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Asiedu Nketia defends NDC’s participation in EC piloting registration

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Ellis Ferdinand
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General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has confirmed that he personally sanctioned the decision to partake in the piloting of the compilation of the voters’ register.

According to him, it was to enable the NDC to get first-hand information on the challenges in the exercise so that they can make a case.

Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia programme, he explained that the party will soon come out officially to state their concerns about the piloting of the registration exercise.

“Though we will not allow the compilation of the voters register to come off, we still have to follow what the Electoral Commission is doing so that as a party we will have first-hand information to make our case when it comes to our fierce resistance about a new register.

“And I don’t see anything wrong with the NDC taking part.

“However, we are going to ensure that the EC does not go on with its planned intention to compile a new voters register,” he added.

Piloting Of New BVR

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Tuesday, June 2, conducted a pilot voter registration exercise in all 16 regional capitals in the country.

The essence of the exercise, according to the EC, is to identify problems associated with the new voters’ register system, as well as its effect under various weather conditions and find ways of mitigating them.

A statement issued on Tuesday said all issues identified would be forwarded to the Commission at the national level for the necessary rectifications to be made before the commencement of the exercise at the end of the month.

“All Ghanaian citizens of 18 years and above and of sound mind are expected to register where they reside when the exercise begins; with either a Ghanaian passport or Ghana card as proof of identification or have two guarantors who have already registered as voters so they can register,” the statement said.

Observers Or Keen Participants?

Interestingly, leading members of the opposition party were present to oversee the process. Social media went ‘gaga’ when former NDC Member of Parliament for North Dayi, Mr. George Loh’s ID card popped up after participation in the pilot exercise.

To some, it was a move that was not in consonance with the position of the NDC.

But Mr. Loh explained that he participated in the EC’s pilot voter registration exercise on Tuesday to be sure of how the exercise was ongoing and does not lend credence to the fact that though the NDC is opposed to the new register, it was preparing its members to get ready to register.

COVID-19: Keeping JHS Students For 11 Weeks Dangerous – Minority

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The Minority in Parliament has raised concerns over the decision by the government to keep final year JHS students in school for an 11-week period before they write their final exams.

Matthew Opoku Prempeh on Tuesday, June 2, explained that final year JHS pupils will stay in school for 11 weeks before they complete.

According to him, the duration will give the students and teachers ample time to complete all courses they were unable to cover before the COVID-19 pandemic.

But Speaking to Starr News, minority spokesperson on education Peter Nortsu said the long stay in school can expose the pupils to the virus.

The ranking member for the committee on education advocated for a shorter duration in school.

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“Many of us have called for the resumption of schools for final year students…looking at the situation but some of us are not happy with the long time they are going to spend in school. So if they should even go back to school it should have been for 2 or 3 weeks before they write their exams.

“The danger is that at the basic level they are going to mix with people from different environment so the challenge is that what if somebody has the disease…so the longer they stay there, the more the danger of having the disease,” Mr Nortsu told Starr News’ Parliamentary correspondent Ibrahim Alhassan.

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Dumelo to fumigate all Ayawaso West Wuogon mosques, selected churches

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The National Democratic Congress’ parliamentary aspirant for Ayawaso West Wuogon, John Dumelo has announced that he would undertake a fumigation exercise in the constituency.

It is part of the actor’s efforts to fight the spread of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

Ghana’s first two cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Friday, 13 March 2020.

The number has since shot up to 8,297 with 2,986 recoveries and 38 deaths.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Sunday, 31 May 2020 eased some restrictions to allow services in churches and mosques but with only 100 congregants for an hour.

Mr Dumelo, in a Facebook post on Wednesday, 3 June 2020 stated: We will be fumigating all mosques and some selected churches in the Ayawaso West constituency from the 4th of June. #idey4u #ayawasowestrising #nowwecan”

The exercise will form part of preparations toward the reopening of churches and mosques.

Read the full list of guidelines below:

Mosques

Thermometer guns must be provided for checking the temperature of members at entry points.

There should be notices communicating ‘No facemask No entry’ policy.

There should be the provisions of handwashing facilities with running water and soap and FDA-approved alcohol-based hand sanitiser.

Provision of waste management facilities with bins, bin liners, and single-use tissue.

Provision of adequate toilet facilities for use as members.

Regularly cleaning of frequently used communal places, toilet use surfaces and frequently used surfaces such as doorknobs or handles preferably every one to two hours depending on the rate of utilisation

Designate a waiting room or area where a person who becomes sick at the premises or at an event can be isolated from others while making preparations from evacuation.

Regular cleaning of places where churches use for service at least once every month. For example, fumigation and disinfection must be carried out by recognised entities.

Professional cleaners with the necessary Personal Protective Equipment and cleaning items to clean the facilities regularly and handle waste appropriately.

Provide adequate ventilation by opening windows to allow for the maximum circulation of fresh air. If possible, avoid confined air-condition rooms.

Display approved promotion materials on COVID-19 at vantage points to remind members to keep to social distancing protocol

Wearing of mask

Regular handwashing, coughing, and sneezing etiquettes.

