The Presidential Candidate for the New Patriotic Party, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has expressed satisfaction about the electoral process so far, reports Mohammed Fugu.

Some traders in the central business district of Accra were up at dawn to start their daily routine of selling to ensure they could sell their goods and still make it to polling stations to cast their votes.

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The market was already bustling as usual before sunrise, with vendors setting up their stalls to sell everything from fresh produce to clothing, mobile phone accessories and household items. For many, the need to make a living and fulfil their civic duty was equally important.

Grace, a 45-year-old shoe seller, told Graphic Online: “I need to sell my goods quickly this morning.”

I will go out and cast my ballot today. Why? Because it is my civic and Christian duty to vote, and I hate to be disenfranchised. 

Moreover, I know that if I fail to cast my ballot for one candidate, I will, indirectly, be voting for another candidate involuntarily. For, refraining from voting is a vote in itself.

After a journey of prophecies, religious endorsements, huge rallies, tough talk and lofty promises, the 2024 election reaches the final stage today.

The Vice-President and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, arrived in his hometown of Walewale in the North East Region on Friday ahead of Saturday’s elections.  

Republished on December 6 as new cybersecurity regulations are proposed, and with further warnings following the FBI’s encrypted communications push.

Timing is everything. Just as Apple’s adoption of RCS had seemed to signal a return to text messaging versus the unstoppable growth of WhatsApp, then along comes a surprising new hurdle to stop that in its tracks. While messaging Android to Android or iPhone to iPhone is secure, messaging from one to the other is not.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday evening addressed the nation ahead of Election 2024.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has accused the Electoral Commission of aiding the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to “rig” Election 2024.

Mr Mahama, the Presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), made the allegation in a Facebook post.

Ghana has shut all the land borders for a period of 48 hours for the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has deployed personnel to strategic locations to support the Ghana Police Service (GPS) in election security as part of efforts to ensure the peaceful conduct of the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections in Ghana.

In a statement issued on Friday (Dec 6) and signed by the Director General of Public Relations, Brigadier General E. Aggrey-Quashie, the GAF described the deployment as part of its efforts to facilitate a smooth and secure electoral process. 

The Electoral Commission has explained that even though one of its District Electoral officers breached the policy by transporting election materials in a private vehicle without police escort, that will not compromise Saturday's elections in the Afadjato South Constituency.

The commission has, however, said it will conduct its own internal investigations while also cooperating with the police in their investigations.

The first direct international commercial flight from Gatwick Airport in London landed in Kumasi, at the Prempeh I International Airport on Friday morning.

Juliet Hassana Kramer, Chief Executive Officer of Perfect Business System who was held in the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Operational Business Suites (OBS) trial, has been acquitted and discharged from all her charges.

What Asantehene said about Alan Kyerematen’s GTP manifesto when he called on him on Wednesday for ‘last minute’ blessings before December 7, 2024.

The exclamation “how time flies” is a common English idiom used in expressing surprise at how fast time has passed. Its first usage goes back to 1800 when Shakespeare used a similar phrase, “The swiftest hours as they flew!” Alexander Pope would later express it in “Swift Fly the Years!”

Students and teachers at Jantong Dashie District Assembly Junior High School in the North East Gonja District of the Savannah Region have endured harsh learning conditions for five years after a rainstorm destroyed the school’s roof.

Built-in 2007 with support from philanthropist Anouk and Friends, the classrooms have since been exposed to extreme weather, frequently disrupting lessons due to intense heat or rainfall.

Political parties in the Asawase Constituency in Kumasi, one of the hotspots in elections have signed a peace pact to show their commitment to ensure peace during and after the December 7 general elections.

Representatives from the various political parties, which included the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Convention Peoples Party (CPP), Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Peoples National Convention (PNC), United Ghana Movement (GUM) Progressive People’s Party (PPP) and the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) assured of Asawase making a difference and changing people perceptions about the constituency in this year’s elections.

A delegation of the West African Elders Forum (WAEF) observation mission led by former Nigerian president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is in Ghana to observe the 2024 elections.

They arrived inAccra ahead of the December 7, 2027, elections on Wednesday.

Elections are not one-time events. They are a process. However, the declaration of the election result serves as a milestone event since it serves as the pinnacle of elections that determine victors and losers; therefore, every stakeholder in the elections is keenly interested in it.

Across emerging democracies and advanced ones, results are heavily contested, especially in close elections.  For example, the results were disputed during the U.S. 2000 Presidential Election, leading to the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, which was decided 5-4 in favour of President George Bush. Numerous examples of election results dispute flaying into violence, including Kenya’s 2007 elections, are now a reality. 

The Electoral Commission is not anticipating any shortage of election materials and equipment in any part of the country during the December 7 elections, the chairperson of the commission, Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa has said. 

Addressing what she termed as her last engagement with the media before the 2024 election day on December 7, 2024, the EC chairperson, said the commission had distributed all materials and equipment to the regions in adequate quantities, adding that, “we don’t anticipate any shortage in any part of the country”.

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa, has reminded officials of the commission that the EC’s collective goal is not to make anybody a President or Member of Parliament but to conduct a free and fair elections. 

Consequently, she has charged the officials to abide by the values of motto of the commission (transparency, fairness and integrity), and do so with integrity. 

My brothers and sisters,

My beloved Ghanaian youth.

The time is now!

The time to replace fear with hope is now!

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has advised young people to make the right decisions by electing a leader for the future.

That, he said, was because the future was in the hands of young people.

Former President Kufuor who was speaking at the final Election 2024 campaign rally of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at the University of Ghana, Legon in Accra on Thursday evening observed that with Dr Mahamudu Bawumia at the helm of affairs, Ghana would move ahead at such speed that within just five to10 years, Ghana may join the middle class or the upper levels of middle class.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as the best candidate in the 2024 Presidential election race.

He has, therefore, cautioned Ghanaians against voting for any other candidate apart from the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) flag bearer on Saturday, December 7, 2024 or the massive works that had been done by the government in the last eight yeas would be at risk.

The wife of the Vice-President, Samira Bawumia, has appealed to the youth of Ghana to support Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to empower them through skills training and jobs.

She said Dr Bawumia was the candidate who resonated with current trends and therefore he would avail himself to the youth.