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Mahama picked Opoku-Agyemang to avoid competition in 2024 – Napo

Minister for Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has said former President John Dramani Mahama settling on Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemeng as a running mate is a strategy the NDC flagbearer is using to avoid competition in 2024. Deducing his analysis from an analogy used by the former president, Mr Opoku Prempeh said he is suspicious Mr Mahama believing his running ...

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EC Filing Fee: Akua Donkor deposits GH¢100,000 to show readiness

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Monday, September 14, 2020, opened online nominations for presidential and parliamentary aspirants for the December 7th general elections. The commission fixed the filing fee for presidential aspirants at GH¢100,000 and that for parliamentary aspirants at GH¢10,000. The figure for the presidential aspirants was a 100 per cent increase over the 2016 filing fee, while that ...

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Everybody knows Mahama can’t read – Napo jabs

The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has taken a swipe at former President John Dramani Mahama by questioning the rationale behind some promises made by the NDC’s flagbearer in his manifesto for the 2020 elections relative to the education sector. According to the minister, former President Mahama is going about lying to the public and contradicting himself just ...

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‘No Payment, No entry’ comes into effect today at KIA

The “No Payment, No entry” policy for inbound airline passengers, which was deferred last week at the instance of international airlines operating in the country, comes into effect on September 21. By this new policy, incoming airline passengers must pay online for the mandatory COVID-19 test upon arrival at Kotoka International Airport before boarding their flights, according to a directive ...

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Irregularities cited in US$150 coronavirus test at Kotoka Airport

The Herald, has landed reports from the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra, painting a bad picture about the US$150 per a personCOVID-19 testing of travellers arriving in Ghana by the private company; Frontier Healthcare. The issues range from illegal operations, extortion, lack of staff, tax avoidance among others, some of which the policy research and advocacy group, IMANI Ghana, ...

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Kumasi MCE honoured for being responsive to tourism-related development

Mr. Osei Assibey-Antwi, the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Kumasi, has received the ‘Tourism Personality of the Year’ award, for his instrumentality in the development and growth of the sector. His support for the sector, according to the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), had helped to whip up knowledge and awareness-creation of the tourism potentials in Ghana’s oldest and second-largest city. “We ...

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Nurses, Midwives begin nationwide strike today

Nurses and midwives across the country are beginning a strike today Monday, September 21,2020 over their service conditions. It comes after the failure of government to agree with the healthworkers on their demand for improved conditions of service. A press release by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association noted “having reconvened in the meetings held on 15th and 16th ...

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Coronavirus: $150 testing fee legitimate – Akufo-Addo justifies

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the $150 COVID-19testing fee being charged passengers at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) shows that the test is of high quality and thus justified. Speaking to the nation for the 17th time since Ghana recorded its first two cases of the novel Coronavirus in March, 2020, the President stated that, the test at the ...

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FULL TEXT: Akufo-Addo’s 17th address to the nation on measures to fight coronavirus

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during his 17th address to the nation announced that until December 14, the wearing of face masks remains compulsory across the country. The decision, he noted is to maintain the gradual reduction that has been observed in the number of active Coronavirus cases being recorded. “On Monday 14th September, I extended my Executive Instrument, the ...

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