The founder of the UniBank, Dr. Kwabena Duffour, is seeking an interlocutory injunction from the court to restrain the Ghana Police Service over what he describes as “unlawful threats and harassment” following an invitation from the Crime Investigation Department (CID) last week. According to the embattled businessman cum politician, he was summoned with a letter from the Special Investigation team ...
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6.5 million Ghanaians registered under ‘Ghana Card’ roll-out – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has disclosed that as at Wednesday January 8, 2020, some 6.5 million Ghanaians had been registered under the National Identification Authority’s (NIA) ‘Ghana Card’ roll-out. According to him, 3.7 million cards have so far been issued since the registration exercise commenced in April 2019. “As at Wednesday 8th January 2020, some 6.5 million Ghanaians have been registered since ...
Read More »Movement supports new voters’ register for 2020 election
The Concerned Voters Movement, a non-governmental organization has supported the decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voters’ register as enshrined in Article 45 of the 1992 Constitution. A Statement signed by Mr Razak Kojo Opoku, Founder and President of the Movement and copied to the Ghana News Agency said the arguments by the National Democratic Congress ...
Read More »EC to stick to ‘no-verification-no-vote’ policy for 2020 elections
The Electoral Commission (EC) will use the no-verification-no-vote policy for the 2020 elections. As part of efforts to upgrade its Biometric Voter Management System (BVMS), the EC plans to do away with the manual verification of voters, according to the Commission’s Director of Elections, Dr. Serebour Quaicoe, who spoke on Eyewitness News. “We want to eliminate the possibility of depending ...
Read More »Why some applicants are yet to get their Ghana Cards – NIA boss explains
The National Identification Authority (NIA) has attributed the delay in issuing Ghana cards to some applicants to inconsistencies in the data provided by the affected applicants. Explaining why many applicants were yet to have their cards printed or issued to them, the Executive Secretary of the NIA, Professor Ken Attafuah said the NIA was resolving the issue on a case ...
Read More »NDC, Mahama run to churches, pastors to stop EC’s new voter roll – Reports
The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its flag bearer, Mr John Dramani Mahama, have turned to the head pastors of The Church of Pentecost to intervene in the decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter register a few months into the elections. The party’s National Chairman, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, while reiterating the NDC’s opposition ...
Read More »Greater Accra is the most expensive region in Ghana, Ashanti among the cheapest
An analysis of the Ghana Statistical Service’s data on inflation for 2019 shows that Greater Accra was the most expensive region for consumers over the past 12 months. The country’s statistical agency which collects data on the changes in prices of food and non-food items on Wednesday, released its December 2019 data which showed that inflation in Greater Accra stood ...
Read More »13 political parties back EC’s move for new voters’ register
Thirteen political parties say the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to compile a new voters’ register ahead of the 2020 elections is necessary. The parties which include the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), National Democratic Party (NDP), People’s National Convention (PNC), Convention People’s Party (CPP) among others, believe the EC has made a solid case for a ...
Read More »2020 election results will be rejected if EC rejects stakeholder contributions – Kwesi Pratt
The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has said he will lead Ghanaians to reject the 2020 general election results should the Electoral Commission (EC) ignore the contribution of stakeholders and conduct the polls the way it wants. Speaking at a public forum organised by the Coalition of CSOs for Good Governance on whether or not the ...
Read More »Ghanaians to use National ID cards as voter identification soon – Bawumia
Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said that the introduction of the National Identification Card will soon erase all arguments about the use of voters’ register for elections in the country. According to him, the card will automatically replace the voters’ ID since the Electoral Commission (EC) will extract details of all those who have turned eighteen and above and ...
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