Ensure a no-handshake, no-hugging, and no-spitting policy at all times.

Follow established evacuation procedures to enable evacuation of a participant, if a participant becomes sick during the event and has to be evacuated.

Mosques are to form COVID-19 a Task Force comprising of members who are preferably health workers. They must be trained in health preventive measures, infection prevention, and control and evacuation procedures like the Ghana Health Service.

Unwell persons are not allowed to attend the Mosque.

Elderly persons and people of any age with underlying medical conditions, heart diseases, diabetes, fever disease are advised to stay away from prayers.

Sharing personal items such as watches, jewellery, a purse, a phone should be discouraged.

If any individual is confirmed positive for COVID-19, all contacts must be traced and screened.

Mosques are to ensure each worshipper uses their own mat or disinfected mat.

Ablution should be performed at home before heading to the Mosque.

Worshipers are to use easily removable footwear such as slippers.

Allow people to come out of the Mosque to collect slippers one after the other instead of crowding at the entrance.

Bowls for offering are to be placed at the entrance of the Mosques.

Microphones are to be sanitised immediately after use.

Mosques are to spend at least five minutes of worship time on COVID-19 sensitisation.

Guidelines for Churches

Churches are to ensure a No-handshake, No-hugging and No-Spitting policy at all time.

No crowded dancing and waving of handkerchiefs during church services.

Microphones are to be sanitised immediately after each use.

All persons who speak or sing in churches must wear facemask during service.

Churches are to discourage singing in groups and instead use pre-recorded songs.

Pre-packaged communion bread and wine should be picked up by members at the point of entry.

Place offering bowls at the entrance and exit points for members to give offerings and tithes when entering or on their way out of church premises. Encourage cash transfers via mobile money or mobile banking as forms of giving offerings.

In observance of social-distancing protocols, laying-on of hands should not be allowed.

Source: Class FM

EC Suspends Pilot Registration Over ‘Technical Challenges’

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Ellis Ferdinand
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The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has called off a pilot registration of voters on day two and final day of the exercise in the Western Region due to technical challenges.

The EC is compiling the new register ahead of the December general elections over claims the existing register lacks credibility.

The piloting, according to the EC, is to afford them the chance to identify challenges with their systems and fix them before the mass registration begins later this month.

Western Regional Director for the EC, Angelina Tagoe, could not give further details as to why the exercise had been cancelled.

Western Regional Secretary for the NDC, Joseph Nelson told Empire News’ Emmanuel Ohene-Gyan the cancellation of the exercise vindicates his party’s position that the EC is not ready to undertake a nationwide exercise

“If the Electoral Commission cannot organise a simple pilot exercise in a city like Sekondi, how much more in a village, like Mumuni camp, the EC has simply failed and are not ready to compile a new register with just six months to general elections,” he said.

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His counterpart from the governing New Patriotic Party and Assistant Regional Secretary, Rex Johnfiah also stated that the party was disappointed in the breakdown of the machines after having a successful exercise Tuesday which saw over 70 people registering.

“We want the EC to extend the exercise because what we observed was that there were no backups”, he revealed

Credit: Starr News

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NPP Sets June 20 For Party Primaries

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The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has confirmed Saturday, June 20, for their Parliamentary primaries and the acclamation of their Presidential candidate.

Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr, the National Communications Director of the party Yaw Buabeng Asamoah said: “by the close of today, we will decide on it.”

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According to Mr Asamoah who is the Member of Parliament for Adenta constituency, the party will use expected to set a date for the acclamation of a presidential candidate.

This comes after President Nana Akufo eased the COVID-19 restrictions for political parties to campaign with a limited number.

The NPP had planned of holding their Primaries in April but was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.

 

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UG Sticks To E-Learning Programme; Gives Final Year Students Option To Relocate To Campus

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University of Ghana (UG), Legon has announced that it will continue with its online teaching and learning programme for the rest of the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year as planned.

 

The University introduced e-learning platforms to afford lecturers the opportunity to continue with academic work when schools have been closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite the easing of restrictions announced by President Akufo Addo on Sunday, May 31, 2020, that all final year JHS, SHS and university students can return to school on June 15 to complete their preparations for their exit exams, the authorities have resolved to keep to their online schedules.

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This was contained in a release on Wednesday signed by the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (ASA) of the University of Ghana, Prof. Nana Aba Appiah Amfo.

The statement said the rest of the academic work will be carried out online as planned.

‘The University’s ongoing Online Teaching and Learning Programme for the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year will progress as planned. Therefore, examinations for all students, including final year students, scheduled to commence from June 8, 2020, to July 3, 2020, will proceed as originally planned’ – parts of the statement read.

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The statement also said that provisions were being made to receive registered final year students who wished to use on-campus resources.

‘Arrangements are being made to receive registered final year students who may wish to relocate to the campuses of the University to make use of on-campus resources from June 15, 2020, till July 3, 2020, which is the end of the examination period’ – it added.

