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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has created massive unemployment with his bad leadership style, the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has said. He noted that over the few years that Mr Akufo-Addo has been in office, several jobs have been destroyed by his administration. He cited the way and manner in which the banking cleanup exercise was undertaken by the government as one of the, in his view, bad ways of handling a crisis of that nature. He said to the people of Navrongo during his tour of the Upper East Region that “This…

Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, has said judges have been trained on election adjudication to enable them handle election related cases fairly, sufficiently and speedily. He said the judges are prepared to handle election disputes in the December 7 elections. Justice Anin-Yeboah said this when he was speaking at the launch of the revised election adjudication manual on Tuesday November 24. “As we prepare for the 2020 elections, I wish to assure the good people of Ghana of the thoroughness, the professionalism and the patriotism with which we approach and dispense our duties. That will never change.” “As part of our…

Governor of the Bank of Ghana  (BoG) Dr Ernest Addison has said evidence from high frequency indicators – the CIEA outturn for October 2020, improved consumer and business confidence, and strong liquidity flows – have helped to deliver a faster than expected recovery in economic activity. These flows, he said, include payments to contractors, Special Deposit Taking Deposit Institutions (SDI) depositors, clients of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) licenced fund managers, micro and small business loans provided by government through the National Board for Small Scale Industries, and the policy and regulatory reliefs to banks and SDIs. Speaking at…

Week two of the 2020-2021 Ghana Premier League season was played from Friday, November 20 to Tuesday, November 22, 2020 across the various league centers. Week two produced great excitements and goals. A total of 20 goals was scored and three players were shown red cards. Here are 5 takeaways put together by 3Sports; Ignatius Fosu walking the talk One man who was so confidence his side will be having a good season even before the start of the season is Eleven Wonders’ head coach Ignatius Fosu. The young tactician is walking the talk at the moment. He has garnered…

Deputy Health Minister, Bernard Okoe Boye on Joy News’ The Probe stated that, “political leaders have a role to play in reducing the spread of Covid-19”. He said “political actors have a responsibility to ensure their followers abide by Covid-19 safety protocols at political rallies. Yet on the evidence of what has been seen in recent days, it is safe to argue that, political actors are shirking that responsibility at their rallies. Already, the Ghana Medical Association has warned of a likely rise in Covid-19 cases as political rallies intensify ahead of the December 7 polls. Monitoring our political landscape from last…

The National Chairman of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Alhaji Mohammed Frimpong has said the presidential candidate of his party Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings will definitely contest in the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections in spite of the death of her husband just few weeks to the elections. Asked whether he can assure the followers of the NDP that the presidential candidate will contest in the upcoming polls in spite of her current condition while speaking on the Good Evening programme on Tuesday November 24, he answered “Certainly yes.” “She is not going to campaign until the elections. She…

The Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen, says the significant amount of work undertaken by the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, requires that the Ghanaian people repose their confidence in him, once again, and vote massively for him in the 2020 elections. Addressing traders at the Kaneshie Market, on Tuesday, 24th November 2020, as part of the President’s tour of the Greater Accra Region, Alan Kyerematen told the gathering that the President has delivered on the majority of promises made in the run-up to the 2016 elections. “If you have been in Government before, and you are…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has urged Ghanaians to be wary of the promises being made by the presidential candidate of the NDC, John Mahama, in the run-up to the December 2020 polls, which is some two weeks away. Addressing business owners at Kokompe, in the Ablekuma North constituency, on Tuesday, 24th November 2020, on the first day of his 2-day tour of the Greater Accra Region, President Akufo-Addo stated that record in office of the former President in office is nothing to write home about, hence his defeat in 2016. Having presided over the work economic statistics in recent history,…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo never influenced the work of Mr Martin Amidu when he was the Special Prosecutor, Ghana’s High Commissioner to India, Mike Oquaye Jnr, has said. According to him, all Mr Akufo-Addo called for was for the principle of natural justice to play out in the matter of the corruption risk assessment of the Agyapa deal in which the Special Prosecutor accused the Finance Minister of wrong doing. He explained that it is only fair and reasonable that whoever ius accused of wrong doing is given the chance to explain or respond to the accusation. Therefore, he…

The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has served notice that it will publish the voters register again on Google Drive. Chair of the EC, Jean Mensah said at a press conference in Accra on Tuesday November 24 that the register which was published online, was pulled down for some modification to be done on the website. Justifying the publication of the registers on the web page, Mrs Jean Mensah said “We are enjoined by CI127 to publish the register. “We recognize that it can be more functional and therefore they are working to introduce more functionality into it. I believe…