FIFA and the Local Organising Committee (LOC) are pleased to announce that the media accreditation process for media representatives wishing to cover the Official Draw for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup France 2018 is now open. The draw will take place at the Rennes Opera on Thursday, 8 March 2018, at 11:00 local time. … Read more
Electoral Commission Chairperson says monies the commission took from journalists for accreditation during last year’s elections were intact. Mrs. Charlotte Osei disclosed that the money estimated at over GH¢2.5 million was sitting in the EC’s bank accounts at the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB). In her response to an urgent question filed over the failure of … Read more
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei has said that that commission has not expended monies it accrued from the replacement of voter IDs for Ghanaians ahead of the 2016 December elections. According to her, the EC made over GH¢2.5 million from the replacement process and more than GH¢42,000 cedis from the sale … Read more
The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) says exorbitant filing fees imposed on Presidential and Parliamentary candidates as well as a concerning lack of financial transparency on behalf of the EC were both highlighted as significant problems that must urgently be addressed. CODEO noted that whilst the Electoral Commission (EC) did indeed deliver free and … Read more
I had hoped to publish this piece at a time when Ghanaians would have been patting themselves on the back for a great ceremony, following the beautiful coronation of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Instead, just when I got down to work the plagiarism matter surfaced. The scandal was indeed a very unpleasant occurrence and … Read more
Justice of the Human Rights Court, Gifty Agyei Addo has refused to continue hearing a suit filed by the International Standard Journalists Association against the Electoral Commission on the latter’s decision to charge for media accreditation. The EC charged each journalist who wants to cover the December 7 general elections GHc10 for accreditation. But when … Read more
As of this writing (11/20/16), the Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Mr. Kwasi Gyan-Appenteng, had roundly condemned the decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) to have journalists pay accreditation fees in order to cover the upcoming general election (See “EC Must Stop Charging Media Accreditation Fee – NMC” Starrfmonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 11/16/16). Mr. … Read more
The International Standards Journalists Association (ISJA) has sued the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana for demanding that journalists pay for their accreditation to cover the 7 December polls. The EC announced two weeks ago that due to logistical constraints, media houses were to pay GHS10 for the printout of the media accreditation to enable them … Read more
For more than two decades, Russia has been trying to regain its Soviet-era economic influence in Africa, but such efforts have regularly hit stumbling blocks. Policy experts and Russian authorities attribute this to inadequate knowledge of investment and economic possibilities on the continent. “As before, we cannot deny that Russian business structures have insufficient knowledge … Read more
Access to information during the December 7 elections will now be sold to the media before they can disseminate to the general public. According to the Electoral Commission (EC), it will demand accreditation fees from journalists who wish to cover the elections on December 7. Even though the Commission is yet to determine the fee to be paid … Read more
For more than two decades, Russia has been struggling to regain its Soviet-era economic influence, but such efforts have hit stumbling blocks which policy experts and Russian authorities themselves admittedly attributed to inadequate knowledge of investment and economic possibilities in Africa. Quite recently, Keir Giles, an associate fellow (on the Russia and Eurasia Program) at … Read more