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Stop using Charlotte Osei’s logo – EC tells media

The Electoral Commission has expressed concern about the continuous use of a logo it discarded about two years ago by some media houses. The Commission had cause to issue a statement on Thursday, June 11 signed by its Acting Director of Public Affairs Mrs. Sylvia Annoh on the issue. The statement described the current logo of the Commission with an ...

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NDC vs EC: Supreme Court forced us to abandon one relief – Amaliba

The Director of Legal Affairs of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Abraham Amaliba, has said the party was compelled by the Supreme Court to let go its first relief in its two-pronged suit against the Electoral Commission rather than a voluntary withdrawal of same by the party. “If your correspondent was in court, he would have told you that the NDC did not ...

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Álle klanten van KLM met een voucher kunnen hun geld terugvragen

Alle klanten van KLM die vanwege het uitvallen van een vlucht een voucher kregen, kunnen deze omruilen voor cash geld. Tot nu toe gold de geld terug garantie alleen voor tickets met een datum na 15 mei. Natasja de Groot 11-06-20, 16:29 Laatste update: 16:53 De luchtvaartmaatschappij benadrukt dat gezien de omvang van de crisis en het aantal annuleringen, het langer duurt dan ...

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We’ll remove child beggars, street children from streets – Gender Minister

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has expressed worry about the high prevalence of child beggars and street children in the country and has consequently rolled out programmes to ensure that they are completely cleared from the streets. Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister Cynthia Mamle Morrison attributed the increasing numbers of child beggars on the country’s street to the ...

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NIA begins distribution of Ghana cards in Kumasi

The National Identification Authority (NIA), on Thursday began the distribution of the Ghana cards to applicants who could not obtain their cards during the time of registration. The one-week exercise is expected to provide cards to those who registered for it but could not obtain them since they were not ready during the time of registration in December 2019. A ...

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Govt prepares to outdoor national airline with global resumption of air operations

Minister of Aviation, Joseph Kofi Adda, has said that government is aggressively working to ensure the country’s new national airline commences concurrently with the global resumption of air operations. According to him, even though the partial closure of borders worldwide has come at a great loss to players in the sector, the country has a rare opportunity to tap some ...

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Car dealers to hit the street over ban of overage and accident cars

The Automobile Dealers Union of Ghana has threatened to demonstrate if government fails to amend aspects of the Customs (Amendment) Act, 2020. The said Customs (Amendment) Act bans the importation of second-hand cars of more than ten years old, and salvage cars, locally referred to as ‘accident cars’. General Secretary of the Automobile Dealers’ Union of Ghana, Clifford Ansu, stated ...

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Pastor who threatened to kill EC boss tests positive for Tramadol, weed

Apostle Kwabena Owusu Adjei has tested positive for Tramadol and Tetrahydrocannabinol after a urine sample test conducted by the Police Hospital in Accra after his arrest on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, by National Security Operatives. The 56-year-old man tested positive for Tramadol and Tetrahydrocannabinol in a test conducted and results signed by Supt/Dr. Adwoa Nuro-Panin, MWACP (Psychiatry) and sighted by ...

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Attorney General makes case against old registe

The Attorney General’s (AG’s) Department has offered its position on why the old voter ID cards should not be accepted as one of the legal documents for proof of citizenship for the upcoming voter registration exercise. The Deputy AG, Godfred Yeboah Dame, in his filed legal argument, cited a number of decisions of the Supreme Court itself, saying the state’s ...

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