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All biometric voter registration kits are brand new – EC

The Electoral Commission (EC) says the Biometric Voter Registration kits being used for the compilation of the Voters Register are all new.It explained that...

EC clears air on Biometric Voters Registration kits

The Electoral Commission (EC) has debunked claims that about 40% of the Biometric Voter Registration kits being used in the ongoing voters’ registration exercise...

NDC hunts for EC officials padding figures in NPP strongholds

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is on a manhunt for some Electoral Commission (EC) officials they claim are padding figures in strongholds of...

READ: Full Supreme Court judgement on voters’ register case

The Supreme Court on June 25 delivered its judgement in the case challenging the Electoral Commission’s decision to compile a new register and what...

NDC Cape Coast North PC speaks after his voter ID card was withdrawn

The Parliamentary Candidate (PC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Cape Coast North Constituency says he has legally challenged a decision by...

Voter registration: Greater Accra, Volta region top challenged cases

The Greater Accra and the Volta regions have recorded the highest number of challenged cases, after the first two phases of the ongoing voters'...

Voters Registration: EC admits to ‘over-computation’ in Ashanti Regional figures but denies “rigging plots”

The Electoral Commission has confirmed figures of registrants submitted to its headquarters from two districts in Ashanti Region were over-computed.Regional Director, Benjamin Bannor Bio, has...

Peace Council condemns violence at registration centres

The National Peace Council has condemned the act of violence recorded in some parts of the country amidst the ongoing mass registration exercise.Chairman of...

EC responds to NDC’s suit

The Electoral Commission (EC) has responded to a suit brought against it by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) over its registration of voters...

GIS beefs up security at Bunkpurugu over voters’ registration

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has beefed up security at the various borders and unapproved routes in the Bunkpurugu district of the North East...

EC withdraws NDC PC’s voter ID card over fake information

The voter's identity card of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for Cape Coast North has been withdrawn by the Electoral Commission (EC)....

NDC party agents demand withdrawal of EC officer

Some National Democratic Congress (NDC) party agents in the Ablekuma West Constituency are demanding the withdrawal of a registration officer as they accuse him...

Police arrests nine for disrupting registration exercise

The Accra Regional Police Command has arrested two persons who disrupted the registration exercise.Seven of their accomplices who tried freeing them while police was...

EC to extend registration period at delayed centres [Read]

The Electoral Commission (EC) has made plans to make amends for the lost time at some registration centres where the process delayed today, July...

Voters Register: Police Service begins probe into officer who slapped woman at centre

The Ghana Police Service has commenced investigations into reports of a police officer who slapped a woman at one of the Voters' Registration Centres.The...

Manasseh Azure Awuni: Comparing Akufo-Addo and Naana Opoku-Agyemang

The flag bearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has finally named his running mate for the 2020 election.Contrary to some leading...

EC to rely on a-yet-to mature CI in Parliament to allow vote transfer for SHS students

The Electoral Commission (EC) says, it will rely on a CI which is yet to mature in Paliament to allow students transfer their votes...

Aspiring MP arrested for holding rally at Assin South

An independent aspiring Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin South Constituency, Joseph Kofi Damte, has been arrested by Police for holding political campaign rally...

Rawlings gets new voters’ ID [Photos]

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has taken his turn to acquire the new voters' identity card in the ongoing registration exercise.Mr Rawlings on Thursday,...

Coronavirus: Jean Mensa has not tested positive – EC

The Electoral Commission (EC) has described as false claims that its Chairperson, Mrs Jean Mensah, has tested positive for coronavirus.A press statement, signed by...

Voter Registration: EC exceeds target

The Electoral Commission (EC) yesterday commenced a biweekly update engagement with the media and announced that the registration centres were exceeding their daily targets...

Wendy Shay gets voters’ ID, urges fans to register [Video]

Singer Wendy Shay has sent a message to Ghanaians and her fans to partake in the ongoing voters' registration exercise after acquiring her card.This...

EC appeals to political parties to educate followers on new register

The Electoral Commission (EC) has appealed to political parties to help in the education of the electorate on the processes of the new voters...

Ghanaians tear Kyei Mensah-Bonsu apart for denigrating Prof. Opoku-Agyemang

Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has incurred the wrath of the citizenry over a comment he made following the nomination of Professor Jane...

A look at Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang’s CV

Former Education Minister and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang was on Monday, July 6, 2020, nominated running...

Dr Duffuor’s powerful words to Prof. Opoku- Agyemang (Read)

Former Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, has blessed Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang following her appointment as the running mate for...

It’s laughable to compare Dr Bawumia to Prof. Opoku-Agyemang – Asiedu Nketia

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has disclosed that he wouldn’t have turned down an offer to partner John...

Don’t use your personal car for the next 72 hours – Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang warned

A Ghanaian Muslim cleric, Mallam Sham-una, has advised the running mate of John Dramani Mahama, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang to not use her personal...

Joe Osei-Owusu’s Bekwai contender goes independent

A disqualified New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary aspirant in the just-ended primary of the Bekwai constituency of the Ashanti region says he ready is...

Majority Leader criticises Mahama’s running mate

The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, says the newly nominated National Democratic Congress (NDC) running mate, Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang, lacks what it...

Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang’s son speaks on mother’s appointment

Son of the newly elected running mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, has congratulated the NDC flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama for...

Check out Ghana’s female running mates since the beginning of the 4th Republic

Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has become the seventh woman to be Vice-Presidential candidate since the beginning of the 4th Republic.Prof Opoku-Agyemang was confirmed on...

A woman running mate is good but… – Sekou Nkrumah

Dr Sekou Nkrumah, the youngest son of Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, has questioned what a woman running mate brings to the table...

Prof. Gyampo sends strong message to NPP foot soldiers over Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang’s appointment

JoyNews/AdomNews · Gyampo warns NPP against nasty comments about Opoku-AgyemangA political scientist with the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has sent a message to...

Over 2.2m voters registered

Over 2.2 million (2,216,141) voters have been registered and issued voter identification cards in the first six days of the ongoing mass registration exercise....

Women hail Mahama for nominating Prof Jane Opoku Agyemang

There was jubilation and funfair at Elmina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region following the nomination of Professor Jane Naana Opoku...

NPP reacts to selection of Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang as Mahama’s running mate

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) says former President John Mahama’s choice of Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, shows that he is not serious.Prof Opoku-Agyemang...

EC sacks temporal electoral officials at Sagnarigu

The Electoral Commission (EC) has sacked three temporal electoral officials at Sagnarigu in the Northern region for gross misconduct.This follows theft of eight Form...

NDC communicators react to Prof Opoku-Agyemang’s selection as Mahama’s running mate

All 16 regional Communication Officers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have congratulated Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang on her nomination as the running mate...

‘Prof. Jane Opoku-Agyemang is God-fearing, a distinguished scholar’

The flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, John Dramani Mahama, has described the former Minister of Education, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang as God-fearing,...