Author: Krobea

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is holding a crunch meeting on Wednesday on how the senior high school (SHS) students who have tested positive to the coronavirus will write the West African Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASCCE). The meeting will be attended by representatives from the Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Service and the West African Examination Council (WAEC). The Director-General of GES, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, who revealed this on Onua TV’s Maakye hosted by Bright Kwasi Asempa and Adowa Konadu-Yiadom on Wednesday, explained that the fact that they have tested positive to Covid-19 does not mean the children must…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) says it is illegal for any registered voter to guarantee for a prospective applicant if they are not directly related. The Commission says it is against Constitutional Instrument (CI) 91 if a guarantor is not a “parent, sibling, spouse, guardian and other”. “[CI 91] specifies that an applicant must be well known to the guarantor and that any thing contrary to that constitutes an electoral office punishable by law,” the Commission said in a public information on Tuesday, July 14. “According to the CI 91, it is an offence to ‘Make an entry of statement,…

US President Donald Trump has signed an order to end preferential economic treatment for Hong Kong, after China enacted a new security law there. “Hong Kong will now be treated the same as mainland China,” Mr Trump said. He also signed bipartisan legislation to impose sanctions on Chinese officials who crack down on rights in Hong Kong. China said it would take retaliatory action. Hong Kong has so far enjoyed unique freedoms not seen in mainland China. But many people in the territory fear the new security law imposed by Beijing will bring an end to Hong Kong’s special status,…

The Communication Unit of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Savannah Region has accused the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) of deliberately deploying faulty biometric voter registration (BVR) kits and other registration materials to the Region. They say the ploy is to disenfranchise more people in the home of the party’s flagbearer, John Mahama. Addressing a press conference in Damongo, the Savannah Regional Communication Director of the NDC, Malik Basintale, alleged that registration at some centers were halted while others did not come on at all. He indicated that though the attention of the EC was drawn to the situation,…

The National Council on Persons with Disability has invited Media General’s broadcast journalist Spencer Kwabena Boateng Mensah to a broad consultation on the Persons with Disabilities Amendment Bill, 2020 & Persons with Disabilities Regulation 2020 (L.I). The consultation forms part of a process to amend the Persons with Disability Act, 2006 (Act 715) which article 29(8) of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana mandated Parliament to pass. Parliament passed the law fourteen years after, in which it established the National Council on Persons with Disability to propose and evolve policies and strategies to enable persons with disabilities to…

The Parliamentary Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Cape Coast North Constituency says he has legally challenged a decision by the District Registration Review Committee of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to withdraw his voter identity card. Dr Kwamina Minta Nyarku was disqualified as a voter in the Constituency after he was found guilty for allegedly providing false information during registration. His registration was, subsequently, challenged by a constituent, believed to be an agent of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), for not being a resident Nkanfoa, where he registered. The Committee consequently sat on the case and…

Young Ghanaian international Kelvin Boateng has joined Portuguese club FC Porto on a season-long deal from CD Aves. The deal was confirmed via FC Porto’s official Twitter handle and he will initially play for Porto’s B team. Speaking in an interview with the club’s official website, Boateng said he hopes to achieve more with the Portuguese side. “I am very excited to get to FC Porto and I want to make history here.” “I want to help FC Porto B and score goals, so I can reach the main team. Collectively, we will fight for victory in every game, regardless…

The UK’s mobile providers are being banned from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after 31 December, and they must also remove all the Chinese firm’s 5G kit from their networks by 2027. Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the House of Commons of the decision. It follows sanctions imposed by Washington, which claims the firm poses a national security threat – something Huawei denies. Mr Dowden said the move would delay the country’s 5G rollout by a year. The technology promises faster internet speeds and the capacity to support more wireless devices, which should be a boon to everything from mobile…

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has said government lied when it said personal protective equipment (PPEs) were supplied to the various senior high schools before reopen in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. President of GNAT Ms Phillapa Larsen told Alfred Ocansey on Sunrise on 3FM Tuesday, July 14 that some schools were not provided with the PPEs before they reopened. The schools had to rely on the parents to supply their wards with nose masks way before the government started supplying the others. “They said without the PPEs the doors of the schools were not going to…

The Presiding Judge of the Sekondi High Court One, His Lordship Justice Richard Adjei-Frimpong, has ordered that the two Nigerians accused of murdering the kidnapped Takoradi girls, Sam Udoetuk Wills and John Orji, be offered legal representation before their trial can commence. The two accused persons since their “court journey” have been without any legal representation. However, since their charge sheet has been changed to murder, they are required under the country’s criminal procedure to have legal representation. Due to this lacuna, when the case was called in court on Tuesday, July 14, His Lordship Justice Richard Adjei-Frimpong asked two…