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Some victims who survived the June 3, 2015, disaster at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra are calling on the government to commit to the compensation packages promised them. The 2015 episode saw an explosion at a fuel station during a heavy downpour which flooded parts of the Kwame Nkrumah Circle leaving over 100 people dead and others sustaining various ...

Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen has that the Komenda Sugar Factory cannot be handed over to the concessionaire unless sugar policy to guide the operations of the factory has been put in place. The Factory in the Central Region was set to begin operations in mid 2020. But Alan Kyerematen told Parliament on Wednesday June 3 there is the need for ...

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) through the Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) has presented a total of 99,468 bags of Cocoa fertilizers to be distributed to 126 farmer cooperative groups within Wiawso and Akontombra districts of the Western North Region. Mr John Ahi, Boako District Technical Officer, said the 126 farmer corporative groups were from the Wiawso and Akontombra ...

Government has signed a historic €500 million contract for the construction of sections of the Western Railway Line. The contract signed on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, is for the construction of a standard gauge rail line between Takoradi Harbour and Huni Valley, according to Railways Development Minister, Joe Ghartey. The deal is considered the largest single rail contract in the ...

Former President, John Agyekum Kufuor has thrown his weight behind the compilation of a new voter’s register for the 2020 general elections in December. The former president claimed most people on the register used foul means to get their voters identification cards (ID) and that does not make the voters register clean. The debate on the compilation of a new ...

As far as the maintenance of law and order is concerned, there is no over-flogging the subject editorially. It is for this reason that we have decided to return to the subject following especially Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul’s warning that the military would not fold its arms as troublemakers disturb the country’s peace. It would be paradoxical if such political ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is participating in the Electoral Commission (EC) pilot voter registration exercise. The party has therefore directed its regional executives to attend the programme, an indication that when the registration finally takes of later parts of the month the NDC party may participate against its avowed opposition. The exercise commenced today, June 2, 2020, and is ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana is satisfied with today’s piloting of the new voters’ registration exercise being conducted nationwide. The exercise which is being held in all 16 regional capitals in the country is to identify problems associated with the new system for the technical team to address them. In a statement, the EC said: “all issues identified will ...

Parliament has disclosed that allegations by NDC MP for Ejumako Enyan Essiam that a question he filed in the House on details of funds allocated for the COVID-19 fight during the lockdown is yet to be answered – weeks later – are false. A statement from the Public Affairs Directorate of Parliament on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, indicates that the ...

Scores of people including political activists on Tuesday stormed the Volta Regional Offices of the Electoral Commission (EC) to participate in the piloting of the new Biometric Voters Register (BVR) kit and processes. The exercise is to test the efficacy of the machine ahead of the mass voter registration exercise later this month for the 2020 general elections. The two-day ...