News of Tuesday, 10 November 2020

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Manasseh Azure directs lawyers to sue Kennedy Agyapong NDC to lose 4 seats following dismissal of members contesting as independent candidates - Ben Ephson How Mahama used his office to guarantee a passport for Samuel Adam Mahama despite false information Coronavirus: Ghana to go on another lockdown – GMA Kwaku Bonsam faces Asantehemaa's traditional court Social media users upset with Amidu’s response to Mahama’s charge of ‘stupidity’

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Press Releases

• Academic City obtains University College status
• 29 companies were honoured at the 2020 National Customers’ Choice Awards Ghana
• SOCCABET awarded at the 17th Ashanti Business Excellence Awards
• Evelyn Groeling's foundation feeds over 100 widows
• How Absa Group is using tech to drive growth in Africa’s agriculture marketplace

Opinions

• Women or millennials — who tips the scale on December 7?
• Elephants don’t die?
• My counsel to Akufo-Addo on Agyapa fallout
• Trump’s one-term presidency has many useful lessons for John Mahama
• Ranked 76/85 in Law School but became U.S president-elect: What if Biden was a Ghanaian law student?
• Gates, global vaccination, is it hubris or the zenith of stupidity?
• Efforts needed to ensure confidence and inclusion on Ghana’s road to credible, peaceful polls
• We shall remember them

General News

• Surge in coronavirus active cases not due to political rallies – Oppong Nkrumah
• Police officer wins best livestock farmer
• There's nothing in Biden's victory for you - Group tells Mahama
• Parliament prepares for dissolution
• GNCCI urges media to cross-check facts before going public
• Man jailed 20 years for defiling five-year-old
• Coronavirus: Ghana to go on another lockdown – GMA
• Let’s advance the well-being of adolescent girls - UNFPA
• We’re confident biometric kits will function excellently on Election Day – EC
• US Embassy to hold virtual college Fair for Ghanaian students
• Kubease Toll Booth to be temporarily relocated for maintenance work
• Journalists should promote peace and national unity
• ‘Youth must play active role in consolidating democracy’ - Rev. Awudu
• Ghanaians urged to find appropriate strategies to address youth sexuality
• Opuni Trial: Agricult received US$19.25million for fertilizer supply in 2013/2014
• Sunyani Technical University inaugurates cyber-security laboratory
• Non-adherence to coronavirus protocols is cause of increase in cases - GHS
• How Mahama used his office to guarantee a passport for Samuel Adam Mahama despite false information
• Today at the News Stands
• Ghanaians have no choice but to retain Akufo-Addo - MP
• Social media users upset with Amidu’s response to Mahama’s charge of ‘stupidity’
• IMANI: How and why NPP scored 55% in education from 2016 manifesto commitments
• Detailed analysis: How and why NPP scored 56.77% in health on 2020 IMANIFesto
• PPP promises to pass Affirmative Action Bill when elected
• EC creates 5,000 more polling stations for 2020 elections
• Go to court – Mahama Ayariga to sacked Fomena MP
• Ghanaian radiographers urged to embrace artificial intelligence systems
• Mahama begins Ashanti regional tour today
• The hopes of the youth waning - Naana Opoku-Agyemang
• Amidu using Mahama to divert attention from corruption in Akufo-Addo government – Tamakloe
• Yendi set to celebrate 8th anniversary of Aliu Mahama’s passing
• All evidence point to you as 'Govt Official 1' – Amidu to Mahama
• 1D1F has created 139,331 jobs – Nana Akomea
• NDC sets record straight on relocation of UESD satellite campus from Afram Plains
• Airbus: ‘Postmaster’ Amidu on wild goose chase – NDC legal team
• Airbus: Amidu, Mahama exchanges unnecessary – Agyeman-Duah
• I never called for ‘Vote of No Confidence’ in Assin South MP – Assin Domeabra chief
• Ghana’s Industrialization safest in the hands of Akufo-Addo – Nana Akomea
• Opuni trial: AG's 3rd, 6th witnesses sing different tunes on Cocobod fertiliser procurement
• Akufo-Addo govt has experienced unprecedented development in a short time - Dr. Essibu
• 'Amidu will walk naked one day for trying to destroy Mahama' – Sam George
• Parliament declaring Fomena seat vacant indicates gaps in 1992 Constitution – ACEPA
• Attacks on Amidu: Mahama has penchant for insulting people – Mike Ocquaye Jnr
• Child marriage is a crime - Gender Ministry
• Election 2020: Greater Accra has highest voter population
• Manasseh Azure directs lawyers to sue Kennedy Agyapong
• EC intensifies preparations for Dec 7 polls – CODEO report
• Akufo-Addo best at renaming but not how to build – Mahama
• What Ghanaians say is what we put out - CDD on ‘skewed’ pre-election survey
• I never supported Trump on a personal level – Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu
• Today in History: Akufo-Addo urges first batch of free SHS students to excel in WASSCE
• FLASHBACK: Does Akufo-Addo benefit directly from this theft? - Manasseh asks
• Disqualified UFP leader unhappy about court ruling
• Government being selective in payments – Road contractors
• Martin Amidu’s Airbus commentaries are too petty – Franklin Cudjoe
• Coronavirus: Only 12% of Ashanti population wears face mask
• NDC ‘very’ ready for elections – Prof Opoku Agyemang
• Government scraps one month waiting period after NHIS Card renewal
• Martin Amidu needs serious help and nationwide prayers – Mahama’s Aide
• Gov’t building ‘proper’ international airport in Kumasi – Regional Minister
• Achimota Melcom Disaster: No compensation, no prosecution – Victims wait in vain 8 years on
• You don’t set out to destroy a presidential candidate - Edudzi Tamakloe tells Martin Amidu
• Gov’t being selective in debt payments – Road contractors claim
• Govt building ‘proper’ international airport in Kumasi – Regional Minister
• Certificate covering COCOBOD contract for fertilizer invalid - Witness
• Your silence on land-grabs makes you complicit – Angry Ga Dangme youth to govt
• Kumasi readies for Peace Summit ahead of Dec 7 polls
• Retrieve billions paid Databank, ALA in 7 days or face our anger – NDC to Akufo-Addo
• Mahama will chase you over 'nepotistic' Agyapa 'robbery' – Asiedu Nketia warns culprits
• It’s ‘beer-bar-talk’ to compare Biden’s victory to Ghana’s election history – Ephson
• Agyapa Deal: NDC to hold mammoth demo against govt in December
• NHIA Chief Executive touts Ghana card and NHIS card merger
• NHIA grants amnesty to NHIS defaulting members
• Enforce Performance Contract of SOE’s to the letter- President
• NSS personnel posted to educational institutions to continue receiving full allowance

