Politics

The 2020 Presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, has filed a motion at the Supreme Court asking the Electoral Commission (EC) to admit it made errors in the declaration of the 2020 Presidential results. Mr Mahama filed the motion on January 18, 2021 ahead …

Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin says it was a majority vote that propelled him into the position of the Speaker of the Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. In his maiden address to the 275 member House in Accra on Friday, the 63-year- old immediate past …

Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin on Friday afternoon declared that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Caucus and the Independent MP for Fomena Constituency constitute the Majority in Parliament. “What we have now, you have the New Patriotic Party wing or caucus in Parliament, together with the Independent Member …

For the second time, the meeting by the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin with the leaders of both NDC and NPP as to who become the majority or minority as well as the Caucus to Chair the various Committees in the House has ended inconclusively. Sources close to the meeting …

The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Bagbin has met the leaders of both National Democratic Congress (NDC)and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Caucus in Parliament over the confusion that rocked the inauguration of the 8th Parliament. Sources close to the meeting also indicated that the leaders of the two sides could …

The Electoral Commission (EC) says the full results of the December 7, 2020 Presidential Election were known to Mr John Mahama and that the claims in his petition are contrived. His claims have no legal basis and ought to be dismissed in limine, the Election management body said in a …

An Accra Circuit Court has adjourned the shooting case at Ablekuma Central during the election on December 7, to January 18. The court had earlier remanded Collins Quarcoo over the alleged shooting incidence at the Ablekuma Central Collation Centre during December 7, 2020, polls. The adjournment was because the Court …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described the Petition filed by Mr John Mahama, seeking a re-run of the presidential polls, as incompetent, frivolous and vexatious. He said the Petition disclosed no reasonable cause of action, and did not meet the threshold for invoking the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. …

Some unknown armed robbers have attacked a gas filling station, Roofsenaf Filling Station belonging to Mr Kwame Dzudzorli Gakpey, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Keta. The Sunday dawn attack, on the filling station at Satsimadza near Agbozume in the Ketu South Municipality left the security man on duty with …

Parliament has acknowledged that the events that characterized the inauguration of the eighth Parliament and the actions that took place during the night were regrettable. Parliament would therefore like to put those incidents behind it and work towards a more focused and unified membership aimed at promoting the best of …