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Government will on Thursday, June 11 hold a forum on the Covid-19 pandemic and the importance of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s vision of Ghana Beyond Aid. A statement issued in Accra on Tuesday and signed by Deputy Information Minister Pius Enam-Hadzide said the forum forms part of government’s broader strategy to capitalize on the opportunities presented by the Covid-19 to boost local capacity. It will be themed: ‘COVID-19 and our march towards Ghana Beyond Aid; Turning Adversity into Opportunity’. The statement said: “The forum aims at stepping up public education about the virus and at the same time mobilizing…

Second-tier football returned in Spain on Wednesday. Now the top flight is set to resume, with Sevilla hosting Real Betis in the Seville derby on Thursday (21:00 BST). There is plenty at stake in the remaining 11 rounds of this season’s La Liga with the title race, European places and the battle to avoid relegation all wide open. Games will be played behind closed doors every single day so the pace will be frantic, and there are a host of compelling storylines, such as Uruguay’s Luis Suarez returning from injury for leaders Barcelona, who are two points clear of Real…

A further 8,779 cases of coronavirus have been reported in Russia, bringing the country’s total above 500,000. The official national death toll rose to 6,532, after a further 174 Covid-19 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours. According to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, Russia now has the third highest number of infections worldwide, behind only the US and Brazil. But it has recorded lower numbers of deaths than a dozen other countries. Source: BBC

The King of Dagbon, Yaa-Naa Abukari Mahama II, has backed calls by some Ghanaians for the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to include the existing voter ID cards as a valid document for the new registration process. This, he said, will guarantee that all eligible voters get covered in the exercise. Yaa-Naa Abukari Mahama made this call when a group known as Anchoring Democracy Advocacy Movement Ghana submitted a petition to him at his palace in Yendi. The Overlord of Dagbon said the existing register will serve as a guide to the EC in its quest to compile a new one.…

A former National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress(NDC), Yaw Boateng Gyan, has called for an amendment of the 1992 Constitution to repeal the prerogative powers of the president in appointing heads of public institutions. Mr Boateng Gyan wants the institutions to be empowered and allowed to be totally independent in order to enhance their operations regardless of who becomes president of the country. He has said institutions like the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and others are independent per the constitution but are being manipulated because the chairperson (s)are appointed by the…

A lecturer of the Koforidua Technical University (KTU), Dr Benjamin Kwofie, has written to the Vice Chancellor to deny knowledge of a letter written by some 101 lecturers to the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), asking her to tread cautiously in the decision to compile a new register for the December 7 elections. According to Dr Kwofie, he knows nothing about the group, their intentions or the purpose of existence. Consisting of lecturers and staff of various universities in Ghana, the Concerned University Lecturers, Ghana wrote to Jean Mensa outlining reasons why they think the decision to compile…

Nigerian police say they have arrested a man after 40 people were raped in one town over the period of a year. A mother in the northern town Dangora caught the man in her children’s bedroom, according to police spokesman Abdullahi Haruna. The man ran away but neighbours gave chase and caught him, he added. The man was arrested on Tuesday. The police say the spate of rapes included an attack on an 80-year-old and children as young as 10 years old. There has been a recent wave of rapes and killing of women in Nigeria, which have led to…

General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) Solomon Kotei has revealed that the hotel and the aviation sectors of the economy are the areas of most affected by the impact of coronavirus. He explained on the Sunrise morning show hosted by Alfred Ocansey on 3FM 92.7 Wednesday that these sectors mostly rely on foreigners and others who travel around the world. Therefore, jobs have been lost following the closure of borders and other entry points into the country. As part of measures to curtail the spread of the virus in Ghana, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Ado closed…

Popular human rights lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu, who is the Parliamentary Candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Madina Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, has given the assurance that he would bring total development to the area if elected as its Member of Parliament (MP) in the December 7 polls. He says he is capable of reaching out to people regardless of cultural differences or background to ensure development in the area. The renowned lawyer disclosed this on Yensempa on Onua FM on Tuesday, disclosing that he has already started supporting people just that he requires political potency…

The Upper Dixcove Traditional Council in the Ahanta West Municipal Assembly of the Western Region has banned Member of Parliament Ebenezer Kojo Kum and his “boys” from engaging in any form of political activity including campaigns and rallies “on their land” for denigrating the Omanhen, Nana Hema Dekyi. The MP and his “boys” incurred the wrath of the Council after the “boys” subjected the Omanhen of Upper Dixcove to gross public ridicule. In a leaked audio circulating on social media platforms, some of the “boys” of the Ahanta West MP are heard using mean words to denigrate Nana Hema Dekyi.…