Confirmed information available to thedistin.com has it that the Officers’ Mess at 37 Military Hospital is currently blazing. However, the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained and the video shows thick fumes of smoke billowing out of the building as people stood to watch. In the video, …
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New voters’ register: Hundreds join ‘Yenpini’ demo in Kumasi
Hundreds of protesters have poured onto the streets of the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi to join in the Inter-Party Resistance Against the New Voters’ Register demonstration. This is two out of three planned protests aimed at putting pressure on the Electoral Commission (EC) to abort its decision to compile a …
Read More »New voter registration will begin in April – EC
The Electoral Commission says it will begin compiling the new voters register for the December 2020 elections in April. The commission added it hopes to end the exercise by the end of May. This was disclosed by the Director of Electoral Services, Dr Serebour Quaicoe Tuesday “We want to start by …
Read More »Yamoah Ponkoh runs away from ‘bloody election’ claim
Leading member of the opposition National Democratic Congress [NDC], Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh has denied strongly inciting his party foot soldiers to go all out for a ‘bloody election campaign’ ahead of the 2020 general polls. He claimed he is for ‘peace’ and will not call for ‘war’ as purported – …
Read More »Ghana is our home -Volta NDC denounces secessionists
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region has distanced itself from activities of secessionist group, Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF). Members of HSGF, with 85-year-old Kormi Kudzordzi also known as Papavi Hogbedetor, as leader have been advocating the independence of “Western Togoland territory” made up of parts of …
Read More »I will let the police beat NDC demonstrators if they misbehave in Ashanti region – Chairman Wontumi
Ahead of the National Democratic Congress’ planned demonstration in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party has warned them to comport themselves in a good manner or risk incurring his wrath. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako in an interview with Peacefmonline.com, stated that he personally granted the opposition party the …
Read More »We need more cinemas to revive the Ghanaian film industry – Stanley Ofoetsu Porturphy
Celebrated Ghanaian film producer and production manager Moses Stanley Ofoetsu Porturphy popularly known within the Ghanaian film industry as Nene has opined that the Ghanaian film industry can only be revived through the creation of more cinemas. Speaking during a film industry conference in Europe about the Ghanaian film industry …
Read More »Akufo-Addo government borrows GHc86bn in 3 years
Ghana’s debt stock has increased by about GS86.6 billion since the Nana Akufo-Addo government came into office three years ago. Some economists and market watchers have described the rate and quantum of borrowing by the government as alarming and warned that it could plunge the nation into an economic crisis …
Read More »Seven promises John Mahama has made to Ghanaians ahead of the 2020 polls
It’s less than 11 months to the 2020 elections and, as expected, the campaign promises are already in full flow. While the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is yet to really kick things off, the leading opposition party and its flagbearer are already in the campaign mood. John Dramani Mahama …
Read More »CCTV Captured Two University Student Doing it in a corner of Campus (VIDEO)
A trending video circulating on social media has revealed some dirty act of some university student in Kenya technology has enhanced the fast-spreading of news across the world and we are still preaching to stop an adult from making out outside. however, people still forget the power of technology and …
Read More »Seven (7) Promises John Mahama Has Made To Ghanaians Ahead Of The 2020 Polls
It’s less than 11 months to the 2020 elections and, as expected, the campaign promises are already in full flow. While the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is yet to really kick things off, the leading opposition party and its flagbearer are already in the campaign mood. John Dramani Mahama …
Read More »NDC promises bloody election campaign
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is promising a ‘bloody election campaign’ ahead of the 2020 General Election. Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh, one of the heavyweights in the NDC in the Ashanti Region, recently urged Ghanaians to gear up for a bloody election in December. In a frightening tone in Kumasi …
Read More »Shelter, school for street children coming – Bawumia
Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said the government has secured a piece of land to build a shelter and school for street children in the national capital. “Land has been provided by the government through the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) for the construction of accommodation and a school for street …
Read More »IMANI Africa states reasons why CSOs oppose the new biometric voter system
The EC wants to rip out a system worth $60 million, of which value at least $40 million has accumulated since just 2016, and spend $150 million (plus contingency) constructing a new one. A careful analysis of best practice in procuring biometric technology for elections in Africa shows that the …
Read More »‘Following me around will not win us 2020’ – Mahama
Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has charged members of the party to work together for victory in this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections. He said the party members must work hard to rescue “our drowning country” from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). Mr. …
