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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 ...

Ghana’s largest opposition political party, the NDC, has teamed up with other opposition parties to petition the ECOWAS about the ongoing process to compile a new register for the December elections. The NDC and six other political parties, constituting the Inter-Party Resistance Against New Voter Register (IPRAN), say the decision by the Electoral Commission (EC), to compile the new electoral ...

An Accra High Court has ordered the Attorney General’s (AG’s) Department to reformulate the agreement between the department and the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Venture Capital Trust Fund (VCTF), Daniel Duku, in the erstwhile Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration. The court presided over by Justice Anthony Oppong, a Court of Appeal judge sitting as an additional High ...

Private legal practitioner, Lawyer Maurice Ampaw has asked Ghanaians to celebrate the Electoral Commissioner, Jean Mensa for her courage and boldness in exposing the irregularities on our electoral roll. Commenting on the EC’s response on the basis for excluding the voters’ ID card as a form of identification for registration he said the laws drafted by the previous EC created ...

A group calling itself the Concerned University Lecturers of Ghana has kicked against the decision of the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters’ register for the upcoming elections. An Open Letter, signed by over 100 lecturers from various universities across the country said the EC boss’ entrenched position to exclude the current Voters’ ID card from the list of ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that the underlying legal reasons for its decision not to include the existing voters’ Identification Card (ID) in its upcoming registration exercise is because the Supreme Court itself has held that the register is reasonably not credible and that by implication, the cards issued pursuant to it are also reasons not credible. The EC ...