The National Communication Bureau of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has notified all its communicators, media monitors, and officials that the biggest opposition party has boycotted Peace (104.3) FM’s morning show (Kokrokoo) effective today, Wednesday, 6 May 2020. A statement issued and signed by the party’s national communication officer, Mr Sammy Gyamfi, said: “This decision has been occasioned by the ...
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Bawumia speaks to facts and data; do same if you want to respond – Kwesi Amakye
A Political Science Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Dr Kwesi Amakye Boateng has commended Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s ability to speak to facts and data in his political analysis. The Vice President on Monday responded to former President Mahama’s numerous comments against the government over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic by reminding Mr. ...
Read More »2020 elections: You’ll lose to NDC if you handpick candidates – Amoako Tuffour warns NPP
A founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Amoako Tuffour has predicted the defeat of the party in the 2020 polls if it goes ahead with the option of handpicking candidates for Parliamentary positions. The General Secretary of the NPP , John Boadu had suggested in an interview said: “assuming this pandemic gets worse such that it becomes ...
Read More »NDC boycotts Peace FM’s ‘Kokrooko’ because of Allotey Jacobs
The host of Peace FM ‘Kokrokoo’ show, Kwami Sefa Kayi popularly known as Chairman General has revealed that, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has boycotted his show. In responding to a comment posed by a listener on his Wednesday, May 6 program, Chairman General indicated that the NDC has refused to appear on his platform because he insists that ...
Read More »COVID-19: Cases in Western North jump from 4 to 49
Confirmed cases of the deadly COVID-19 in the Western North region of Ghana have jumped to 49 from 4. According to a situational report by the Ghana Health Service in the region, all the confirmed 45 cases are contacts of the first case. The report added that contact tracing for the new 45 cases are ongoing. Ghana has officially recorded ...
Read More »COVID-19: Open borders to allow stranded Ghanaians return home – Ablakwa
Ghana’s former deputy Education Minister and Member of Parliament for South Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has called on the government to give a special dispensation to all stranded Ghanaians to return home. According to Mr. Ablakwa, just as the government has allowed flights into Ghana to fly home other nationals despite the closure of the country’s borders, similar arrangements ...
Read More »Fetish priest jailed over corpse
The Effiduase Magistrate Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced a 27-year-old fetish priest at Effiduase two years imprisonment for attempting to exhume the body of one Francis Kwabena Agyapong, who was buried recently. The court, presided over by Michael Derrick Ocloo, sentenced Yaw Michael after pleading guilty to the charge of causing unlawful damage, contrary to section 172 of ...
Read More »Court fines Akropong Kingmakers Ghc48K
The Akropong Circuit Court has fined four Kingmakers, arrested for flouting the ban on gathering, a total of Ghc48,576 The accused persons are Odehye Kofi Asiedu Adu-Mfum, 57, Nana Semenhyia Ohene Asa Krofa, 43, Benet Osei Opoku alias Ohenenana BS Opoku, 55, and Nana Odiasempa Krobea Asante,70, were Charged for failing to comply with the restriction imposed on gathering contrary ...
Read More »E/R: Five Health workers test positive for COVID-19
Five (5) Health Workers have tested positive for Coronavirus in the Eastern Region. The number is out of over a hundred (100) health workers exposed to positive contacts hence quarantined and being tested. Meanwhile, the Eastern Region has confirmed one new case of Coronavirus on Tuesday, May 5, 2020, increasing the regional tally to 95. Many health facilities in the ...
Read More »Health minister’s outburst on mask wearing pedestrian – Public Health expert
A Public Health analyst Samuel Arthur has criticised the Health Minister over his outburst on the wearing of mask among Ghanaians in the wake of COVID-19. The Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu while addressing a news conference on Tuesday lamented the recalcitrance of Ghanaians in nose mask-wearing which he says could lead to further spread of the virus. “There are ...
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