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On Wednesday, August 12, 2020, His Excellency Former President John Dramani Mahama officially introduced you as His running mate for 2020 Election to the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr Usman Nuhu Sharubutu, cross-section of Muslim leaders and chiefs. That event marks the beginning of your political covenant with the Zongo/Muslim community. Clearly, gender Empowerment is a key issue that NDC ...

The Ghana Health Service has reported that eight more persons have died from COVID-19 in Ghana. This pushes the country’s death toll to 231. The latest deaths have been recorded a week after Ghana made an impressive gain with coronavirus recoveries, which stands at 39, 993. The active cases keep recording a decline with the latest figures from the Ghana ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Bortianor Ngleshie Amanfro, Sylvester Matthew Tetteh, has made cash donations and assorted items to the Ga Traditional Council in the Ga South Municipality towards this year’s Homowo festival. The Homowo Festival is celebrated by the Ga tribe annually, to remind themselves of their long battle against famine and how the rains finally ...

The Dagbon State has clarified that the King and Overlord of the land should be addressed as Ya-Na Abukari II and not Ya-Na Abukari Mahama II. This was contained in a press statement dated August 12, 2020, signed by the Secretary to Ndan Ya-Naa, Abdul-Rahaman Mohammed of the Office of the Ya-Na in the Gbewaa Palace. The statement also sought ...

The Minority in Parliament is challenging the claim by Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia that the introduction of Mobile Money Interoperability has created bank accounts for over 15 million Ghanaians. Dr. Bawumia noted at an event in Accra that his promise of a bank account for every Ghanaian during the 2016 elections has been partly fulfilled with the Interoperability platform. ...

The Executive Director of the Nigerian Traders Union in Ghana has warned that if attacks on his countrymen trading in Ghana must end or else, there will be reprisal attacks in Nigeria soon. Speaking on Morning Starr on Friday, Kacey Ogbonna said there is no justification for some of the attacks on Nigerian traders in Ghana adding that most of ...

Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah, the founder and leader of the Glorious Word Power Ministries has issued a rebuttal to a statement by the President of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council, Reverend Prof Paul Frimpong Manso which seeks to downplay the relevance of prophecies in elections. Speaking to the leadership of the NDC when they called on him and other ...

Thomas Partey will no longer play a part in the UEFA Champions League after his Spanish side Atletico Madrid suffered a shock defeat at the hands of RB Leipzig on Thursday night. The Ghana midfielder’s club were stunned when they were defeated 2-1 by the German side in the quarter-final match played in the Portuguese capital because of the coronavirus ...

Tension is mounting in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional capital, between members of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) and Nigerians retailers. Members of the Local Union are agitating over influx of foreigners mostly Nigerians in retail business contrary to the laws of Ghana. The local GUTA Chapter has therefore issued an ultimatum demanding closure of all retail shops of ...

Member of Parliament for Subin Constituency, Eugene Boakye Antwi and Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi Boasiako and other party executives have been summoned by a Kumasi High Court to respond to contempt charges relating to the recently held Constituency primary on Monday, August 17, 2020. Eugene Boakye and the rest of the executives, according ...