The Chairman of the African Union (AU) and President of the Republic of Benin, Mr. Yayi Boni, has urged President John Mahama to set up an all-inclusive political dialogue, saying national peace, security and stability is of utmost importance. Describing Ghana?s general elections as transparent and peaceful, he urged those aggrieved with the results of the polls to use legal channels in addressing their grievances. Mr. Yayi Boni said this yesterday, when he led a high-powered AU delegation ... Read More

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) will meet today, to discuss the way forward following the declaration of the results of the presidential election by Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC). The declaration of the results on Sunday night went ahead after the National Peace Council (NPC) met the EC, NPP and National Democratic Congress (NDC) on concerns raised by NPP. The meeting agreed that the EC could go ahead with the declaration of the results, while the NPP could ... Read More

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has condemned public officials and civil servants who openly campaigned for political parties during the just ended elections. According to CHRAJ, some civil servants and public officials were seen on campaign platforms endorsing political parties and canvassing for votes for them in certain parts of the country. ?Also, a staff of Adentan Municipal Assembly openly canvassed for votes for the National Democratic Congress ... Read More

The choir of the Christ Anglican Church, University of Ghana, Legon rendering delightful tunes to herald the Christmas, at a festival of nine lessons and carols held over the weekend. The carols were interspersed with scriptural readings by such prominent members of the church as Professor Joshua Alabi, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies and Professor Ewurama Addy, President of the Anglican University College of Technology. Some of the songs sung were The ... Read More

The Electoral Commission would soon commence investigation into the rejection of the 251,720 ballot papers in the just ended general election. The EC said the investigation would solicit ideas and suggest ways to minimize such occurrence which has gone into the history of the country as the highest figure ever. Speaking to the ?Times? in an interview in Accra yesterday, the EC?s Acting Public Affairs Director, Mr. Christian Owusu-Parrey stated that the Commission had in the past conducted ... Read More

Kokrobite Stars beat Collan Stars of Awudome 5-4 on penalties to grab the trophy at stake in a special four-club tournament played to commemorate Mr. L.Y Asamoah, Co-founder and first Chairman of Kumasi Asante Kotoko who died 36 years ago, at the Awudome Park in Accra last Sunday. The final game ended 0-0 after regulation time despite the several attempts at the by both sides. On their way to the finals of the tournament aimed at celebrating the co-founder of the Porcupine Warriors who ... Read More

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) yesterday urged political parties and their supporters to accept the results of the 2012 elections, saying the results accurately reflected the will of Ghanaians. It said that the results announced by the Electoral Commission (EC) were consistent with the Coalition?s Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) conducted as part of efforts to observe the 2012 elections. Addressing a conference in Accra, Justice VCRAC Crabbe, a Chairperson of ... Read More

THE Member of Parliament for Manhyia, Matthew Opoku Prempeh was yesterday invited by the Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to assist in investigations in connection with a threat case. Mr. Prempeh who was accompanied by the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie to the CID Headquarters, was interrogated by a team of crime officers following a report of threat made by the Chief Executive Officer of the Food and Drugs Board, Dr. Kwabena Opuni against Dr. ... Read More

The NPP is not in an enviable position at all, having been put in a situation where it has had to challenge the official results of the 7 December 2012 elections, announced by the Electoral Commission. For if a political party protests against the results of an election, the natural conclusion people jumps to is that the party is a ?sore loser?, a ?bad sport? and potential cheat. People want to see the tension created by an election campaign to end quickly. So, anything that threatens ... Read More