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Barely 48 hours after Media General broke the news about the Electoral Commission’s official website being inaccessible for a long time, there has been a sudden change in the feedback users get when they try accessing it. Until Friday day evening, the feedback users got from the www.ec.gov.gh was  as follows; “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded “The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.” This feedback, Head of Development, Tech & Innovation at MG Digital, Kwame Owusu Ansah explains is an indication that the website has used up…

The former Member of Parliament for Agona West, Samuel Kweku Obodai’s hope to return to Parliament hangs in the balance as the NPP’s National Vetting Committee has been petitioned to disqualify him. Mr. Obodai, who was in parliament for three terms from 2001 to 2013, has been accused of neglecting the party since he lost his seat to the NDC’s Obeng Inkoom in the 2012 parliamentary election. “He has not contributed to any program of the party,” the petitioner Samuel Krankye from the aspirant’s hometown Agona Nyarkrom said in a letter to the vetting committee dated February 23. “It is…

Some qualified newly trained teachers are demanding their immediate postings. The teachers who graduated in March 2018 as well as re-sitters for September 2019, are asking the Ghana Education Service (GES) management to post all newly trained teachers “who cannot access their postings” They have warned to picket from next week should the GES fail to post them or give them “any good news”. The teachers, who form the  Coalition  of  Unposted  Qualified  Newly  Trained  Teachers  Nationwide, want management of GES to immediately resolve issues with their postings. “We  arguably  believe  that   issues  concerning  our  postings  will  be  resolve  as …

One of the two men declared president of Guinea-Bissau has resigned from the post after just one full day in office, saying his life was in danger. Cipriano Cassamá was chosen by lawmakers as president following disputed elections in December. This was despite the fact that former army general Umaro Cissoko Embaló had already been sworn in as president at a hotel in the capital, Bissau. Guinea-Bissau has had nine coups or attempted coups since 1980. A former Portuguese colony in West Africa, it has also become a key trafficking point for drugs from South America on their way to…

A civil society group, OneGhana Movement, is warning of dire consequences for Ghana’s healthcare system and infrastructure in the event of coronavirus outbreak in the country. The group claimed in a statement on Monday that there remain low levels of official information on the extent of Ghana’s preparedness to deal with the potential spread of the virus in the country. It suggested that Ghanaian authorities have failed to ratchet-up interventions for the deadly novel coronavirus which has infected thousands of people globally and killed hundreds. Nigeria last week recorded its first case, an Italian citizen who flew into Lagos from…

British world champion Anthony Joshua will fight Kubrat Pulev at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday 20 June. Bulgarian Pulev, 38, is the mandatory IBF challenger to take on Joshua, who holds the WBA, IBF and WBO titles. Joshua won back the belts with a unanimous points victory over Andy Ruiz Jr. in December. “I am happy to have the opportunity to show the world how strong I really am,” said Pulev. June 20th 🗓 pic.twitter.com/4FbiftE8Cl — Anthony Joshua (@anthonyfjoshua) March 2, 2020 It will be Joshua’s first fight in the UK since beating Alexander Povetkin at Wembley in September…

The date for this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections remains December 7, the Electoral Commission (EC) has confirmed. The confirmation quells any speculation that the elections will be held on November 7. But November 7 could be the date for subsequent general elections, as the EC is yet to set in motion the process to have the current date changed. The Chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Mensa, in an interview with the Daily Graphic to either confirm or deny the November 7 date for the elections, said while the EC remained committed to changing the voting date, it would…

There is nothing as romantic as two lovers sharing a kiss. But scientists have come up with an evolutionary explanation which perhaps threatens to kill the passion. Academics think that kissing helps partners share bacteria, shoring up their immune systems and enabling them to better fight disease. As many as 80 million bacteria are transferred during a ten-second kiss, according to Dutch biologists. Sharing those germs means both partners are equipped to ward off the infections they might introduce to each other later on. Humans carry trillions of bacteria in the body, which together make up a ‘microbiota’ – a complex…

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has broken his silence amid public panic prompted by the confirmation of the country’s first case of coronavirus. The patient is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and flew into the commercial capital of Lagos from Milan last week. Authorities say he is clinically stable and is being treated at a hospital in the city. It was the first confirmed case of coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa. Algeria and Egypt have also confirmed cases of the virus. Globally, almost 90,000 people in 60 countries have been infected. More than 3,000 have died, the vast majority in China’s…

Thousands of members of The Church of Pentecost, Achimota Area, have embarked on a massive clean-up exercise as a move to rid–off filth and indiscriminate waste disposal in Achimota and its environs. The exercise forms part of the Church’s social responsibility to educate its members and the Ghanaian populace on the dangers of environmental pollution and also challenge them to become agents of environmental cleanliness. As early as 6:00 am, members from the 21 various districts of the church within the Achimota enclave converged at their district offices of the church ready to partake in the exercise. Wearing green and…