Author: Krobea

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Ghana has announced the appointment of Kweku Andoh Awotwi as its Board Chairman, following approval by the Bank of Ghana. Mr. Kweku Awotwi is the immediate past Managing Director of Tullow Oil Ghana Ltd and Executive Vice President of Tullow Oil Plc. He has over 30 years of work experience having occupied various managerial positions in both national and multinational organizations notable amongst them being the Volta River Authority, Tullow Oil and Ashanti Goldfields Company. He is expected to bring on board his rich experience, spanning several sectors of the local and global economy to…

Fifty (50) per cent of Ghanaians surveyed in the Ghana Election Poll showed no confidence in the country’s electoral system with the view that the 2020 elections could be rigged. However, 30% did not think so and the remaining 20% were not sure if the elections could be rigged. These findings are part of 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 June 30. Out of the weighted sample of 792 adults, both males and females, by an equal margin, think vote-rigging is possible…

Forty-eight (48) per cent of Ghanaians surveyed in the Ghana Election Poll say they would vote for former President John Dramani Mahama if elections were held today, while 35% of the respondents were rooting for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. 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 June 30, however, finds 17% of respondents saying they will vote for none of them if elections were held today. Out of the weighted sample of 792 adults, John Dramani Mahama won the hearts of more…

The Court of Arbitration of Sports (CAS) will today, Tuesday, August 4, announce the ruling on the case between Wilfred Osei Palmer and Ghana Football Association (GFA). Palmer was disqualified from the GFA Presidential race based on the fact that he did not pay 10 per cent of Joseph Paintsil’s transfer fee to Belgian side Genk. He protested and marched to CAS in October 2019 to seek justice. CAS originally scheduled July 17 to settle the score but the verdict was pushed to August 4 due to the coronavirus pandemic. August 4 is here and Palmer and the GFA have…

The CAF Emergency Committee has approved the updated calendar for the inter-club competitions. Due to the novel coronavirus, the CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup semi-finals were postponed in March. Since football has returned around the globe, CAF have released the dates for the semi-finals of its club competitions with all matches to be played behind closed doors. The semi-final of the CAF Confederation Cup will come off on September 22 and it will be played in a single format. The final game will be hosted by Morocco at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, Rabat on September 27. The CAF…

Director of Elections for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has hailed the teeming supporters and the party’s executives in various constituencies for standing up against “oppression” in the ongoing voter registration exercise. Elvis Afriyie Ankrah said the action against military “intimidation” to stop legitimate Ghanaians to register is in a right direction that must be encouraged. The military are reported in some constituencies such as Banda in the Bono Region and Ketu South in the Volta Region purportedly to stop some people who are alleged to be non-Ghanaians from registering. The issue has generated heated arguments as to whether…

Latifa Bumaye, one of the key suspects in the alleged lynching of Akua Denteh, 90, at Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region has has been remanded into prison custody by the Bole Magistrate Court. She has provisionally been charged with murder. Latifa Bumaye, 25, is suspected to be one of the accomplices of a spiritualist captured in a video that went viral flogging the late Akua Denteh. She was accompanied to court by Chief Prosecutor Abdulai B. Awini and three other police officers from the Savannah Regional Police Command. The presiding magistrate, His Worship Prince Cudjoe,…

Ghana’s Covid-19 active cases keep fluctuating as the country’s total confirmed cases continue to rise. The latest update by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on its website on Monday, August 3 sees the active cases reduce from 3,467 to 3,308. Deaths, however, increased by nine, from 182 from the previous update to 191. The total cumulative number of cases is 37,812. Out of this, 34,313 have either fully recovered or are recovering, therefore discharged. Twenty-two are in severe conditions while six are in critical conditions with four said to be on ventilators. The country has, so far, conducted almost 399,446…

Activists in Tanzania say new rules that restrict online content are infringing on people’s freedom of expression. Under the new legislation, organising, planning or even supporting any form of demonstration online is now illegal. The new rules have also banned sharing of information about an infectious disease outbreak without government permission. The Tanzanian authorities have removed rules governing hate speech on the basis of sexuality and gender. Correspondents say the new rules also make it possible for people to be prosecuted for what they write on a shared instant messaging platform, such as a WhatsApp group. Human rights groups say…

The Governance Research Bureau has observed that the NDC has the potential of winning the 2020 elections based on its analysis of EC certified results of the parties since 1992. According to the analysis, the NDC requires a minimum of 113,165 votes above their average of 5,327,378 to win the elections in the first round while the NPP has a much bigger task of crossing the 50 per cent plus one with minimum votes of 372,135 above their average of 5,068,408, the Bureau stated. Discussing the 2020 elections from the perspectives of Statistics and Political Science on TV3 Election Watch…