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Next year’s Africa Cup of Nations will now be played in January 2022 in Cameroon. The decision comes off the back of a torrid year that has thrown everything aback due to the coronavirus pandemic. The executive committee of the Confederation of African Football feels 2022 will be the best time for the continent’s showpiece event to kick off again with the safety of shareholders of the game the major pointer for the postponement of the event. The AFCON was not the only tournament affected as the Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) will be played out in January, 2021. CAF president…

Voter registration is yet to commence at polling centres within the Odododiodio constituency in Accra, five hours after the nationwide exercise begun Tuesday. As at midday, none of the 19 polling centre within the area had started registering eligible Ghanaians for the compilation of a new voters’ register for the conduct of the December 7, 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. The exercise is advertised to start at 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. No reasons have been given for the delays by the EC officials in the area, our correspondent Grace Hammoah Asare reported a while ago. The delay, some…

Waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), has disinfected the Pantang Hospital and Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) in Tema, against the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak. Facilities and open spaces of the two institutions were disinfected against covid-19 and other viruses and bacteria. The exercise formed part of the company’s support to the government in the fight against coronavirus which has infected more than 17,000 people in Ghana and killed over a 100 of them since March 12. Corporate Social Responsibility for Zoomlion, Mrs Lola Asiseh Ashitey, reiterated her outfit is still in the business of assisting the government to…

Ghana’s coronavirus record has gone up by 390 new cases taking the national tally to 17,741 positive cases. The number of recoveries cum discharge has also moved up from the previous 12,994 to 13,268. Fatalities have however remained at 112 cases. Active cases have also gone up by some 116 cases from the previous 4,245 to 4,361. Twenty four persons are currently under what has been classified as severe conditions while six of them are in critical condition and four of them on ventilator. Director General of the Ghana Health Service Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye who released the new figures Tuesday…

Long queues have formed at various polling centres across the country as Electoral Commission (EC) officials begin registration of eligible voters for the compilation of a new voters’ register for the conduct of the December 7, 2020 general elections The exercise has however been fraught with breaches of the laid down coronavirus protocols as most eligible Ghanaians who queued at the polling centres Tuesday morning to be registered refused to ensure social distancing and wear face masks. There was chaos outside the Gbegbeyise JHS at the Ablekuma West municipality in Accra as hundreds of people without face mask queued in…

China has passed a controversial security law giving it new powers over Hong Kong, deepening fears for the city’s freedoms, the BBC has learned. Last month China stunned the city when it said it would criminalise any act of secession, subversion, terrorism or collusion with foreign forces. The move came after angry protests last year – sparked by another law – which became a pro-democracy movement. Critics say this new law poses an even greater threat to Hong Kong’s identity. They warn it will undermine Hong Kong’s judicial independence and destroy the city’s unique freedoms, not seen on mainland China.…

President Nana Akufo-Addo says the deployment of military personnel to Ghana’s border towns not intended to either intimidate or prevent eligible Ghanaians from registering to vote in the December 7 polls. “Let me state, without any form of equivocation that these deployments are not in any way intended to intimidate or prevent eligible Ghanaians from registering to vote in December,” he said. Rather, the President said “They are there for their express purpose, which is to guard our borders. That is the limit of their remit, and they will not be permitted to stray beyond that remit.” The President said…

Ghana has justified its decision to embark on a voter registration exercise and conduct the 2020 general elections despite the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus in the country. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in addressing the nation a night before the beginning of the registration exercise by the Electoral Commission said the registration and conduct of the elections this year is non-negotiable. “We must vote on 7th December 2020,” declared. He argued in the Monday night address that the country’s 1992 constitution “makes no provision for the extension of the mandate of the President…beyond four years” for which reason,…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, to take his accumulated annual leave of 123 days and hand over the affairs of his office to his deputy, Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu. A statement from the Presidency under the signature of Director of Communications, Eugene Arhin, explained the president’s decision is based on Sections 20(1) and 31 of the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651). The said Act entitles every worker including public officer holders such as the Auditor-General to an annual leave with full pay, in a calendar year of continuous service, an entitlement which cannot be…