Read More »You couldn’t arrest the cedi with your 170 questions after all? – ‘Cedi police’ Bawumia ‘mocked’
It was challenge after challenge to the National Democratic Congress, from the camp of the New Patriotic Party. Under the Mahama administration and with the late Kwesi Ammissah Arthur as Vice President and Former Governor of the Central Bank, then Economist, and running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia threw some 170 …
Read More »[VIDEO]: NDC ready to spill blood to win 2020 election – Yamoah Ponkoh
The former Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ejisu Juaben who is a senior member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region, Yaw Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh has said his party, the NDC is ready to spill blood in order to show the ruling NPP where power lies, …
Read More »NPP confirms Lydia Seyram Alhassan as the party’s 2020 Parliamentary candidate for Ayawaso West Wougon
NPP’s National Council confirms Lydia Seyram Alhassan as the party’s 2020 Parliamentary candidate for Ayawaso West Wougon. The NPP’s National Council, which is the party’s highest decision making body has, unanimously resolved to make Lydia Seyram Alhassan, the Member of Parliament for Awayaso West Wougon the NPP’s Parliamentary Candidate for …
Read More »Illiterate can do what you are doing – Talensi DCE tells MP
The District Chief Executive for Talensi in the Upper East Region, Dr. Christopher Boatbil Sormiteyema, has cautioned the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Constituency, Benson Tongo Baba to always give credit to where it is due and stop inspecting government’s projects as an illiterate can do such propaganda. According …
Read More »Afenyo Markins writes: It is high time international schools taught Ghanaian languages
Nations across the world showcase their cultural identities in so many ways. The culture of every nation includes its set of languages. More than 250 languages and dialects are spoken in Ghana with 9 of them formally taught in schools. There are several ways and stages of acquiring languages. Apart …
Read More »Free SHS will break poverty cycle in Ghana – Adutwum
The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of secondary education, Dr.Yaw Osei Adutwum, says the implementation of the Free Senior High School Education policy will break the cycle of poverty in the country. Ghana has reduced poverty levels by half between 1991 and 2014. But it estimated that more than …
Read More »FX committee to stop cedi depreciation has exposed Bawumia’s incompetence – Elikplim Agbemava
A former flag bearer hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Lawyer Elikplim Agbemava has questioned the competence of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in the wake of the depreciation of the cedi. The legal practitioner wonders why Dr Bawumia, who the ruling NPP tagged as their “economic guru”, has …
Read More »No case of foot and mouth disease in Central Tongu
Dr Jeffery Elorm Akortia, the District Veterinary Officer for Central Tongu, said the District has not recorded any case of foot and mouth disease in cattle. “We depend on some dams in South Tongu for water in the dry season, that is why we have been observing all the cattle …
Read More »Pregnant women receive treatment on plastic chairs at Ejura hospital
Health workers at the Ejura Municipal Government Hospital in the Ashanti region have been forced to admit and treat pregnant women on plastic chairs over lack of space in the hospital’s maternity ward. Ejura Government Hospital, which is the largest hospital in the Ejura-Sekyedumasi Municipality, has a lot of challenges including …
Read More »Somanya: Armed Police storm NDC office as irate youth rampage
Armed Police officers led by the Somanya District Commander DSP Isaac Otsin have stormed the Yilo Krobo constituency office of the Opposition National Democratic Congress following attack on the office by a group of irate youth suspected to be supporters of the Party. The irate youth on Saturday vandalized the …
Read More »59 inmates of Nsawam prison matriculated into UCC
An initiative by the University of Cape Coast to encourage education in the country’s prisons has seen some 59 inmates benefitting. The University opened a prison campus inside the Nsawam prisons to help inmates qualified for diploma courses to also enroll and 59 of these persons have been welcomed already …
Read More »NPP loses treasurer in Dompoase accident
It has emerged that the Essikado-Ketan Constituency treasurer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) was among those who died in the gory accident that occurred at Dompoase, near Komenda in the Central Region on Tuesday dawn. The deceased, Hajia Hadijah was a business woman who was dealing in paints, …
Read More »Thieves break in hospital ward, steal patients’ mobile phones, others valuables
Patients on admission at the La General Hospital have been hit with double agony after thieves broke into the ward and stole their valuables. Mobile phones, bags containing money, ID cards and other valuables were all missing from the ward when the patients woke up on Friday. The burglary is …
Read More »A/R: Francis Owusu-Akyaw Renovates M/A Primary School In Bomfa
The affable and accessible Mr Francis Owusu-Akyaw a former Parliamentary Candidate aspirant in New Patriotic Party at the Juaben Constituency within the Ashanti region of Ghana has put smiles on the faces of the good people of Bomfa by renovating their M/A Primary School, Bomfa is a town within the Juaben …
Read More »Mahama declares Akufo-Addo ministers useless
The flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has once again criticized the elephant-size government of President Akufo-Addo, saying his successor can do away with 40 ministers, if he is committed to his campaign to protect the public purse by having a lean government. According to ex-President John Dramani …
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