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Private legal practitioner Dr Ernest Kofi Abotsi is warning of violence in Ghana’s parliamentary and presidential elections in December this year. He contends that there is “near absence of good faith” on the part of the two main dominant parties in the election –the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress. That, he indicated, makes violence prospect highly probable in the elections scheduled for December 7. “The ongoing accusations between the two parties and the refusal of the NDC to execute peace deals are ample testaments to what awaits us in the upcoming elections” he stated at a commemorative…

Tertiary Student Confederacy (TESCON) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the United Kingdom, Manchester has called on all the youth groups of various political parties in a press release to play a role in the development of their respective political party’s manifesto for election 2020. According to TESCON Manchester, if the youth involve themselves in the development of manifesto for election 2020, it will help in capturing the greater interest of the youth in it because the youth understand their own predicament than any other age group. TESCON outlined some problems they think Ghanaian youths are facing and stated…

Years of recurrent water scarcity has forced the people of Kabonwule in the Kpandai District of the Northern Region to embark on a self-help project, to construct their version of ‘one dam, one village’ for the community. The residents say they have for years suffered water crisis and all pleas to local and central government to construct a dam for them have turned on death ears. “So we intend to do it our own way by using manpower in digging our own dam,” a resident, Christopher Lanyan told 3news.com. With hoes, pickaxes, shovels and other implements, residents led by Daniel…

The University of Cape Coast has announced coronavirus precautionary measures that will see all its staff members currently out on international travels, quarantine themselves for at least five days upon their arrival before reporting to their offices on campus. The school, which is the first in Ghana to officially issue such measures, explained it is to prevent staff, the student body and the entire university community from contracting the virus which has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation. The novel coronavirus has infected more than 115,800 people — including at least 1,000 in the US — and…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, to make available the cedi equivalent of 100 million dollars to enhance Ghana’s coronavirus preparedness and response plan. This amount, according to President Akufo-Addo, “is to fund expansion of infrastructure, purchase of materials and equipment, and public education.” Delivering an address to the nation on Wednesday, 11th March, 2020, the President explained that, with the declaration by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of the Coronavirus disease as “a pandemic”, it is important that Ghana steps up her preparedness to ensure that, beyond the initial measures that have…

Former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has stated that advocacy for gender equality is not a fight, neither is it an agenda for women to lord over men. Rather, she explained that it is a push for enabling opportunity for women to take up leadership roles. Delivering a talk at the 2020 International Women’s Day celebration at the Christ the King parish in Accra on Sunday, March 8, she maintained that women are the solution to corrupt activities in Ghana, hence the need to support the global fight for equality. The programme guided by the…

The coronavirus outbreak has been labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of cases outside China had increased 13-fold over the past two weeks. He said he was “deeply concerned” by “alarming levels of inaction” over the virus. A pandemic is a disease that is spreading in multiple countries around the world at the same time. However, Dr Tedros said it was still not too late for governments to have an impact. “All countries can change the course of this pandemic,” he said. Governments had to “strike a fine…

The Media General Group will on Thursday, March 12, host the Secretary to the Emile Short Commission of Inquiry, Kofi Abotsi, to deliver a public lecture to commemorate the 1st anniversary of the commission’s report on Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence. A year after the commission has submitted its report to President Akufo-Addo and portions of it being rejected, the public lecture will ask whether government’s approach to the report assures the people of Ghana of an atmosphere of peace, security and freedom in the free exercise of their constitutional and political rights. It will also probe the likely implications…