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Parliament by a majority decision, 106 – 92 has approved the recommendation of the Subsidiary Legislation Committee to adopt its report on the Constitutional Instrument (C.I. 126). The C.I. 126 makes the Ghana Card and the Ghanaian passport the only legal identification documents for registering people in the new biometric voters’ register. Some Ghanaians have, however, accused the Electoral Commission ...

Elections are continuous processes that involve a complex interplay of activities that are technical in nature but carry deep political and legal implications. The quality of an election management body’s (EMB) preparation for an election is crucial to the overall success of the process. Ghana goes to the polls on December 7, 2020, to elect a president and 275 lawmakers. ...

A lecturer of the Koforidua Technical University (KTU), Dr Benjamin Kwofie, has written to the Vice Chancellor to deny knowledge of a letter written by some 101 lecturers to the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), asking her to tread cautiously in the decision to compile a new register for the December 7 elections. According to Dr Kwofie, he ...

Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has given an assurance that an NDC government will make it natural for the Electoral Commission (EC) to register all qualified Ghana citizens and issue them with Voter Id cards. This, he said, would be done within the 100 days of coming into power. According to him, the NDC intends to do that by deploying acceptable ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has provided the legal justification for refusing to accept the existing voters’ identification card as part of identification for the upcoming registration exercise. In a 31-paged legal arguments filed at the Supreme Court, the EC says it had the sole constitutional responsibility to compile voters register and to determine how that compilation would be effected and ...

Some suspected thieves have broken into the Electoral Commission(EC) office at Kodie in the Affigya Kwabre South Constituency in the Ashanti Region and made away with some vital gadgets. The hoodlums reportedly took away two laptops that are said to contain some important information of the EC. So far, it is not known whether or not the robbery incident, which ...

A tax expert and the Fiscal Policy Lead at Oxfam Ghana, Dr. Alex Ampaabeng is calling on the Akufo-Addo-led government to re-introduce the Luxury Vehicles Tax which was abolished in 2019 few months after its introduction amidst criticisms. Ghana’s overall fiscal deficit for the year 2020 is expected to increase from the programmed GH¢18.9 billion (4.7% of GDP) to GH¢30.2 ...

The usually quiet manager of multiple award-winning group, Praye, Kwabena Owusu Frimpong a.k.a Kobby Blackmoe, appears incensed by the apparent hypocrisy of Bernard Mornah, National Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC) and his allies, and has subsequently called on the youth to disregard their hypocritical and inconsistent utterances and actions by going out in the numbers to massively register ...

FIFA has handed a transfer ban on promoted French side Lorient for failing to pay Ghanaian lower division club Cheetah FC it’s part of the transfer amount for midfielder Alhassan Wakaso, Ghanasoccernet.com can exclusively reveal. The newly-promoted Ligue 1 club were supposed to pay the third tier Ghanaian side a part of the transfer fee as solidarity compensation after the ...

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has in a statement impressed on the Electoral Commission (EC) to include the existing voter identity (ID) card among the documents individuals can use to establish eligibility to register in the 2020 registration exercise. Ghana will on Tuesday, June 30, start compiling a new voters’ register ahead of the country’s presidential and parliamentary ...