Tag Archives: COMMISSION

National Media Commission releases election watch App

The National Media Commission (NMC) has released an election watch app to contain hate speech and disinformation towards election incidence reporting. It is an Android Version only app. A statement signed by Mr George Sarpong, Executive Secretary of the Commission and copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the Commission …

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Goaso Electoral Commission Boss has reportedly passed on

The Electoral Commission boss at Goaso, which is the capital for the Asunafo North Municipal Assembly in the Ahafo region, Madam Martha Osei Agyemang has reportedly passed on. The 36-year-old woman passed on in Wenchi also in Ahafo region. It was reported that Madam Martha complained she was unwell due …

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SA High Commissioner-designate presents letters to Minister

High Commissioner-Designate of South Africa to Ghana, Madam Grace Jeanet Mason, has presented her open letters to Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. Madam Mason served as the Deputy Chief of Protocol at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa from September …

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Narcotics Commission destroys $3m cocaine haul

The Narcotics Control Commission yesterday destroyed $3 million worth of cocaine which was seized in a joint operation at the Terminal Three facility at the Tema Port on September 2, this year. It followed a destruction order the Accra High Court granted the commission last Wednesday to undertake the exercise, …

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Why Australia High Commissioner to Ghana is cleaning dirty beaches, promoting local businesses

For a typical diplomat, the highest ranking representative of a specific country abroad, many will expect that he or she rides in the most expensive cars, eat at luxurious restaurants, be surrounded by heavy security and have less or no engagement whatsoever with the ordinary citizen of the host country. …

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Fire guts Electoral Commission office in Accra

Fire that erupted in the early hours of Friday, August 14, 2020 has destroyed several property at the Electoral Commission‘s office in Accra. The fire which started at about 2.30 am, consumed almost everything in the said building located at Sapeiman in the Ga West Municipality which also serves as the …

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Akufo-Addo commissions water project for Yapei

President Akufo-Addo, on Monday, 27th July, 2020, commissioned the Yapei Water Supply Project, in fulfillment of a campaign pledge he made to the people of Yapei in the run-up to the 2016 elections. According to President Akufo-Addo, “the Yapei Water Supply System will serve eleven thousand, four hundred and forty-three …

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Lands Bill approved by Parliament

The Lands Bill 2019, the Bill seeks to consolidate reforms made so far in Ghana’s land sector following the implementation of the National Land Policy (NLP) in 1999 has been approved by Ghana’s parliament on Thursday July 23, 2020. Chairman of the Lands and Forestry Committee in Parliament, Francis Adabor …

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President commissions GH¢73.4 million water systems in Central Region

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned two water systems in the Central Region under the Additional Financing Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Project (AF-SRWSP). They are the Anomansa Cluster Water System, which would provide potable water to more than 7,000 residents from 19 communities in the Mfantseman Municipality and Papase Cluster …

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Govt initiates probe into alleged demolition of Nigerian High Commission property

    The Government Sunday condemning the alleged demolition living quarters being constructed by the Nigerian High Commission, announced that investigations into the alleged breach of the premises of the Commission, in Accra, had begun for the offenders to be brought to book. A statement issued by the Ministry of …

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