1,726Mr.Kngsley Agyemang, Registrar at the Scholarship Secretariat, briefing journalists in Kumasi today during the start of the interview session of 2020/2021 tertiary students who applied for scholarships at the Secretariat made it known that out of the 75,000 applicants nationwide,15,000 are from the Ashanti region. According to him,his outfit is making it possible to award […]
Author: Foster Ayisah
Nigeria:Soldiers deliberately gunned down IRT to free Wadume – Hamisu’s kinman
1,629 A neighbour to Bala Hamisu (Wadume), Aminu Ahmed, said the troops commanded by Capt. Tijjani Balarabe killed three policemen and two civilians attached to the Intelligence Response Team to facilitate Wadume’s escape from their custody. Ahmed, an indigene of Ibbi, Taraba State, also said he knew that Wadume had been involved in kidnapping before […]
Kidnappers demand N100m to free Dariye’s father
1,668 THE kidnappers, who abducted the father of a former Plateau State governor, Joshua Dariye, has demanded the sum of N100 million to release the over 90-year-old man, Pa Defwan Dariye. A source close to the former governor told our correspondent that the kidnappers had made contact with the family members and had insisted that […]
Pastor who threatened EC boss granted GHC100,000 bail
1,500Apostle Kwabena Owusu Adjei of Hezekiah Prayer Ministry who allegedly threatened to cause the death of Jean Mensah, the Chairman of the Electoral Commission has been granted GHC 100,000 bail by an Accra Circuit court. Adjei, as part of his bail conditions was to provide three sureties two of whom are to be public servants […]
Oil production increased by 15% in 2019
1,608A total of 71.4 million (71,439,585) barrels of oil were obtained from the three producing fields – Jubilee, Sankofa Gye Nyame (SGN) and Tweneboa Enyera Ntomme (TEN) in 2019. The total oil production in 2019 exceeded that of 2018 by 15 per cent. A statement issued in Accra by the Public Interest and Accountability Committee […]
NDC Presents Bad Products and Decisions for Election 2020
1,703 The National Democratic Congress(NDC) has unfortunately presented to Ghanaian electorates an unprecedentedly bad Presidential and Parliamentary Candidates for the 2020 general election. First and foremost, the 2020 Presidential Candidate of the NDC lacks coherent and superior alternative campaign messages, policies and strategies. NDC is still struggling to settle on a running mate to partner […]
Majority Leader Worried Over Defeat of Two Incumbent MPs
1,776 Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Hon Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has described it as unfortunate for delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to vote against some hardworking Members of Parliament (MPs). According to him, it is regrettable for Lawyer Ben Abdella Banda, MP for Offinso South and Dr Mark Assibey Yeboah, MP for […]
NPP Parliamentary Primaries:Boakye Asenso wins Bantama Constituency primaries
2,798A deputy Chief of Staff, Francis Asenso-Boakye has defeated the incumbent Member of Parliament for Bantama Constituency in Kumasi, Daniel Okyem Aboagye. The win in the primary organised on Saturday, is the third attempt of Asenso-Boakye in the move to becoming a Parliamentarian representing the people of Bantama. Graphic Online’s reporter in Kumasi, Daniel Kenu […]
NPP Affirms Abena Osei Asare As Candidate For Atiwa East Constituency
2,313 The NPP in the Atiwa East Constituency of the Eastern Region, on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, officially affirmed the candidature of the incumbent Member of Parliament for the Constituency, Hon Abena Osei Asare, as the party’s 2020 Parliamentary Candidate in line with the party’s guidelines for the conduct of the its Parliamentary Primaries ahead […]
Coronavirus in South Africa: Restrictions ease as Covid-19 cases rise rapidly
1,493 In the face of a deteriorating economic situation, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has opted to ease lockdown restrictions further even though coronavirus cases are beginning to rise rapidly. In the past week alone, the number has increased by 37%. But in a frank address to the nation, the president highlighted the need to […]