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Over 15 million put on Ghana’s electoral roll – EC

As at Saturday August 1, the beginning of the final phase of the nationwide voters’ registration exercise, 15,108,687 applicants had successfully registered. Dr Bossman Eric Asare, Deputy Chairman in charge of Corporate Affairs, Electoral Commission(EC), speaking at the “Let the Citizen Know” edition in Accra, said by the current figures, the Commissions’ target of registering 15 million had already been ...

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Nitiwul challenges Mahama on voter suppression

Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul has challenged former PresidentJohn Dramani Mahama to provide evidence to back claims that the Government was using the Military to prevent potential applicants from registering in the ongoing registration exercise. He said for the former President to cite the recent incident at the Banda area of the Bono Region as example of voter suppression meant his ...

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VW Vehicles Outdooring: Akufo-Addo hits back at naysayers

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has hit back at those who casted doubt at the establishment of the Volkswagen vehicle assembly plant in Ghana. At the unveiling ceremony of the first VW vehicle to be assembled in Ghana, on Monday, 3rd August 2020, President Akufo-Addo expressed his delight at the decision taken by the German company “to assemble a ...

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Military Officers at Banda are ‘drunkards’, they look like ‘rebels on drugs’ – Asiedu Nketia

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has questioned the level of professionalism of military personnel deployed to maintain peace in the Banda Constituency, accusing them of not only “reeking of alcohol”, but having the demeanour of “rebels on drugs”. According to the NDC Chief Scribe, instead of discharging their core duties as expected, the military ...

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Ken Agyapong lists Duffuor’s over GH¢2b alleged properties acquired using uniBank depositors’ money

Kennedy Agyapong, the Assin Central MP, claims Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, the former Minister of Finance and owner of uniBank spent over two billion cedis on properties using uniBank depositors’ money. The properties which in total costs $477,934,650.00 (GHC2,112,960,000.00) were acquired in various parts of the country. According to him, Dr Kwabena Duffuor admitted in a letter to the receiver that ...

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The NPP have performed better

The NPP and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is not saying we’ve turned Ghana into a paradise or better still an America of a sort. What we’re saying and of course very true is that, comparatively, we’ve performed better in our 3.5yrs than the 8yrs of NDC and John Mahama. What are saying is that, in less than 4yrs in office, ...

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FULL TEXT: Supreme Court judgement on NDC vrs EC review application

The Supreme Court has released the full judgement on a review application after it granted the Electoral Commission the go-ahead to compile a new register while excluding the birth certificate and existing voters ID as proof of identification. The apex court recently dismissed the application filed by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) which was asking the court to review that ...

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What did you do to alleviate suffering? – Bawumia asks Mahama

Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has asked former PresidentJohn Dramani Mahama what he did to mitigate the suffering of the poor and less-privileged Ghanaian and ensure inclusiveness while in office. Speaking from state broadcaster GBC to mark the 2020 Eid al-Adha celebration, Dr Bawumia said the electorate will judge the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on his record in ...

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Mahama ‘failed’ because he surrounded himself with non-NDC members – Kwamena Ahwoi

A former Minister for Local Government and Rural Development from 1990 to 2001, Professor Kwamena Ahwoi has said former PresidentJohn Dramani Mahama partially failed in his administration because he surrounded himself with people who didn’t belong to the National Democratic Congress. According to him, some of the lapses saw during Mahama’s tenure as President could have been avoided if he had ...

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