Six stories you may have missed because of US election Iraqi Kurdish forces seized the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from ISIL, an official said While the US presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton dominated international headlines on Tuesday, Russia announced that it was preparing to renew its air strikes on Syria’s Aleppo … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo says the NPP has not abandoned its free Senior High School education SHS proposal despites moves by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government to implement it. Nana Akufo-Addo has assured that the policy still remains a priority for the party if it wins the December polls. … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo says the NPP has not abandoned its free Senior High School education SHS proposal despites moves by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government to implement it. Nana Akufo-Addo has assured that the policy still remains a priority for the party if it wins the December polls. … Read more
Republican Donald Trump has won victory in the presidential race. What are his policies and beliefs? 1. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11. Trump repeatedly claimed that on 11 September, 2001, there were thousands of Arab-Americans celebrating in New Jersey after two planes flew into the Twin Towers. He says such public demonstrations “tell you … Read more
Donald J. Trump will be the 45th president of the United States, the Associated Press projected Wednesday. He will be the first person to hold the office despite having no prior political or military experience. The Republican nominee’s victory over Hillary Clinton marks a stunning upset that neither the polls nor the pundits saw coming. … Read more
Canada’s official website providing information on immigration and citizenship has been experiencing repeated outages, presumably due to a surge in traffic as Donald Trump grabbed an early lead in the US presidential race. Just as the race was kicking off many Americans joked that they would move out of the US, namely to Canada, if … Read more
The 12 presidential nominees who were disqualified by the Electoral Commission from the December 7 polls, will know their fate today [Wednesday, November 9, 2016]. The EC disqualified the due to errors on their nomination forms, but the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the commission to extend the nomination period and give the parties a … Read more
President Obama has a message to Americans: The sun will, in fact, come out tomorrow. In an election night message he recorded for BuzzFeed News, Obama sought to sooth any angst among voters as they cast ballots on Tuesday after what’s been a contentious presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. “This has been … Read more
The presidential race was extremely close on Tuesday evening, with Republican Donald Trump — who entered the night as an underdog – seizing the advantage over Democrat Hillary Clinton in a series of battleground states. By 11 p.m. Eastern time, voting had ended in 49 states, everywhere but Alaska. Together, they represented 535 of the … Read more
APC’s Ayariga wins case challenging his disqualification to contest by EC… An Accra High Court has ruled in favour of the Flagbearer of the All People’s Congress (APC) Hassan Ayariga, in the case challenging his disqualification from the 2016 presidential race by the Electoral Commission. Court has ordered the EC to give Ayariga an opportunity to … Read more
The Supreme Court has ordered the Electoral Commission (EC), to extend nomination period to Tuesday, November 8. This is to give more opportunity to disqualified candidates to correct errors cited on their nomination forms. The seven-man panel headed by Presiding Judge Sophia Adinyira, ruled that the nomination closure date be moved from Monday, the 7th … Read more
Nduom’s errors might be a hindrance to his joining the 2016 presidential race Progressive People Party’s (PPP) nomination form saga continues as the Electoral Commission (EC) has announced new errors on the Flagbearer Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom’s nomination form. This comes after the Supreme Court threw out the EC’s suit, challenging the High court ruling asking them to allow the … Read more
The United Progressive Party (UPP) is still fighting its flagbearer, Akwasi Addai Odike in court, for picking nomination forms to contest in the upcoming general elections. Some executives of the UPP dragged Mr. Odike to court in September 2016, to prevent him from filling nomination forms to contest as the party’s presidential candidate. A letter dated … Read more
Contrary to what Rush Limbaugh claims, George W. Bush and Laura Bush did not vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, a spokesperson for the former president said Tuesday. Instead, the Bushes left that section blank and only voted for Republican candidates in down-ballot races. Limbaugh, the most popular conservative talk radio show host … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC), has defended its decision to announce new errors it spotted on the nomination forms of some presidential aspirants it disqualified from the December 7 polls. The commission on Monday detected some new anomalies on the forms of the 12 presidential nominees, few hours after the Supreme Court ordered it to extend … Read more
Flagbearer of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) is confident of a landslide victory for President John Mahama in the December 7 general elections. But should she win the elections, Akua Donkor said she will hand over power to the President whom she described as her son. “The election is between President Mahama and I so … Read more
The posturing of the Electoral Commission in connection with the disqualification of some flag bearers does “not help” matters as far as the 7 December polls are concerned, Dr Kojo Asante, a Research Fellow with the Centre for Democratic Development has told Naa Dedei Tettey of Class News. The CDD, in a statement, said news … Read more
The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has said it is dismayed by news of the Electoral Commission’s claim that it has discovered new errors on the nomination forms of some disqualified flag bearers following a ruling by the Supreme Court that they should all be allowed to correct those mistakes and be allowed back … Read more
As voters head to the polls in Tuesday’s U. S. election, hopes have dampened among Democrats that they will make major gains in the U.S. Congress, even if their nominee, Hillary Clinton, wins the presidency. Enough wind may have come out of Clinton’s sails to slow the Democrats’ Senate and House of Representatives headway because … Read more
The National Democratic Party (NDP) has raised concerns over the Electoral Commission’s treatment of its presidential candidate, alleging a possible attempt to rig the presidential race in favor of the governing National Democratic Congress. The party made this known on Tuesday following the detection of 33 fresh errors on the nomination forms of its nominee, … Read more