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Ken Kuranchie challenges Mahama to come clear on one million jobs promise

Kenneth Agyei Kuranchie, a former newspaper editor, has called on the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress to come clear on his promise of creating one million jobs for Ghanaians. According to Kuranchie, this is “a miracle” by John Dramani Mahama that requires greater clarification because since the world started experiencing the Coronavirus pandemic in December 2019, about “81% ...

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Voters Register: More than 30,000 challenged over eligibility – EC

A total of 30,462 applicants have been challenged over their eligibility to acquire the new Voters Identification Card, the Electoral Commission has said, on Friday. This constitutes 0.20 percent of the provisional total number of applicants registered, Dr Bossman Eric Asare, Deputy Chairman in charge of Corporate Services, Electoral Commission (EC), said at the Eighth Edition of the, “Let The ...

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Kufuor asked for his ‘seized’ car be released before negotiating for Ghana – Ahwoi discloses

Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi, a former Local Government and Rural Development Minister has said former President Kufuor used his Peugeot saloon car, writing off of his loan as MP and his release and others from Nsawam prison detention as conditions to be part of a Ghana Government delegation to talk to Nigeria about the restoration of oil sales. He said President ...

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This is the last mass voter registration exercise – EC

The Electoral Commission of Ghana has said the recently-ended mass registration exercise is the last one it will ever conduct again. “This is going to be the last time where we are going to compile a mass register like this and even beyond that, the Commission is anticipating that in future register compilation, when we are adding people onto it, ...

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Mahama concedes before elections? – Social media trolls over ‘8-year’ comments

A section of Ghanaians have taken to social media to troll theNational Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama over his statement that Ghanaians have witnessed 8 years of failed promises under the Akufo-Addo administration. Speaking after registering for the Ghana Voters Identification card, John Dramani called on Ghaianians to come in their numbers to register to enable them to ...

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Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah floors Serwaa Amihere in GHOne interview

GHOne TV’s presenter Serwaa Amihere got a major embarrassment on Wednesday when she decided to interview Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, the Information Minister, without getting her facts right. Amihere, during the interview, got the minister schooling her when she tried asking about the Emile Short commission’s report and recommendations on the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence in 2019. From the interview which ...

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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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