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Day: November 27, 2020

Empowering employees, key to institutional growth- Union
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Empowering employees, key to institutional growth- Union

Mrs Comfort A. Agambaa, the General Secretary of General Construction, Manufacturing and Quarries Workers' Union of the TUC  (GCMQWU), has urged business owners to empower their employees, especially in the decision-making process. He said empowering workers to be part of decision making was crucial for the growth of every business. “Given employees more freedom, making them more accountable in every task they handle will let them feel belonging and dedicated," she added. Mrs Agambaa was speaking at the first Quadrennial Conference of the  Union at Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East Constituency of the Central Region. The three-day conference on the theme: "Organising for the Employment of Workers: The Challenges and Prospects,” brought together over 100 delegates across the co...
Alliance for Empowering Rural Communities educates youth on SDGs
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Alliance for Empowering Rural Communities educates youth on SDGs

The Alliance for Empowering Rural Communities (AERC) has organized a workshop to educate the youth  on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in order to get them involved in its implementation. AERC observed that, with the youth understanding the role SDGs played in national development, it would trigger a peer-review mechanism that would allow young people to educate themselves, which would make them better prepared to take up their role as future leaders of the nation. In an interview with the GNA on Wednesday on the sidelines of the workshop at  Afienya, Greater Accra Region, the Executive Director of AERC, Mr. Richard Matey, observed that, “Youth people are the heart of development and the future leaders, but how would there be a future when they are not in...
Ghana records more than 2000 road accident deaths
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Ghana records more than 2000 road accident deaths

Mrs May Obiri-Yeboah, the Director-General of National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), on Thursday said Ghana recorded about 2,080 road accident deaths and 12,380 injuries of various kinds between January and October, this year. She said the Authority’s preliminary investigations pointed to non-compliance with road traffic regulations as the major cause of these crashes and the resultant deaths and injuries. Mrs Obiri-Yeboah said this at a Road Safety workshop organised for Imams in Accra on the theme: “Road Safety Leadership in Communities,” which aimed at building the capacity of Imams to become road safety advocates in their communities and respective areas of influence. She said the incidence of crashes involving motorcycle riders and passengers was rising, adding, between ...
GUM presents third biggest slate of parliamentary candidates in Greater Accra
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GUM presents third biggest slate of parliamentary candidates in Greater Accra

The Ghana Union Movement (GUM) is presenting  the third biggest slate of parliamentary candidates in the Greater Accra Region for the December 7, 2020 election. Apart from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) which have filed  candidates for all the 34 constituencies in the Region, GUM, entering the political scene for the first time, is presenting 15 candidates. The GUM party was founded in 2019 by its flagbearer Mr Christian Kwabena Andrews, popularly known as Kyiriabosom, who is also the founder of Life Assembly Worship Centre in Accra. GUM’s 15 candidates comprised of four females and 11 males, as contained in the Electoral Commission's nomination details of parliamentary candidates for the Greater Accra Region. ...
Government spends GHS21 billion on financial sector clean -Bawumia
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Government spends GHS21 billion on financial sector clean -Bawumia

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says  government has spent GHS21billion to clean up the financial sector. He said 99 per cent of depositors of the affected banks, microfinance and savings and loans companies had been fully settled. The Vice-President was speaking at the 12th Edition of the Nation Building Updates at the Cedi Conference Centre, Department of Economics, University of Ghana. The event was on the theme, "Future of Ghana's Economy". He added that the government on compassionate grounds had decided to pay up to GHC50,000 to all customers of affected Fund Management Companies while the liquidation processes continued. Dr Bawumia informed that  based on the validated claims, the partial bailout would result in 89 per cent of the affected individual...
We will address outstanding Dagbon issues- Mahama
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We will address outstanding Dagbon issues- Mahama

The Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, on Thursday assured the Paramount Chief of the Dagbon Royal Kingdom that the next NDC government will address all outstanding issues in the Kingdom. Even though the former President was happy that peace and unity has finally prevailed in the Dagbon area, he pledged the cooperation of his administration when elected in the December 7, 2020 general elections to promote development in the area. Mr Mahama made the assurance when he paid a courtesy call on the Paramount Chief of the Dagbon Royal Kingdom, Ya-Naa Abubakar Mahama at his palace on Thursday, as part of his campaign tour of the Northern Region. The NDC government, Mr Mahama said, has a proven record of providing development pro...
Akufo-Addo sweet-talked Ghanaians into power-Mahama
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Akufo-Addo sweet-talked Ghanaians into power-Mahama

The Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President John Dramani, has accused President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party of using sweet words and lofty promises to deceive Ghanaians into voting for them in 2016. Mr Mahama said the tenure of President Akufo-Addo had revealed that he was deliberate in making promises that he did not intend to keep except to win electoral fortunes. From the pledge to reign in corruption, reduce borrowing and run a lean government, Mr Mahama said evidence abound that President Akufo-Addo and the NPP regime were doing the exact opposite of what they pledged when they were in opposition. "This government has been a scam on Ghanaians. In 2016, they said all kinds of sweet things, they said we...
Akufo-Addo has nothing to show for ghs154 debt….Mahama fires
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Akufo-Addo has nothing to show for ghs154 debt….Mahama fires

The Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, has accused President Nana Akufo-Addo of superintending over the borrowing of more money in four years than the country had borrowed since independence. He said while the country had accumulated a total debt stock of GHS122 billion between 1957 and 2016, when he left office, President Akufo-Addo had added about GHS154 billion to the public debt in just four years. He said beyond the debt accumulations being high, the President and the governing party had virtually nothing to show for the increased fiscal burden that he has imposed on the economy through the debts. Addressing party supporters in a number of constituencies in the Northern Region as part of his campaign tour, Mr Mahama ...
Trump not inviting Biden to White House creates second-longest period after election without transition meeting
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Trump not inviting Biden to White House creates second-longest period after election without transition meeting

It has been 22 days and counting since the Nov. 3 election, and President Trump has neither conceded the election to President-elect Joe Biden nor offered to host him at the White House. Biden on Tuesday said that "of course" he would meet with Trump if invited, since it is a modern custom for the sitting president to invite the president-elect to the White House in the days following an election. If the two men eventually do meet at the White House, it will mark at least the second-longest delay between the general election and a White House meeting in the last 40 years. Here is the stretch of time between the election and a White House meeting with the outgoing president and the president-elect since 1980: 2016: Two days Trump visited President Barack Obama at t...
Roch Kabore wins 2nd term as Burkina Faso president
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Roch Kabore wins 2nd term as Burkina Faso president

Roch Marc Christian Kabore has won a second term as president of Burkina Faso, according to provisional results announced by the country’s election commission on Thursday. The 63-year-old head of the ruling People’s Movement for Progress party secured 57.87% votes in the Nov. 22 polls to claim victory in the first round, said Newton Ahmed Barry, the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI). The result gives Kabore another five years in the office that he has held since 2015. Eddie Komboigo and Zephirin Diabre received 15.45% and 12.46%, respectively, of the nearly 3 million votes cast, Barry said. Voter turnout was at around 50%, according to CENI data, with more than 53% men and over 46% women. Some 38% of the voters were aged between 20 and 35. ...