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Incorrect wearing of face masks high — GHS LISTEN FEB 2, 2021 A survey conducted by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on January 29, this year, to assess the adherence to wearing of facemasks in the Greater Accra Region reveals incorrect wearing of facemasks was high in market centres, lorry parks, traffic intersections, and under heads. The survey revealed three communities in the Region where people did not wear facemasks correctly as Nima Market (73.6%), Glife Lorry Station (73.2) and Osu ...

Court adjourns Ablekuma Central election shooter case to February 15 Listen to article An Accra Circuit Court has adjourned the case involving a journalist who was shot during the 2020 general elections at Ablekuma Central to February 15, 2021. The suspect, Collins Quarcoo, also known as Kola, was arraigned for allegedly shooting Pius Asiedu Kwanin, a journalist with the Newswatch Ghana online portal, in the leg, and injuring some other persons at the Ablekuma Central Collation Centre on Decem...

  An Accra Circuit Court has adjourned the shooting case at Ablekuma Central during the election on December 7, to January 18. The court had earlier remanded Collins Quarcoo over the alleged shooting incidence at the Ablekuma Central Collation Centre during December 7, 2020, polls. The adjournment was because the Court did not sit on Monday, January 11, when the case was to be heard. Quarcoo, who allegedly shot and caused harm to three persons, pleaded not guilty. He denied the use of the offe...

According to the party, the rites will ne held at the Abossey Okai Central Mosque Park in Accra. During the elections, five people were reported dead in separate shooting incidents at some collation centres in the country. The five deaths were recorded in the Odododiodio Constituency in the Greater Region, Techiman South Constituency in the Bono East Region, and Savelugu Constituency in the Northern Region. Another victim of election shooting also died on December 16 at the Korle-Bu Teaching ho...

7 CSOs petition UN, foreign missions over election results dispute By Muhammed Faisal Mustapha / Contributor LISTEN 6 Some Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have petitioned Head of Foreign Mission in the country over what they described as misrepresentation of election 2020 results and the killing of voters in the just ended General Elections. They include Anchoring Democracy Advocacy Movement Ghana (ADAM-GH), Care for Free and Fair Elections Ghana “CARE” Ghana, CFF-Ghana, Democratic C...

You don’t deserve the President-elect title – Group to Akufo-Addo A group calling itself Voice Of the Nation (VON) is asking the President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to relinquish the title. According to the statement signed by Mariam Dzifa Mohammed, the Chairperson of VON there is enough evidence that renders the just-ended presidential results of the EC fraudulent hence flawed. “As Voice Of the Nation, therefore, our clarion call and demand for Akufo Addo to prove his honesty and...

Set up independent body to probe results – UN International peace advocate LISTEN DEC 21, 2020 Bishop Samuel Ben Owusu of Pottersville Church International and a Representative of the UN International World Peace Advocates, has suggested that Parliament of Ghana must set up an independent body to look into the results of the 7 December 2020 polls so as to restore calm in the country. “We have to be very cautious about the pockets of demonstrations taking place across the country by membe...

Go to court like NPP did over 2012 polls and stop the vandalism – Peace Council to NDC The National Peace Council has urged the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to call its supporters to order so they stop vandalising and destroying property as they protest and march against the results of the 7 December polls as declared by the Electoral Commission. This follows a series of demonstrations undertaken by supporters of the NDC across the country to drum home their rejection of the election re...

Election 2020: Set up independent body to probe results – UN Intl peace advocate The Parliament of Ghana must set up an independent body to look into the results of the 7 December 2020 polls so as to restore calm in the country, Bishop Samuel Ben Owusu of Pottersville Church International and a Representative of the UN International World Peace Advocates, has suggested. “We have to be very cautious about the pockets of demonstrations taking place across the country by members of the opposit...

Election 2020: You’ll account for every bullet fired – Ablakwa to IGP North Tongu lawmaker, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said he has officially petitioned the Speaker of Parliament to invite the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to explain the causes of shootings and killings that occurred during the recently-held presidential and parliamentary elections. Mr Ablakwa said in a statement that these alleged killings must be investigated thoroughly and the culprits punished severely. He said “...