Author: Krobea

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) office at Somanya in the Yilo Krobo Constituency of the Eastern Region has been ransacked. This comes in the wake of preparations by the constituency election committee to hold a balloting exercise on Saturday, January 18 for three candidates, who have been cleared to contest the party’s primaries, having received a directive from the national office. Personnel who manage the NDC constituency office got to the office Saturday morning only to meet the sliding door of the office vandalized with the computer, register and other documents missing. This has forced the postponement of the…

A founder member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Kwame Amoako Tuffour, says his party was just lucky to have emerged victorious in the last general elections given the register used. “We were very luck and I thank God,” he stated. He maintains that but for the “thorough” and “fast” work done by the party, the results would have gone the other way. He blamed the situation on the then Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), Charlotte Osei, who insisted on maintaining the register. Dr Amoako Tuffour expressed these on Saturday, January 18, when he took the hot…

The Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA) Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, has revealed that the Authority has registered over 50 percent of the country’s voting population in its ongoing mass registration exercise for the issuance of the Ghana Card. “We have registered over 7.2 million people as at [Friday, January 17, 2020]. That is more than 50 percent of the voting population as at today.” He further revealed that 94 percent of eligible Ghanaians that NIA’s mass registration exercise has captured “to date are 18 years old or will be 18 years by voting date”. The Electoral Commission’s…

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has so far successfully registered over seven million qualified Ghanaians in the ongoing mass registration exercise for the issuance of the Ghana Card. Out of the number, the Authority has been able to printed over six million cards and issued four million of them to qualified Ghanaians. “The NIA has so far conducted the mass registration exercise in the following regions: Volta, Oti, Northern, Savannah, North East, Upper East, Upper West, Bono, Ahafo, Bono East and Ashanti,” Professor Agyemang Attafuah, the Chief Executive Officer of the Authority, disclosed at a press briefing in Takoradi in…

Former Ghana winger Quincy Owusu-Abeyie has swapped careers after quitting football at 33 years to become a rapper with his first solo mix tape. The former Arsenal player, who also represented the Black Stars at the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, now goes by the name BLOW. Owusu-Abeyie told VICE his new name springs out of a lifestyle that blew his earnings as quickly as it came. He now hopes his songs about how he grew up in Amsterdam, role models and other issues can help young people after giving serious consideration to a music career for a long time.…

The political parties against the compilation of a new register by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) have been advised to approach the proposed dialogue with “open heart and open mind”. The EC was advised by the Eminent Advisory Committee led by retired Justice Francis Emile Short on Wednesday, after a crunch meeting, to dialogue with political parties further before implementing its decision to compile a new register. Some major political parties led by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have protested the move by the EC, saying it is not necessary and a waste of the country’s financial resources. Known together…

Director of Information Technology (IT) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Osei Kwame Griffiths has descended heavily on the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) over the move to have a new biometric voter management system ahead of the general elections. According to Mr Griffiths, all the technical issues raised by the EC for the controversial move “are false”. Speaking on The Key Points on TV3/3FM on Saturday, January 18, the NDC official argued that, for starters, the EC is not mandated by law to pick biometric data of any Ghanaian for any purpose. He said it is the National Identification Authority…

About 217 girls of Wa Islamic Senior High School in the Upper West Region have been displaced after fire razed down a dormitory block on Friday. Some of the affected students have been asked to go home in order to return the following week while others – most of whom stay far – have also been relocated temporarily to sleep in a classroom block. The fire destroyed several items including beds and mattresses, school uniforms, bags, note books and text books, all running into thousands of Ghana cedis. The students only managed to salvage some items, most of which were…

Michael Nyinaku, former Managing Director of defunct Beige Bank who was being held for stealing GH¢340,000.00 and money laundering was on Friday admitted to bail by an Accra Circuit Court. Nyinaku who is said to be on admission at the Police Hospital, was admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢342 million with two sureties who are to be public servants earning not less than GH¢2,000.00. The court presided over by Mr Emmanuel M. Essandoh further ordered Nyinaku who was not in court today to deposit his passport at the court’s registry and report to the Police twice a week.…

Heavy rains and thunderstorms have lashed parts of Australia’s east coast, dousing some of its fires but bringing a new threat of flooding to some areas. There have been downpours in the states of Victoria, New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, which have all been badly hit by the bushfire crisis. Major roads were closed in Queensland and power cuts were reported in parts of NSW as a result of the weather. But fire officials said the rain was helping to tackle some of the blazes. Fires have been raging in Australia since September, killing at least 28 people, destroying…