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The Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has strongly kicked against calls on the government to rescind its decision to reopen schools for final year students. The minister, who has recovered from a COVID-19 infection after spending two weeks on admission at the University of Ghana Medical Center, made his argument on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo monitored by GhanaWeb, Thursday. “To what ...

The General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr John Boadu, has said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is resisting the move by the Electoral Commission to register final-year senior high school students because the biggest opposition party sees the beneficiaries of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s Free SHS policy as a threat to its electoral chances in the forthcoming ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has described the performance of the new Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits and the fingerprint scanners as robust, effective and efficient. The Commission said the frequent breakdowns and malfunctioning of equipment and devices that characterized previous registration exercises since 2012 was not experienced in the phase one and batch one of this year’s registration. Mr Samuel ...

Economist and Business Consultant, Dr. Ebenezer Ashley has indicated that the Ghana cedi has recorded its all-time best performance for the first half of 2020 than the first six months of any year since 2012 against the U.S dollar. Dr. Ashley made these observations in an interview with our reporter on the current developments in the exchange rate market amid ...

The management of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) says it is shocked by the decision of the workers to protest over an alleged sale of the company. Workers of GACL on Wednesday, embarked on a demonstration against plans by the government to privatize the company. But in a statement copied to www.ghanaweb.com, the GACL moved to clear doubts and ...

Youth Organizers of the opposition NDC are reportedly unhappy with former President John Dramani Mahama over what they say is his failure to seek their opinion on his running mate selection. After a crunch meeting on Monday afternoon, the youth Organizers are especially unhappy with rumours that former Education Minister Jean Naana Agyemang has been selected as the running mate. “How can ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) activist Dela Coffie has criticized persons who described former First Lady as overambitious when she sought to be Presidential Candidate of the NDC but are praising the selection of Prof Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang. He has described such persons as engaged in politics of convenience. Following the selection of Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang as running mate to John ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) yesterday commenced a biweekly update engagement with the media and announced that the registration centres were exceeding their daily targets of 100. Some centres recorded about 200, a figure which was beyond the expected target. In all cases, the newly acquired BVRs are performing faultlessly, a departure from previous times, Dr. Serebuor Quaicoe, Director of Electoral Services at ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) is encouraging every Ghanaian of eligible voting age to register their names at registration centers where they will vote during the general elections. This is because there will be limited opportunities to transfer votes this year. “Vote transfer this year will be for a designated category of people and not all Ghanaians, hence any person who ...

The call on former president John Mahama to consider a former minister of education Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang as his running mate has suffered a jolt. Some National Democratic Congress (NDC) heavyweights have kicked against her candidature, arguing it will erode the gains made by the party over the years to win the hearts of voters, especially floating ones. Naana ...