Chief Justice Clears EC Chair, Deputies, and Special Prosecutor of Removal Petitions
The chapter on a series of high-profile removal petitions has come to a close, following a determination by Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie that no prima facie case exists to warrant further investigations against the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, her deputies, or the Special Prosecutor. According to a statement released by the Presidency on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, President John Dramani Mahama had referred seven petitions for the removal of Electoral Commission Chair Jean Mensa and her deputies, along with three separate petitions targeting Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng, to the Chief Justice. The referrals, made on November 25, 2025, were in line with Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution and Section 15 of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959), which requires the Chief Justice to determine if the petitions disclose a case worth investigating. By a letter dated January 26, 2026, the Chief Justice informed President Mahama that none of the petitions established sufficient grounds for removal proceedings against the officeholders. The announcement, signed by Felix Kwakye Ofosu, Spokesperson to the President and Minister for Government Communications, effectively brings an end to current attempts to unseat the Electoral Commissioner, her deputies, and the Special Prosecutor. With this decision, the affected officials remain in office, as the legal threshold for further action has not been met. Source: Apexnewsgh.com
Martin Kpebu Urges Publication of Petitions Against EC Chair, Special Prosecutor
Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu is calling for full transparency in the ongoing debate over high-profile removal petitions against top public officials. On Wednesday, February 18, Kpebu urged authorities to publish the petitions seeking the removal of Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng, Electoral Commission Chairperson Jean Mensa, and her deputies, arguing that public access is essential for fair and objective discussion. Kpebu’s call follows a recent statement from the Presidency, which revealed that Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie had ruled that the petitions failed to establish a prima facie case and would not proceed further. The petitions, seven in all, had been referred to the Chief Justice by President John Dramani Mahama in November 2025, in accordance with Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution and Section 15 of Act 959. Despite this ruling, Kpebu, whose own petition against the Special Prosecutor remains undecided, maintained that Ghanaians deserve to see the actual content of the petitions. “After that, let’s publish the petitions, so the public can comment too. Otherwise, it will just be based on people’s beliefs and biases. Without seeing the petitions, you cannot comment,” he told journalists. A statement issued on February 18, 2026, by the Minister of State in charge of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, confirmed the Chief Justice’s response, dated January 26, 2026, which stated that none of the petitions warranted further action. Kpebu insists that making the documents public would move national debate beyond speculation, allowing citizens to engage with the facts and contribute meaningfully to the discourse. Source: Apexnewsgh.com
SOCO Project: Upper East Region Receives Boost with Increased Allocation for 2024
The Upper East Regional Minister, Dr. Hafiz Bin Salih, has announced that the allocation for the Gulf of Guinea Northern Regions Social Cohesion (SOCO) project in the region has almost doubled for 2024. Apexnewsgh reports Speaking during his maiden engagement with journalists, the Minister revealed that the allocation has increased to GH160,710,937.10 for the implementation of 323 sub-projects and over 200 software projects. The SOCO project, funded by the World Bank, aims to reduce vulnerabilities and climate change among other objectives. The project has employed 2,500 unskilled laborers and 132 community facilitators, and has supported 300 VSLA and farmer groups. The Minister also highlighted the challenges of land acquisition in the region, citing the difficult land tenure system. However, he noted that the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) has collaborated with stakeholders to facilitate the construction of various projects, including the SOCO Zonal Office, Passport Office, Labour Office, Minerals Commission, and WFP/UN House. The SOCO project has been dubbed a “game changer” for the people of the north, given the significant investment and impact on the region. The Minister expressed optimism that the project would bring about meaningful development to the region. Source: Apexnewsgh.com Thanks for reading from Apexnewsgh as a news publishing website from Ghana. We encourage you to freely share this story via social media platform and follow us on; Facebook on APEXNEWSGH-Tv or Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0248250270/0256336062.
