POLITICS

The Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission, Dr. Serebour Quaicoe has said charges for filing Presidential and Parliamentary nomination forms are just a deposit and said some may get their money back after the election. He said any presidential candidate who obtains at least 25 percent of the …

  General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia has questioned the rationale behind the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to charge GH¢100,000 as filing fee towards the upcoming December polls. According to him, all the reasons being given by the EC are unfounded and thus asked the …

The National Communications Officer of All People’s Congress (APC), Mr. Francis Ansah Tawiah has urged the Jean Mensah led Electoral Commission to stop the MONICRACY and reduce the election 2020 presidential candidates filing fee of GHC100,000.   “We, in APC wants the EC to engage the political parties and reduce …

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia has taken a swipe at the government over the controversial Agyapa deal. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Kumasi, the Ashanti Region, General Mosquito as he is popularly known, after describing the deal as a bad one for the country used an …

A 25-year-old man has been stabbed on the head with a broken bottle by some thugs believed to have been hired to rip off the posters of the parliamentary candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Dasayaw in the Efutu Constituency in the Central region. Kofi Egyir is …

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) to increase presidential filing fees for the 2020 general election to GHC100,000 as disappointing and a deliberate attempt to exclude some people from contesting. “It is rather disappointing that rather the Electoral Commission is not being sensitive to the very institution …

The Electoral Commission has declared that Presidential candidates for the upcoming 2020 elections are required to pay an amount of GH¢100,000 as filing fees to enable them to partake in the elections. The Commission has also set aside a filing fee GH¢10,000 for that of Parliamentary candidates which is to be paid …

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has said his integrity and abhorrence for thievery and lying ensured that he stayed in office for almost nineteen years. Mr Rawlings said he did not come to public office to steal and never did. “We had to go through a lot of sacrifices to …

About 600 members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Krachi East Constituency of the Oti Region have defected to the New Patriotic Party, barely three months to the general elections. The defectors mainly youth activists of the party are said to be dissatisfied with the former President …

The 2020 manifesto for the governing New Patriotic Party is being debated on in South Africa instead of Ghana, an outspoken member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Yayra Koku has said. The NDC activist in a post on Facebook claimed that the NPP manifesto has no popularity in the country because the party …