Former President John Mahama is advocating for the withdrawal of the Public Universities Bill since it does not guarantee the “independence of our intellectuals and other researchers in state-owned universities”. “The Bill as it stands does not only risk undermining academic innovation and ingenuity; it will also jettison decades of scholarly excellence and adversely affect Ghana’s position as the preferred ...

Supporters of Lawyer Philip Addison are outraged over the party’s decision to disqualify him and have urged that he goes independent. Lawyer Philip Addison, who rose to fame during the 2012 election petition hearing at the Supreme Court was disqualified from contesting the Akuapem North seat on the ticket of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). A spokesperson for the ...

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has cleared the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa over her alleged failure to declare her assets pursuant to 286 of the Constitution and Act 550. According to the Commission in its reports following a complaint lodged by pro-NDC group, Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) that ...

President of IMANI Ghana Franklin Cudjoe says the Supreme Court risks losing ‘considerable legitimacy’ if it rules out the voter’s ID card and birth certificate as proof of identity in the upcoming voter’s registration exercise. The Electoral Commission maintains the two documents are not credible enough to be accepted as proof of identity in its upcoming mass registration exercise. The ...

Panellists at a virtual forum on COVID-19 and the vision of ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ have called for a paradigm shift in attitudes of Ghanaians to achieve the agenda of economic self-sufficiency. They asked the Government to infuse the Charter of the Ghana Beyond Aid into the curricula of the education system at all levels to ensure the youth-owned the programme. ...

Parliament has approved a request to waive Domestic VAT totaling US$3.1 million on local purchases and services in the rehabilitation and upgrading of equipment in Technical Universities, Polytechnics and Technical and Vocational Training Centres. The request for the VAT exemption complies with the Concessional Loan Agreement between the Government of Ghana and the Export-Import Bank of China. Dr Mark Assibey-Yeboah, ...

Bice Obour Osei-Kuffour, an aspiring parliamentary candidate for theNew Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Asante-Akim South is promising to add 10,000 more votes to what the party received in the 2016 elections. The former President of the Musician Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), who is popularly known as “Obour” in the entertainment circles, believes he has what it takes to motivate ...

The Electoral Commission has expressed concern about the continuous use of a logo it discarded about two years ago by some media houses. The Commission had cause to issue a statement on Thursday, June 11 signed by its Acting Director of Public Affairs Mrs. Sylvia Annoh on the issue. The statement described the current logo of the Commission with an ...

Godfred Yeboah Dame, the Deputy Attorney General (AG), has indicated in his legal submissions to the Supreme Court of Ghana in the case of NDC v AG & EC, that the “current voter register is flawed and undermines the right to vote.” In a 32-page document, the AG who is also the first defendant in the case noted that the ...

The Director of Legal Affairs of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Abraham Amaliba, has said the party was compelled by the Supreme Court to let go its first relief in its two-pronged suit against the Electoral Commission rather than a voluntary withdrawal of same by the party. “If your correspondent was in court, he would have told you that the NDC did not ...