Tag Archives: Elections

There was chaos at the Greater Accra Regional Office of the Electoral Commission (EC) today. Supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Weija Gbawe constituency besieged the premises. In the just-ended election, the NPP’s Jerry Ahmed Shahid was declared winner but the NDC members would have none …

Private legal practitioner Nana Obiri Boahen has urged the government to finish the Krofuom Market ahead of the December 7 general elections. Initiated in 2008 by former President John Agyekum Kufuor, the market project has suffered neglect, with successive governments failing to fulfill their promises for its completion. The facility, …

This year, sixteen African countries will be holding their elections. These countries are Algeria, Botswana, Chad, Comoros, Ghana, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Tunisia and Togo. Algeria Elections in the North African country are set to be held in December with the current President, …

The Elections Committee of the Ghana Football Association wishes to announce that at the close of nomination, the under-listed persons submitted their nomination forms to contest for various positions in the upcoming GFA elections. The Election Committee will now review the received nomination forms before they fix time and venue …

The Police have arrested 14 persons for threatening to disturb the re-run of some positions in the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Constituency Executive Elections at Enchi in the Western North Region. The suspects were arrested on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, after they invaded the house of one of the candidates …

  Police are on a manhunt for some sixteen persons following violent disturbances at the just-ended National Democratic Congress (NDC) Women’s Organiser and National Youth Organiser congress held in Cape Coast on Saturday, December 10, 2022. A statement issued by the Police, said “while proceedings were ongoing at the Congress …

Disagreements and confusion rocked the National Democratic Congress’ Regional Elections for Youth and Women Organizer wings in the Ashanti Region on Friday, November 11, 2022. There was an exchange of fisticuffs during the process. The candidates for the Youth Organizer position are divided over whether members of the Tertiary Education …

One of the main contenders in the main opposition race for the 2020 National Democratic Congress’ flagbearership race is urging his supporters to rally behind former president John Dramani Mahama for the position of flagbearer for the 2024 general elections to wrestle power from the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). …

The Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has suspended elections, which were to come off today, in some constituencies across six regions over disputes of delegates’ lists. Deputy Director of NDC Elections, Daniel Amartey Mensah, in a statement, named the regions as the Eastern, Central, Volta, Greater-Accra, Western, and Upper West. …

A new opinion poll by the Global InfoAnalytics has revealed that if elections were conducted in July 2022, Ghana’s former President, John Dramani Mahama, will beat all two of his likely contenders, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Alan Kyerematen of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). According to the poll, if voters …