PPP’s Suit Against EC Dismissed
A suit by the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) challenging what it described as “astronomical filing fees” by the Electoral Commission has been dismissed by an High Court Friday. Starr News’...
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Woyome Challenges Judgement Debt Report
Attempts to auction businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome’s properties to defray a GH¢51.2 million debt owed the state have hit a roadblock following a number of developments. The latest issue is a...
PPP Defend Paying Filing Fees To EC
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has said it proceeded with the submission its GHC 50,000 filing fee for the party’s Presidential candidate because it never heard in the news that the...
PPP Storms Court To Cite EC For Contempt
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) will be heading back to court Monday to cite the Electoral Commission (EC) for contempt after the elections management body accepted its filing fee last week....
PPP To Sue EC Again For Contempt
It appears the Electoral Commission’s hurdles will not go away anytime soon with barely two months to the elections. The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), which is already in court against the...
We Didn’t Trap EC With Filing Fees – PPP
The Director of Operations for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu, has stated that the party had no intention of tricking the Electoral Commission, when it presented its filing...
3 Nigerian Judges Sacked Over Corruption
The National Judicial Council (NJC) of Nigeria yesterday, sacked three judges found to have abused their office by accepting gratifications from litigants before their courts. The Justices, the legal...
Ghanaian-Born Soldier Sues British Defence Ministry Over Negligence
Gershon Rawlings, a 33-year-old Ghanaian born soldier, has brought a legal suit against the British Defence Ministry for neglecting him at a training camp in Wales. Mr Rawlings has filed a writ at...
PPP Could Face Contempt Over Filing Fee Submission – Ndebugri
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) risks being cited for contempt of court for presenting its filing fee to the Electoral Commission (EC), despite being the very entity to place an injunction on...
We’re Disappointed In PPP For Paying Filing Fees – GCPP
The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) has expressed its disappointment in the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) for paying the Electoral Commission’s filing fees. The PPP filed a suit at the...
Secure 25% and Get Your Money Back
The Electoral Commission (EC) has advised political parties aggrieved by the hike in the 2016 filing fees to try hard to secure 25 and 12 per cents of the total vote cast respectively in the...
EC Accepts PPP’s Filing Fee, Refuses To Return It
The final day for submission of nomination forms at the Electoral Commission (EC) headquarters has seen a rather bizarre twist with the Commission accepting the filing fee of the Progressive...
Nana Addo To Present Nomination Forms Today; Mahama Friday
The Electoral Commission (EC) will this morning , begin receiving completed nomination forms from presidential hopefuls in the country. The New Patriotic Party is expected to submit the forms of...
EC Insists On Friday Deadline For Filing
The Electoral Commission (EC) has called on all persons who have picked nomination forms to contest in this year’s December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections to submit the forms by Friday,...
Court Throws Out Evidence In Gyan’s Rape Case
The four suspects – Osarfo Anthony, Ekow Micah, Sarah Kwablah, and Chris Handler, accused of allegedly conspiring to extort money from Asamoah Gyan, may have to heave a deep sigh of relief as the...
Joe Baidoe-Ansah Loses Kwesimintsim NPP Primaries
The incumbent MP for Kwesimintsim in Western region Joe Baidoe-Ansah has lost the NPP’s parliamentary primaries in the constituency. He lost to his only contender Joe Mensah in the keenly contested...
I Killed Girl, 7 and Had Sex With Body – Man, 22, Confesses
A 22-year-old man yesterday confessed to the Accra Central District Magistrate Court to killing a seven-year-old girl at Ashaiman, near Tema, after which he had sex with the corpse. A 22-year-old man...
I Killed Girl, 7 and Had Sex With Her Corpse – Man Confesses
A 22-year-old man yesterday confessed to the Accra Central District Magistrate Court to killing a seven-year-old girl at Ashaiman, near Tema, after which he had sex with the corpse. Lucas Agboyie,...
PPP Sues EC Over Election Filing Fees
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has sued the Electoral Commission (EC) over the filing fees for presidential and parliamentary candidates for the 2016 elections. The EC on September 8, 2016...
Lets Recognize Contributions Of Islamic Living Legends In Ghana (1)
Of late Muslims in Ghana have lost great men who were noted for contributing towards development of Ghana and the advancement of Islam. The latest of these men to depart this earth to eternity was...