The country’s largest opposition party, National Democratic Congress has sent a strongly worded statement to the Electoral Commission of their intention to resist any new voters register for the 2020 polls. The NDC insists attempts by the EC to create new voters register on the back of the Ghana Card will be resisted fiercely. The party is of the …

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has inaugurated three committees ahead of its flag bearer election on January 26, 2019. The three committees are the Vetting, Appeals and Electoral committees. The flag bearer election, which is scheduled to take place in 275 polling stations across the country, will see some 270,000 delegates casting their votes to elect a flag bearer out …

A local mayor in Mexico, Alejandro Aparicio Santiago, was shot dead on his first day of office on New Year’s Day.   Santiago who is the Mayor of Tlaxiaco, was walking to his first official meeting at city hall shortly after taking office when a group of gunmen opened fire, according to a statement from the prosecutor’s office of Mexico’s …

  Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture has been hit with a 5.0 magnitude earthquake. The Prefecture is located in the central part of Southwestern Kyushu Island.   There were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries as a result of the inland quake and no tsunami warning issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). According to the JMA, the temblor, which …

Iran is set to ban popular social media platform, Instagram over “immoral content”, a platform which the President has over two million followers.   Authorities in Iran have announced plans to ban the photo sharing app, citing national security concerns. Iran’s National Cyberspace Council has approved steps to block Instagram, according to local reports, following crackdowns on other social media …

  The Chokosis in the Chereponi District of the Northern Region have blamed Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, for the recent attacks against them as well as their property by the Konkombas. According to the leadership of the Anufor Progressive Union (APU), the Chokosis now believe that the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bimbilla is aiding the conflict by helping his …

The country’s largest opposition party, National Democratic Congress has sent a strongly worded statement to the Electoral Commission of their intention to resist any new voters register for the 2020 polls. The NDC insists attempts by the EC to create new voters register on the back of the Ghana Card will be resisted fiercely. The party is of the view …

  Government has imposed a curfew on the Chereponi and Saboba communities in the Northern Region following the raging tribal conflict between the Konkombas and Chokosis. The curfew which takes effect from today January 3, 2019, will last between 4 pm and 7 am each day, a statement from the Interior Ministry said. The statement said the decision was on …

The suspect in the murder of a pastor of the Assemblies of God church, Francis Mugnanla Nabegmado, has been taken to the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital for examination. Francis is being accused of stabbing his uncle and a senior pastor of the Assemblies of God in Tema, Rev. Dr. David Nabegmado, to death last Sunday. He was immediately arrested by residents …

The newly appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra, Most Reverend John Bonaventure Kwofie, has called on all Catholic faithful in the Sekondi-Takoradi Diocese to always remember him in their prayers as he goes out to minister in Accra. According to him, he remains a “Sekondi-Takoradi boy” though the work of his ministry is taking him outside the …