EC Boss Needs Afari Gyan’s Help
Mrs Charlotte Osei, Chair of the Electoral Commission needs the assistance and experience of her predecessor Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan to help her conduct the 2016 general elections, flag bearer of the...
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Supreme Court Orders EC To Extend Nomination Period For All Candidates
The nomination period for all candidates has now been extended to Tuesday, November 8 The Supreme Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to extend the nomination periods for all parties to...
Nduom Floors EC At Supreme Court
A 7-member Supreme Court panel presided over by Justice Sophia Adinyira by unanimous decision, has upheld a High Court ruling ordering the Electoral Commission to allow disqualified flag bearer of...
Supreme Court Orders EC To Extend Nomination Period
The Supreme Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to extend the nomination period to the close of Tuesday, November,8 2016. The judges also ordered a suspension of all lawsuits challenging the...
Chiefs Urge Politicians To Be Tolerant This Election Season
Traditional rulers in the Upper West Region has asked political stakeholders to be more concerned about the growing level of intolerance, insecurity and negative perception regarding violence and...
Today Would Have Been 2016 Election Day
By Emmanuel Kwame Amoh But for a Parliamentary decision on Thursday, July 21, this year’s elections would have been held today, November 7, 2016. All parties had been unanimous in backing the...
EC Poised To Deliver Successful Elections – Charlotte Osei
The Electoral Commission (EC) has re-echoed its will deliver an undisputed election come December 7, 2016. Contrary to what many say will be a challenging polls this year due to the multiple lawsuit...
Disqualification Affected My Momentum
The Presidential candidate of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Mahama, has revealed that the Electoral Commission’s disqualification of his candidature affected the party's...
Pray For EC – Akufo-Addo Pleads With Clergy
The flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, has called on Christians, more especially the clergy, to pray for the Electoral Commission (EC) for wisdom and confidence to carry...
EC Bends Rules On Proxy Voters
Concerns are being raised about the possible manipulation of the proxy voters’ list by the Electoral Commission (EC). Director of Elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Martin Adjei-Mensah...
My Disqualification Slowed Me Down – Mahama
The Presidential candidate of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Mahama, has revealed that the Electoral Commission’s disqualification of his candidature affected the party’s...
A Triumph And Not A Disaster
CHATHAM HOUSE an iconic venue at the Royal Institute of International Affairs probably hosted its biggest guest ahead of the 2016 general elections last week in Accra. Something big was cooking,...
Each Journalist To Pay GHC10 To Cover Election
Every journalist would have to pay GHC10 to procure an accreditation card from the Ghana’s Electoral Commission to have access to polling centres during voting on December 7. “It’s now been...
Testing Ghana’s Brand of Democracy
In exactly four weeks from now, registered Ghanaians of voting age will get the opportunity to partake in choosing our national leaders for the next four years. The international community keeps...
EC Twists Proxy Voters Rules
Concerns are being raised about the possible manipulation of the proxy voters’ list by the Electoral Commission (EC). Director of Elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Martin Adjei-Mensah...
Nana Addo Asks Clergy To Pray For EC
The flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, has called on Christians, more especially the clergy, to pray for the Electoral Commission (EC) for wisdom and confidence to...
Each Journalist To Pay GHc10 For Accreditation Tag
Every journalist would have to pay GHC10 to procure an accreditation card from the Ghana’s Electoral Commission to have access to polling centres during voting on December 7. “It’s now been...
Tamara Drags EC To Court In Latest Disqualification Suit
The Electoral Commission (EC) appears to be in quandary, 30 days to the December 7 elections as it has been slapped with a fresh suit occasioned by the disqualification of some presidential...
My Fears For Ghana’s Dec 7 – Akoto Ampaw
Akoto Ampaw, the lead counsel who got the Supreme Court to order the EC to release collation sheets to the political parties in the December polls, has expressed apprehension that the impending...
Akoto Ampaw Fears For December 7
Akoto Ampaw, the lead counsel who got the Supreme Court to order the EC to release collation sheets to the political parties in the December polls, has expressed apprehension that the impending...