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 The National Identification Authority is currently undertaking a nationwide mopup registration exercise and is also piloting 23 District offices in 5 Regions including the Ashanti Region. The District Offices currently being piloted are only providing registration services to persons who have not had the opportunity to register for the Ghana Card. Other services such as Update of records, Replacement of lost or damaged cards have not started. Moreover persons whose details were wrongly captured will also have to wait until the NIA starts the update of the Ghana card.  This circular is thereby informing the general public and especially constituents of the Oforikrom Municipal in the Ashanti region of it's office which is located at Bomso inside the Town council building with the digital address, AK-193-4170 . Applicants who registered during the mass registration and mop up exercise  but for one reason or the other could not pick their cards can now visit the Municipal office for t

The youth wing of Subin Constituency of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has fired the National and Regional executives over the imposition of parliamentary candidate According the youth, the party wants to deny their right to elect the possible candidate who can help the NDC in Subin especially the youth. At the media briefing by the youth at Asafo, Collins Cobbinah who led them indicated that the Regional Chairman, regional secretary and the youth organizer have decided to bring one Mohammed Mutala Abubakar as parliamentary candidate for Subin constituency. “The preferred choice of the regional executive is not even a resident of Subin but Asawase, who in the year 2018 contested for Asawase chairman and lost woefully by galvanizing only seven votes. Why then do you want to force such a person on us” he said Mr. Cobbinah noted, it is against the party’s principles and it is unacceptable. “This is unacceptable and cannot happen in our constituency. Where li

The Founder and Leader of Life Of Christ Power Ministry International at Ejisu-Manhyia in the Ashanti Region, Rev Emmanuel Kusi has heavily made a sudden attack on the Ghana Christian Council for their observation that, there is a demonic forces on Ghana's politics. According to the Chairman for Christian Council, Rt. Rev. Prof. Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante in the outdooring of the group's Eminent Person, he stated that, he has observed some four demonic forces in Ghana's Politics that must be exorcised. But in an interview with the founder of Life Of Christ Power Ministry International, Reverend Emmanuel Kusi, he descended on them that, "I've also observed that, you are the cause of Ghana's situation now, because you are afraid of speaking the truth, by addressing worrying issues in the state in order to ensure peace and love between the political parties, I will never agree with you that, there is a demonic forces on Ghana's politics. Where is the demo

A High Court in Kumasi has placed an interim injunction on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) primary in the Subin Constituency. This follows a suit filed by 51 delegates in the constituency seeking an interim injunction on the primary due to the removal of their names from the constituency album and their suspension. In their writ of summons, the plaintiffs prayed the court to restrain the “defendants from using any illegal, unlawful and wrongful photo album for the purposes of conducting the election in the Subin NPP Constituency Parliamentary primaries scheduled to take place on the 20th day of June, 2020.” The plaintiffs, which include Yahaya Iddrisu, Isaac Nimako, Yaa Boagyewaa, among others were also seeking a declaration that their suspension was unlawful. “A declaration that the unilateral suspension of the plaintiffs by the defendants with the intention to disenfranchise them from participating in the scheduled NPP Subin Parliamentary Primaries Election on the 20th day of

Late Bright Sarkodie A New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegate in the Atwima Nwabiagya North constituency, Bright Sarkodie who doubles as a NABCO director in the district has died mysteriously ahead of the party's Parliamentary primaries slated for Saturday 20th June, 2020. Bright Sarkodie died in his sleep at Adankwame in Atwima Nwabiagya North constituency and was  pronounced dead after being rushed to the Asuofua Community  Hospital on Thursday 7th May, 2020. It is unclear what caused his death. Some delegates in the constituency, had confirmed the news, adding that the deceased is indeed a delegate of the party at Adankwame electoral area. After he was pronounced dead, his body was taken from the hospital to the party office under instructions from a pastor that, Bright wasn't dead and he(pastor) could pray to bring the deceased back to life but unfortunately, the pastor couldn't resurrect the district NABCO director from the dead. According to an eye witness who

Contractors executing various automated modern toilet facilities across the country for Ghana First Company Limited, a waste management firm under a Public Private Partnership with Government of Ghana have admitted that the GFCL is not a scamming company as suspected. According to the Contractors, they were made to believe that the activities of GFCL were scam but after meeting with the management(GFCL), they were convinced that GFCL mean business and assured them of their corporation. They said, peace has prevailed because issues that were bothering them had been explained to them in detail and based on what they have seen and documents shown to them, GFCL is not a scam. Addressing the media after a successful meeting with the management of GFCL, Chairman of New World Construction Ltd, Mr Emmanuel Dapaah on behalf of his colleague contractors appealed to the government to support GFCL to acquire all the necessary documents in order for GFCL to get a loan to pay them. Ghana F

