Author: Krobea

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has explained the reason why its leadership failed to be present in Parliament on Thursday, November 5 to present the roadmap of next month’s election to Members. According to the Commission, the notice got to its office late, at a time some commissioners had travelled outside Accra. Sitting had to be suspended by Speaker Reverend Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye on Thursday after EC Chair Jean Mensa failed to appear to make her presentation. The National Security Minister, Albert Kan Dapaah, had appeared earlier to brief the House on the security situation in the country ahead…

The Western Regional Operations Commander of the Ghana Police Service, Chief Superintendent Ibrahim Sulley has advised Zongo youth to shun all forms social vices which can land them in jail. According to him, election years are periods when politicians often use the youth, especially those in Zongo communities, to embark on all forms of social vices. He indicated that the police are partners in development and not enemies since they have a duty to protect lives and properties. Chief Supt. Ibrahim Sulley was speaking at the Big Zongo Debate organized at Sekondi Zongo by Takoradi-based Connect FM on Wednesday, November…

President of the Ghana Football Association Kurt Okraku says talks are ongoing between the FA and the family of Tariq Lamptey over a nationality switch. The young defender has had a good time since he moved from Chelsea to join Brighton in the transfer window – grabbing the attention of German giants Bayern Munich. Lamptey has represented England at various youth levels and has already set his sights on representing the Three Lions. With the performance he has shown, he has fallen on Ghana’s radar and the FA president, Kurt Okraku, says he is ready to get him to play…

Over 90 percent of weapons seized in the Western and Western North regions are foreign made. Contrary to the long-held view that over 80 percent of weapons found in crime scenes in Ghana are locally made, 1,068 out of a total of 1,194 weapons seized by the security agencies in the Western North and Western regions over a period of seven to eight years are foreign made. This means only 5.1 percent of the weapons were locally manufactured. This was disclosed by the Executive Secretary of the Ghana National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons , Jones Borteye Applerh,…

The Vice Presidential Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has indicated the NDC is the only party that recognises women. She noted her appointment as a running mate to the flagbearer of the NDC is the best thing that ever happened to Ghanaian women in politics. Day 2 of Prof Opoku-Agyemang’s tour of the Savannah Region took her to Larbanga and Damongo in the Damongo Constituency and Yapei in the Yapei-Kusawgu constituency. While there, she paid a courtesy call on the Yagbonwura, Tuntumba Boresa, King of Gonja. When she left the palace, the charged…

Ghana’s Most Beautiful’s reigning queen Naa Dedei Botchwey, known by stage name Naa, has been crowned the development queen for the Ga-Dangme Muslim Council. At the opening ceremony of the Apollonia Development Office, the leadership of the Council said the Greater Accra representative for GMB 2020 has portrayed true qualities of a Ga-Dangme woman and deserves to lead them in terms of development. Naa won the Star Performer three times on her way to annexing the crown. She expressed gratitude to the Council for believing in her and supporting her projects. “I feel deeply honoured that all of Ga-Dangme is…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has begun a three-day fasting and prayers for victory in next month’s elections. “It is equally our belief that our nation requires God’s divine intervention to halt the recent spate of armed robbery, killings and other violent crimes that we are witnessing across the length and breadth of the country in the run up to this year’s elections,” the party said in a statement on Thursday to announce the religious rite. It is scheduled to start on Thursday and end on Saturday, November 7 with a prayer meeting at the party’s headquarters. On Sunday, there…

The National President of Rotational Nurses, Jerry Mertins Aziamadia, has asked government to pay their eight-month delayed allowances by Friday, November 20 or they agitate for them. He also asked that other payment discussions ongoing with the mother leadership – the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association – be resolved to avoid the usual demonstrations and picketing at the launch of their association in Koforidua. Mr Aziamadia made a case that a GRNMA survey indicated that rotational nurses contributed to 80 percent of nursing services at health facilities. “A research conducted by the [Ghana Registered] Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA…

The Ashanti Regional Police Command will make special security arrangements in identified flashpoint zones within the Region on the election day. This is to ensure that the election is conducted devoid of any violence. Speaking at the launch of a peace campaign by the Graphic Communications Group Limited, the Ashanti Regional Police Operations Commander, Chief Superintendent George Ankomah, said “we are going to beef up security at all identified flashpoints within the region so that peace will be assured in those areas as well as the region”. He entreated the public to trust the police as they are ready to…

The Parliamentary Candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Gushegu Constituency of the Northern Region, Alhassan Tampuli, has promised to provide free laptops to teachers in the Constituency. Addressing his constituents during the launch of his campaign and manifesto, Mr. Tampuli appealed to the electorates to vote the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and himself to influence more development in the area. The Gushegu Constituency was carved out of the Gushegu-Karaga Constituency in 2004. Since its creation, both the NPP and National Democratic Congress (NDC) have won it on two occasions apiece. At his campaign launch in Gushegu,…