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Ghana can become world’s largest democracy with ROPAA – Progressive Alliance Movemen

The Chairman of the Progressive Alliance Movement (PAM) has said soon Ghana can become the largest democracy in the world. Dr Kofi A. Boateng said although India is making democratic strides, Ghana could beat them with the implementation of the Act. His comments follow an announcement by the Electoral Commission (EC) Chair about setting up a ROPAA working group, which ...

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AG punches Mahama girl over Ghana gas audit

The Attorney-General (AG), Gloria Afua Akuffo, has described an application for judicial review filed by a former member of the Board of the Ghana Gas Company, Valerie Sawyerr, to quash the report on the audit of the accounts of the company by Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) as “completely frivolous and grossly incompetent.” The former Deputy Chief of Staff ...

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Witness’ credibility tested in NCA alleged financial loss trial

The credibility of the second prosecution witness in the National Communication Authority (NCA) $4 million scandal was tested at the Commercial Court yesterday, when counsel for one of the accused persons, sought to know why he had different signatures for various purposes. Mr Thaddeus Sory, counsel for Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, also put to the witness, Dr Isaac Yaw Ani, a former ...

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EC sets up committee to implement ROPAA

The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) to set up a committee made up of representatives of registered Political Parties and Civil Society Organizations for the implementation of the Representation of the People Amendment Act (ROPAA. In a statement signed by the Chairperson of the Commission, Mrs. Jean Mensah, the working group would undertake nationwide consultations with other relevant parties with ...

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Ghanaians in diaspora to get Ghana Card by 2020

Executive Secretary of the Ghana Identification Authority, Prof. Ken Attafuah has said Ghanaians in the diaspora would get their Ghana cards from the second half of 2019 and most would have had it by early 2020. Toronto meeting Addressing a cross section of Ghanaians in Toronto Canada over the weekend on the progress the NIA has made so far on ...

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Baffoe-Bonnie ordered transfer of NCA $4m – Witness

It has emerged that the immediate-past Board Chairman of National Communications Authority (NCA), Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, ordered the release of $4 million to a private company, Infraloks Development Limited (IDL), for the purported supply of cyber surveillance system to the National Security Council Secretariat which allegedly ended in private pockets. The release of the funds to the National Security which was ...

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Afoko poured acid on Adams – Investigator

It has been confirmed that Gregory Afoko and another suspect, Asabke Alangdi who is on the run indeed poured acid on the late Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Adams Mahama, which led to his death. The late NPP official, according prosecution witnesses, mentioned the names of the two as the ones who poured the acid ...

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Akufo-Addo’s free SHS, double track is Ghana’s major blessing – Mike Hammah

Hon. Mike Hammah, a former Transport Minister under the erstwhile [late] John Evans Atta-Mills administration has lauded the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government led by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on its implementation of the Free SHS policy describing it as one of Ghana’s best policies the country has witnessed. Speaking on Kumasi based Angel FM with Kwame Tanko (KT) ...

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I have no interest in new regions — Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that he has no personal interest in the creation of the new regions. He stated that there was no tribal or political plan to execute the process and said although he and former President John Mahama did not agree on many issues, there was unanimity and consensus on the creation of the new ...

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New Regions: Agitations needless – Akufo-Addo to Ketu Chiefs

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described as unfounded and needless, the agitations generated over who should vote and should not vote in the Volta region in the upcoming referendum to divide the Volta Region into two separate regions. Addressing the chiefs and leaders of the Ketu South Traditional Council at the Jubilee House, the President said throughout the history ...

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