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Assemblyman for Madina West electoral area, Ibrahim Abdul Razak, has opined that the ongoing Madina road construction is a form of political advantage to the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Abubakar Boniface. He said the MP is capitalizing on the road construction projects to attain more votes in the upcoming 2020 elections. There has recently been a sudden continuation of road projects that had been abandoned for a very long time. One of such projects being the tarring of the Madina Washington, UN, Chicago and Libya Quarters. While some residents say the project comes as a relief to them, the…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dismissed claims that the party is gathering some Ghanaians in Europe and the Americas to register in an upcoming limited voter registration exercise. There have been claims by some quarters that the EC is intending to organize a limited voter’s registration exercise after compiling a new roll for this year’s elections. A Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Otukonor Boamah, told Berla Mundi on Elections Command Centre on TV3 Tuesday, September 22 that the party is prepared to supply evidence to that effect. But the Director of Elections and Research…

The youth of this country have been cautioned to desist from violence ahead of this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections. County Director of International Association of World Peace Advocates (IAWPA), Ambassador Bishop Samuel Owusu on Monday September 21, a day set out by the United Nations (UN) to strengthen the message of Peace, asked the youth not to be influenced by politicians to engaged in violence in order to get them elected. He said “The 2020 theme for the International Day of Peace is “Shaping Peace Together”, therefore, as we celebrate this day, I do with sincere heart requests that…

Stock markets in Asia suffered on Tuesday from the fallout from UK and US investors worried about a rise in coronavirus cases. Australia, Hong Kong, China and South Korea stock markets were all down. Investors were also rattled by dimming hopes for more financial support for the US economy. However, European markets opened slightly higher on Tuesday and London’s 100 share index was up 0.4% at 5826.24 points. Earlier, Australia’s All Ordinaries ended down 0.7% at 5,973.50, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 1% to 23,720.06, the Shanghai Composite fell 1.3% to 3,274.30 while South Korea’s Kospi dropped by 2.38%, to…

Australia’s High Commissioner to Ghana, His Excellency Gregory Andrews, has asked his workers at the Commission to respect all the laws set out by Ghanaian authorities to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak in the oil-producing West African nation. Mr Andrews said the laws must be respected not only when the workers step out of the Commission but also within the premises. Speaking in an interview with Berla Mundi on the New Day on TV3 Tuesday September 22, he said, “The city that I was living in in Australia had no COVID-19 and so I felt like I was in a…

The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), has rejected reports that it is printing new voter’s card after the registration exercise. The EC said its attention has been drawn to reports on social media claiming that the elections management body  is printing new cards even after ending the registration.’ However, the EC in a statement described the said report as “false” and “misleading”. “During the just-ended Registration Exercise, few centers experienced the production of duplicate ID cards which resulted from registration kits bearing the same codes. “As such the cards in the video belong to those persons with duplicate voter ID…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said the Akufo-Addo administration played ‘sakawa’ game with customers of the collapsed banks and finance companies. He said the government was not interested in paying the customers until after the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had decided to do so in their manifesto for this year’s elections. The NDC’s flagbearer described the move the pay the customers as ‘a sakawa game’ being played by the government. The government has announced through the Receiver Eric Nana Nipah that all the customers of the failed finance  companies were going to be paid in cash. But addressing separate…

Kenya’s Chief Justice David Maraga has asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to dissolve parliament because it does not have enough female MPs. In a letter to Mr Kenyatta, the chief justice said the failure to have more female MPs was in breach of the constitution, and tantamount to discrimination against women. The constitution states that one gender group cannot occupy more than two-thirds of parliamentary seats. However, women hold far fewer than the mandatory 116 seats in the 350-member parliament. Parliament had either failed or neglected to enact legislation required to implement the gender rule, despite four court orders to do…

The Director of Elections for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has criticized the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) for conducting the voter exhibition exercise within eight days. He said this duration is woefully inadequate for such an important exercise which forms part of preparation for this year’s elections. The EC started the exhibition exercise on Friday, September 18 and it is expected to end on Friday, September 25, ahead of the December 7 polls. Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Monday, September 21, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah said: “The NDC wishes to emphatically state that since the…

In our part of the world, job creation poses a great challenge to nation building. It exposes our vulnerability as a country. Many people especially the youth have resulted to crime and many other undignifying means of livelihood. Over the past decade, we have experienced a sharp growth in the non-conventional means of public transport by way of motorcycles. Admittedly, it offers extreme advantage of maneuverability, convenience, travelling on poor and bad roads as compared to vehicular movement. It is dehumanizing to see men, mostly in positions of trust taking advantage of unsuspecting female job seekers. In many occasions, they…