Parliament has voted to approve the controversial C.I 126 which gives legal backing to the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters’ register for the December polls. 106 members of the Majority side of the House voted in support of the C.I while 96 opposition MPs opposed it. Despite the seeming clearance from the legislative chamber, the EC will have ...

Deputy Minister of Works and Housing in the Mahama administration, Sampson Ahi says there was nothing untoward done in the execution of the agreement of the Saglemi Housing Project. According to him, everything was ongoing as planned until the Mahama-led government lost the elections. Mr Ahi’s claims come in the wake of pronouncements by the Minister of Works and Housing, ...

Former president JJ Rawlings has entreated the Electoral Commission (EC) to embark on an extensive consultation with all stakeholders ahead of the compilation of a new voter’s register. Speaking during the 41st anniversary of the June 4 uprising in Accra on Thursday, Mr. Rawlings said: “It is equally important for that revered institution, EC, to ensure that the processes leading ...

The Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said there is no need to jubilate over a Supreme Court directive to the Electoral Commission on the compilation of the Voters’ Register. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 4, 2020, ordered the EC to provide a legal basis for refusing to accept the existing Voters ID Cards as ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings on Thursday urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to use consultative approach that binds in stakeholders throughout the electoral process. He said the EC, the fulcrum of Ghana’s multiparty democracy, must be supported and protected by all stakeholders to ensure a free, fair and transparent election and a peaceful society. “That notwithstanding, it is equally important ...

A former General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has charged the leadership of his party to instil discipline among members. According to Koku Anyidoho, who has felt sidelined since his defeated at the party’s congress, there are some undisciplined young people in the NDC who think they have seen it all. “We too we saw things…I just ...

The Supreme Court has ordered the Electoral Commission (EC) to provide legal reasons why they have chosen to omit the existing voter identification card out of the list of ID cards acceptable for the upcoming voters’ registration exercise set to begin at the end of June. The seven-member panel was presided over by the Chief Justice, Justice Anin Yeboah. The ...

Some victims who survived the June 3, 2015, disaster at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra are calling on the government to commit to the compensation packages promised them. The 2015 episode saw an explosion at a fuel station during a heavy downpour which flooded parts of the Kwame Nkrumah Circle leaving over 100 people dead and others sustaining various ...

Former President, John Agyekum Kufuor has thrown his weight behind the compilation of a new voter’s register for the 2020 general elections in December. The former president claimed most people on the register used foul means to get their voters identification cards (ID) and that does not make the voters register clean. The debate on the compilation of a new ...

As far as the maintenance of law and order is concerned, there is no over-flogging the subject editorially. It is for this reason that we have decided to return to the subject following especially Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul’s warning that the military would not fold its arms as troublemakers disturb the country’s peace. It would be paradoxical if such political ...