National Mediocrity On Display
My first experience of presidential election debates was the Jimmy Carter-Gerald Ford debates of that Summer of 1976. Mr Carter, a Nuclear Physicist turned Naval Commander and later, peanut farmer,...
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Retrieved Thumb-Printed Ballot Papers Fake – DCOP Kofi Boakye
The Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP, Nathan Kofi Boakye has said the supposed ballot papers retrieved by the police in Kumasi are fake. The Ghanaian media space on Monday morning were...
NPP Suspicious Over Change of Collation Center
New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Amenfi East Constituency of the Western Region is bubbling with suspicion over the sudden change of venue to be used as collation center for the constituency in the...
GHANBATT 12 Fetes 1500 Orphans In Kinshasa
Ghanaians as a people are noted worldwide for their hospitality. Wherever we find ourselves as Ghanaians, we aim to leave a mark. The success story of MONUSCO Ghanbatt 12 as Peacekeeping troops in...
Angry Police Man Disrupts Process
A police man who was angry over his inability to cast his ballot in the second round early voting violently disrupted the process at the Tamale Central Constituency in the Northern Region. The...
34,644 Expected To Cast Ballots
A total of 34,644 people are expected to cast their ballots in Sunday’s Special Voting exercise that is underway across the country. Sunday’s exercise is the extension of the Special Voting...
Officers Threaten To Stop EC If Their ‘missing’ Names Are Not Produced
Security officers, who did not find their names in the voters’ register on the second day of Special Voting at Tamale Central, have threatened to stop the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) from...
Confusion Rocks Subin Constituency Over Missing Names
Hundreds of security personnel are reported to be angry after returning to a polling center in the Subin constituency in the Ashanti Region to cast their ballots in Sunday’s extension’s of the...
Vote Mahama Even In the Elephant’s Stronghold
The Minister of Communication, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah has admonished electorates particularly those in the strongholds of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), to vote massively for President...
Cuba’s Raul Castro Vows To Defend Brother’s Legacy In Final Tribute
President Raul Castro led tens of thousands of Cubans on Saturday in a pledge to defend the socialist legacy of his brother Fidel Castro, who died last week aged 90 and will be interred in the city...
Police Investigate Murder of Chinese Miner In Ashanti Region
The police are investigating the murder of a 45-year-old Chinese who was killed at a mine site at Manso Abore in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region at dawn last Thursday. The remains of...
No Vote, No Escort of Ballot
Security personnel who could not vote in the Special Voting exercise in the Ho Central Constituency on Thursday have threatened to vote on December 7 before assuming duty post. They accused the...
Caught In ‘galamsey’ Gun Battle
My name is Latif Iddrisu and I am a journalist with The Multimedia Group. What you would read here is my near death experience some few weeks ago. It has been a long time coming but I believe the...
Nearly 2,000 Iraqi Troops, 900 Civilians Killed In November
Nearly 2,000 Iraqi troops were killed across Iraq in November as they battled to force ISIS extremists from the country, according to newly released UN figures. That's nearly triple the number of...
EC Sets Dec 4 For Continuation Of Special Voting Exercise
A lot of anomalies rocked the special voting exercise which took place yesterday, at designated polling centres across the country. From missing names to reports of multiple names on register;...
Bridegroom Dies In Accident On the Eve of Wedding
A 27-year old man who was set to wed Saturday has crashed to death in a motorbike accident at Prestea in the Western Region. Edmund Mensah was returning from town with his friend, 24-year-old Agya...
Trump Names Gen James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis As Defence Secretary
US President-elect Donald Trump has named Gen James Mattis, a former marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, as his defence secretary. "He's our best," Mr Trump said, as he announced his pick in a...
CPP Youth Caution Alien Voters
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) Youth League has issued a stern warning to foreigners to desist from meddling in the country’s elections on December 7. In a press statement issued by the...
Ghana’s Peace Depends On The Impartiality Of The Security Service
I write to you the security services as a former colleague officer of the Ghana Air Force, conflict analyst, peace advocate and patriot deeply troubled by potential outbreak of violence in the...
Trump Names Gen James Mattis As Defence Secretary
US President-elect Donald Trump has named Gen James Mattis, a former marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, as his defence secretary. “He’s our best,” Mr Trump said, as he announced his...