The National Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Mr Moses Dani Baah, and the 2020 flag bearer of the party, Mr David Apasera, have sued 18 top executive of the party over their removal from office. The legal action adds to the recent internal wrangling, disunity, accusations and counter accusations that have rocked the PNC. […]
The seeming standoff within the People’s National Convention (PNC) has reached a boiling point, with the leadership of the party giving the “suspended” General Secretary of the party, Ms Janet Nabla, a one-week ultimatum to vacate her office and hand over to the party’s National Treasurer. Consequently, the party said it had appointed a Deputy […]
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has urged the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament (MPs) to strengthen the bond between Parliament and the Executive to help fulfil the promises made to Ghanaians and further earn their trust to continue governing the nation. That, he said, would require that the Majority caucus continually armed […]
A former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Samuel Koku Anyidoho, has interpreted his dismissal from the party to the Biblical Joseph story when his brothers sold him into slavery. “When Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery; they did not know they were selling him into his God-given destiny to become […]
The Leadership of the NPP Constituency Officers’ Welfare, (NCOW) has debunked media report and described same as unfounded claims that the General Secretary of the NPP Mr. John Boadu snubbed the just ended Constituency Officers’ conference held in Koforidua. In the report as carried by Peace fm online and other news portals with caption “John […]
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, says he will ensure that non-performing Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives in the region are sacked if they do not perform satisfactorily in their roles. Addressing a meeting of assembly members and MMDCE’s in Greater Accra on Monday, (June 21, 2021), Mr Quartery said the performance of MMDCEs […]
Members of Parliament do not have absolute immunity and must therefore avail themselves in the law courts as and when they have cases that require their presence there. The Speaker of Parliament, the Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin who gave the directive to the Members of Parliament averred that they must oblige invitations to […]
Election 2020 is the first election to be fully funded by the government since democracy was restored in the country in 1992. It is one election which had no donor funding to support the election management processes, the Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, has disclosed. Disclosing this at the opening ceremony of […]
The Cape Coast High Court has overruled an objection by lawyers for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Mr James Gyakye Quayson, seeking to have the presiding judge, Justice Kwasi Boakye, recuse himself from the case seeking to annul the MP’s election. Lawyers for the MP accused Justice Boakye of […]
The Sunyani High Court has given parties involved in the 2020 parliamentary election suit on the Banda Constituency in the Bono Region a 14-day ultimatum to file their witness statements. The court, presided over by Justice Gabriel Mate-Teye, also scheduled Thursday, May 20, 2021 as the next sitting for case management. The Parliamentary Candidate for […]
Former Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme [NEIP], John Kumah says upon hearing the news of his nomination as Deputy Minister-designate for Finance he was overwhelmed because he thought of himself as the least among many. According to him, the news caught him off guard not because he sees himself as […]
The time is right for public financing of political parties in the country, a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Mr Kwesi Jonah, has stated. That, he explained, would help strengthen smaller parties and deepen the democratic credentials of the country. In an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday, […]
