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CID To Investigate NPP Parliamentary Candidate’s Fake University Certificate

An Activist of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has petitioned Director-General of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to investigate the mystery acquirement of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Degree by Mr. Alex Blankson, NPP Parliamentary Candidate for Akrofuom Constituency in the Ashanti region. According to …

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You Are Collapsing Businesses Instead Of Creating Jobs – Mahama To Akufo-Addo

John Dramani Mahama, the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the NPP ruling government of collapsing businesses instead of creating jobs. According to Mahama, the NPP government has failed to pay contractors and other sectors and such an act has caused several workers to be out …

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EC Explains GH¢100,000 Filing Fee For Presidential Aspirants

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 …

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What is the purpose of the GH¢100k filing fee – Asiedu Nketiah queries EC

  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 …

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Stop The Monicracy – APC Communications Officer Slams EC

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 …

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‘Still Sakawa boys’ – Asiedu Nketia jabs NPP over Agyapa deal

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 …

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[VIDEO]: Man stabbed on the head over ripping of NDC posters in Winneba

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 …

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NDC wails over 100% increment in presidential filing fees; says it’s very disappointing

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 …

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2020 Elections: Akufo-Addo, Mahama, others to pay GH¢100,000 as filing fee

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 …

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I never stole in public office – Rawlings recounts sacrifices

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 …

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