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PHOTOS: NPP supporters clash with Metro Mass management

About 20 police officers have taken over the Kumasi office of the Metro Mass Transit in the Ashanti region to avert a possible clash...

AUDIO: Why I withdrew the Special Prosecutor and Zongo Dev't Bills – Majority Leader

Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has explained the reason why he moved for the withdrawal of the Office of Special Prosecutor Bill, 2017 and the Zongo...

Gov't withdraws two bills from parliament

The government has officially withdrawn two newly laid bills namely, Office of Special Prosecutor Bill, 2017 and the Zongo Development Fund Bill, 2017, from...

EC Boss grilled over media cash

Electoral Commission Chairperson says monies the commission took from journalists for accreditation during last year’s elections were intact. Mrs. Charlotte Osei disclosed that the money...

Ghana’s public sector engulfed in rot – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo says the two major expectations of Ghanaians as far as his government is concerned is the elimination of corruption and the creation...

Hot Audio: Kweku Baako defends Charlotte Osei

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has jumped to the defence of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei; claiming she's being made a...

Charlotte Osei should be applauded – Kofi Akpaloo

After severe criticisms and bashing from sections of society and political figures in the country, Mrs. Osei may just find some solace in the...

Minority disgracing NDC with criticism of Kwabena Donkor raid – Amidu

Outspoken former Attorney General, Martin Amidu feels the Minority in Parliament’s reaction to the CID Monday dawn raid on the residence of former Power...

Unfocused NDC now press conference party – Mohammed Murtala

The Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Mohammed Murtala Ibrahim has described the National Democratic Congress(NDC) as having lost...

I am not the entire commission; I am speaking for myself- EC chair tells Parliament

A suggestion by the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission that she was speaking for herself and not the entire Commission in an answer to...

VIDEO: I won’t be ‘distracted’ by the nakedness of Hannah Bissiw – MP

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Effiduase-Asokore in the Ashanti Region has dared a former deputy Minister, Hannah Louisa Bissiw to embark on a...

EC row: Parliament meeting Commissioners ‘moot’, needless – Haruna Iddrisu

It is “unnecessary” and “moot” for the leadership of parliament to meet with the Commissioners of the Electoral Commission (EC) as an intervention into...

Charging media for cards not bad practice – EC boss

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, has said that the number of media houses, both local and international that turned up...

MCE ‘fights’ assembly members over allocation of Kotokuraba market

Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Cape Coast, Ernest Arthur has rejected claims by some members of the assembly that Kotokuraba market stalls are being...

VIDEO: NPP, NDC communicators trade 'blows' over Charlotte Osei

Tensions rose to a higher level in the studios of Adom FM on Wednesday when representatives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the...

Gov't withdraws Special Prosecutor Bill

Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, has withdrawn the Special Prosecutor Bill from Parliament. He also withdrew the Zongo Development Fund Bill. The...

Akufo-Addo forwards petition against Charlotte Osei to CJ

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has forwarded the petition seeking the impeachment of Electoral Commission (EC) boss, Charlotte Osei to the Chief Justice, the...

Stop blackmailing EC boss – Clergy

A group that calls itself the Concerned Clergy Association of Ghana has asked staff of the Electoral Commission (EC) who have petitioned the President...

Akufo-Addo to decide on EC brouhaha

President Akufo-Addo is expected to take a decision on the wrangling at the electoral commission following his arrival from France, where he was on...

Daily Post fights GHS800k Hackman damage

Managing Editor of the Daily Post newspaper Michael Dokosi has said he will appeal against the ruling by an Accra High Court ordering them...

VIDEO: Ken Agyapong celebrates EC Boss, Charlotte Osei’s 'misfortunes'

‘Aba mu awie, abamu awie, Nyame Bohye no abamu wie’, he sang and clapped when he was told to discuss the confusion brewing among...

Watch your back; fight against corruption being sabotaged – Amidu warns Akufo-Addo

A former Attorney-General, Martin Amidu, who is renowned for his fight against graft, thinks aspects of the Special Prosecutor’s bill undermine President Nana Akufo-Addo’s...

EC row: Charlotte Osei faces Parliament today

Chair of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, will Wednesday appear before Legislators to respond to questions about the heated internal wrangling at the elections...

Prez Akufo-Addo under pressure to act swiftly on EC rift

Pressure is mounting on President Nana Akufo-Addo to act swiftly in the rift between the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) and two deputies...

EC Boss sues lawyer for petitioners for defamation

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission has proceeded to court with a suit against the lawyer for some faceless petitioners to court. Charlotte Osei is...

Ameri-Deal: CID’s raid at Kwabena Donkor’s house ‘harsh’ – Ahmed Ibrahim

First Deputy Minority Whip, Ahmed Ibrahim has lambasted the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service...

Don’t politicize Charlotte Osei’s allegations – Kwesi Pratt

The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has urged politicians to desist from politicizing the allegations leveled against the Electoral Commission...

Audio: EC brouhaha: I have been vindicated – Ken Agyapong

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has stated he feels vindicated following accusations by some unidentified staff...

Minority condemns raid at Donkor’s home

The Minority in Parliament has condemned the raid of the home of Dr Kwabena Donkor by personnel of the Ghana Police Service.Four officers of...

Seizure of Kwabena Donkor’s laptop affecting our work – Minority

Minority members on the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament have revealed their work has stalled following the dawn raid of the residence of...

AFAG calls for Enquiry into Electoral Commission matters

The Alliance for Accountable Governance(AFAG) has noted with great discomfort the content of a petition submitted to the President levelling serious allegations of misbehaviour,...

EC petition a bomb presented to Akufo-Addo – Allotey Jacobs

The Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey-Jacobs has called on the President to tread cautiously in dealing with the...

VIDEO: Arrest 'corrupt' Charlotte Osei now – Ken Agyapong

Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP) has demanded the arrest of the Electoral Commissioner and all her two deputy commissioners. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong speaking on...

Hackman secures GHC800,000 judgment against Daily Post

An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Norvisi Aryine has ordered the Daily Post newspaper to retract by means of a front page...

Full Text: Court proceedings on Woyome's oral examination

Single Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Alfred Benin (AB) Deputy AG, Godfred Yeboah Dame for the State, (GYD) Ken Anku (KA) for third defendant Alfred...

NDC has no basis defending EC Chair in internal row – MP

MP for Bantama in the Ashanti Region, Daniel Aboagye, wants the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to stop jumping to the defence of the...

Votes were transferred illegally in 2016 – NPP Director confirms

The Campaign Director for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Martin Agyei Mensah Korsah, Director of Elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described...

Afoko killed Mahama Adams – Prosecution witness

A third prosecution witness in the trial of Gregory Afoko, Mr Azigri Quinn, yesterday confirmed to the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court...

Woyome ordered to produce documents on house

The Supreme Court has ordered Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome to furnish the court with the property details of his Abelemkpe residence, which he claims...

Allegations against Charlotte Osei are ugly – John Boadu

Acting General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu has described the allegations against the Electoral Commission Chair, Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei...