POLITICS

The Concerned Youth of the National Democratic Congress, (NDC), is calling on the petitioner, former president John Dramani Mahama to effectively immediately redraw the election petition case at the Supreme Court. According to a statement issued and signed by Elikem Agbenyegah, leader of the Group, the live broadcast from the …

Parliament’s Appointments Committee will approve all ministerial nominees put forward by president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo because so far there are no constitutional blocks facing any of them.   This was the view of Insuah Fuseini, a lawyer and former lawmaker, whose submissions GhanaWeb monitored on NewsFile, Joy FM’s news …

Executive Director of civil society organization, ASEPA Mensah Thompson has revealed that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) after the declaration of the 2020 Presidential Elections recruited and camped some people at the party’s headquarters so that they could fish out errors or infractions, adding that even though millions was …

The seven justices (and sometimes nine judges) hearing the 2020 Election Petition have been called upon on 10 occasions to rule on various issues. These are matters that have seen lawyers representing the respondents (EC and President Akufo-Addo) take positions contrary to that of the petitioner, John Mahama. The seven …

Minister-designate for Fisheries, Mavis Hawa Koomson has apologized for the gun shooting incident that she was involved in during the voter registration exercise ahead of the 2020 elections. She told the Appointments Committee of Parliament during her vetting on Thursday February 18 that her life was in danger hence, needed …

Mr Mahama’s legal team were seeking to get the court to overturn an earlier ruling o get Mrs Jean Mensa to mount the witness box. The Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah who read the decision on behalf of the court ruled that the petitioner failed to convince the court after advancing …

The Supreme Court has instituted contempt proceedings against, Dr Dominic Ayine, a member of the legal team of the petitioner in the ongoing election 2020 petition for comments he allegedly made against the Apex Court.   Dr Ayine is reported to have accused the seven-member Supreme Court panel adjudicating the …

Mr Alfred Mahama, the elder brother of former President John Dramani Mahama has said he won’t respond to the baseless allegations of the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi-Boasiako popularly called Chairman Wontumi that he (Alfred Mahama) wanted to kill him (Chairman Wontumi) prior to …

Minority in Parliament is demanding a detailed breakdown of the over 3 million jobs government claimed it has created under the Akufo-Addo administration in its first term in office. Their demands follow a disclosure made by the Minister-designate for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah that government as of September …

The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, is advocating for the extension of the compulsory retirement age for public servants and judicial officers from 60 to 65 years. Mr. Ayariga announced that he is sponsoring a private member’s bill to amend the constitution to achieve this objective.   …