The Electoral Commission (EC) has targeted to register about 1.35 million people in the 2023 Voters’ Registration exercise which commences from September 12 to October 2. This is based on the EC’s projection that at least 1,350,000 persons might have attained 18 years since the last registration exercise in 2020. The nationwide exercise will be […]
Founding Members of the New Patriotic Party in the Ashanti Region have denied media reports that they have endorsed the candidature of Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto in the party’s flagbearer race. According to them, the reports are untrue and should be disregarded by the party faithful. In a press statement issued on Wednesday, August 8, […]
Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has picked the number one slot on the ballot paper for the Special New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential super delegates conference on August 26, 2023. At the balloting on Wednesday, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen picked the 2nd slot followed by Joe Ghartey as the 3rd and Kwadwo Poku as the 4th. Former Minister […]
The Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development (MLGDRD), Dan Botwe, has expressed the government’s desire to revisit the unfinished agenda towards legal reforms to facilitate the election of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs). He said the political decentralisation reform with proposed amendment of Articles 243 and 55(3) of the 1992 Constitution, […]
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an application by Member of Parliament of Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson, seeking to have his trial put on hold. Quayson who is on trial over accusation of perjury and forgery wanted the Court of Appeal to halt his trial until the determination of his appeal challenging the trial […]
The Vetting Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), will today, July 3, start vetting some aspirants. The committee will begin its work with the former Minister of Trade, Alan Kwadwo Kyeremanten, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Kwadwo Poku. Former Energy Minister, Boakye Kyeremanteng Agyarko, former General Secretary Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, and MP for […]
Ahead of the vetting of presidential hopefuls of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the Chairman of the committee, Rev. Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, has assured that the committee will give fair hearing to all the aspirants and also ensure a free, fair and transparent vetting process. In an interview with the Daily Graphic last Saturday, […]
The Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Adukwei Mensa, has stated that the recent by-elections at the Kumawu and Assin North constituencies should be a wakeup call on political parties to refrain from bastardising the election management body when polls do not go in their favour. She said the two by-elections clearly revealed the […]
President Akufo-Addo has charged the people of Assin North not to make a mistake by voting for the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s parliamentary candidate in the by-election. The President insists that James Gyakye Quayson cannot deliver on the duties expected of him as a Member of Parliament (MP). According to President Akufo-Addo, Mr Quayson could […]
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) last Saturday closed the filing of nominations for its presidential primary. The exercise which opened on Friday, May 26, 2023, saw 10 out of the 11 flagbearer hopefuls file their nominations in their bid to lead the party in the 2024 general election. A former Minister of Justice and […]
The perjury and forgery trial against James Gyakye Quayson will be heard on day-to-day basis beginning today June 20, 2023, the High Court in Accra. Quayson however on Monday applied for a review of the court ruling for the case to be heard on daily basis. Charges It is the case of the prosecution that […]
The newly elected New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Kumawu, Ernest Yaw Annim has been sworn into office. He took the oath of allegiance and the oath as a member of Parliament administered by the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin on Tuesday morning [June 6, 2023]. Ernest Yaw Annim, won the […]
