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EC, NDC disagree with filing procedure

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the Electoral Commission of imposing challenges on the Party hence its inability to file the nomination at 1100hours as earlier promised. The NDC said the decision by the EC to use a provisional register for the filing process instead of a certified one accounted for the delay of nomination submission. The Electoral Commission, ...

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Ghana will be off EU’s blacklist by end of 2020 – Deputy Finance Minister

Deputy Finance Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Kwarteng has hinted that Ghana will, by the end of 2020, be removed from the European Union’s (EU’s) crimes watch list. According to him, the government together with his outfit have already taken steps to ensure that the country’s name is cleared off the blacklist. He said Ghana has already received convincing responses from the ...

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Jongeren willen gratis anticonceptie en verplicht les over aangeven seksuele grenzen

Jongeren willen tijdens seksuele voorlichting meer dan alleen les over voortplanting of hoe je een zwangerschap of soa kunt voorkomen. Tachtig procent wil dat er op school verplicht les wordt gegeven in het herkennen en respecteren van grenzen. Ook moet een nieuw kabinet meer geld steken in de aanpak van seksueel geweld en anticonceptie gratis beschikbaar stellen. Hanneke Keultjes 6 ...

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Eerste corona-supersneltests goedgekeurd: doorbraak voor vastgelopen testketen

De nieuwe, supersnelle coronatest is betrouwbaar genoeg om te gebruiken, zo concluderen onderzoekers na twee weken schaduwtesten. De eiwittest is klaar in een kwartier en kan een doorbraak betekenen voor de vastgelopen testketen. Inmiddels zijn twee type sneltests door het kabinet goedgekeurd. Niels Klaassen 7 okt. 2020 Laatste update: 16:09 Onderzoekers van het UMC en het Amphia-ziekenhuis in Breda draaiden ...

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Agyapa Royalties suspension will boost investor confidence – Assibey-Yeboah

The suspension of the Agyapa Royalties transaction, pending a corruption risk assessment by the Office of the Special Prosecutor, will be a confidence booster for the country’s prospects on the international capital market, chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah, has said. In an October 1 letter to the Special Prosecutor (SP), Charles Adu Boahen, a deputy finance minister, ...

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Ken Ofori-Atta reacts to EU blacklist of Ghana, says it’s like a ‘sledgehammer thrown at us’

Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana’s Minister for Finance says the decision by the European Union to add Ghana to the “blacklisted countries for non-compliance with money laundering rules” is like “a sledgehammer thrown at us”. He made these remarks when he met the European Union Ambassador to Ghana to sign an agreement for some 87 million Euros budgetary support labelled as a ...

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2020 Elections: Protests in Talensi ahead of Akufo-Addo’s Upper East Region tour

Protests broke out on Tuesday at Winkogo, a key electoral area in the Talensi District, 24 hours before President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s timetabled tour of the Upper East Region. The protests were staged by the community members of Goriko, an integral suburb of Winkogo, where the now-governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) organised its last rally whilst in opposition ahead ...

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