POLITICS

Parliament’s Appointments Committee will approve all ministerial nominees put forward by president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo because so far there are no constitutional blocks facing any of them. This was the view of Insuah Fuseini, a lawyer and former lawmaker, whose submissions GhanaWeb monitored on NewsFile, Joy FM’s news analysis program today, …

Anti-corruption campaigner, Mr Vitus Azeem has called for the creation of a specialized committee of Parliament that will scrutinize all government contracts presented to the House by the Attorney General before the general discussions on it by the entire House for approval. He suggested that the committee should be made up of …

Mavis Hawa Koomson, the Minister-nominee for Fisheries and Aquaculture has disclosed that she was a teacher with over two decades of experience. The Awutu Senya East Member of Parliament took her turn at the ministerial vetting on Thursday, February 18, 2021. Hawa Koomson in a brief profile stated that for …

Though Jean Mensa will not be mounting the witness box, she has not failed to mount the invisible red carpets of the Supreme Court, this time with witnesses she may be open to seconding. And from the perspective of the fashion police, she did not take any prisoners as she …

Petitioners who had served the President with a petition demanding the removal of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) have notified the police of their intention to picket the Presidency, the EC Headquarters, and the Supreme Court following the apparent refusal of the President to forward the …

The Supreme Court has dismissed a review application by Former President John Dramani Mahama challenging the court’s decision not to compel the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa. The nine-member review panel, in a unanimous decision, tossed out the application because it did not meet the legal threshold. Two new …

A nine-member panel of the Supreme Court has dismissed an application for Review by the Petitioner in the ongoing Election Petition before the apex court to review its own ruling that it cannot compel Chairperson of the Electoral Commission to testify. Lawyers of the Petitioner led by Mr Tsatsu Tsikata …

Staunch Member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has taken a subtle jab at Dr. Justice Moses K. Aheto, a biostatistician who was key in the collation of votes of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), saying that he deserves the Nobel Prize for Phantom Statistics for …

Counsel for the 2nd respondent in the ongoing hearing of the election petition, Mr Akoto Ampaw has asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a review application filed by counsel for the petitioner against the earlier ruling of the court that no witness can be compelled to testify. The Supreme Court …

It was widely anticipated, that the vetting of Mavis Hawa Koomson, Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister-designate will be an interesting one. She certainly has made her name, in the past for certain issues including the shooting incident at the Awutu Senya Constituency. This was the first question posed at her by Parliament‘s Appointments …