theRapid Intervention Force and standby teams will be available at specific locations The Formed Police Unit of the Ghana Police Service has warned warmongers who may dare disrupt the ongoing voting process that they “will live to regret.” Speaking to Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show host Prince Minkah on Wednesday, 7 December, Chief Superintendent Naa Hamza, … Read more
The surprise presidential win of a real estate agent and political novice over Gambia’s leader of 22 years has the country, and many on the continent, celebrating. Gambia’s longtime leader, Yahya Jammeh, who once promised to rule for “one billion years,” conceded the presidency to Adama Barrow, after electoral officials announced results of the Dec. … Read more
Be careful when you hear that the lion has become a new convert and he’s on his way to the Church or the Mosque. Chances are that he wants to mingle with the saints and receive baptism. Or he’s so much loot —stockpiled in his boot that would sustain him for a while. But what … Read more
An expert has advised that the numerous cases of ‘missing names’ from the Special Voters’ register should be investigated. Theodore Dzeble, a former Communications Officer for the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), said the situation has been embarrassing. Mr Dzeble made the suggestion in a discussion on 3FM on Sunday. The discussion was about … Read more
The winner of Gambia’s presidential election told Reuters on Saturday he was keen to form a new cabinet to get cracking with reforms, a day after veteran leader Yahya Jammeh stunned the tiny west African nation by conceding defeat. Jammeh’s statement on state radio sparked wild celebrations in a country he has ruled with an … Read more
I am not a fun of change that I have no idea about, neither I am also a fun of status quo that is oppressive, suppressive and destructive. I am only for positive change considering the fact that many African countries called for change in governments after independence and only to retrogress in fortunes leaving … Read more
Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who once vowed to rule the tiny West African nation for “a billion years”, said he had accepted his shock election defeat on Friday, 22 years after seizing power in a coup. Voting on Thursday against Jammeh was a rare show of defiance against a leader who has ruled by decree … Read more
Chapter 7 of the the 1992 constitution is the REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE under which Article 42 grants every citizen of Ghana who is 18 years of age and above, of sound mind the right to vote and the entitlement to be registered as a voter for the purposes of public elections and referenda. Do … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will ensure an end to the resort to transfers or re-assignments as punishment for police personnel, acting General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu, has disclosed. “Transfers and re-assignments will not be used as tools of coercion or instruments of punishment for security officers. It is inhuman to disrupt … Read more
Reports indicate that Nana Addo’s security as well as Alhassan Abubarkar were taken to the BNI cells. At the moment, no charges have been leveled against the two A strange incident happened at the premises of the FlagStaff House on Sunday. The BNI picked up a member of NPP Flagbearer Nana Addo’s security detail and one other, while … Read more
The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has picked up a member of NPP Presidential candidate Akufo-Addo’s security detail and one other supporter while they are jogging by the Flagstaff House in Accra. The incident happened last Sunday morning at about 8am, New Patriotic Party member John Kumah told myjoyonline.com, after he was granted access to … Read more
The promise of jobs and change in lives that came with the establishment of the Aveyime Rice Factory has been shattered. Government owns 60 percent shares in Prairie Volta Limited (PVL) as the majority shareholder with 30 percent directly through the Ministry of Food & Agriculture, and 30 percent indirectly through the GCB Bank, but … Read more
Over the weekend, His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama resorted to divisive and ethnocentric campaign language in campaigning in the Upper West region. His comments were in bad taste and deserved condemnation, and so condemnation we did. Predictably, supporters of the NDC were not happy so they started firing the usual ‘politics of equalisation’ bullets. … Read more
Bailey White, 13, stood patiently in line with her little brother Keaton at the gift store inside the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, each clutching a stuffed terrier named Charlie that cost $35 per item. The beagle, with a Trump monogram on its white bandana, was modeled on the pet dog of … Read more
The promise of jobs and change in lives that came with the establishment of the Aveyime Rice factory has been shattered. Two years since the Prairie Volta Limited (Aveyime Rice factory) was shut down by its management, the equipment The government of Ghana owns 60 percent shares in PVL as the majority shareholder with 30 … Read more
Over the weekend, His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama resorted to divisive and ethnocentric campaign language in campaigning in the Upper West region. His comments were in bad taste and deserved condemnation, and so condemnations we did. Predictably, supporters of the NDC were not happy so they started firing the usual ‘politics of equalisation’ bullets. … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) has outlined the task for security officers to perform on December 1, for the Special Voting and December 7 for the nationwide polls. “On Election Day, security officers are to provide security cover for movement of election officials and materials,” the EC has stated in Guide to Voters,” manual. The publication … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) has outlined the task for security officers to perform on December 1, for the Special Voting, and December 7 for the nationwide polls. “On Election Day, security officers are to provide security cover for movement of election officials and materials,” the EC stated in Guide to Voters,” manual made available to … Read more
NDC Communicator Kobby Fiagbe has dared Nana Addo to release the CCTV footage on the violent clash between his bodyguards and some supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Speaking on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’, Mr. Fiagbe told host Kwami Sefa Kayi that the confrontations were ignited by the bodyguards of the NPP Presidential candidate which resulted … Read more
US President Barack Obama will be leaving the White House in January, but does that mean that China’s Obama will be out of a job too? Xiao Jiguo, a 30-year-old Chinese actor, rose to fame for his uncanny resemblance to the outgoing president. Such is Mr Xiao’s fame in his homeland, that the direction and … Read more