Trump and Clinton Target Florida
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump held rallies in Ohio and Pennsylvania on Friday. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are set to campaign in Florida, a key battleground state that could tip...
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Lawsuits Won’t Affect December 7 Elections – Atuguba
A Private Legal Practitioner, Raymond Atuguba, is optimistic the general elections will come off on December 7, despite the several suits the Electoral Commission has been saddled with ahead of the...
We Will Deliver Lawful, Credible Polls – EC
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Mrs Charlotte Osei has called on international stakeholders to begin to hold African politicians to a higher level of scrutiny discourse during African...
Hassan Ayariga Bounces Back
An Accra High Court yesterday – for the second time – ordered the Electoral Commission (EC) to reverse its decision of disqualifying Hassan Ayariga, presidential candidate of the All People’s...
Chiefs Pledge Support For Akufo-Addo’s Gov’t
Omanhene of the Mpohor Traditional Area in the Western Region, Osabarima Kwaw Entsie II, has assured the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that the chiefs and...
Lawyer, CODEO Warn EC Against Plans To Recount Votes If Results Too Close
A private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has warned Ghana’s Electoral Commission against plans to recount votes cast in this year’s December 7 general elections in the event the results become...
PPP Blasts Religious Bodies
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) says it is surprised at the mute religious bodies in the country have kept in the face of what it describes as the unfair treatment being meted out to it by the...
FBI Examining Fake Documents Targeting Clinton Campaign
The FBI and U. S. intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what U.S. officials believe has been...
I Won’t Recuse Myself From Konadu’s Case
An Accra High Court, presided over by Justice Kyei Baffour, has dismissed an application by the Electoral Commission (EC) asking him to recuse himself from the case in which the National Democratic...
Supreme Court To Close Presidential Disqualification Cases On Monday
The Supreme Court will on Monday bring closure to the issue of disqualification of presidential aspirants. At the Supreme Court's sitting on Friday, Graphic Online's Mabel Aku Baneseh reported that...
Ghana’s Electoral System ‘excellent’
U. S. Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Robert P. Jackson has lauded Ghana’s electoral system describing it as “excellent”. Speaking on Class91.3FM’s America Decides programme with host Dr. Etsey...
Five Divine Laws That Will Determine the Winner
Americans are looking forward to electing a president on Nov. 8, 2016. The electioneering campaigns are in top gears, all the presidential candidates have had erratic poll numbers, endorsements, huge...
Ghana’s Electoral System Becoming Turbulent
The executive director of the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Dr Emmanuel Akwetey, has said that Ghana’s electoral system is increasingly becoming turbulent because many invisible hands...
Party Ideologies Less Clear In Ghana
Ideological differences are not so clear in Ghanaian politics, U. S. Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Robert P. Jackson has observed. Speaking on Class91.3FM’s America Decides programme with host Dr Etsey...
Forgive Errors As You Were Forgiven For 2012 Mistakes
Raymond Atuguba, counsel for PNC Presidential candidate has argued in court that the Electoral Commission was unreasonable in disqualifying his client, Dr. Edward Mahama from the 2016 presidential...
Clinton, Trump Target North Carolina As Clinton Maintains Lead
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump headed to North Carolina on Thursday in a final effort to shore up support in the swing state as polls showed Clinton maintained her lead...
I’ll Cut My Green Card, Leave the US If Trump Wins
Nigeria's Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka says he will cut up his green card if Donald Trump emerges as winner of the US presidential election. The green card is a permanent residence permit for...
EC Awards $9m Inflated Pinksheets Job To Collapsed UK Firm
The Daily Statesman can disclose that Ghana’s Electoral Commission has, against all advice, just this week awarded a $8.95 million contract to print the Statement of Poll and Declaration of Results...
EC Is Being Manipulated – Papa Kwesi Nduom
Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, presidential aspirant of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), told journalists at the premises of the Supreme Court yesterday that the case involving his disqualification...
Presidential Results Would Be Recounted If Too Close – EC Boss
To ensure that the wrong person is not declared winner of the 2016 presidential election, the Electoral Commission would do a recount if the results are close, Chairperson of the Commission has...