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Get ready for new register – EC reacts to Supreme Court judgement

    Following the Supreme Court pronouncement asking the Electoral Commission (EC) to go ahead to compile a new voters register, the Commission is entreating all stakeholders to embrace themselves for the exercise which is scheduled for next week. The EC in a statement signed by Sylvia Annoh, Acting Director …

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90% of NPP’s polling station executives are useless to the party – Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu

  The Majority Leader in Parliament and MP for Suame, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has described the majority of the polling station executives of the ruling New Patriotic Party as useless to the political fortune of the party when it comes to mobilization at the grassroots level, MyNewsGh.com reports. According to the lawmaker who has been …

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Court orders EC to go ahead with voters registration exercise

  The Supreme Court of Ghana has ordered the Electoral Commission to go ahead with the compilation of a new voters register. The ruling was decided by a 7-member panel presided by Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah. According to the Apex Court, the EC is an independent body and will only be directed …

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90% of NPP’s polling station executives are useless to the party – Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu

    The Majority Leader in Parliament and MP for Suame, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has described the majority of the polling station executives of the ruling New Patriotic Party as useless to the political fortune of the party when it comes to mobilization at the grassroots level, MyNewsGh.com reports. According to the lawmaker who has …

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Awuah-Darko is so corrupt, I’ll hit him hard – Kennedy Agyapong

      Self-acclaimed corruption fighter, Kennedy Agyapong, has launched an attack on the person he claims will soon be named running mate of John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). The Assin Central MP claims he has all the documents on Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko (aka Kwame …

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Don’t be like ‘that foolish Owusu Aduomi’ – Ejisumanhene warns John Kumah

    The Paramount Chief of the Ejisu Traditional Area of the Ashanti region has described the incumbent Member of Parliament of the Ejisu Constituency, Hon. Kwabena Owusu Aduomi who was defeated at last Saturday’s parliamentary primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a “fool” who did nothing to develop the area in …

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My bicycles were not gifts – Defeated Assin North aspirant

    Defeated aspirant in the Assin North NPP parliamentary race, Eric Amankwa Blay, says the bicycles he gave to delegates in the lead up to the party’s primaries were winning bonuses. Mr. Amankwah generated headlines when news went round that he ordered the recall of some 250 bicycles his …

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Eastern Regional NPP threaten to Chase Out Hooligans NDC’s who intend to Disrupt EC Registration

  The Eastern Regional General secretary of the ruling New Patriot Party(NPP) Hon. Jeff Konadu on behalf of the party has warned the National Democratic Congress(NDC) to desist hooligans which intend to disrupt the registration exercise by the Electoral Commission. Addressing the media in a press conference held at the …

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It’s time we end the era of appointing MPs as ministers – Ras Mubarak

    The Member of Parliament for Kumbungu constituency, Ras Mubarak has underscored the need for Ghana to review the provision that enjoins the president to appoint MPs as Ministers. He argued that some MPs are only interested in getting ministerial appointments and thus neglecting their core function as lawmakers, a situation he said …

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I lost an election because I didn’t give delegates ‘waakye’- NDC Communicator

      A communication team member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Narsh, has bemoaned the monetization of internal party elections. Recounting his bitter experience in contesting in an internal party race as an organizer, he disclosed he lost to his opponent because of ‘Waakye’. According to …

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