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NPP Primaries: Vote for a candidate who can bring developmental projects to this constituency – Odotobri MP

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Odotobri, Emmanuel Akwasi Gyamfi, has appealed to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) polling station executives and delegates of...

EC, NPP, NDC and Democratic Entrenchment and Consolidation in Ghana

One of the issues many people, especially party communicators are failing to bring to the perspectives shaping the debates and the discussion on the...

EC hit with fresh suit at Supreme Court over Voters Register

A man, identified as Mark Takyi-Banson, has filed a suit against the Electoral Commission (EC) and the Attorney-General, Gloria Akuffo.The suit, among others, seeks...

NDC vs EC: Supreme Court sets date for judgement

Ghana’s apex court, the Supreme Court, has adjourned the case between the Electoral Commission (EC) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC).The Supreme Court was...

Arrested Apostle Agyei has tramadol in his urine – Police drug test results claim

An alleged drug test conducted by the police on self-acclaimed pastor, Apostle Kwabena Owusu Agyei of the Hezekiah Apostolic Prayer Ministry reveals an abuse...

Heavy security at Supreme Court over NDC vs EC court case [Photos]

There was heavy security at the premises of the Supreme Court Thursday prior to the hearing of the case between the opposition National Democratic...

NPP chairman begs failed parliamentary aspirants

National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddie Blay, is appealing to failed parliamentary aspirants of his party not to work against the...

Coronavirus: Minority predicts 100,000 cases if …

Minority in Parliament says Ghana’s Covid-19 case count will hit 100,000 in the next few months if the Electoral Commission (EC) is allowed to...

NDC won’t accept results of a ‘flawed election’ – Mahama serves notice

Former President John Mahama has vowed the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will not accept any electoral result they deemed flawed.The flagbearer of the NDC...

Over 500,000 fake voter ID cards in circulation, Says Let My Vote Count Alliance

Pressure group, Let My Vote Count Alliance, is claiming over 500,000 fake voter identification cards are in circulation in Ghana.This, according to Convener of...

Parliament approves EC’s CI

Parliament has approved the Constitutional Instrument (CI) that would empower the Electoral Commission (EC) to reject the existing voter identification card in the impending...

Check out date for new voters’ registration exercise

The Electoral Commission (EC) has set June 30, 2020 for the compilation of new voters' register.A statement signed by the Deputy Chairperson of the...

Televise NDC and EC’s court case on Voters Register – MP appeals to CJ

Member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, Rockson-Nelson E.K. Dafeamekpor, has appealed to the Chief Justice, Annin Yeboah, to broadcast...

Existing Voter ID: Fruit of poisoned tree – EC argues

Ghana’s Electoral Commission has in a 31-page written legal argument, urged Ghana’s apex court to back its decision to exclude the current voters ID...

NDC, others drag EC to UN, AU over Voters Register

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) and other opposition political parties against the compilation of a new Voters Register have petitioned the Economic Commission of...

NPP suspends primaries in 3 constituencies

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has announced the suspension of the upcoming primaries in the Dormaa Central, Kwadaso and the Krachi West constituencies.According...

Full list of approved NPP parliamentary aspirants

The New Patriotic Party’s highest decision making body, the National Executive Council (NEC) has made public the names of all parliamentary aspirants cleared to...

Gushiegu MP withdraws from NPP parliamentary race

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Gushiegu constituency in the Northern region, Dr Ziblim Iddi, has announced his withdrawal from the party's...

Over 3 million Ghana Cards to be issued from June 8

The National Identification Authority (NIA) says it will issue 3,875,441 Ghana Cards to applicants in 5,635 registration centres in all the regions concurrently, from...

NPP’s Nasara Coordinator begins campaign to mobilise Zongos for new Voters Register

The National Nasara Coordinator of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Abdul-Aziz Haruna Futa, has embarked on a tour of the 16 Regions of the...

Oppong-Nkrumah reacts to Supreme Court questioning EC’s refusal to use old voter IDs

Ghana's Information Minister says there is no basis for anyone to jubilate over the Supreme Court’s questioning of the Electoral Commission’s (EC) basis for...

Parliament freezes approval of EC’s CI after ranking member is accused of doctoring report

Parliament has halted the approval of the Electoral Commission’s (EC) Constitutional Instrument (C.I. 126) laid before it to exclude the old voters identity card...

Supreme Court orders EC to provide legal basis for refusing old voter identity card

The Supreme Court has ordered the Electoral Commission (EC ) to provide the legal basis why it decided to refuse to accept the existing...

Provide legal basis for excluding voter ID – Supreme Court tells EC

The Supreme Court (SC) has demanded that the Electoral Commission (EC) provide for its consideration, a legal basis for the Commission’s exclusion of the...

Parliament’s Subsidiary Legislation Committee okays controversial EC C.I.

Parliament’s Subsidiary Legislation Committee has voted on Wednesday to greenlight the controversial Constitutional Instrument (C.I. 126) that will give legal backing to the Electoral...

Speaker rejects Ayariga’s motion on EC’s Constitutional Instrument

The Speaker of Parliament, Mike Oquaye has declined to admit a motion filed by Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga requesting the House to reject...

Why change a Voters Register that made you President – Rex Omar asks Akufo-Addo

The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana on Tuesday, June 3, 2020 started piloting the compilation exercise of people on the new Voters Register in...

I pity NDC – Freddie Blay

The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, says he pities the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over its decision to return...

NPP Youth Wing promises incident-free voters’ registration exercise

The Eastern Regional Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), says it will ensure an incident-free voters' registration exercise slated to be carried...

ASEPA, IMANI petition Otumfuo over new Voters Register

Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) and IMANI Ghana have petitioned Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to engage the Electoral Commission (EC) to...

NPP delegates petition against the disqualification of 4 parliamentary aspirants

Delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Atiwa East Constituency in the Eastern region, have petitioned against the disqualification of four parliamentary...

EC has failed – Richard Ahiagbah

Executive Director for Danquah Institute, a public policy analysis and research centre, Mr Richard Ahiagbah, has blamed the Electoral Commission (EC) for the ‘national’...

New register: EC must be decisive with approach – Danquah Institute

The Danquah Institute has said though it supports the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to compile a new register, it must be forthright and decisive...

NDC assaulting Ghana’s democracy – Richard Ahiagbah

Executive Director of the Danquah Institute (DI), Richard Ahiagbah, has said that the National Democratic Congress' (NDC) position against the new Voters Register is...

NDC’s Director of IT provides detailed analysis of why EC can’t complete register on time

Director of Information Technology for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Osei Kwame Griffiths, has with a detailed analysis, justified why the NDC wants...

Lecturer explains why EC will not be able to register all eligible voters

Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr Seidu Alidu, has said the Electoral Commission (EC) is unlikely to register all eligible voters...

Sekou Nkrumah ‘punches’ Bernard Mornah

Dr Sekou Nkrumah, the youngest son of Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, has described the National Chairman of the People's National Convention (PNC)...

New Voters Register compilation can be done in a month if…

Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, Richard Ahiagbah, says the compilation of a new Voters Register by the Electoral Commission (EC) can be achieved...

John Boadu replies Sammy Gymafi’s ‘over our dead bodies’ comment

The Multimedia Group · John Boadu replies Sammy Gyamfi on voters registerGeneral Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has replied...

New Voters’ Register: Prof Gyampo has a message for political parties [Read]

Senior Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Ranford Gyampo, has expressed disgust at the friction between the two main political parties over...