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Asante Kotoko and Ashanti Gold have been penciled down as Ghana’s representatives for next year’s CAF inter-club competitions. Both clubs have been given the first right of refusal to a proposal by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to have them represent the country. Should they accept, both clubs will represent Ghana in the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup respectively. GFA’s Executive Council, in deciding Ghana’s representatives for next year, found a safe haven in the erstwhile Normalization Special Cup competition, which was used to choose the country’s representatives for the Caf Champions League and Confederation Cup competitions. Kotoko…

The Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa Constituency has urged the public to disregard “twists” and “mischief” he claims some persons and media houses have put on responses he gave to questions by a group of journalists last Friday. Kobina Tahir Hammond said: “I am educated, old and mature enough to know the history of Ghana and to understand the debilitating effect of ethnocentricity and bigotry in any community”. KT Hammond is reported to have referred to residents of the Volta Region as non-Ghanaians and told the parliamentary press corps that the military presence in the Region could be as…

The Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has cancelled the 2019/2020 Ghana Premier League season. A decision was reached in a marathon meeting held on Tuesday, June 30. The meeting was to decide on the way forward. Prior to Tuesday’s meeting, the GFA, despite incessant pressure, maintained that it was only going to communicate its resolution by the end of the month. The decision paves way for clubs to look beyond the season and plan ahead for the next one. The Ghana Premier League was in its 15th week before Covid-19 forced its suspension. By Daniel Nana Kwame…

Former Member of Parliament David Apasera has thrown in his interest to be flagbearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC) for the December 7 elections. The stalwart member of the PNC appears to be the favourite of all and already some of the party’s bigwigs are rooting for him to lead them into the eighth elections of the Fourth Republic. If he is elected flagbearer, the former Bolgatanga MP will be only the third presidential candidate of the party after founder Dr Hilla Limann. PROFILE OF HON DAVID APASERA HON DAVID APASERA WAS THE PNC MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR BOLGATANGA…

Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has hinted that the second part of his exposé on the coronavirus pandemic will show how some persons profiteered from measures taken by government to ease the burden on Ghanaians during the lockdown in Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi. He cited the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) as complicit in the sale of food meant to be distributed freely for residents. “I recall when the announcement was being made of the food that should be given to the poor and I was driving to AMA because my source had told me that while the President was…

Ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas says he was driven by the need to protect the public from herbal medicine peddlers in undertaking his latest investigation. The latest undercover work, which was premiered on TV3 on Monday, June 29, exposes quack doctors who sold herbal medicine said to cure the novel coronavirus to unsuspecting members of the public. Before the premiere on the piece titled ‘Corona Quacks’, many were expectant another high-ranking public official will be exposed. But same appeared disappointed since the work did not cite any public officer. https://twitter.com/Mr_Ceyram/status/1277708565290024963?s=20 https://twitter.com/eli___k/status/1277717443826405379?s=20 https://twitter.com/sir_virgi69/status/1277706561247424517?s=20 https://twitter.com/archipalagodb/status/1277564796322435072?s=20 But in an exclusive interview on…

Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) Professor Joshua Alabi has been named John Dramani Mahama’s Campaign Manager for the December 7 elections. Prof Alabi, who challenged Mr Mahama in presidential primary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) last year, was named as the National Campaign Manager after a meeting of the party’s Functional Executive Committee (FEC) on Monday, June 29. The former Member of Parliament will be assisted by former Deputy Chief of Staff Dr Alex Segbefia, who was also instrumental in getting the late John Evans Atta Mills elected in 2008. These were contained…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stressed that any Ghanaian who aids an ineligible person to register in the forthcoming registration exercise will be made to face the full rigours of Ghana’s laws. He said the December 7 elections must be one for only Ghanaians and not for other West African nationals. President Akufo-Addo, therefore, urged all eligible Ghanaians, no matter political persuasion, and of age and of sound mind, to go out and register so that they can exercise their civic responsibility on December 7. He made this known in a televised address on Monday, June 29. The Electoral…

More than 40,000 hybrid oil palm seedlings are expected be distributed to about 500 farmers in the Mpohor District of the Western Region. The distribution of the seedlings, which is an initiative under the Tree-Crop Module of the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) through the Mineral Development Fund is meant to create more employment and to facilitate development, particularly at the local level. It is being implemented by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in collaboration with the Local Government Ministry across the country. It forms part of government’s plan to provide additional revenue to farmers in mining…

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) Jean Adukwei Mensa has urged Ghanaians to disregard assertions within some quarters that the new voter registration exercise is aimed at disenfranchising a group of voters. She insisted that the rationale behind the exercise is not to achieve anything like that. “On the contrary, it is to ensure that all our citizens who qualify are accorded the opportunity to register and cast their votes,” Mrs Mensa said on Monday, June 29. She was addressing journalists on the eve of the nationwide voter registration exercise. The exercise starts at 7:00am and ends at 6:00pm…