Hon Bio and some supporters Some delegates of the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) in the Atwima Nwabiagya North constituency have raised red flag as their Member of Parliament, Hon Benito Owusu Bio has said he can easily identify delegates who would collect money but  vote against him in the upcoming parliamentary primaries. The MP, in a meeting with the delegates said with the support from the electoral Cordinators, any delegate who would vote against him can easily be identified using serial number on the ballot paper and has therefore caution them not to make mistakes during voting . In order to exercise democratic rights through voting, opportunities to vote must be accessible to those with the right to vote but the situation is different in this constituency as the MP decides who gets to vote and who to vote for. On Tuesday 4th February, 2020, some delegates in the constituency cautioned the Member of Parliament  against voting buying and forcing delegates to swear to de

The Rebecca Foundation and the Brain Project has donated hospital equipment and consumables to some health institutions across the country. In all, seven (7) municipal, constituencies and hospitals benefited from the donations. They include New Juaben North Municipal Assembly, Akuapem North Municipal Assembly Jaman North constituency, Sefwi Akontombra constituency, Takoradi Constituency, Lower Manya Krobo constituency and Gomoa Fetteh Holy Faith hospital. Items donated to the beneficiary health institutions include 3D Ultra sound machines,examination beds, walking sticks, rollators, operating lamps and hospital consumables. Making the donations on behalf of the First lady and The Rebecca Foundation, Mrs Akosua Newman, Director of Operations at the Office of The First Lady said Mrs. Akufo-Addo and The Rebecca Foundation is determined to contribute to making health care accessible and affordable to the good people of Ghana, especially in this time of Convid -19. She said whil

The Rebecca Foundation in collaboration with CBI Ghana Limited(SUPACEM) has donated a thousand (1000 )bags of Cement to the Hairdressers and Beauticians Association to help build a Hairdressing  school at Ashalaja Denhyira in the Greater Accra Region. The donation was in response to a request made by the Association to the Executive Director of the Rebecca Foundation, Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo during the 10th Annual Salon Academy , 2020 in January. The donation was presented to the Association by the Press Aide to the First Lady, Mr. Richard Darko and the Managing Director for CBI Ghana Limited, Frederick Albrecht. Speaking at the donation ceremony, the Managing Director of CBI Ghana Limited, Frederic Albrecht expressed his joy at the collaboration between CBI Ghana Limited and the  Rebecca Foundation. " I am glad to be part of this wonderful donation and I know it will go a long way to help this wonderful ambition to build a school for the future", he s

Dep Information Minister Communications member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Benjamin Akowuah Acheampong has described it as funny, how the NDC at every given opportunity wants to call for the head of the Hon. Pius Enam Hadzide since he assumed office as Deputy Minister of Information. According to the Diplomacy and International Relations expert, the Deputy Minister of Information has been a torn in the flesh of the NDC with his fantastic communication prowess. I have watched several media encounters between Hon Pius and the NDC's star boy Sammy Gyamfi and in most cases Sammy has left the Studio badly bruised by Hon Pius. In some instances, Sammy resorted to personal attacks and unfounded allegations of corruption against Hon. Pius but he remains unperturbed, Mr Akowuah wrote on his Facebook wall. Read his full comments below(Unedited): HON. PIUS ENAM HADZIDE IS OBVIOUSLY GIVING THE NDC SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. It's funny how the NDC at every given opportunity

The Rebecca Foundation has donated some pieces of locally manufactured face masks to women at Okaishie, Makola, Kantamanto, Agbogbolshie and Mallam markets to combat COVID-19. The gesture was part of the foundation's  Mother’s Day activities to honour and celebrate the contribution of Ghanaian mothers. According to Mrs.Perpetual Asante Amoah, who donated the items on behalf of the First Lady ,Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo- Addo, mothers in the market are relentless in their efforts to combine work with caregiving and ensuring safety at home in this Covid-19 era and deserve to be celebrated. Sharing the face masks to the market women, she educated them to wash their hands often with soap and under running water. She also urged them to put distance between themselves and other people at the market place, wear their face masks and also observe all other approved precautionary measures to protect themselves against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). "I again entrea

Prof Quarm and Grace Addo Rumour associated with an allegation that MP for Manso Nkwanta, Joseph Albert Quarm has paid huge sums of money and ten (10) kilos of pure gold from his small scale mine to the former Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr. Peter McManu, Sam Pyne the Ashanti Regional secretary and F. F Antoh the second vice chair of the party is escalating too much in the Manso Nkwanta constituency, odinews85.blogspot.com can report. According to close sources who spoke to this network, this as a result is gradually diminishing the support of the party members and the entire populace of the constituency because the face value of the party has been tampered with by the incumbent MP. They reiterated that traditional authorities including the Paramount Chief of Manso Nkwanta Traditional Council are at loggerheads with the MP in question and they have teamed up with polling station executives to get the MP out during the upcoming parliamentary primaries.  He

