Author: Krobea

A Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Jonathan Asante Otchere, is calling for an urgent probe into the activities of the current Commissioners of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC). Speaking on ‘Decision 2020’, a political show on 3FM on Sunday, the Senior Lecturer said there is no significant difference between the numbers the EC says it has registered so far and those in the old register. According to the EC, it has registered some 16.63 million Ghanaians as of Friday, August 7. It further said this is lower than the 20 million Ghanaians projected to be on…

In the year 1996 election, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) lost woefully with just 10.2% of the total vote cast in the Asuogyaman Constituency in the Eastern Region with the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) winning with a whopping 51.4%. The voting trend changed and so in the year 2000 elections, the NPP also humiliated the NDC, polling 44.7% while the NDC polled 19.2%. The opposition NDC continued its supremacy in the Constituency in the 2004 election with just 1.3% ahead of the NPP, with 52.9% while the NPP polled 51.6%. In the year 2008 election, which brought the…

Veteran highlife musician Lucky Mensah on Sunday released a new song on Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene. The single track, dubbed ‘Shawele’ was given first-time airplay on political talk show after he appeared to talk about his new song for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) ahead of the 2020 elections. Hit with emotions in the middle of the show, Lucky Mensah quickly brought a pen drive and ordered the presenter to retrieve the track to get it played first on the show. ‘Shawele’, coined from a Ga word meaning ‘Shake your waste’, is a blend of Ga and Twi lyrics…

Luck failed to smile on Savannah Region’s Abiba this time around as she came up for eviction for the third consecutive week. Unfortunately for her, she could not get saved by the judges this time. She was joined by Bono Region’s Afia as the latest casualties of the 2020 Ghana’s Most Beautiful reality show. The two were left together with Central Region’s Afriyie as the bottom-placed contestants on the night. As usual, the judges were given the power to save one and that lucky charm from veteran judge Linda Ampah fell on the Central Region representative, who had given a…

Despite a further reduction in Ghana’s Covid-19 active cases, nine persons have lost the battle to the disease. The number of deaths, therefore, has risen from 206 to 215. This was contained in the latest update released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Sunday, August 9. There were 470 new cases recorded, taking the country’s total cumulative cases to 41,003. The recoveries-cum-discharges are currently 38,330. This has seen the active cases reduce from 2,625 to 2,458. Regional breakdown Greater Accra – 20,491 Ashanti – 10,251 Western – 2,801 Eastern – 1,923 Central – 1,721 Bono East – 660 Volta…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to initiate a process to ensure that Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lolobi and Likpe in the Oti Region are joined into a district. The four communities are currently a part of the Jasikan District but following the creation of the Oti Region, President Akufo-Addo wants them to have their own local government status. These were contained in a letter written by the sector minister, Hajia Alima Mahama, to the Oti Region Minister, Kwesi Owusu Yeboah, and copied his Volta Region counterpart, Dr Archibald Letsa. “I hereby give…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, to engage the Ghana Education Service (GES) to reconsider its decision to ban some 14 students from completing their final exams. The GES on Friday, August 7 announced the dismissal of these students, who were engaged in various violations including raining insults on the president of the republic. They were to also banned from the ongoing West African Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The students are from Sekondi College, whose PTA Chairman has apologised to the president, Tweneboa Kodua SHS, Battor SHS and Juaben SHS.…

The line-up for the Champions League ‘final eight’ tournament in Lisbon is complete after wins for Barcelona and Bayern Munich on Saturday. Manchester City are the only Premier League side left in the competition and they play Lyon on Saturday, 15 August. The opening game of the round sees Atalanta take on Paris St-Germain, before RB Leipzig face Atletico Madrid the following day. Barcelona and Bayern Munich meet for a place in the semi-finals next Friday. The remainder of the Champions League is being played in a single-leg format, with all games taking place in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon.…

Former President John Dramani Mahama says the deployment of the military in the just-ended voter registration exercise was deliberately to intimidate members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He said the army officers were absent in strongholds of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) but very visible in those of the NDC. “I have seen the military deployment,” he stated in an interview with TV XYZ on Sunday, August 9, 2020. “If you look at the deployment you can see that somebody was trying to achieve something. “Mainly in the strongholds of the NDC, the military was very visible and…

Executive Director of the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG) Dr Emmanuel Akwetey has said he expects shortage of food items including rice and tomatoes because the country is no longer importing these commodities as it used to before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. He, however, suggested that to be able to deal with the possible shortage of the food items, the government will have to pay particular attention to the agricultural sector of the local economy to grow the sector. Speaking on Joy FM’s News File programme Saturday, August 8, in relation to the impact of the Covid-19 on…