Read one of the interesting reasons why the Upper East Region was and still underdeveloped
A well-known social activist Mr. Yen Nyeya has revealed, that one of the top-notch reasons why the north and more especially Upper East Region is underdeveloped was as a result of the activities of the colonial authorities. Apexnewsgh.com report Mr. Nyeya made the interesting revelation during an exclusive interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com on Friday, February 3, 2023. Answering a question about the underdevelopment bedeviling the Upper East region, the social activist said: “When it comes to the Upper East Region or the north in particular, what happened is that during the colonial rule, the north specifically was created as a reservoir of labour. That meant that the colonial authorities by time realized that they were numerous natural resources. So, the idea was to preserve the north as a labour force to go down to the south and provide labour for the south, so that the colonial authorities will extract as much wealth as possible. So, the north was deliberately underdeveloped and that is why up till now, you would find out that a lot of people from the north especially the Upper East Region go down to the south to work. He explained He further added, that region only witnessed some developmental projects after independence, “we were lucky that we had Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who was much more developmental and he brought about Free Education, Free Medical Health and we have even found out that he even set up factories in this region. We had the Meat Factory, we had the Tomatoes Factory, we had the Rice Mill and he made Bolgatanga the capital because incidentally, Bolgatanga is the center of the town”. Unfortunately for us, there was a coup on 24th February 1966 and Nkrumah’s big projects stopped until Achampong came. Mr. Nyeya to Apexnewsgh.com For publication please kindly contact us on +233256336062 or Email apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Let’s stop the unnecessary dirty tribal politics and come together—Tangoba Abayage
Former Upper East Regional Minister Hon. Tangoba Abayage has extended her call for the region’s development to well-meaning residents of the Upper East living both in home and abroad Ghana’s former ambassador to Italy made the important call during an engagement with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen on Apexnewsgh.com’s flagship programme which bothers on development dubbed: ‘SPEAKOUT UPPER EAST’ on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Hon. Tangoba who was responding to the question on why he chose to open a modern school for children in the region instead of a more open city like Accra or Kumasi said, she was born in a very poor home and I had decided to contribute to the lives others when she became a better person. She said, it has been her dream to open a school for her people. She further stated, Upper East Region is the only region they have as a people and they must try to make it a better place to live. She however, advised residents of the region to consider coming back home to invest: “If you have money apart from where you are staying try and come home and put up something nice in your community, if you have money to invest and you have trusted people you can trust, come back home to help develop the region”. She advised “Government can only do its bit, government cannot do it all. We are not a communist country, we are a capitalist country”. She noted, that unnecessary dirty politics is bedeviling the development of the region: “Let’s stop this unnecessary dirty tribal politics, traditional politics and mainstream politics, let’s stop it and come together as one group of people that have a region to develop and let us do that with passion. Let our passion supersede, override our personal individualistic desires”. She advises Source: Apexnewsgh.com/GhanaFor publication please kindly contact us on +233256336062 or Email apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Pull Down syndrome the cause of underdeveloped Upper East Region
The founder of the National Liberation Congress (NLC) Stephen Atubiga has revealed that Upper East Region is not developed because the people are good at pulling themselves down than helping one another. Mr. Atubiga made the pronouncement during an engagement on Apexnewsgh.com dubbed; SPEAKOUT UPPER EAST’ on Friday, January 13, 2023, a developmental programme introduced to look into issues that bother on development in the region. The underdevelopment in the region has become a headache to most patriotic citizens who want the Upper East as one of the oldest regions to be a better place. Things that are known to be common in some other regions in Ghana such as airports, sports stadiums, passport offices etc, cannot be seen in the Upper east region. Meanwhile, asking the NLC founder Mr. Atubiga his view on the worrying situation bedeviling the region’s development, he said:“Is unfortunate that we come from a region people are good at pulling each other down than helping others, a region where we don’t pick each other like the way the southerners do to their people. We are from a region, very poor and we are the best to stab each other in the back. We are from a region where, instead of supporting a neighbor, we support a neighbor because we think we want to have some benefit in a particular political party. We are from a region where we are very wicked to our own selves. The best thing we want to see is when our northern brother fails. We are not united, we have put that brotherly love aside, and everybody cares about their stomach”. He stressed He further added “Territorial interest is also what is killing us. If you look at the region, chieftaincy issues which has transcended down and if we are not careful, because of the intermarriages, Upper east will be left behind”. A young man has no future for anyone to look up to in our region because you are not his child. They have allowed our pocket to determine who to sit with. Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Desist from things that will destroy your lives—Yaw Mort appeal to youth
