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Some persons whose services have been engaged by the Electoral Commission (EC) in the ongoing voters registration exercise have expressed discontentment over the decision by the body to pay them an amount they describe as “woefully inadequate.” The registration officials have accused the EC of cajoling them into accepting to serve as officers at various registration centres with the promise ...

More than half of Ghanaians surveyed in the Ghana Election Poll do not think President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has fulfilled his promises well enough to deserve re-election as President of Ghana in the December 2020 presidential election. The first wave of results of the Ghana Election Poll conducted online via the renowned market research firm MSI-ACI from May 1 through to ...

The Electoral Commission has condemned acts of violence at some Registration Centres across the country. According to the EC, the violence is perpetuated by Political Party supporters and sympathizers. The EC statement comes after the Special Initiatives Minister, Mavis Hawa Koomson, admitted that she fired a warning shot at the ‘Step to Christ’ polling station. “I’m a Member of Parliament, ...

The attention of Patriotic Teacher Trainees has been drawn to a press release by a purported group calling it’self Ghana Trainees Teachers(GhaTT) endorsing the selected running mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and tiding an ocean of appreciation on her. We the Patriotic Teacher Trainees will like to state unequivocally that: ” the purported group is not recognized by ...

On the back of claims by the Ghana Health Service that Ghana’s COVID-19 active cases are declining, President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe has said the country’s testing regime for some time now has not been in sync with the virus spread. At a press briefing on Sunday, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye assessed that ...

Government has disengaged services of contact tracers for Covid-19. The duties have now been assigned to community health nurses, this is according to deputy health minister Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye who spoke on behalf of the health minister in parliament Monday. The move follows agitations from the contact tracers who laid down their tools a month ago over government decision ...

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has waded into the Digital Terrestrial Television platform impasse between the Communications Minister and the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation declaring support for the broadcaster. According to the GJA, the directive by the Communications Minister that GBC should shut down three of its channels amounts to undue interference in the work of the state broadcaster. In a ...

With the imminent entry of qualified Free SHS graduates Into Universities this year, It is anticipated that already overwhelmed universities in Ghana will be further burdened by the sharp rise in the number of qualified applicants who will be competing for places during the 2020 admissions. Not much infrastructural development has been seen in the major universities to augment this imminent ...

Minutes after the selection of Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang by H. E. John Mahama as his running mate in the December 2020 elections, some elements in the country, rushed to grab pick axes, shovels and stolen excavators to dig the ground looking for materials they could use to smear the respected Professor. One such material the diggers claimed to ...

A Circuit Court in Ho presided over by His Lordship Felix Datsomor has convicted and sentenced two notorious armed robbers to a total of 46 years in hard labour on Friday, 17 July, 2020 following their arrest in separate robbery expeditions. Emmanuel Courage Banitsi, a phone repairer, aged 22 and 19-years old Daniel Yeboah (unemployed) were charged for their involvement ...