The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that the underlying legal reasons for its decision not to include the existing voter’s Identification Card (ID) in its upcoming registration exercise is because the Supreme Court itself has held that the register is reasonably not credible and that by implication, the cards issued …
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Ghana Tops the Chart among Countries Benefiting from CoL Online Scholarships
Three Ghanaians, namely Enoch Adjei, Hamadu Hassan and Anane Vida who have completed 102, 94 and 61 courses respectively emerged as top learners on the Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) scholarship programme. Ghana, through the Ghana Library Authority forms part of the four countries which includes …
Read More »The Workplace Wellness Program is set to bring back confidence at the Workplace – City Xtra Limited
The confidence to return to work has been a major subject in this COVID- 19 era. The assurance of whether one is safe being at home or at the workplace remains fully unanswered. The way forward in resolving the major part of this challenge is to have your workplace/home/environment disinfected. …
Read More »EC must remove 7m names from register – LMVCA demands
Pressure group, Let My Vote Count Alliance wants over 7 million names expunged from the voter’s register, if the Electoral Commission decides not to compile new register. At a news conference in Accra, convener of the group that has been championing for a new register for years, David Asante said …
Read More »NDC launches ‘corruption tracker’ series to check corrupt Gov’t officials
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has launched a platform to expose misappropriation and embezzlement of state funds by officials of the Akufo-Addo government code-named “Corruption Tracker Series”. The National Communication Officer of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi who launched the platform in the capital, Accra on Monday [June 8, 2020] said …
Read More »AU against the compilation of new voter’s register
Executive Secretary of Care Ghana, David Kumi has disclosed that the policies of the African Union are highly against reforms being instituted by the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC). According to him, per the African Union’s policies, no country is expected to make major reforms to their electoral processes a year prior …
Read More »2020 Polls: NPP MP for Fomena goes independent
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Fomena Constituency, Andrews Amoako Asiamah, who entered the legislature on the ticket of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2016 is going for his second term as an Independent Candidate. This comes only two weeks to the party’s Parliamentary Primaries which have been scheduled for …
Read More »NPP Primaries: Here are the unopposed MPs
The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has released a list of Members of Parliament who will not have contenders in the party’s upcoming parliamentary primaries slated for Saturday, June 20. At a press conference addressed by its General Secretary, John Boadu, Monday, the NPP explained that those MPs are going unopposed because no …
Read More »NPP suspends all cursing delegates
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has instructed constituency executives to suspend, with immediate effect, all delegates who invoked curses on leadership over the disqualification of some parliamentary aspirants. These delegates of the party resorted to invoking deities to register their dissatisfaction with the national executives for not allowing some aspirants …
Read More »Livestream: NPP gives details on its upcoming Parliamentary primaries
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is holding a press conference to give details on its upcoming Parliamentary primaries. The press conference is led by the John Boadu, the General Secretary of the party.
Read More »Commissioner for Oaths contests CPP General Secretary slot
A Commissioner for Oaths, Mr Eben Agbenya, on Sunday said he is ready to contest the General Secretary slot of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) to restore the founding principles of the Party. He said he decided to run as the CPP General Secretary believing that the current state of …
Read More »C.I. 126 set for debate on tomorrow
Members of Parliament (MPs) are set to debate a report of the Committee on Subsidiary Legislation on the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 (C.I. 126) after it was laid on Thursday, June 4, 2020. The Constitutional Instrument (C.I.) 126, which gives legal backing to the plans by the Electoral …
Read More »I never ‘attacked’ Naana Opoku-Agyemang – NAPO rebuts
Minister of Education Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh popularly known as NAPO has denied verbally abusing former Minister of Education, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang. NAPO is reported to have said: “After we launched the Free SHS, she went back to the radio stations claiming they are the brainchild of the policy …
Read More »Jean Mensa is evil minded – NDC’s Kwaku Boahen alleges
Deputy Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kwaku Boahen, has disclosed that the Electoral Commission Chair, Jean Mensa is planning evil against the NDC ahead of the 2020 elections. Kwaku Boahen stressed that Jean Mensa’s position puts Ghana on a path of chaos and destruction. He insisted that the hell-bent posture of the …
Read More »NDC will secretly mobilize members to partake in voters’ register exercise – SHC boss
The Managing Director of the State Housing Company Limited (SHC), Kwabena Ampofo Appiah has revealed that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will secretly mobilize its members to register for the new voters’ register for the 2020 elections. The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been battling with the Electoral Commission (EC) over its decision …
Read More »NPP Communications Director for Saboba picked up by police
