EC, Ayariga Failed To File Statements
Counsel for Hassan Ayariga, the flagbearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), on Monday, October 31 had to file a draft statement of case after failure to file the statement proper last Friday....
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I Will Win Because I Have A Better Case Than PPP
An Accra High Court has adjourned the case in which the flagbearer of the All People's Congress is challenging his disqualification to contest this year’s election. The case was adjourned to...
US Presidential Election 2016
In my article four years ago on the US presidential election of 2012, I mentioned several factors that could determine the winner. The candidates, Baraka Obama and Mitts Romney, were known...
Supreme Court Ruling Proves Tiger Eye Doesn’t Exist – Justice Dery
The Supreme Court of Ghana ruled that Tiger Eye PI, a company whose purported CEO is investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas does not exist, Justice Paul Uuter Dery, has said. Justice Dery, a...
Internal Feud Rocks FBI Over Hillary Clinton Probe
The surprise disclosure that agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation are taking a new look at Hillary Clinton’s email use lays bare, just days before the election, tensions inside the...
Akufo-Addo Calls On Chief Imam
The 2016 presidential candidate of New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Saturday, October 29, 2016, paid a courtesy call on the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu,...
Dutch Anti-Islam Leader On Trial For Inciting Hatred
Dutch anti-Islam opposition leader Geert Wilders goes on trial on Monday for inciting hatred and discrimination, 18 months after he led a chant for fewer Moroccans in the country and called them scum...
Can EC Hold Credible, Free and Fair Elections In 2016?
Can EC hold credible, free and fair elections in 2016? I have always believed sincerely, with all my heart that the independence of the Electoral Commission (EC) is to be operated as a shield to...
We Prefer A Candidate Weak In Limbs To One Weak In Morals – Kwesi Pratt Jnr
A leading member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has extolled the qualities of his party’s presidential candidate, saying Ivor Kobina Greenstreet is better than all the...
No One Has Money – Akufo-Addo Laments To Chief Imam
The 2016 presidential candidate of New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has paid a courtesy call on the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu, ahead of the conduct of the...
Cameron Duodu’s Why Our Electoral System Has Failed (Part 2)
".... As of 2016, Freedom House assigns Ghana's electoral process a score of 12 out of 12, same as the UK.., the US a 11 out of 12... As far as we know, even if we were to entertain the idea that it...
Charlotte Osei Must Resign
A Private Legal Practitioner Kwame Adofo has suggested to the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) Mrs Charlotte Osei to willingly resign from her position. A High Court Judge on...
Could Owusu Bempah Be Behind the Alleged Plots To Assassinate Akufo-Addo?
Could Owusu Bempah be behind the alleged plots to assassinate Akufo-Addo? “These are matters that must be dealt with spiritually not physically and, so, I don’t know why they (the police) have...
EC Should Invite Other Candidates To Amend Errors – Amaliba
A private legal practitioner lawyer Abraham Amaliba has advised the Electoral Commission (EC) to use the ruling by the Accra High Court in the suit filed against it by the Progressive People’s...
Contract Me For Victory Like Nduom – Ayikoi Otoo
Lead Counsel for the presidential candidate of the Progressive Party (PPP), Lawyer Ayikoi Otoo says the other disqualified candidates in the 2016 elections could have celebrated together with Dr....
Charlotte Osei Is Inexperienced
Charlotte Osei, the first female Electoral Commissioner for the Electoral Commission (EC) is inexperienced, lawyer Aikoi Otoo lead counsel for the Progressive People’ Party (PPP) has said. The...
Doing the Right Thing To Ensure Free, Fair Elections
Doing the right thing to ensure free, fair elections Charlotte Osei, Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana Until yesterday’s declaration by the Supreme Court, the CI 94 which governs the...
Nduom’s Win Not Hope For Other Disqualified Candidates – Samson Lardy Anyenini
A private legal practitioner has said a ruling by the court to have the flagbearer of the Progressive People's Party reinstated in the upcoming election does not necessarily present hope to others...
Reactions From the Court
play videoAyikoi Otoo is a leading member of the NPP and former Attorney General Led by former Attorney General and virtuoso lawyer, Ayikoi Otoo, the PPP managed to secure a ruling that will have...
Doing The Right Thing To Ensure Free, Fair Elections Must Be The Focus
Until yesterday’s declaration by the Supreme Court, the CI 94 which governs the December 7 elections did not have any provision for party agents to be issued with copies of the results Collation...