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Courts
Court upholds Annoh-Dompreh’s 2024 election victory, dismisses NDC petition
The challenge, brought by National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate Amenorpe Philibert Fummey, sought to overturn the election results.
DL News12 April 2025
General
Okaikwei Central:Incumbent MP to challenge parliamentary election results
The Electoral Commission declared Baba Abubakar Sadiq of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the election winner. Baba Sadiq received 15,383 votes.
DL News10 December 2024
Courts
Post criminal summons at residence of Assin-North MP – High Court orders
Prosecutors say several efforts to serve the MP with the summons, have failed and they rather asked the court to issue a bench warrant for his arrest.
DL News9 February 2022
General
Suit against Assin North MP prejudicial, contemptuous-Haruna Iddrisu
According to him, the issue of whether or not the MP was qualified per article 94(2)(a) of the 1992 constitution to stand as MP is a question of law pending before the court of appeal.
DL News4 February 2022
Courts
Assin North MP charged on 5 counts of forgery, perjury
The charge sheet filed at the High Court states that the MP obtained a public office as an MP by using a declaration knowingly that he did not owe allegiance to any other country but Ghana.
DL News3 February 2022
Courts
Injuct Assin North MP –NPP to Supreme Court
The Supreme Court could however not hear the application when the case was called on Tuesday, February 1, 2022, due to failure to serve the writ and processes on the defendant.
DL News1 February 2022
Courts
Techiman South election dispute: Court slaps GH¢4,000 fine on EC
The final issue to be determined is whether the petitioner disclosed a reasonable cause of action.
DL News3 August 2021
Courts
Court fines NDC GHS4000 for delaying proceedings in Techiman South election petition
The NDC candidate for the Techiman South constituency, Christopher Beyere Baasongti sued the Electoral Commission and the MP for the area, Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah in the aftermath of the election.
DL News22 June 2021
Courts
Court grants injunction to stop EC from gazetting Amewu as Hohoe MP
The Ho High Court presided over by Justice George Buadi has granted an interim injunction restraining the Electoral Commission from gazetting the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) John Peter Amewu as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hohoe.
DL News25 December 2020
General
Reforming local governance system
Clearly, the participation of political parties in the general election accounts significantly for such high voter turnout for these elections.
DL News6 September 2021
Courts
Court rejects APP candidate's bid to halt Akwatia by-election
The application, which aimed to stop the September 2 by-election, was dismissed on Thursday, August 28, 2025, by Justice John Eugene Nyanteh Nyadu.
DL News29 August 2025
Africa
EU, ECOWAS reports on Nigerian elections have no judicial value, says senior judge
Moses Ugo, a judge of Nigeria's second highest court, the Court of Appeal, said this while reading his ruling as a member of the Presidential Election Petition Court, which last Wednesday dismissed appeals from three of the country's opposi...
Premium Times Nig11 September 2023
Africa
Ivorian President Ouattara pardons predecessor Gbagbo
In 2019, Gbagbo was handed a 20-year prison sentence for the robbery of funds from the Abidjan central bank during the post-election period.
DW8 August 2022
Courts
C/R: Police secures court order to stop Effutu NDC from protesting over election results
The Central Region Police Command through the High Court in Cape Coast has secured a prohibition order to bar the Effutu branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from embarking on a demonstration on Tuesday, January 5, 2020.
DL News30 October 2021
Election Petition
Delete all ‘hateful, spiteful, vengeful, incendiary’ comments against SC justices – Judicial Service to media
The Judicial Service of Ghana, through its lawyers Sory@Law, has written to media houses that have published “hateful, spiteful, vengeful and incendiary” comments about the Justices of the Supreme Court hearing the election petition of form...
DL News26 February 2021
Election Petition
Election petition: Supreme Court should caution parties on their commentary after proceedings – Dwomoh
A private legal practitioner has asked the Supreme Court to warn parties involved in the ongoing election petition to be circumspect in their commentary after a hearing.
DL News1 February 2021
General
We didn't deploy personnel to interfere with parliamentary proceedings-GAF
In a statement released by the Director-General of Public Relations on Tuesday, GAF firmly labeled these reports as "false" and advised the public to disregard them.
DL News23 October 2024
Courts
Restrain Controller from holding himself if he contests as MP - Dafeamekpor tells court
The MP argues that while civil servants like Mr.Kwaning-Bosompem are entitled to their political views, and may vote during elections, they are however required to resign from office should they decide to contest in any political activity.
DL News10 January 2024
General
Parliament’s Committee to meet CPA, discuss anti-gay Bill
The CPA was founded as the Empire Parliamentary Association in 1911. Its first branches were Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, the latter branch administering the Association as a whole.
DL News13 June 2022
General
Ruling on 4 vacant seats- Supreme Court may not be able to overrule Speaker
According to Abotsi, the Speaker has the constitutional authority to make rulings regarding parliamentary procedures.
DL News18 October 2024