The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Yaw Obimpeh has said he’s working with the 1 million votes target in the region as against the revised 1.5 million figure put out by the party recently. The party over the weekend at the launch of its Campaign towards the December 7 election … Read more
Apparently unperturbed disqualified presidential candidate of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has threatened to annul the results of the December general election or call off the elections if the Electoral Commission (EC) dares commit any errors in the electoral process and the declaration of results. According to the founder of the APC, unless … Read more
Ghana might be forced to postponed the December 7 general election due to the mass court actions brought against the Electoral Commission (EC) by some disqualified political parties. The National Democratic Party (NDP) is the latest party to throw its hat into the ring of lawsuits as it has sued the Commission two days after … Read more
Who would you vote for in the upcoming 2016 general election were you to be presented with two choices? The choices are one candidate has chains of higher academic qualifications with a CV (Curriculum Vitae) stating as such. However, he is rotten to the core with corruption. He is clueless and highly incompetent in managing … Read more
It is nothing but an impertinent boldness that can drive an elected president to chastise his subordinates for expressing their grievances over the harsh socio-economic standards of living. This periodical thus seeks to deconstruct how President Mahama and his NDC government flagrantly dishonoured social contracts they entered with Ghanaians prior to 2008 and 2012 general … Read more
The Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference (GCBC) has advised all political parties, the media and all Ghanaians to refrain from announcing any results of the December general election before they are declared by the Electoral Commission (EC). According to the Catholic Bishops, it was only the EC that was empowered to announce the results of the … Read more
Mrs Freda Prempeh, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano North in the Brong-Ahafo Region, has advised the electorate to reject offers from the National Democratic Congress (NDC). She said they should vote on merit in the December 7 polls. She alleged that the NDC would approach and entice them with gifts and money for … Read more
Presidential candidate of Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr. Henry Lartey says he is currently doubting if the Commissioner, Mrs. Charlotte Osei can organize, a free, fair, and a transparent election. According to him, his ”wrongful disqualification” has influenced his doubt. The EC on Monday disqualified Dr. Lartey for “The Commission is unable to accept … Read more
Alhaji Shamsu Kwakwa, a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) National Campaign Committee, says President John Dramani Mahama’s quest for Ghanaians to upgrade their knowledge, especially people living in zongo communities is unmeasurable. Alhaji Kwakwa made this known when he led a campaign team of the Council of Elders of the NDC Zongo caucus … Read more
Ahead of the President’s tour of the Volta Region, residents along the Asikuma-Kpeve stretch of the eastern corridor roads are threatening to embark on a demonstration to express their dissatisfaction over the delays in the construction works on the road which started in the late President John Evans Atta Mills’ government, the Eastern Corridor road … Read more
Accra, Oct. 15, GNA – In October 1956, the people of Hungary stood up against the oppression of Soviet rule. The subsequent uprising almost succeeded but the Soviet Union finally re-established its control and the revolution was quashed by brutal efficiency. From March 1944, during the Second World War, Hungary was occupied by the forces … Read more
The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) is guilty of abuse of incumbency in the lead up to the December 7 polls, the Ghana Integrity Initiative has said. Findings of a research conducted by the anti-graft organisation found the NDC has engaged in various forms of abuse as the party pushes to snatch a second term … Read more
So Mahama thinks he’s right to call aggrieved Ghanaians whiners? No, it’s never right for Mahama to call aggrieved Ghanaians whiners. In fact, insolence is the only appropriate and euphemistic language that I can use to describe an elected president who inexorably castigates the same people who voted him to power for airing their views … Read more
The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) has threatened to expose the Chairparson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, for disqualifying its flag bearer, Dr Henry Herbert Lartey. Counsel for the GCPP, Mr Maurice Ampaw, stated that the EC would be sent to court to expose all the errors she had committed but had … Read more
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has scaled up the effort to galvanize people to go out to vote in the coming general election as it takes the voter education campaign to institutions training people with physical disabilities. Mr. Raphael Wilson Arthur, its Deputy Ashanti Regional Director, said the Commission was determined to go … Read more
Finally the much anticipated bout between three time world champion (fresh king) Joseph (kingkong )Agbeko and Tanzanian boxer, Haji Juma comes off October, 14 at the Accra sports stadium and the Former Ghanaian world champion looks very confident going into this bout without giving room for his counterpart. Speaking to KASAPA sports, Agbeko disclosed that … Read more
Some SOB who just happens to be an Anlo-Ewe – and they are almost always Anlo-Ewes – emailed from South Africa, tooting his horn (like I cared) and accused me of harboring a level of “obscene hatred” for Ewes that boggles his imagination. Of course, like all the rest of them, he thinks Chairman Jerry … Read more
No, it’s never right for Mahama to call aggrieved Ghanaians whiners. In fact, insolence is the only appropriate and euphemistic language that I can use to describe an elected president who inexorably castigates the same people who voted him to power for airing their views over the harsh socio-economic standards of living he has willfully … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) remains resolute in its fight against the Electoral Commission’s decision to disqualify its presidential aspirant, Papa Kwesi Nduom, from the December polls, questioning the credibility of the validation process of its presidential nomination forms. National Chairman of the Party, Nii Alottey Brew Hammond, says the play out of events that … Read more
The decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) to disqualify 12 presidential aspirants from contesting this year’s presidential election has generated controversy among governance experts and legal practitioners. While some think the EC is following Constitutional Instrument (C. I.) 94, the law mandating it to organise elections from the filling of nominations of candidates to the … Read more