THE COALITION of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), has suggested that the Electoral Commission may not be able to furnish the Supreme Court with the full list of persons who registered onto the voters’ register with the National Health Insurance Scheme cards (NHIS), as proof of citizenship within six days. The five panel of judges in giving the order said it will help the court bring to a closure to the ...

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PRESIDENTIAL STAFFERS have stated they are confident President John Dramani Mahama will be exonerated in the on-going investigations by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) into the Ford Expedition gift saga. Deputy Chief of Staff at the Presidency, Jonny Osei Kofi, said CHRAJ’s findings will prove what the Ghanaian leader has been trumpeting that he is innocent of the charge. “ ...

THE PUBLIC Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament says management of the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) Fund is weak and directed the Authority to retrieve GH₵ 186,372 from Mr Gilbert Iddi, former boss of the Board. The amount is in respect of a trip to Turkey in 2012 which PAC, sitting on Monday, described the expenditure as wasteful. The directive of the Committee, chaired by Mr Kwaku Ag ...

THE ASANTEHENE Otumfuo Osei Tutu has warned chiefs under his jurisdiction to desist from endorsing political parties and candidates as Ghana readies for the 2016 elections. According to the Ashanti monarch, although the law does not bar chiefs from voting, they must not compromise their neutrality in the eyes of their subjects. Addressing the Ashanti regional House of Chiefs, Otumfuo however noted that ther ...

PRESIDENT JOHN Mahama’s response to corruption and conflict of interest charges levelled against him by critics in connection with his acceptance of a Ford Expedition car from a Burkinabe contractor shows he is not being “truthful”, political scientist Dr Richard Amoako Baah has stated. Mr Mahama has received a lot of flak from anti-graft bodies and opposition parties recently over a revelation that he rece ...

THE GOVERNMENT of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), since 2009, has borrowed monies worth $40 billion, which could have established 1,142 factories in Ghana, economist Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has calculated. According to him, if the Mahama administration used $35 million in establishing a new sugar factory at Komenda, then more than a thousand factories could have been built from the $40 billion he insist ...

THE APEX court of the land, the Supreme Court has warned that the Electoral commission, will not be allowed to plunge the country into chaos. The visibly unhappy panel of justices presided over by Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, indicated their displeasure over what they termed the lackadaisical attitude of the EC in complying with their orders in the Abu Ramadan suit. The EC today [Thursday], failed ...

THE SUPREME Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to submit before it, a “comprehensive” list of all persons who registered with NHIS cards in 2012, by June 29. Additionally, the apex court directed the EC to develop a guideline on the specific processes and methods they intend to adopt in implementing the orders in the May 5 judgement on the voters register. The orders follow the interpretation-confus ...

THE COMMISSION for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) says it has initiated steps that could lead to an investigation of President John Dramani Mahama following the receipt of two petitions from the CPP about the Ford Expedition gift given to him by a Burkinabe contractor. But the National Women’s Organizer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Hajia Aisha Futa says the petition has nothing t ...