Mr John Boadu, General-Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says the Party will go to court over electoral malfeasance after the Electoral Commission (EC) has officially declared the 2020 general election. According to him, an electoral officer voted during the Special Voting on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, and voted again at the main election on Monday, December 7. He noted that the conduct of ...

The eighth parliament of the Fourth Republic (7 January 2021 to 6 January 2025) will have 37 female Members of Parliament (MP). They will constitute 12.75 per cent of MPs. There were 36 women MPs in the 7th Parliament (2017-2021) initially, but Lydia Alhassan won the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election, and that number increased to 37. Both outcomes from the 2016 and 2020 elections ...

A United States-based Ghanaian Professor, Kwaku Asare, has asked the appointing authority to consider the Executive Director of the CDD Ghana, Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh as the next Speaker of Parliament. Professor Asare said the chamber needs a Speaker who is more of a nationalist than a partyist. “The Parliamentary results may very well strengthen Parliament and finally liberate it from the jaws of ...

The 8th Parliament of the 4th Republic will see many new faces as about 111 members of the 7th Parliament will not return to the house. Out of the 275 seats, 33 incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs lost their seats in the December 7 elections while 18 incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs also lost. Prior to the Parliamentary elections, 41 incumbent NPP MPs ...

The Electoral Commission has apologised for its inability to declare the results of the 2020 elections within the twenty-four-hour frame it promised. Speaking at a press conference held on the wee hours of Wednesday, December 9, 2020, Jean Mensa, the chairperson of the commission attributed the failure to rainfall in certain parts of the country. She explained that rainfall caused ...

Pollster and Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch Newspaper Mr. Benjamin Emmanuel Ephson has said claims by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of winning more Parliamentary seats are not true is false. “From the information available, NDC cannot be leading in Parliament unless there is other information I have no idea of”, Mr Ben Ephson said. His statement comes after ...

The Electoral Commission has released the results from seven regions. The Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, announced at a press conference that the Commission has received presidential results from fourteen of the sixteen regions. She stated at a press conference held on Wednesday, December 9, 2020, that they are currently working to certify the remaining seven regional results her ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has been reported by the British media as being complicit in the £5million Airbus bribery scandal. The Sun newspaper, in its latest edition on Tuesday, also reports that an international arrest warrant has been issued by Ghanaian authorities for the arrest of four people, including John Mahama’s brother for questioning. The four British nationals, including ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured residents of Nyinahin, and, indeed, all Ghanaians, that the country’s bauxite deposits will be exploited for the benefit of all Ghanaians, and not owned by just one person. Addressing residents of Nyinahin, in the Atwima Mponua constituency, on Wednesday, 2nd December 2020, the President stated that the Ghana integrated ...

LISTEN 9 HOURS AGO 4 COMMENTS The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has threatened to take action against media houses that have televised a secret video purporting that President Nana Akufo-Addo was allegedly caught taking a bribe of $40,000. A supposed video of President Akufo-Addo receiving a $40,000 a few days to the 2020 elections has gone viral on the ...