Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has cautioned actors in this year’s general elections, especially the candidates, to restrain their emotional outburst to avoid mental attack. He pointed out that mental attacks or health problems could be triggered by both difficult and pleasant situations, hence the need for people to … Read more
Upper West Regional Director of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, Azu Bosco Anyigire has cautioned politicians and the electorates that his outfit will not relent in its efforts in implementing all laws governing elections, the reason why the Commission refused to accept the nominations of some twelve Presidential nominees for the 2016 General Elections. Bosco … Read more
Last week the headmaster of the St Augustine’s College in Cape Coast, Joseph Connel was reported to have been interdicted by the Ministry of Education, for charging newly admitted students unapproved fees of GH¢430.00. According to Adomonline, “the Deputy Minister of Education said the ministry took the action after investigating (I wonder how many days of … Read more
Government has today signed two separate contracts with Vamed Engineering group for the construction of five district hospitals and a polyclinic in the country. The District Hospitals will be situated at Buipe, Tolon, Sawla, Somanya and Vheta in the Volta Region and one Polyclinic will be placed in Bamboe. The other contract involves five separate … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) has clarified that there will be no electronic transmission of election results for the December 2016 polls. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) had raised issues about electronic transmission and concluded that the commission was not being transparent with the whole system despite the major role that political parties play in the … Read more
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has commended the European Union for supporting the Commission to embark upon voter education in all the ten regions of the country. Mr Samuel Akuamoah, the Deputy Chairman of Operations of the Commission, said this at Sandema in the Builsa South District of the Upper East Region at … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) has said it will hold on with the publication of notice of polls until all court cases following the disqualification of some presidential aspirants have been cleared. According to the Greater Accra Regional Director of the EC, Mr Kwame Amoah the move will however not in any way affect the calendar … Read more
The Board of Governors of St Augustine’s College, has slammed the interdiction of Mr Joseph Connel, the school’s Head Master, saying the action was not premised on the needed investigations and natural justice. Mr Connel was interdicted on the premise that he collected unapproved fees and the Board at an emergency meeting on Monday, October … Read more
All 147 Parliamentary Candidates of the various political parties who filed their nomination forms to contest for seats in the Greater Accra Region have been cleared to run for the poll on December 7, the Regional Director of the Electoral Commission has disclosed. According to Mr Kwame Amoah, out of the total number, 28 are … Read more
The National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) has trained executives of political parties in the Nanumba North constituency in the Northern Region. The programme which was done in collaboration with European Union and with the support from Regional Advisory Information Network Systems (RAINS) is to ensure peace before, during and after the December 7 general … Read more
Hundred Members of Parliament (MPs) have filed their nomination to contest the 23 constituency seats in the Central Region. Mrs. Philomena Adusei, Regional Director of the Electoral Commission, who spoke with The Ghanaian Times in an interview on Thursday, said all the forms had been forwarded to the EC head office in Accra to determine … Read more
All 147 parliamentary aspirants in the Greater Accra Region have been cleared by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to contest the December 7 elections, the regional director of elections has said. The aspirants have successfully paid their filing fees of GH¢10,000 each as well, George Kwame Amoah added. Speaking on TV3’s Midday Live on Friday, … Read more
All 147 parliamentary aspirants in the Greater Accra Region have been cleared by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to contest the December 7 elections, the regional director of elections has said. The aspirants have successfully paid their filing fees of GH¢10,000 each as well, George Kwame Amoah added. Speaking on TV3’s Midday Live on Friday, … Read more
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has scaled up the effort to galvanize people to go out to vote in the coming general election as it takes the voter education campaign to institutions training people with physical disabilities. Mr. Raphael Wilson Arthur, its Deputy Ashanti Regional Director, said the Commission was determined to go … Read more
The Electoral Commission has approved nominations of parliamentary candidates of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for this year’s general elections. The commission’s Ashanti Regional Director, Serebour Quarcoo, told Citi News that his outfit also accepted the nomination of candidates of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and the … Read more
The Deputy Ashanti Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), Lawrence Sarpong has denied the disqualification of 24 MP aspirants in the Ashanti Region. In an exclusive interview with Ultimate FM’s Fremah Boakye, Mr. Sarpong said he is not aware where the information is emanating from insisting no such report has been brought to his … Read more
Reverend Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, Secretary General of Christian Council of Ghana, has said there is too much falsehood and mistrust among many in the society today. He said falsehood and mistrust is so pervasive in Ghana’s political front and this is causing tension and confusion among the people and it is likely to endanger the … Read more
A total of 240 candidates have filed their nomination to contest the 47 parliamentary seats in the Ashanti Region in the December 07 polls. Mr. Serebour Quaicoe, the Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), who announced this said 35 of them were females and the remaining 205, males. He indicated that 19 people were … Read more
Ghana’s contemporary international music icon, Stonebwoy, has hinted that he is adding farming to his occupation. Stonebwoy was crowned the brand ambassador for “Maso,’’ a programme to get over 80,000 youth in cocoa growing areas in the country to go into cocoa cultivation. He told the enthusiastic youth that he decided to associate himself with … Read more
With the Nigerian economy in recession, support for Small & Medium Businesses could be one of the key ingredients to carrying the country through these tough times. Assisting them should become a priority for big business and government. That’s according to Magnus Nmonwu (https://twitter.com/MNmonwu), Regional Director for Sage in West Africa (http://www. Sage.com/Africa), who says … Read more