PNC Joins EC Suing Spree
Another one of the parties whose flag bearers were disqualified from the December 7 presidential election has said it is getting ready to drag the Electoral Commission to Court. The People’s...
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When You Come Across Someone With His Beard Caught On Fire.
A popular admonishing Akan proverb goes, “When you go to find someone with his beard caught on fire, you had better fetch water to place beside yours”. This proverb is directed at warning people...
Chief Justice Designates 17 Courts To Handle Electoral Disputes
The Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, has designated 17 specialised courts to deal with electoral disputes that may arise before the December 7, 2016 presidential and parliamentary...
NDP Sues EC To Reinstate Konadu
The National Democratic Party (NDP) has sued the Electoral Commission in an attempt to get the election management body to reinstate its flag bearer Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings in the December 7...
I Can’t Tell If Nana Declared Assets
The Communications Director of the Electoral Commission, Mr Eric Dzakpasu has said “I wouldn’t know” if the flagbearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) declared his assets per...
GCPP Files Injunction Suit Against EC
The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) has filed an injunction suit against the Electoral Commission seeking to stop the election management body from conducting a balloting exercise for...
NPP Are Agents of Satan In Ghana
The Disqualified presidential candidate of the Ghana Freedom Party, Madam Akua Donkor has said that anyone who’s hoping and looking forward to seeing Satan should look no further since the NPP as a...
Irbard Ibrahim Disagrees With ‘Draconian’ Fashioned EC
Ambassador for the 2016 election, Irbard Ibrahim, has chided the Electoral Commission(EC) for the disqualification of certain political party candidates from contesting the December election,...
#Gangof13 Can’t Blame EC
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana could have pardoned the flag bearers disqualified from the December 7 polls if the offences were just clerical, but not when there were fraudulent entries on...
Threats From Disqualified Parties Won’t Distract EC – Dzakpasu
Threats of court action against the Electoral Commission (EC) by disqualified presidential hopefuls would not distract the commission from carrying out its work. Spokesperson of the commission, Eric...
EC Disqualifications: Ghanaians ‘lackadaisical’
Ghanaians tend to be carefree when dealing with critical matters, only to request a second opportunity to right things when the undesirable consequences of such cavalier attitudes stare them in the...
Parliament Needs PPP – Nduom
Ghana’s parliament needs the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), hence Ghanaians should vote massively for the party’s MP aspirants contesting in the December 7 polls, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, flag...
EC Favoured Akufo-Addo
The Progressive People’s Party is accusing the Electoral Commission of clearing the NPP's presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo to contest the December 7, polls even though he did not comply with...
O Me Miserum!
I hope I got my Latin correct. The title for this essay comes from the Latin book I used while a student at Mfantsipim long time ago called LATIN FOR TODAY. Latin happened to be one of my weakest...
Ayariga’s Disqualification Temporary – APC
The disqualification of Mr Hassan Ayariga, the flag bearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), to contest in the 2016 presidential polls is a temporary issue that will be reversed in court, Razak...
Court Will Throw Out Nduom’s Suit Against EC
Legal practitioner John Ndebugri says the 12 disqualified presidential candidates demonstrate a wrong understanding of the law when they argue that the Electoral Commission used mere cleric errors as...
Well Done, Madam Charlotte Osei!
“I've come to realise that Ghanaian men don't respect women. Ghanaian men think women do not deserve to occupy high positions. Even though some men are incompetent, they still get to occupy very...
What Fadi Dabbousis Moslems & Mensa Otabils Christians Have In Common 1
“The problem of Africa is because folly is set in dignity and the wise have been reduced to nothing. People who have no business telling anybody anything shoot their mouths everyday and people who...
More Trouble For Disqualified Aspirants As EC Refers Cases To Police, A-G’s Office
The Electoral Commission (EC) has referred all the electoral and criminal offences identified during the vetting of the nomination forms filed by aspirants for the 2016 presidential election to the...
EC Too Makes Mistakes; See Our Receipt
The 2016 Progressive Peoples' Party's Presidential candidate says the Electoral Commission (EC) failed to properly fill a receipt yet it was bold enough to disqualify him over administrative errors....