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The District Chief Executive (DCE) for North Tongu in the Volta Region, Richard Collins Arku, has vowed vehemently to win the North Tongu Parliamentary seat for the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP). Richard Arku, who is the NPP Parliamentary Candidate, is poised and very positive to oust the incumbent Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa. He believes his achievements as DCE in the area is unparalleled and that would do the magic to win the seat for NPP for the first time. The DCE disclosed this on Mantam Mpuntuo on Onua FM on Thursday, August 20, maintaining the people in the…

Black Stars head coach C.K. Akunnor has praised Andre Ayew after the player won several awards at Swansea City’s awards night on Thursday. Andre Ayew was very integral in Swansea City’s campaign last season, contributing 18 goals in all competitions and assisting seven more to help his club reach the Championship Play-offs. Ayew was named Swansea’s Player’s Player of the Year and Supporters’ Player of the Year in the club’s end-of-season awards for the 2019-20 season and his national team manager, Akunnor, took to his Twitter page to congratulate him. https://twitter.com/akonnor_ck/status/1296726829571747840?s=20 Ayew also won the Top goalscorer of the Season…

Chief of Elmina Nana Kodwo Conduah VI has called on Ghanaians to give President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo another four years to lead the country. Speaking at a durbar held at Elmina on Thursday at the start of the President’s tour of the Central Region, the Paramount Chief of the Elmina Traditional Area asked Ghanaians to heed to his call for President Akufo-Addo to change the country. He consequently offered prayers, in Fante, for the president, calling on the gods of the land to protect him. Omanhen Nana Kodwo Conduah VI symbolically presented GH¢1 each to President Akufo-Addo and three…

Security is a key factor for governing a country. It is the duty of governments to protect the citizenry. A nation in which there is a break down of security, citizens live in fear and find it difficult going about their daily activities. The political will of a government in resourcing security agencies, has a direct bearing on how a country is battle ready to confront emergencies. For the past three(3) and half years, President Akufo-Addo and his government, has done a lot to secure the territorial integrity and the internal affairs of Ghana. This ranges from retooling of the…

All seven accused persons standing trial at the Bole Magistrate Court over the lynching of Akua Denteh at Kafaba have been remanded into police custody. The presiding magistrate, Andrew Prince Cudjoe discharged the accused persons on their earlier charge sheets but they were rearrested by police at the court premises. The magistrate then directed the police to remand them into custody to reappear on Friday, September 18. He charged the accused persons to cooperate with police. Briefing the media after the proceedings, the State Attorney at the Tamale High Court, Salia Abdul Kudus, said the dockets of all seven accused…

Nigeria Union of Traders Association, Ghana (NUTAG) has criticized and chastised the leadership of Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) for unlawfully closing down shops belonging to Nigerians in Accra and some parts of the country. President of NUTAG Chief Chukwuemeka Levi Nnagi disclosed this when speaking on The Yensempa morning show on Onua FM on Thursday, August 20, describing the move by GUTA as “dishonest” and “needless”. The NUTAG president called on GUTA to close shops belonging to Ghanaians because he believes most Ghanaian traders have not registered as GUTA members and do not qualify to sell. Chief Nnagi…

The Chief of Adjumanko in James Town, Nii Attoh Otokunor Adjumanku, has advised the Ga state to celebrate this year’s Homowo in peace and observe all the safety protocols to curb Coronavirus. The Chief said the virus has disrupted everything globally and as such residents must celebrate the festival in decorum and in their homes. Nii Otokunor Adjumanku made the call in an interview with Onua TV after he and his elders had poured libation for the commencement of the Homowo. Accompanied by his subjects, they visited the family house in James Town and poured the libation. He explained that…

The Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has pledged that the next NDC administration will phase out all witch camps, particularly the Gambaga Witch Camp, to make the practice a thing of the past. According to John Mahama’s running mate, the presence of witch camps is a dent on the country’s image and democracy, stressing that the practice of tagging people, especially the elderly, as witches and relegating them to camps, would no longer be tolerated. Professor Opoku-Agyemang made this known in an address to community members and inmates of the Gambaga Witches…

After a public appeal for funds for Emmanuel Aparaku to undergo an emergency liver surgery, over $55,000 has been raised. The GoFundMe fundraiser targeted $55,000 or £40,000 for the surgery. But after barely 20 hours, a total of $60,492 has been raised. https://twitter.com/WeCareFoundat10/status/1296439217254551552?s=20 Among the donors is the First Lady of Ghana, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, who donated $20,000 to the campaign. https://twitter.com/Amgsarkcess/status/1296416433031778304?s=20 Source: 3news.com|Ghana

The Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, is proposing a debate of track record of delivery with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Addressing the chiefs and elders of  Dzolokpuita in the Ho West Constituency as part of his four-day tour of the Volta Region on Wednesday, Mr Mahama sad the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2016 did not appreciate the value of his government’s investments in critical infrastructure. “In 2016 when I was talking about value of infrastructure, my friends on the other side said, we don’t eat infrastructure, we don’t eat roads, that was…