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Ghana needs an independent regulator to oversee political party financing – Valentin Kwasi Mensah
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Ghana needs an independent regulator to oversee political party financing – Valentin Kwasi Mensah

Development Economist and Chartered Accountant, Valentin Kwasi Mensah, PhD, has called for the establishment of an independent regulatory body to supervise political party financing in Ghana and strengthen accountability in the country’s electoral process. Although the Commission acknowledged receipt of the request, Dr Mensah said he had received no response despite several follow-ups as of November 1, 2026.

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Americans Vote In Midterm Elections To Upend Trump Presidency
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Americans Vote In Midterm Elections To Upend Trump Presidency

Americans voted on Tuesday in pivotal midterm elections, with Democrats hoping to seize control of Congress and impose the first significant checks on Donald Trump’s chaotic second term in the White House. But while Republicans hold a 53-47 Senate majority, the political battlefield is extending into conservative states like Kansas, Texas, Iowa, Ohio and Alaska.

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TI Launches Four-Year Project to Promote Ethical Leadership Ahead of 2027 Elections
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TI Launches Four-Year Project to Promote Ethical Leadership Ahead of 2027 Elections

The project, dubbed Restoring Ethical and Accountable Leadership (REAL) Phase Four, was launched in Kisumu and will be implemented in four counties: Kisumu, Uasin Gishu, Nairobi and Mombasa. Mwaita said the organisation would facilitate the sharing of relevant information with institutions such as the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to strengthen discussions on integrity among those seeking public office.

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Polls open on US east coast in pivotal midterm elections
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Polls open on US east coast in pivotal midterm elections

Polls opened on the US east coast on Tuesday in midterm elections that could upend Donald Trump’s presidency, with Democrats looking to seize control of Congress and significantly curb his executive powers. Multiple polls predict Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives and have a shot at seizing the Senate on the back of voter resentment at a deeply unpopular president, soaring energy costs and the dragging conflict with Iran.

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The death knell of Trumpism has finally sounded
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The death knell of Trumpism has finally sounded

The electorate voted decisively to curb the president’s power There’s a certain freedom in low expectations. Going in to Tuesday’s midterm elections, forecasts were so grim for the Republicans that poll watchers started trading a kind of knowing joke: that the results would either mean the end of the Trump era, or the end of the polling profession.

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STATE POLICE: Tinubu scales constitutional hurdles

Constitution amendment must protect IGP, CPs from abuse — Okiro By Clifford Ndujihe & Gift Odekina LAGOS — After months of legislative action, the National Assembly is set to transmit the State Police Bill to President Bola Tinubu for assent. The 28 states that have approved the proposed establishment of state police are Adamawa, Delta, Edo, Kwara, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers Taraba, Zamfara, Imo, Ekiti, Kebbi, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Enugu, Anambra, Benue, Cross River, Abia, Yobe, Kaduna, Lagos, Kano, Sokoto, and Ebonyi Constitution amendment must protect IGP, CPs from abuse —

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Trump’s midterm campaign has distilled his vile message
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Trump’s midterm campaign has distilled his vile message

The president has spewed vulgar and hateful rhetoric even as he reveals his disdain for his followers Far from veering off his track, Trump in his ceaselessly vile midterm campaign statements has attained an optimal level of Trumpism. The Republican candidates and his vice-president have followed him down the trail of “defining deviancy down”, as explained by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in his essay in The American Scholar in 1993, about lowering the bar to make abnormal criminal behavior seem normal, coping through denial of its obvious presence, and through that process trivializing “the…

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Nigerians will choose the best product in the marketplace – Obi Media to Governors
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Nigerians will choose the best product in the marketplace – Obi Media to Governors

By Henry Umoru, Abuja The media office of the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, ahead of the January 16, 2027 election, Peter Obi, has taken a swipe at the state governors, accusing them of pushing to undermine democracy, warning that any election that falls short of being free, fair and transparent will fail. The Peter Obi Media Office, POMR noted that it had become aware of a series of covert attempts by governors to interfere with the democratic process, just as it cautioned that Nigerians would resist any process that did not meet the required standards of…

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Australian government concedes social media ban places ‘burden’ on freedom of political communication for teens
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Australian government concedes social media ban places ‘burden’ on freedom of political communication for teens

Reddit is challenging the Albanese government’s ban in high court, arguing legislation is ‘ill-thought-out’ and ‘over-broad’ The Australian government has rejected Reddit’s high court claim that its under-16s social media ban is a “blunt tool” to reduce harms experienced by teens, arguing it only represents an “indirect and modest” burden on the ability of teens affected to engage in political communications. In its challenge to the ban on Tuesday, Reddit had argued that the government’s rush to pass the ban in 2024 had led to an “ill-thought-out, over-broad legislation” that the government ha

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