With just a few months to this year’s general elections, the various political parties are employing different strategies to win the elections. For the ruling NDC in the Sissala West Constituency in the Upper West Region, they are employing what they call “win your polling station” strategy. Disclosing this to ghnewsnow.com, the upper west regional […]
In Ep. 4 of GhMixMixx Kwesi E. Baako discusses the good and bad sides of Social Media and its potential impact as Ghana’s elections draws near. This follows suggestions by the IGP that they may shut down social media on election day. To join our discussion forums, please send your # to ghnewsnow@gmal.com and you
A Public Interest Advocate, Dr Ernest Kwarko, has called for the possible relocation of the National Capital from Accra, to a higher ground. This, he believes, could immediately reduce the impact of the perennial Accra floods by about 50%. He made this proposition in an interview, on the sideline of a radio programme on NyansapO,OTEC
The case in which a young man of the Kumasi suburb of Krofrom was said to have been brutally assaulted by some police personnel resulting in his death has been transferred to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Accra. This is to ensure that the police administration conduct meticulous investigations into the matter. A statement
Ghana’s former President Jerry John Rawlings has described a publication in the May edition of Africawatch Magazine that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease as a complete falsehood. The story published in the May edition of the controversial Africawatch magazine is titled “Now This Man needs your prayers, Parkinson’s disease eats Rawlings’ strength away.”
The Manhyia palace has waded into the ensuing impasse between irate residents of Krofrom in Kumasi and the regional Police command, urging calm among the two parties.The locals of the Ashanti region town have been on rampage over the death of 22-year-old Richmond Osei aka Tawiah following alleged police brutality. Family members and town folks
A New Patriotic Party (NPP) Polling Station Chairman for Apotuogya DA Primary in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region has been shot dead by suspected armed robbers. Baah Tweneboah popularly known as Agya Baah was shot in his house around 9pm after returning from work. Agya Baah who worked as an Agricultural Extension Officer
The family of a 22-year-old man who allegedly died from Police brutality at Krofrom have invoked curses on Police personnel in the Ashanti region after an autopsy report exonerated the Police. Youth of the community also took to the streets burning tires and blocking roads after the report revealed that the circumstances that led to
Students at Suame in the Ashanti region are abandoning the classrooms for internet scam, popularly known as Sakawa, after one of their colleagues hit a jackpot of GHC1billion through the fraudulent practice. Authorities of one of the most affected schools, the Suame King Faisal Islamic junior high school, are therefore calling on government to intervene
President John Mahama has encouraged university graduates to add value to whatever they have studied to make them an asset to any employer. He was addressing a congregation of the All Nations University College in Koforidua in the Eastern Region. According to him, to add value also includes venturing into entrepreneurship which is key to
