Author: Krobea

The National Security Ministry has assured the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that all security officers deployed for the December 7 elections will wear identification tag. “Additionally, a proper register of security officers will be kept for ease of reference,” a statement issued by the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, on behalf of the Ministry of National Security said. This follows a meeting between the Ministry and the NDC on Tuesday, October 27. The meeting was held at the instance of the largest opposition party, which wanted to know the security preparations ahead of the elections and recent criminal activities…

A total of 676 school children in the Volta Region have been impregnated during the Coronavirus period, spanning March to September, a report by the Ghana Education Service (GES) has revealed. Of the figure, 176 of the pregnancies were recorded among primary pupils, 325 in Junior High (JHS), and 175 in Senior High School (SHS) A total of 285 nursing mothers are also recorded to be in school, the majority in the JHS and SHS. Keta recorded the highest pregnancies with 92, Hohoe followed with 86, and Ketu South came third with 82 pregnancies. Mr Gideon Tsawodzi, Volta Regional Guide…

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has succeeded over the past four years in enriching his family and friends at the expense of the nation. He said the failed Agyapa Minerals Royalties transaction is a classical case of some of the “fraudulent” deals that have characterised the Akufo-Addo-led government. “President Akufo Addo has proven beyond every doubt, that he is a family builder and not a nation builder,” Mr Asiedu Nketia said at a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, November 10. “And we know without a shudder of…

The Methodist Church, Ghana is partnering the National Peace Council to intensify its peace campaign ahead of next month’s election. Dubbed Peace Summit 2020, the Ashanti Regional Peace Council and the Kumasi Diocese of the Methodist Church, Ghana is propagating peace talks to sensitize the public especially residents in the Region on the need for peace to prevail before, during and after December 7. Recent security surveys and reports have classified the Ashanti Region as a security hotspot and a violent-prone region in this year’s election. Though security agencies have declared their preparedness to contain the situation, the Church believes…

The Ashanti Region Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, says by the middle of next year, the Region will see the completion of a “proper” international airport. He insinuated that what is now in the regional capital, Kumasi, only exists in nomenclature. Speaking at the Nation Building Updates at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, November 10, Mr Mensah said: “We are now building a proper international airport for which we are expanding the runaway by another 200 meters. “That is what we call an international airport,” he said. Work to upgrade the Kumasi Airport to international standard was…

Vice Presidential Candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has noted that the party is well prepared for the upcoming elections. She said the party has been ready since the publication of its manifesto, The People’s Manifesto. “We are very ready, we are ready and we expect free and fair elections,” she stressed. “We expect transparency and we want to ensure everything is open. We have been ready since the release of our manifesto.” In an interview with Berla Mundi on TV3’s Elections 360 on Monday, November 10, Prof Opoku-Agyemang said the NDC would accept the…

The Chairperson and National Leader of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has promised to revamp the Komenda Sugar Factory in the Central Region. Nana Akosua Frimponmaa Sarpong-Kumankumah said “we shall change the Komenda Sugar Factory in six months”. She gave the promise in an interview on Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Monday. She said all the raw materials will be bought from the farmers across the country to create employment for them. “We shall give guarantee price to sugar cane farmers like we do to cocoa,” she told host by Nana Okyere Awurukuo. “Sugar cane farming would be mechanized to…

Leader and founder of United Front Party (UFP) Nana Agyenim Boateng, popularly known as Gyataba, has challenged the judgment on his application for an interlocutory injunction against the Electoral Commission (EC) over his disqualification from the 2020 presidential elections. He is convinced that the judge was compelled by the presidency to throw out his prohibitory injunction, restraining the EC from conducting the 2020 presidential election without him as a candidate. In an interview on Yen Sempa on Onua FM on Tuesday, November 10, Agyenim Boateng said justice was failed. He has accused President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo of orchestrating his disqualification…

The Senate’s top Republican, Mitch McConnell, says President Donald Trump is “100% within his rights to look into election irregularities”. In his first comments since Joe Biden was announced the projected winner, McConnell on Monday said the US political system “will resolve any recounts or litigation”. Trump is refusing to admit losing the presidential election, while making repeated unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud. “The core principal here is not complicated, in the United States of America, all legal ballots must be counted, and illegal ballots must not,” said McConnell, adding: “The courts are here to work through concerns.” McConnell made…

“Lockdown” has been declared the word of the year for 2020 by Collins Dictionary, after a sharp rise in its usage during the pandemic. It “encapsulates the shared experience of billions of people”, Collins said. Lexicographers registered more than 250,000 usages of “lockdown” during 2020, up from just 4,000 last year. Other pandemic-linked terms on the 10-strong list include “furlough”, “key worker”, “self-isolate” and “social distancing” as well as “coronavirus”. According to the dictionary, lockdown is defined as “the imposition of stringent restrictions on travel, social interaction, and access to public spaces”. It came into common parlance as governments around…