Author: Krobea

Analysis of data on presidential election results from 1992 to 2016 reveals that the National Ddemocratic Congress (NDC) have been losing votes in Ashanti Region and their stronghold, Volta Region. According to the Governance Research Bureau, in the Volta Region, the NDC votes declined from 93.24 to 80.97 per cent while votes in Ashanti Region reduced over the years from 32.87 per cent to 23.32 per cent. Discussing the 2020 elections on Election Watch on TV3 earlier this week, Dr. Ezekiel Nortey, a researcher at the Bureau, said during the same period, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had been doing…

The former president, John Dramani Mahama has descended heavily on the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Madam Jean Mensah and his reason? Madam Jean Mensah is incompetent in her duties as the EC chair. He and his National Democratic Congress(NDC) have accused the Commissioners of a bad job due to some alleged irregularities with the exhibition of the voter’s register currently ongoing at various polling stations across the country. While name calling and pouring of invectives at the elections management body may not be new in the country, it is quiet novel and unusual for a former president and for…

The Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), Dr Serebuor Quaicoe, says the incidents of missing names and duplicate IDs that have characterised the ongoing voter exhibition exercise are normal. He said that is the essence of the exercise: to correct anomalies on the register. The EC has come under heavy criticism, particularly from the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), for the anomalies, which have seen thousands of names missing with others having their details wrongly represented. NDC’s flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, and his running mate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, suspended their campaigns over the week to…

The series of Covid-19 disinfection of various facilities and installations across the country by Zoomlion Ghana Limited have significantly improved Ghana’s efforts at halting the spread of the deadly virus, an impact assessment has shown. Since the outbreak of the global pandemic in Ghana early this year, the waste management giant has been at the forefront of the fight and disinfected thousands of schools, markets, churches, mosques, police and military installations among other public places against the virus. Markets have received two rounds of disinfection while schools are currently being disinfected for the third time by Zoomlion in partnership with…

The Minister for Trade and Industries Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has commissioned a newly constructed Business Resource Centre (BRC) at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region. The Business Resource Centre initiative is in line with the industrial transformation agenda of the Akufo-Addo government, and will provide a one-stop enterprise support center at the district level designed to provide a broad range of Business Development Services (BDS) to potential and existing entrepreneurs and enterprises. Currently, 67 BRCs are being constructed across the country, and are at various stages of completion. Thirty-seven of them have been completed with the other 30 at advanced stages…

Black Stars head coach Charles Kwabla Akonnor has named six new players in his 23-man squad for Ghana’s preparatory game against the Eagles of Mali in Turkey on Friday, October 9, 2020. Akonnor will be sliding into his first assignment since his appointment earlier this year, with the emergence of coronavirus disrupting the global football calendar. 3Sports takes a look at the 6 debutants including former Aduana Stars defender Yakubu Mohammed and Amiens midfielder Emmanuel Lomotey. Benson Anang – MK Zilina At age 18, Benson Anang joined MK Zilina in Slovakia from Ghanaian lower-tier side New Life Academy after a…

Afrobeat singer Kelyvn Boy is set to release his first ever album titled ‘Black Star’. The ‘Mea’ hitmaker said he has 12 songs on it and a feature with a Grammy nominee. He just released a single from the set-to-be-released album, ‘Mata’. Speaking on TV3’s Newday, Kelvyn Boy noted that he wasn’t disappointed that DopeNation won the Afrobeat Song of the Year award at this year’s Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs). “I wasn’t disappointed that I didn’t win the Afrobeat Song Award of the Year. “DopeNation deserved it as much I did.” He stated that even though DopeNation does Afrobeats,…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) will reopen the 2020 voter register for those who were unable to register during the registration exercise. The register will be reopened on Thursday, October 1 at the Commission’s district offices nationwide. It is currently undergoing exhibition for verification and correction of details by voters. In a statement issued on Thursday, September 24, the EC said the move is to “give opportunity to those who have attained the age of Eighteen (18) and Citizens who for one reason or the other were not able to register in the just ended Registration Exercise”. The registration will…

Beginning Thursday, October 1, 2020, a new cocoa producer price of GH¢10,560 per metric ton, equivalent to GH¢660 per bag will be paid for the coming 2020/21 crop year. This represents a hike of more than 28% over the price obtained in the outgoing crop year of 2019/2020. These were announced by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, September 24, on Day 1 of his 3-day tour of the Western North Region. He was launching the Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme in Sefwi Wiawso. The current 2019/20 producer price of GH¢8,240 per metric ton, translating to GH¢514 per bag, was an…

Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama says his running mate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has also been caught in the web of anomalies that have characterized the ongoing voter exhibition exercise. “In the Central Region, glaring cases of duplication of card numbers were also recorded in 14 centers in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Constituency. “And one of such cases involved my running mate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang,” Mr Mahama told journalists in Accra on Thursday, September 24. He explained that Prof Opoku-Agyemang was asked to get to the district office with her card to have it replaced. “Being…