EC Suspends GH¢50,000 Filing Fees
The Electoral Commission says it is no longer accepting the GH¢50,000 filing fees until further notice. The Chairperson of the commission Mrs. Charlotte Osei said the decision was arrived at after...
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Akufo-Addo Files; Clears Path For 2016 Presidential Election
Opposition leader Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has successfully submitted his nominations to contest the 2016 presidential election in December. The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party...
Nana Addo Files Nomination Forms But EC Rejects Filing Fee
The Electoral Commission has rejected the 50, 000 Ghana cedis filing fee of the New Patriotic Party flagbearer Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo due to an interlocutory injunction filed by the Progressive...
Hiked Presidential, Parliamentary Filing Fees Lack Reason – PPP
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), says unless the Electoral Commission (EC) can justify its recent increase in filing fees for presidential and parliamentary candidates in this year’s...
EC Suspends GH50,000 Filing Fees
The Electoral Commission says it is no longer accepting the GH50,000 filing fees until further notice. The Chairperson of the commission Mrs. Charlotte Osei said the decision was arrived at after...
Mahama, Nana Addo & Nduom To File Presidential Forms Today
Front runners of the 2016 presidential elections are scheduled to file their nominations on Thursday, September 29, 3news.com has gathered. John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress...
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...
GHC50,000 Filing Fees In Limbo As PPP Files Injunction To Stop EC
The Progressive People’s Party has initiated legal processes at the Accra High Court to restrain Ghana’s Electoral Commission from going ahead to receive nomination fees from aspirants seeking to...
I’m Not Convinced About EC’s Power To Charge Filing Fees – Lecturer
A law lecturer at the Central University Law School has questioned the legality of Electoral Commission (EC)'s power to demand filing fees from presidential and parliamentary candidates. Yaw Oppong...
GHC50K Filing Fees In Limbo As PPP Files Injunction To Stop EC
The Commission is set to receive from each of the prospective presidential and parliamentary candidates, nomination forms with an amount of GHC50,000 and GHC10,00 respectively on Thursday and...
Declare Assets Or Lose Your Candidature – EC To Nominees
Ahead of the deadline for the submission of nomination forms on Friday, September 30, the Electoral Commission (EC), has reminded presidential and parliamentary nominees they will not be eligible to...
You Insult People and Feign Diabetes When Arrested – Ametor To Ken Agyapong
It was not too clear where the argument was headed, but two notable names in Ghana politics – Kennedy Akompreko Agyapong, Assin Central Member of Parliament; and Ametor Quarmyne, veteran...
EC Ready To Receive Nomination Forms
The Electoral Commission (EC) says it is set to receive nomination forms from presidential aspirants at its headquarters in Accra tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday, September 29 and 30, 2016. The...
Ayariga To Nana Addo and Nduom
The flag bearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has challenged Nana Akufo-Addo and Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom – presidential nominees of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the...
Ken Agyapong, Gabby Are ‘cartoons’ Not Worth My Time – Ayariga
The flag bearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has said he does not respond to “cartoons” – a direct reference to Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, cousin to the flag bearer...
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,...
I Will Slap Ayariga For ‘insulting’ Nana Addo
The Assin Central New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament, Mr Kennedy Agyapong has threatened to slap Mr Hassan Ayariga of the All People’s Congress (APC) for questioning Nana Akufo-Addo’s...
Through The Mirror Of Nigerias 2015 Elections
Nigeria may be Africa’s big brother but it has not exactly been one to look up to as an example of best practices, whether with respect to managing an economy or governing a people. Ghana has at...
PPP Will Build Gold Refinery
2016 presidential nominee of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Ndoum, has promised to establish gold refinery company in the country when voted into power. Dr. Ndoum made the...
PPP Reduced To Platform of Comedians and Half-Baked Graduates
Hassan Ayariga’s All Peoples Congress (APC), is accusing the flagbearer of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom of reducing his party to a platform for comedians and half-baked...