A member of the Greater Accra Covid-19 burial team and his wife have tested positive for coronavirus. Speaking in an interview on 3FM Tuesday, September 22, the Director of Greater Accra Metro Public Health Department, Florence Kuukyi, disclosed that the member and his spouse are self-isolating after contracting the virus. “As I’m talking with you […]
Ace journalist with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Abdul Hayi Moomen has revealed he once washed plates and cleaned toilets in the UK as a student on holidays. “While in school [at the University of Ghana], during holidays, I would travel to the UK and do what university students called ‘any work’ and we did any […]
An Accra High Court has issued a substituted service to be given the members of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) over their strike action. The Court said the injunction notice should be published by three media houses, notices posted on the gates of the GRNMA office or copies should be left with […]
The 96th meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of Bank of Ghana (BoG) is scheduled to begin Tuesday, September 22, the BoG has announced. The meeting is expected to end Friday, September 25. The BoG at its last MPC meeting in July this year maintained the policy rate at 14.5 percent. A statement issued […]
Director of Elections for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Evans Nimako has said the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has lost focus going into the December 7 elections. Therefore, he said, the NDC has resorted to allegations and claims against the Electoral Commission (EC) just to make the elections management body unpopular ahead of […]
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) Communications Director, Henry Asante Twum, has said there will be a meeting between the body and its Medical Committee and Competitions’ Department to determine the way forward for Premier League clubs before October 30. This comes on the back of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s decision to lift the ban […]
Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has suspended her campaign tour of the Central Region, effective Tuesday, September 22, her spokesperson has said. This is to enable her join her flagbearer who has also suspended his campaign of the Bono Region to address anomalies in the ongoing voter exhibition exercise being carried out by the Electoral Commission, […]
Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the chair of the Electoral Commission (EC) as incompetent leader. He noted that there is so much chaos and disorder in the work of the EC, a situation that can plunge the country into chaos. He was speaking in reaction to developments regarding the ongoing voter exhibition, which […]
Chief Executive Officer of Asante Kotoko Nana Yaw Amponsah says the aim of the management team is to restore the club’s image and develop it into a club that modernly appeals to their fans. Addressing the new management at an inauguration ceremony at the Sports Hotel in Kumasi on Tuesday, September 22, Amponsah said it […]
The Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Amidu, has within hours replied the Executive Director of STRANEK-Africa over a petition the latter submitted to have the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal investigated. Nii Tettey Tetteh had petitioned the Office of the Special Prosecutor in a letter dated Tuesday, September 22, 2020 and jointly signed by Emmanuel Osei, the […]
The youth of this country have been cautioned to desist from violence ahead of this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections. County Director of International Association of World Peace Advocates (IAWPA), Ambassador Bishop Samuel Owusu on Monday September 21, a day set out by the United Nations (UN) to strengthen the message of Peace, asked the […]
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has expressed his condolences to the victims of last Saturday’s tragic car accident involving some young footballers on the Offinso road. In a letter to the Ghana Football Association, the President of the world governing body of football underlined his support to the families of the seven footballers who lost their […]
Stock markets in Asia suffered on Tuesday from the fallout from UK and US investors worried about a rise in coronavirus cases. Australia, Hong Kong, China and South Korea stock markets were all down. Investors were also rattled by dimming hopes for more financial support for the US economy. However, European markets opened slightly higher […]
Many hold the view that, political participation is a means to contribute one’s quota towards the the development of one’s country. Even though there are many forms of ensuring political participation, democracy is seen as the most elaborate and effective means of promoting participation. This is largely so because unlike the other forms of political systems, democracy most often do […]
Australia’s High Commissioner to Ghana, His Excellency Gregory Andrews, has asked his workers at the Commission to respect all the laws set out by Ghanaian authorities to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak in the oil-producing West African nation. Mr Andrews said the laws must be respected not only when the workers step out of the […]
The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), has rejected reports that it is printing new voter’s card after the registration exercise. The EC said its attention has been drawn to reports on social media claiming that the elections management body is printing new cards even after ending the registration.’ However, the EC in a statement described […]
Former President John Dramani Mahama has said the Akufo-Addo administration played ‘sakawa’ game with customers of the collapsed banks and finance companies. He said the government was not interested in paying the customers until after the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had decided to do so in their manifesto for this year’s elections. The NDC’s flagbearer […]
Kenya’s Chief Justice David Maraga has asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to dissolve parliament because it does not have enough female MPs. In a letter to Mr Kenyatta, the chief justice said the failure to have more female MPs was in breach of the constitution, and tantamount to discrimination against women. The constitution states that one […]
The Parliamentary Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the Ablekuma West Constituency in the Greater Accra Region has promised to restore what he claims is the eroded image and glory of the constituency. Rev Kweku Addo said the Constituency, which is largely Dansoman, was hailed as one of the prestige areas in Accra, […]
The Director of Elections for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has criticized the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) for conducting the voter exhibition exercise within eight days. He said this duration is woefully inadequate for such an important exercise which forms part of preparation for this year’s elections. The EC started the exhibition […]
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