Meanwhile, Mr. Mort acknowledged the poverty level in the region as the cause for the increasing youth involvement in smoking and drinking alcohol in the region. Insisting that such an attitude is not something that propels a region into prosperity. The former Regional Organizer for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr. Yaw Mort has extended his appeal to the youth in the Upper East Region to desist from destroying themselves with the dangerous intake of alcohol. Apexnewsgh.com report “I will appeal to our youth to desist from things that will destroy their lives especially alcoholism and another thing that is coming up in the system has to do with this energy drink that has come, it is something that is destroying lives and I think people don’t know about it. Our young ones always add certain drugs into them and when they drink it, it will ginger them to do things they ought not to be doing. I will appeal to the youth to see it that, those things are not good and they should desist from them”. He appealed to the youth to stop lavishing their lives unnecessarily and invest in wrestling and footballing because is another area the youth could channel their attention to as far as making huge money for themselves is concerned. “I will also appeal to our youth to develop an interest in sporting activities. Because, if they are involved in sporting activity, they would see that they will not like all these smoking and alcoholism because when the heart is active, the appetite of smoking and drinking alcohol will not come”. He appealed “Youth in the region should get themselves something doing, they should not relent at all. They should involve themselves such as boxing, wrestling, and footballing to keep themselves going”. He advised Also, talking about the health benefit, Mr. Mort reveals that young men who are engaged in sporting activities hardly fall sick of high BP or any other minor sicknesses. However, he also appeals to the people of the Upper East Region to make sure they avoid anything that will cause fire outbreaks, especially during the season of harmattan. Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Bawku Clash: Lives lost in renewed Bawku clash
A renewed ethnic clash in Bawku in the Upper East Region according to sources has claimed more than 5 lives in a Sunday clash between to the main factions Kusasis and Mamprusis. Apexnewsgh.com report According to information coming the area, the clash resurrected as a result of an alleged killing of an old man at Natinga on Saturday, December 17, 2022, which resulted in sporadic gunshots leaving five persons dead. The clash between the two factions however travel to Sunday, December 18, 2022, which resulted to the death of some other persons. Bawku conflict has become a worry to the region due to the continue killing of especially innocent people for no crime caused. However, when this platform contacted the Upper East Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP David Fianko-Okyere, on the unfortunate development, he said he has not been given any information with regards to the incident. Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Auditor’s General Report: Tempane District Assembly lavished GHc 27, 201.00 on DCE’s Bungalow renovation
According to the 2021 Auditors General report, it has been revealed that the Tempane District Assembly made a payment of GH¢27,201.00 to a contractor in charge of the renovation of the Temapne District Chief Executive Bungalow at Kugrago, for no work done. Apexnewsgh.com report The report says, “Regulation 78 of the Public Financial Management Regulations, 2019 (L.I.2378) states, a Principal Spending Officer of a covered entity is personally responsible for ensuring in respect of each payment of that covered entity the validity, accuracy and legality of the claim for the payment”. “We noted during the projects inspection that, even though certain aspects of the bill of quantities for the renovation of the Tempane District Chief Executive’s Bungalow at Kugrago was not executed by the contractor as confirmed by the Assembly’s monitoring report, the Assembly paid the sum of GH¢168,111.30 instead of GH¢140,910.30 resulting in payment of GH¢27,201.00 for works not executed”. However, the Auditor General has recommended for the recovery of the amount paid for work not done from the contractor, failure of which the amount be recovered from the District Coordinating Director, the District Finance Officer and the Works Engineer. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/ Tempane District A-G’s Report/Upper East Region E:mail: Apexnewsgh@gmail.com Contact: 0256336062
Just In: President Akufo-Addo expected in Upper East on 4th August
According to the Upper East Regional Communication Director for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Peter Ayinbisa, if nothing changed as planned, President Akufo-Addo will be in the region on August 4, 2022. He said President’s scheduled visit is a resumption of his regular regional tours to engage people and also have accurate information on happening on the ground. However, according to the Regional Communication Director, the President has scheduled to be in the region on the 4th of August and on the 5th of August, he is expected to commission a rice factory project in Fumbisi and after that, will be holding a mini durbar of chiefs and the people of Fumbisi and later proceed to Navrongo and also have a mini durbar with the chiefs and the people. The President’s coming to the region came when a lot of citizens questioned what the government has offered the people of the Upper East. During Apexnewsgh.com exclusive interview granted to the Executive Director and founder of Sirigu Women’s Organisation for Pottery and Arts (SWOPA) Madam Melanie Kasise, she appeared specific by asking President Akufo-Addo to come and see his people in the Upper East Region. She said the region is nothing seeing any development under his watch. Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana