By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. The Otiko Djaba confirmation impasse strikingly demonstrates the acute desperation of the minority NDC members on the Parliamentary Appointments Committee (PAC)....
Instead of facilely calling on President-Elect Akufo-Addo to unite the country at large, the Oyokohene of New Juaben, Nana Kodua Kesse, II, must first take stock of the sort of morally unbecoming...
I don’t begrudge our one-term lame-duck President, John Dramani Mahama, his share of due credit for the success of our constitutional democratic culture, but I find it quite amusing that...
In my most recent column last night, and one which hit the media websites and perhaps several newsstands, as well, this morning, I highlighted the need for one of our most respected and distinguished...
It was February 7, 2015. We woke up to a cold harmattan Saturday morning greeted by a shocking press conference by the INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jaga. The rumours had been confirmed. The...
Ever since he literally got booted out of the Limann-founded People’s National Convention (PNC), one of the several Nkrumaist splinter political parties that have been shamelessly feeding off the...
As of this writing (11/20/16), the Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Mr. Kwasi Gyan-Appenteng, had roundly condemned the decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) to have journalists...
It is quite certain that should the 2016 presidential election be stalemated or found to leave much to be desired in the books of the leaders of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), the...
The call by the Executive Director of the IMANI-Ghana think-tank for the Chairwoman of the Electoral Commission (EC) to resign is nothing short of the downright and abjectly frivolous (See “Sack EC...
She should never have been permitted to vote in the country, much less found a political party and run for President of Ghana. Nothing could be more insulting to the intelligence of well-meaning and...
Electoral Commission: Justice beyond judicial review an act of grandiosity An Accra high court asked electoral commission’s (EC) boss to rescind her decision to disqualify Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom from...
Following the successful appealing of the disqualification of his presidential candidacy by the Electoral Commission (EC), the founding-proprietor of Convention People’s Party (CPP) breakaway, the...
An Accra high court asked electoral commissioner (EC) of Ghana to rescind her decision to disqualify Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom from contesting in the 2016 presidential election. On Monday October 31, 2016,...
Nii Ayikoi Otoo, lawyer for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), has stated that Electoral Commission’s (EC) Chairperson, Mrs. Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei is a victim of gross inexperience....
Konadu Rawlings cannot run away from Mahama’s dismal record Ghanaians, in general, are known to be morbidly afflicted with short memories; but we are more than intelligent enough to remember that...
Ghanaians, in general, are known to be morbidly afflicted with short memories; but we are more than intelligent enough to remember that it was Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and her bloody...
The disqualification of the presidential candidates of some 12 splinter political parties – as of this writing, the number had inched up to 13 – with barely two months to the December 7 general...
By Sammy Darko The first queen of England, Queen Elizabeth was regarded as too controversial for mainly three reasons; the fact that she was a woman had the people doubt her ability to rule, her...
The 2016 presidential election in Ghana is very delicate for at least two main reasons. It is the first election after the disputed election in 2012 which ended at the Supreme Court. Secondly, the...
Like all the other religious leaders of the so-called Independent Churches who have actively involved themselves in the political culture of the country, Prophet Isaac Owusu-Bempah is regarded as a...