Communications Director for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Saboba constituency of the Northern region, Kigaak-Kpaba Solomon, has been picked up by police for allegedly leading some youth to vandalize the NPP constituency office. He was picked up in the early hours of Sunday June 7. According to …
Read More »If you kill people, is it the register that will go and vote? – Charles Owusu quizzes
Head of the Monitoring Unit of the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu, has advised Ghanaian electorates not to follow irresponsible comments by politicians to shed blood during the impending new voters’ registration exercise. The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) will at the end of June this year commence a registraion exercise aimed at …
Read More »NPP Primaries: Furious Minister storms Agoo FM, fights opponent over Stadium
The Member of Parliament for Nkawkaw who doubles as the Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfour on Saturday stormed the office of Nkawkaw based Agoo FM over allegations of sabotaging the redevelopment of Nkawkaw Sports Stadium. Lawyer Joyce Opoku Boateng, a Deputy CEO of the Middle Belt Development Authority contesting the Nkawkaw Parliamentary …
Read More »EC chair should be arrested immediately – A.B.A Fuseini
MP for Sagnarigu Constituency, A.B.A Fuseini, is calling for the immediate arrest of the Electoral Commission Chairperson, Jean Mensah for overseeing the two-day pilot voter registration exercise nationwide. He argues that the CI on the use of the voters’ ID is currently before parliament. It is therefore unlawful for Jean Mensa to undertake …
Read More »Curse-invoking NPP supporters face chiefs for performing rituals in River Offin
Some supporters of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) are up for a showdown with the Offinso Traditional Council after the former performed rituals in the River Offin. The Council has summoned the protesters and leadership of the NPP in the Ashanti Region over the development. The aggrieved NPP supporters on Thursday …
Read More »Again!!! Angry NPP youth vandalize party office over disqualification of aspirant
Some aggrieved youth of the ruling New Patriotic Party in the Saboba Constituency in the Northern region have vandalized the NPP constituency party office. In the early hours of Saturday June 6, the youth were seen breaking louvre blades, burning car tyres amidst chanting of war songs. This follows the …
Read More »NPP Primaries: 46 out of 47 aspirants will go unopposed in Ashanti region – FF Antoh
There is tension across the forty seven (47) constituencies in the Ashanti region as National Officers of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) resolves to make all but one candidate go unopposed in the upcoming Parliamentary Primaries of the party on June 20. The June 20 primaries would elect Parliamentary …
Read More »Speaker accused of animal farm tactics in coronavirus fight
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has called for a total shutdown of Parliament, following reports of 15 COVID-19 cases recorded in the House, led by Speaker Aaron Mike Oquaye. According to Asiedu Nketia, it is surprising that institutions that recorded cases of COVID-19 in the country, were closed down to …
Read More »Use the money you steal to develop Ghana – Diplomatic expert
International Diplomatic Expert, Al Wahab Farouk, has advised that leaders who steal from the populace should divert the money into profitable ventures for the benefit of the country. In an interview with Kwame Afrifa Mensah on the ‘Epa Hoa Daben’ show, he stated that it is difficult to control corruption …
Read More »New Voters’ Register: Don’t register your names – Nana B appeals to NDC
Nana Boakye, National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has appealed to members and supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) not to participate in the new voters’ register by Electoral Commission (EC). The registration exercise will begin in the last week of June 2020. The EC piloted …
Read More »JHS students to spend only four hours in school daily – GES
Junior High School students will not spend more than four hours in school per day, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has said. The comment comes after President Akufo-Addo announced the reopening of schools for final year students in the country. As part of measures to return lives to normalcy while …
Read More »Group Threatens To Petition Akufo-Addo To Sack EC Chair
Some aggrieved Ghanaians are seeking for information from the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa, to determine whether or not to petition President, Nana Akufo-Addo, to remove her from office. In a statement, the lawyer for these persons, Chris A. Ackummey of BCMS Consulting, cited 11 reasons for …
Read More »Why fight over an interchange none of you paid for? – Franklin Cudjoe quizzes Akufo-Addo, Mahama
President of Policy think tank IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe has expressed surprise about a seeming ‘brawl’ between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) over ownership of the recently commissioned Tema Motorway Interchange project. Whilst the NDC maintains the project was kick-started by the NDC’s John Mahama …
Read More »Closed borders: KNUST working to bring back international science students for exams
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is working with the Government to allow entry for international students returning to the campus to complete their academic work for the Second Semester. They include those in the fifth and sixth years in the School of Medicine and Dentistry, School …
Read More »Registration exercise: Nobody will die in Ghana – Charles Owusu rubbishes incendiary comments
‘Nobody will die in this country’, Charles Owusu rubbishes the seditious comments by PNC National Chairman Bernard Mornah and other politicians. The Head of the Monitoring Unit of the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu, says neither the Electoral Commission’s registration exercise or general elections is a do or die affair for …
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