Gambia’s president of 22 years, Yahya Jammeh, has lost the country’s general election in a surprising turn of events. He has lost the election to property developer, Adama Barrow, who won more than 45% of the vote. Electoral commission chief Alieu Momar Njie says Jammeh has accordingly conceded defeat. Yahaya Jammeh came to power in a […]
By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Nigerians were faced with the choice of the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan or his challenger, Muhammadu Buhari. On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, Americans will face a similar choice. Will they choose a member of the political establishment, Hillary Clinton, or an outsider, Donald Trump? In the
Military brutality and intimidation has been identified as one of the main reasons why some voters intentionally disenfranchise themselves during general elections. Some residents of Karaga in the Karaga District of the Northern region are unlikely to vote on December 7 if this issue is not dealt with. A resident, Alhassan Abdul-Rahman gave the example of
Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has commended former Black Stars captain, Stephen Appiah, and his friends for conceiving the idea to organise football matches, as part of their contribution towards creating an atmosphere of peace ahead of the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections. “You couldn’t have used your stature and popularity for
President John Mahama has assured National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters that the party is hopeful of winning 55% of votes in the Central Region in the 2016 elections. Speaking at a forum at the Centre for National Culture (CNC) as part of his three -day tour in the Western and Central RegionS, the president said,
The Ghana Football Association has overcome a legal hurdle to enable it hold its congress to elect new executives. An Accra High court on Friday dismissed an injunction application brought before it against the Ghana Football Association (GFA), seeking to prevent it from organizing it’s congress to elect new executives. The suit was filed by
The biggest opposition party in Ghana the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is going to the polls today to decide who leads the party to the national elections in December 2015. Voting is taking place nationwide in 275 constituencies with 140,000 delegates casting their ballots. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo a onetime Attorney General and Foreign
A group within Ghana’s opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) rooting for the election of Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo and his running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was launched in Philadelphia, USA over the weekend. The group aims to support a campaign to garner support for the twice failed presidential candidate ahead of the NPP’s primaries
Two-time defeated presidential candidate of the Ghana’s New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday admonished Ghanaians to be patient and keep faith because Ghana will work again if the NPP is voted onto power in 2016. Nana Akufo-Addo said made the remarks when he filed his nomination papers at the NPP headquarters at Asylum Down
By Simukai Tinhu Earlier this year, the age-old rivalry between Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), and Tendai Biti, the party’s secretary-general, bubbled to the surface in dramatic fashion. The MDC’s two leading figures had long held together an alliance at the heart of the party, but this arrangement
