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The Electoral Commission of Ghana has dismissed allegations made by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that some names of its members have been deleted from the newly compiled voter roll. The elections management body said the claims are false and should be ignored. A statement issued by the EC on Wednesday, September 23 said: “Our attention has been drawn to statements in the media by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its flagbearer to the effect that the Electoral Commission is carrying out an agenda to remove the names of its supporters and sympathisers from the Voters Register. This allegation…

If unchecked, corruption poses a threat to reducing poverty and supporting shared prosperity, the World Bank has said in a paper titled ‘Working in partnership is key to fighting corruption’ released on Wednesday, September 23, 2020. The Bretton Woods institution said corruption has long been recognized as a major impediment to development. From massive theft of state assets to the low-level corruption that erodes productivity and weakens service delivery, corruption steals from the poor and erodes progress, it said. “Corruption takes many forms. It is the foreign company that pays kickbacks or bribes to get preferential treatment, leaving poor countries…

The Government of Ghana has extended the implementation of the free water supply  to homes in the country till December 31 this year, a statement issued by the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources has said. According to the statement on Wednesday, September 23, this is to enable Ghanaians continue observing the protocols outlined to wipe out the coronavirus from the country. One of the key protocols is handwashing under running water. The statement signed by Cecilia Abena Dapaah said: “The General public is hereby informed that H.E the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has…

The regional house of chiefs for one of the newly-created regions in Ghana, Oti Region, has been inaugurated. It was inaugurated by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Tuesday, September 22 at Dambai. Dr Bawumia said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is determined to spread development across the nation, hence the decision to create the new regions. “As the President said in Goaso during the inauguration of the Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, Government is determined to bring governance closer to the people, and expand the boundaries of democracy in our country,” the Vice President said. “We are counting on…

Outgoing Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC) Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante has advised the two main leading political parties to stop creating tension and controversies ahead of the December 7 elections. Most Rev. Prof Asante said the actions and inactions of these two parties could put fear in innocent electorates and this does not help the elections. The former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana was commenting on the controversies over missing names in the just compiled voter register for the 2020 elections While the largest opposition political party, National Democratic Congress (NDC), alleges that the…

Students all around the country are idling and their minds and the knowledge they have acquired before the lockdown is going waste. With just two reported Covid-19 cases in early March, the number has risen astronomically to one hundred and forty-one cases with five deaths by the time the President of the Republic, Nana  Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced the Imposition of Restrictions Act, 2020 (Act 1012), and the Executive Instrument that imposed restrictions on the movement of people residing in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area and the Kumasi Metropolitan Area for a period of two weeks, eventually reviewed and a…

Selected accounting professionals have been taken through a sensitization workshop on the clean-up exercise in the banking sector undertaken by the Bank of Ghana (BoG). According to the Controller and Accountant General, Kwasi Kwaning-Bosompem, the workshop was to afford the accountants the opportunity to have firsthand information on what actually led to the banking crisis witnessed in the sector and to equip them to offer practical professional advice to the government, going forward. The BoG combed through the banking sector to ensure that the non-performing banks are either supported or collapsed. Some nine local banks, 23 savings & loans companies,…

Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency and Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has said there is the need to change the constitution of the political parties to enable all card-bearing members to be able to vote to elect executives of the party including parliamentary candidates. He said on TV3’s New Day Wednesday, September 23 that this will deepen the democratic credentials of the parties. “The primaries we hold should not be limited to a small group of people by the polling station agents. “We should allow all card-bearing members of the party to vote in the primaries. Not to only the…

The Eastern Regional Communications Director of National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dallas Ampomah Williams, has challenged the developmental projects captured by the New Patriotic Party in its manifesto for the Eastern Region. He spoke at the maiden press conference dubbed ‘Efie ny3’. The press conference led by the Communication Bureau of the NDC in the Eastern Region was to highlight what government has failed to deliver in the 2016 manifesto. Addressing the media, Mr Ampomah Williams said the Akufo-Addo-led government has only partially fulfilled three out of 21 Eastern Region-specific campaign promises captured in the 2016 manifesto. This, he said, represents…

Celebrated veteran Ghanaian recording engineer and record producer, Emmanuel Mallet, popularly known as Zapp Mallet, has said he does not make music for the fame or money. In an interview with Blakk Kobby on the 3FM Reggae Vibes, the celebrated producer insisted that producing music was borne out of his love for music and not money or fame. The legendry producer who has worked with very renowned and high-profile artistes like Kojo Antwi, Daasebre Gyamena, Irene Logan, Reggie Rockstone, Lord Kenya, Obour, claims the fame and money are add-ons in the music business which he as a producer does not…