Meanwhile, makeup classes are being arranged for students who were cut out from the entire online teaching and learning programme as rolled out by the university due to network and other challenges.

‘All final year students who were unable to participate in the Online Teaching and Learning Programme, are expected back on campus from June 15, 2020. Make-up lessons will be from June 22, 2020, to July 10, 2020. Final examinations will be from July 18 to August 1, 2020’ – the statement stressed.

Ahead of the announcement by the university, the SRC President of the school, Isaac Agyemang had told #UniversNews that, coming to campus to do another 6-weeks of in-person lectures was going to be difficult for the ‘already frustrated’ final year students.

He, however, advocated for students in remote areas with bad internet connectivity to be allowed to come back to campus to complete the academic workload of the semester.

The University is expected to communicate the protocols to guide students who want to return to school in the coming days.

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Coronavirus: Ghana’s case count hits 8,548

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Ellis Ferdinand
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Ghana’s coronavirus case count has leapt to 8,548, in the latest data released by the Ghana Health Service.

Figures released on Monday, June 1, 2020, put the case count at 8,070.

In the latest data, the death toll is pegged at 38 while the recoveries stand at 3,132, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) figures.

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According to the GHS, 17 persons are in critical condition with one patient on a ventilator.

Below is a regional breakdown of the coronavirus situation in Ghana according to figures released on June 3, 2020.

(Case Count from Highest to Lowest)

Greater Accra Region – 5,894

Ashanti Region – 1,342

Western Region – 449

Central Region – 438

Eastern Region – 134

Volta Region – 86

Western North Region – 68

Upper East Region – 42

Northern Region – 37

Oti Region – 26

Upper West Region – 22

Bono East Region – 6

North East Region – 2

Savannah Region – 1

Bono Region – 1

Ahafo Region – 0

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I used to smoke weed wrapped with Bible sheet – Kweku Baako reveals

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Ellis Ferdinand
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Editor of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr, has made a startling revelation about an experience he was in prison in the early eighties.

According to him, he was a habitual weed smoker and sometimes smoked the substance wrapped with a sheet of the Christian prayer book, the Holy Bible.

He made the disclosure while contributing to a discussion on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’ Wednesday, June 3, 2020.

Speaking briefly about his prison lifestyle, Baako revealed his only inspiration while at the cells was to listen to radio, read newspapers and smoke weed.

“Kwame, that’s the only thing that keeps you going. It’s the oxygen of life. When you get a newspaper, it’s like a Bible or Quran has been handed to you. We even used the Bible to smoke weed”, he sarcastically told host, Kwame Sefa Kayi.

Apparently, the veteran journalist had appeared on the show and was giving his thoughts on what transpired at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters yesterday, when Bernard Mornah stormed there to write his statement following an invitation extended to him by the police.

The People’s National Convention (PNC) chairman, is being interrogated of an alleged inflammatory statement he made against the Electoral Commission (EC) amid the compilation of the new voters’ register.

Commenting on the subject, Kweku Baako said he preferred the police ignore Bernard Mornah and his associates as according to him, they were just making “ugly and empty noises” as has always been done in the country by political elements.

“To be honest, sometimes ugly noises, we should allow. I wish they ignore them, nobody has the capacity to do the things they threaten to do most of the times”, he said

Police CID invites Angel FM’s Kofi Adomah over Akuffo Addo’s Speech

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Ellis Ferdinand
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The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has invited Director of News at Angel 102.9 FM, Kofi Adomah, for predicting correctly the contents of President Nana Akufo’s speech on Sunday.

The head of news of the media organisation responded to the invitation Wednesday afternoon, June 3, 2020.

General Manager of Angel FM, Kwadwo Dickson, accompanied the broadcaster to the Headquarters of the CID in Accra.

Mr. Dickson told DJ Willie, the host of Bumper to Bumper drive time show that, the invitation followed a video recording aired on Kofi TV, which is operated by journalist, ahead of the address by President Nana Akufo-Addo.

In the said video, Kofi Adomah predicted many of the things the president said, including the decision to relax some of the restrictions imposed on the country, as a measure to controlling the surge in the COVID-19 cases the country had recorded.

Cecilia Marfo should watch out, she is my next target- Kennedy Agyapong warns (Video)

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Ellis Ferdinand
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Member of Parliament for Assin Central and a philanthropist, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong has cautioned gospel musician Cecilia Marfo.

Late last year Cecilia was hit a wave of the scandal first accused of marine spirit to do miracles in her ‘one-man’ church. Moreover, she was rumoured to be banging her driver at the blind side of her husband and defrauded one man in a business deal.

Not long ago, reports emerged that gospel musician turned self-acclaimed prophetess, Cecilia Marfo has been spitting in the mouths of people in the name of a miracle. Now, Kennedy Agyapong who is known for revealing secrets of well-known personalities in the country has said that Cecilia Marfo should watch out.

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Speaking on Net2 TV monitored by ghgosip24.com the controversial lawmaker emphasized that Ghanaians should not complain when he starts exposing the evil deeds of the gospel musician.

Watch the video below;

 

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