A suit by the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) challenging what it described as “astronomical filing fees” by the Electoral Commission has been dismissed by an High Court Friday. Starr News’ Wilberforce Asare reports that the reasons for the dismissal of the suit will be given by the Court on Monday, October, 10 at 2pm. The … Read more
Attempts to auction businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome’s properties to defray a GH¢51.2 million debt owed the state have hit a roadblock following a number of developments. The latest issue is a suit by Woyome challenging portions of the Judgement Debt Commission’s report which indicted him. The first hiccup was recorded in March this year when … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has said it proceeded with the submission its GHC 50,000 filing fee for the party’s Presidential candidate because it never heard in the news that the Electoral Commission (EC) had declined to accept the filing fee of other Flag bearers, due to an interlocutory injunction filed on the process. The … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) will be heading back to court Monday to cite the Electoral Commission (EC) for contempt after the elections management body accepted its filing fee last week. The PPP has filed a suit at the High Court seeking an injunction to prevent the EC from receiving the reviewed filing fees for … Read more
It appears the Electoral Commission’s hurdles will not go away anytime soon with barely two months to the elections. The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), which is already in court against the Commission’s filing fees for presidential and parliamentary nominees, has indicated it will sue the Commission again for contempt, over its decision to accept their … Read more
The Director of Operations for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu, has stated that the party had no intention of tricking the Electoral Commission, when it presented its filing fee to the election management body, despite its own lawsuit against the fee. He said this on Citi FM’s news analysis programme, The Big … Read more
The National Judicial Council (NJC) of Nigeria yesterday, sacked three judges found to have abused their office by accepting gratifications from litigants before their courts. The Justices, the legal body under the Chairmanship of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, suspended from office with immediate effect includes the Presiding Justice of the Court … Read more
Gershon Rawlings, a 33-year-old Ghanaian born soldier, has brought a legal suit against the British Defence Ministry for neglecting him at a training camp in Wales. Mr Rawlings has filed a writ at the High Court in London demanding £200,000 from the ministry claiming he was forced to remain out in ‘very cold and wet’ … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) risks being cited for contempt of court for presenting its filing fee to the Electoral Commission (EC), despite being the very entity to place an injunction on the process, a private legal practitioner, John Ndebugri has said. Mr. Ndebugri explained on Eyewitness News that, “because there is an injunction already … Read more
The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) has expressed its disappointment in the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) for paying the Electoral Commission’s filing fees. The PPP filed a suit at the High Court in on September 19 seeking an interlocutory injunction to prevent the Commission from receiving the nominations in protest of the EC’s much criticized … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) has advised political parties aggrieved by the hike in the 2016 filing fees to try hard to secure 25 and 12 per cents of the total vote cast respectively in the presidential and parliamentary elections for a refund of their monies. According to the electoral body, the regulation guiding the EC’s … Read more
The final day for submission of nomination forms at the Electoral Commission (EC) headquarters has seen a rather bizarre twist with the Commission accepting the filing fee of the Progressive People’s Party’s (PPP) Flagbearer despite an interlocutory injunction placed on the process by the PPP itself. Yesterday [Thursday] the EC said it would not be … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) will this morning [Thursday], begin receiving completed nomination forms from presidential hopefuls in the country. The New Patriotic Party is expected to submit the forms of their flagbearer, Nana Akufo Addo to enable them push their agenda of unseating incumbent President John Dramani Mahama on December 7. The two day exercise … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) has called on all persons who have picked nomination forms to contest in this year’s December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections to submit the forms by Friday, September 30, 2016 at 5:00pm. The Commission, in a statement released yesterday, encouraged candidates or persons filing on their behalf to submit the nomination … Read more
The four suspects – Osarfo Anthony, Ekow Micah, Sarah Kwablah, and Chris Handler, accused of allegedly conspiring to extort money from Asamoah Gyan, may have to heave a deep sigh of relief as the High Court, has thrown out their alleged phone conversations tendered in court by Asamoah Gyan, against them. This revelation happened in … Read more
The incumbent MP for Kwesimintsim in Western region Joe Baidoe-Ansah has lost the NPP’s parliamentary primaries in the constituency. He lost to his only contender Joe Mensah in the keenly contested polls held on Tuesday. The MP who was seeking a fifth term in parliament garnered 122 votes as against the victor’s 187. The primary … Read more
A 22-year-old man yesterday confessed to the Accra Central District Magistrate Court to killing a seven-year-old girl at Ashaiman, near Tema, after which he had sex with the corpse. A 22-year-old man yesterday confessed to the Accra Central District Magistrate Court to killing a seven-year-old girl at Ashaiman, near Tema, after which he had sex … Read more
A 22-year-old man yesterday confessed to the Accra Central District Magistrate Court to killing a seven-year-old girl at Ashaiman, near Tema, after which he had sex with the corpse. Lucas Agboyie, alias “Sympathy”, told the court that he strangled his victim after she had refused his advances and even begged him not to have sex … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has sued the Electoral Commission (EC) over the filing fees for presidential and parliamentary candidates for the 2016 elections. The EC on September 8, 2016 announced the filing fees for presidential and parliamentary candidates at GH¢50,000.00 and GH¢10,000.00 respectively; an amount the party has described as “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.” … Read more
Of late Muslims in Ghana have lost great men who were noted for contributing towards development of Ghana and the advancement of Islam. The latest of these men to depart this earth to eternity was Late Alhaji Major Mohammed Easah (rtd). He died at Tema near Accra and was buried on September 12 in accordance … Read more