Manso Nkwanta MP Ghana is an agricultural nation with most of its population engaged in Cocoa production. The country is blessed with several natural resources, including Cocoa. But interestingly, cocoa is not very much of a celebrated crop, compared to other commodities in the country.  Can you imagine what Ghana could have possibly been if there was no cocoa industry? One of the biggest producers of cocoa beans in the Cocoa farming communities in Amansie West of the Ashanti Region, Manso Nsiana is facing crisis as anti-Galamsey crusader and Member of Parliament(MP) for Manso Nkwanta Constituency, Hon Joseph Albert Quarm have turned their farmlands to galamsey sites. The Environmental Miner and land reclamation expert have given Cocoa farms belonging to the individual farmers as consession for mining and about fifty(50) acres of Cocoa farms have been destroyed already and still counting. Hon  Quarm claims to have personally funded the fight against illegal mining activit

Dr Opoku Prempeh Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, apart from bringing pragmatic policies to the education ministry has also been credited with leading the decentralization and digitization of scholarships in Ghana. Making the disclosure during a media tour on some radio stations in the Ashanti region last week, the Registrar of Scholarships, Mr. Kingsley Agyemang, said the inexorable efforts by the Minister of Education has really catapulted the Scholarship Secretariat into one of the formidable state agencies which must be applauded. “The concept of decentralization is the baby of Napo which was birthed as far back as 2018,” he said. “Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh was so passionate to seeing to the realization of the decentralization  of scholarships awards  that he even appointed his deputy, Dr Adutwum, to represent him at the launch  in Takoradi last year,” Mr. Agyemang said on Virgin City radio at Konongo. Radio tour Mr. Agyemang was in the Ashanti region to t

Nana Kwasi Kwarteng Spokesman for Operation Save the Suffering Masses(OSSM), a Human Right organization based in Kumasi, Nana Kwasi Kwarteng has pleaded with the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a Human Right activist to extend the one week extension of the lockdown to all the corners of the country.  Nana Kwasi Kwarteng is of this view because, since Governments policy in this entire drama will be largely driven by science and considering the vast majority of the peoples ignorance when it comes to matters like this, absolute control of experts should be paramount. Government on Thursday 9th April, 2020 extended the lockdown imposed on some parts of the country by one more week. The President earlier announced a two-week partial lockdown of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area including Tema and Kasoa as well as the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area as parts of the effort to stop the spread of the viral disease in the country. The decision was also aimed at assisti

As part of social intervention measures to minimize the risk of Coronavirus(COVID-19), the aspiring Member of Parliament for Atwima Nwabiagya North Mr Frank Yeboah(FY 2020), has presented some items to institutions within the constituency. They are Barekese Market, Dabaa Hospital, Adankwame police, Wurapon Community Health Center, Abira Health Center, Adankwame youth, Asuofua Market, Atwima Koforidua Market, Koforidua youth, Barekese fufuo, Mount Sinai Hospital Koforidua, Akropong Police station, Akropong Health Center, Asuofua Health Center, Asuofua Police station, Barekese police station and Barkese Health Center. Presenting the items on behalf of the aspiring MP, leader of team FY  2020, Isaac Bonsu said the reason for making the donation to the institutions and the constituents as a whole is to help reduce the risk of transmission of the Coronavirus.  Team FY 2020 presented  items such as antiseptic liquid soap, Veronica buckets, tissue papers, hand sanitizers among othe

Families of Ghanaians who were murdered in The Gambia in 2005 have filed submissions to the Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) demanding that Yahya Jammeh and the ‘Junglers’ must be brought to justice and compensation paid to the families and survivors. In separate affidavit evidence they filed and notarized in Ghana and dispatched to the TRRC in The Gambia this week, the victims’ families recounted the torture they have been going through since they became aware of the unlawful killing and enforced disappearances of their family members in 2005. The filing of the affidavit evidence comes after three members of the “Junglers” testified before the TRRC that they participated in the killing of the Ghanaians and other West African migrants on the orders of Yahya Jammeh. Following the testimonies by the Junglers, the Jammeh2Justice Ghana Coalition (J2J Ghana), a CSO Coalition led by CDD-Ghana wrote to the TRRC arguing that the survivors and victims’ fami

