The Right to Information (RTI) Commission has been charged to enhance public education on the Right to Information Act, 2019 (Act 989) to help the citizenry better appreciate the new law and how to invoke it in the exercise of their constitutional right to information. At an event in Accra to commission the headquarters of the RTI Commission, Information Minister, Kojo …
Shaanxi Mining (Ghana) Ltd’s, a company that has been providing support services to local partners Yenyeya Mining Group and Pubortaaba Mining Group at Gbane in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region, is expected to leave the mining sites following the withdrawal of the company’s registration. The Minerals Commission in a letter to the Managing Director of the company …
The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has described those questioning the legality of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate the violence that characterised the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election as people grossly misinformed of the law. He said the commission of inquiry was not a constitutional instrument that required it to be laid before Parliament for …
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has sworn in the three-member commission tasked with investigating the violence during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election. At the ceremony Friday, Dr. Bawumia lauded composition of the commission saying that “I don’t know anyone who can really question the integrity of the commission.” He also assured them “that all the necessary arrangements and logistics shall …
The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said the Commission of Inquiry tasked by the presidency to investigate the violence that occurred at the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election is only a ploy to protect perpetrators of the violence. According to him, the whole idea of the Commission is flawed at birth because the …
The Electoral Commission has cautioned political parties against the use of hoodlums during political activities and elections. This notice follows the recent violence which characterised the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election. Condemning the act, the Commission “entreated Political Parties to work to address the issue of vigilantes within their respective Political Parties to ensure that similar incidents do not occur in …
The Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has set up a Commission of Inquiry to probe circumstances leading to the violence that occurred during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election last Thursday. The decision was taken with the consent of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who is out of the country. There was a shooting incident near a La Bawaleshie polling …
Allegations by the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) that seek to link the Electoral Commission (EC) to the unpleasant events that unfolded during the by-election in the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency have been vehemently rejected by the commission. Speaking at a press conference yesterday in Accra, Jean Mensa, Chairperson of the EC, revealed that her outfit was …
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Catholic Church is under fire for suggesting it knows who won the country’s presidential election on December 30 despite the results not being released, according to a Reuters report. Congo’s electoral commission made the accusations Saturday saying that the Church is “preparing an insurrection.” On Thursday, Donatien Nshole, secretary-general of the Church’s bishops’ conference (CENCO), …
