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When my brother told me that he had received his voting cards (referred to in Ghana as ballot papers), I expressed shock. “They sent you the cards? Really?” I enquired, just for emphasis sake. He took pictures of the voting cards– three in all– and sent to me via WhatsApp. “This is Sweden. Here, there is law and order and the systems work,” he said. I had told him how surprised I was hearing that ballot papers were sent to them to be kept in their rooms for days before the very day of the elections. In his case, he…

The National Democratic Congress has filed an application at the Supreme Court for the review of its judgment in the voter register case, in which the court upheld the decision of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) to exclude the birth certificate as a registration requirement in the ongoing voter registration exercise. A statement under the signature of the National Communications Officer of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi, indicates the party caused the application to be filed after being convinced by their lawyers’ brief that the Supreme Court was wrong in its ruling. “We have therefore placed our concerns before the…

Family of the 90-year-old woman lynched at Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region is calling for the arrest of the perpetrators of the crime including the Chief of the community. They say the circumstances leading to the gruesome killing of the old woman was against her fundamental human rights. The old woman whose name has been given as Dente Akua was accused of witchcraft by a supposed soothsayer. In a video intercepted by TV3, two women were seen beating the woman, while she was heard begging for her life. According to information gathered from the family…

A nurse (name withheld) has revealed that a lot of patients seeking medical care in hospitals have been subjected to conditions that can be described as medical negligence, some of which she said included wrong prescription of drugs, wrong spelling of names and wrong ages. When problems arise out of these situations, she said, most of the hospitals deliberately blame the patients in order to make the hospitals look good or exonerate them from any accusations. She told Alfred Ocansey on the 3FM’s Sunrise Thursday July 23, that some hospitals take a deliberate decision to cover up the wrongdoings or…

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has unveiled Italian sporting apparel company, Macron as the official ball sponsor. The deal is worth GHȻ1.6 million and Macron will sponsor the league for 3 years starting from the 2020/2021 season. The new sponsors will supply the Premier League with 5,000 balls per season and 1,500 bibs every season. Macron will be the official ball sponsor for the Premier League, Division 1 and FA Cup competitions. The General secretary of the GFA, Lawyer Prosper Harrison Addo, says he is delighted for the new partnership and the GFA will do all they can to renew…

An Accra High Court has ordered for the seizure of some property of Ecobank at its head office in Accra  following  the failure of the bank  to honour a debt obligation resulting from a court case. The order,  secured by a business man and two others is as a result a GHȻ4 million debt the bank owes them. The three individuals, Mike Jackson Agbemashior, George Tykhonov and Yuri Shelkov, had sued the bank over an issue in which an employee of a company they worked for, Yuri M Plastic,  falsified signatures of the Managing Director to secure loans  from Ecobank,…

Black Stars player and Real Valladolid defender, Mohammed Salisu, is set to sign a deal with Premier League club, Southampton. English newspaper, Daily Mail, have reported that the Southampton has agreed to pay Salisu’s release clause of £10.9million and he will sign a four year deal. The 21-year-old joined the youth team in 2017 and gained promotion to the senior team ever since, he has been instrumental for the Real Valladolid as he was ranked third in most clearances in La Liga this season. He made 32 appearances for the Spanish club. News outlets have reported that Manchester United and…