Martin Kyere A survivor of the massacre of about 44 Ghanaians in the Gambia has cast doubts on the remains of the eight Ghanaians that were reburied at the Osu Cemetery in 2009 claiming they are not the actual remains of the Ghanaians who were killed and buried in a mass grave in the Gambia in 2005. Martin Kyere, a survivor and spokesperson for the victims’ families of the Gambian massacre during a witness account in Kumasi on 24th February, 2020 based his doubts on the fact that no DNA testing was conducted on the remains that were exhumed from a mass grave in the Gambia in 2009, nearly four years after the mass burial in the Gambia, and reburied at the Osu Cemetery. He also said, there was a heavy stench around the coffins containing the eight bodies when they were brought to the funeral grounds at the forecourt of the State House, adding the coffins were not opened. Martin’s comments are contained in an upcoming documentary film titled “ The Massacre of Ghanaians in The

The 41 seconds video available to this Network shows the incumbent Member of Parliament for Atwima Nwabiagya North Constituency of the Ashanti Region, Hon Benito Owusu Bio begging Delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the  constituency to endorse his nomination forms  to enable him run for the fifth time on the party's ticket. Hon Owusu Bio, who doubles as the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural resources, officially filed and submitted his nomination papers on Tuesday 18th February, 2020 at the constituency. Checks on the grounds reveals a looming danger, that has a tendency of costing Mr Owusu Bio, his seat as he struggled before getting some of the delegates endorsement on day  of submission. The contest for the Atwima Nwabiagya North seat will be one to keep eyes on as two aspirants has picked their forms to unseat the near 16 years sitting Member of Parliament The Parliamentary primaries of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is being characterized b

Hon Bio Some delegates of the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) in the Atwima Nwabiagya North constituency are cautioning their Member of Parliament, Hon Benito Owusu Bio against voting buying and forcing delegates to swear to deities and has vowed to avert it this time, as it would not promote internal democracy in the party. According to them the alleged decision of the incumbent MP to offer money to delegates and compel them to swear to a deity to cast their votes for them during the forthcoming Parliamentary primaries is unfortunate and against the rules and regulation of the party. Hon Benito Owusu Bio during his tour of the constituency promised to offer the delegates money but they will record their names and signature in an album and swear with a deity that they'll vote for him in the forthcoming primaries. According to a 3 minutes 7 seconds audio available to this Network, one of the delegates was heard encouraging his colleagues not to fear any deity as it cannot

Journalists in Ashanti Region, led by Mr. Kwaku Adu Gyamfi have petitioned the Ghana Journalist Association over a  misconduct of the Ashanti Regional Director of National Service Scheme, Mr. Alex Opoku Mensah aka Omens following a deliberate intimidation and verbal assault on one Gideon Peprah [Nana Peprah] a journalist service personnel who works with GNA. Some irritated service personnel had  expressed their grievances to  the victim to make a publication on a four to five month delayed payment of allowances and purported text messages inviting them for killer interest rate loans by NSS. The NSS Boss resisted all attempts to give his account to the GNA reporter so he undertook the publication. The Ashanti Regional NSS Boss upon seeing the publication called the said personnel in conjunction with the reporter to his office, assaulted them verbally, intimidated them and also imposed unimaginable sanctions on the reporter [Gideon Peprah] Subsequently, Mr. Opoku Mensah has curre

The Oforikrom District Registration Officer(DRO) of the National Identification Authority, Mr Kwame Owusu Bampoe has said the Ghana Card is free for Ghanaians in the first instance.  However, if you want to register by appointment as an institution or family, you will be required to pay a fee to be determined by the Authority.  Also, renewals and replacements of lost or stolen cards will also attract a fee. The National Identification Authority (NIA) has announced that, persons requiring a replacement of their national identification card, will be charged at a fee. According to the Authority persons who misplace or damage their cards will be required to report to any nearby office of the NIA, pay the stipulated fee, demand for a receipt and have the card replaced. Mr. Owusu Bampoe said a total of 90,000 Ghanaians have been registered by the Authority within the Oforikrom municipality. Speaking at a gathering at Oforikrom to educate the public on the significance of the Na

Benito Owusu Bio The Parliamentary primaries of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is being characterized by confusion at various polling stations in the Atwima Nwabiagya North constituency as the polling executives are divided over the  endorsement of the incumbent Member of Parliament, Hon Benito Owusu Bio to go unopposed which is contrary to Article 11 of the NPP constitution.  Youth of Atwima Nwabiagya North has described it as unconstitutional, attempts by the constituency executives to allow Member of Parliament for the constituency, Hon Benito Owusu Bio to go unopposed in the party’s approaching parliamentary primaries. The constituency executives in a series of meetings with the polling station executives concluded that nobody will be allowed to contest the sitting MP, a decision most of the polling station executives are not happy with. On Wednesday 8th January, 2020, the constituency executives will meet the Regional executives and as part of the agenda will