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+ The New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it has assembled a team of lawyers to challenge the results of seven parliamentary constituencies in the just ended 2020 general elections. The seats are Assin North, Cape Coast North, Pusiga, Bawku Central, Savelugu, Asuogyaman and Nkwanta North. Go to court Speaking at a press conference in Accra at the party’s campaign office on Wednesday, December 23, 2020, the party’s Campaign Manager, Mr Peter Mac Manu said even though the party was dissatisfied wi...

Assin North NDC MP-elect holds dual citizenship – NPP alleges LISTEN DEC 23, 2020 The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is alleging that the newly elected NDC Member of Parliament for the Assin North Constituency, James Gyakye Quayson holds citizenship for both Ghana and Canada. The party has since written to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking for an inquiry into the current citizenship status of the MP-elect. In the letter cited by Citi News, Solicitors for the New Patriotic Party, M...

Zebilla: Two gun down in separate robberies Listen to article A business tycoon, Lazarus Mba age 45 and young guy, Razak Mustapha age 18 were shot dead in separate scenes on Saturday in Sapelliga and Yelwoko communities both in Bawku west district of the upper east region. According to the Assemblyman for Yelwoko electoral area, Asoogo Abel, their brother and a businessman, Lazarus Mba, was shot dead at his residence at Yelwoko, a community near Zebilla in the Bawku West District of the upper ...

My victory is by Allah, chiefs and people of Binduri — MP-elect Abdulai Abanga Mp elect Binduri constituency The Member of Parliament-elect for Binduri, Hon. Abdulai Abanga said he has dedicated his victory to Allah, chiefs and people of Binduri in the Upper East Region. He noted that the people of Binduri bought his ideas and the policies of the ruling New Patriotic Party government. The Chartered Accountant by profession who was speaking in an interview with Modern Ghana News mentioned t...

Election 2020: Judges can be fallible just as EC – Ayariga to NPP The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga has said no amount of pressure from the New Patriotic Party(NPP) will stampede the NDC into making hasty decisions to go to court over the outcome of the 2020 polls being contested. Ayariga contends that if the NDC should drag the EC to court over the flawed elections, it would do so strategically, notwithstanding the fact that it has some 19 days to make concrete steps...

+ The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana(PFAG) with support from Oxfam, Ghana, has presented food items and Personal Protective Equipment(PPEs) worth GH¢100,000 to about 400 needy small holder farmers in the Upper East and North East Regions. The food items made up of rice and cooking oil were distributed to the beneficiary farmers in the Bolgatanga and Kassena Nankana Municipalities, Bongo, Talensi, Nabdam, Kassena Nankana West, Binduri and Bawku West districts in Upper East Region and Mamp...

SRHR, key to achieving Sustainable Development Goals 16th Dec 2020    |    Source: GNA Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) by women and girls is key to gender equality and empowerment and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Mrs Georgina Aberese-Ako, the Upper East Acting Regional Director of the Department of Children, has said. She said if the sexual and reproductive health needs of individuals particularly women and girls were met it would em...

Stakeholders in Upper East resolve to end child marriage Stakeholders in selected districts of the Upper East Region have resolved to end teenage pregnancies and child marriages in their jurisdictions. They said socio-cultural practices, ineffective communication among parents and children, lack of family planning, and parental irresponsibility were major causes of teenage pregnancies and child marriages in their areas. The stakeholders comprised traditional and religious leaders, Assemb...

Election 2020: EC officers who tampered with presidential ballot papers busted The two officers of the Electoral Commission who tampered with the Presidential ballot papers in Awutu Senya West and Bawku Central have been arrested and are currently in Police custody. The officers are; Mary Adatsi of DAJHS, Twimine B110104A, Awutu Senya West, and Ahmed Shafawu of the Alhaji Salam Grinding Mill polling station, Bawku Central. In the case of the Bawku Central, only one of such ballots was used. How...

It was about 6:53pm Ghanaian time. Vote counting for the December 7 election was about coming to a close at the 36,622 polling stations across the 275 constituencies nationwide, except for few locations where little delays were recorded. At that moment, Onyamia didn’t realise her candidate’s fate would largely depend on polls from across the 16 regions in Ghana. She was just excited he won. Nana Akufo-Addo‘s success at her immediate polling unit was to her a huge victory. Ama Onyamia, Ora...