She will also be answering questions about how much the Commission expended on the replacement of lost Voters ID ...

A member of the Conventions People’s Party (CPP), Kwame Janutuah has criticised the National Democratic Congress (NDC), for making pedestrian comments at its press conference Thursday and failing to present itself as a government in waiting. Mr. Jantuah said the NDC missed an obvious opportunity to speak to recent happenings in the Akufo-Addo government but the opposition party rather chose ...

A former Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh has dismissed claims by an NPP presidential staffer that the Chairperson of Electoral Commission Mrs. Charlotte Osei attended Cabinet meetings under the John Mahama administration. Ibrahim Adjei, who is a presidential staffer made the allegation on Morning Starr Friday. Despite efforts by the host Francis Abban to get Mr. Adjei to retract until ...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) must stop defending the Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC) as far as a petition filed with the president for her removal is concerned, founder and leader of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has said. The 2016 flag bearer of the APC also said the NDC must leave President Nana Akufo-Addo ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) bigwig, Dr. Kofi Dsane Selby, former Ambassador to France in Busia’s time and again during the Kufour regime, has died. Dr. Selby, died on Tuesday July 18, at the National Cardio center, Korle Bu in Accra. The medical doctor, once aspired to lead the NPP as its flagbearer, placing second to the late Prof. Albert Kwadwo ...

An Accra High court will today [Friday] hear a case brought against Interior Minister, Ambrose Derry and the Comptroller General of Immigration, Kwame Sakyi by an Indian national who is contesting his deportation from Ghana. Mr Ashok Kumar Sivaram who had lived in the country for a number of years is accusing the two officials of unlawfully deporting him over ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is alleging that budget allocated for the office of the president in the first six months of President Nana Akufo-Addo, represents that of former President Mahama’s four year term when he was in office. Addressing the press at the party’s headquarters on Thursday, Kofi Porturphy lambasted the president for spending lavishly on parties, gold ties ...