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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 ...

‘Zeer waarschijnlijk’ zijn 1,7 miljoen Nederlanders vanwege een doorgemaakte besmetting immuun voor het coronavirus. Toch worden zij niet overgeslagen in de vaccinatiestrategie. Terecht, menen experts. Jop van Kempen9 december 2020, 11:49 Van de 269.000 verpleeghuismedewerkers die als eersten aan de beurt zijn voor vaccinatie, is een groot deel waarschijnlijk door een eerdere besmetting al immuun.BEELD ANP Wereldwijd zijn bijna 70 ...

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 ...

The chill of fall seems to have set in and at least, in some parts of the world, we can safely say goodbye to sticky humidity and bid welcome flannel season and cozy scented candles. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have gained new wisdom in the ways that we can prevent the spread of illness. In ...

A cohort of 500 Kayayei (female head porters), have been empowered under the United Nation Population Fund’s (UNFPA), ‘Kayayei Assistance Project’ (KASPRO), to lessen their vulnerability and position them towards self-development. The beneficiaries, who were selected from the Tema Station area in Accra, were provided with education on Sexual and Reproductive Health Right (SRHR); Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV); Vocational ...

African leaders have approved that trading should start on 1 January next year as scheduled on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement and requested African financial institutions to provide technical and financial support for its implementation. “We call on women, youth, businesses, trade unions, civil society, cross border traders, the academia, the African Diaspora and other stakeholders to ...

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 ...