Politics

• Akufo-Addo will win by 62% landslide – High Commissioner projects
• The hopes of the youth waning – Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang
• Make Ghanaian electoral institutions work as those in US – Mahama to govt
• NDC will reintroduce Police visibility – Agalga
• UFP flagbearer’s bid to stop December 7 polls thrown out
• Akufo-Addo will soon retire you from active politics - Mahama told
• Young men in NDC and NPP guilty of politics of insults – Kwabena Agyapong
• 'You’ve killed more jobs than created; 4 more for what?' - Mahama to Akufo-Addo
• Election 2020: Reject violence – NCCE
• 2020 election may not be peaceful as anticipated - Peter Bamfoe
• Akufo-Addo Ghana's Trump; everything he's touched failed - Asiedu Nketia
• 'Anytime power shifts in the U.S, it shifts in Ghana as well' – Mahama
• Majority Leader challenges Kwaku Azar over Fomena seat saga
• Start shredding corruption evidence and prepare handing over notes – 'Mosquito' to NPP
• No government can compare their social intervention policies to ours - Bawumia
• CDD responds to accusations of bias by smaller parties in pre-election survey
• U.S Institutions ignored Trump’s ‘barks’, couldn’t have been same in Ghana - Mahama
• Attacks on Amidu: Mahama has penchant for insulting people – Mike Ocquaye Jnr
• Ayensuano: Independent Parliamentary candidate promises to improve tourism
• Akufo-Addo has created over two million jobs in his first term – NPP Youth Organiser
• Today in 2019: Kokofu exposes Sammy Gyamfi, says Akufo-Addo has given him two appointments
• NPP has plotted to disrupt Mahama’s Ashanti Region tour – NDC alleges
• Akufo-Addo’s first term been has the best since fourth republic - Nana Boakye
• Today in History: You said Ghana was sitting on money, where’s it? – Mahama to Akufo-Addo
• Convert Amidu’s office into headquarters of ‘1 Toilet, 1 Constituency’ – Adongo
• Mahama’s worry after 2020 won’t just be his defeat but Martin Amidu – Kow Essuman
• I’ll pay workers every two weeks as president – Walker
• There are lessons to learn from your 2016 defeat too – Gabby to Mahama
• NDC sows seed to win 2020 Election
• Access to opportunities will not be based on politics, ethnicity or family – Mahama assures
• NPP parliamentarians are your best bet for development – First Lady to Ada-Sege residents
• Vote for me and I’ll give you permanent jobs – Mahama to NABCo employees
• CPP vows to abolish ex gratia payment if voted into power
• NCCE Akatsi South inaugurates Inter-Party Dialogue Committee
• Ofori-Atta still in govt because of nepotism – Asiedu Nketia
• Election 2020: Asawase seat not up for contest - Kwame Zu
• US Election: Trump lacked experience to run America - Majority Leader
• 'Akonfem' won't fly to Burkina under Akufo-Addo – Bawumia
• NDC to lose 4 seats following dismissal of members contesting as independent candidates - Ben Ephson
• Free SHS changing lives; we are no longer sacrificing female education due to lack of money - Sirigu Naba
• Dumsor rocks NDC press conference, Asiedu Nketia cites NPP sabotage
• You can never recover from Agyapa embarrassment - Asiedu Nketia taunts Akufo-Addo
• No by-election for vacant Fomena seat
• Ghanaians are yearning for a change – Prof. Naana Jane
• Akufo-Addo is a family builder not nation builder – Asiedu Nketia
• NPP MPs, your best bet - First Lady tells Ada and Sege residents

Crime & Punishment

• Court remands alleged rapist, robber whose penis was bitten off by victim
• Two armed robbers killed by Police in gun battle in Western North

Religion

• Catholic Church calls on political actors to eschew politics of violence

Health News

• UHAS graduates first cohort of medical doctors
• Korle Bu anaesthetists angry over management refusal to grant them leave
• Over 440,000 expected to be vaccinated against Yellow Fever in Ashanti

Regional News

• Independent PC to improve sanitation in Sandema market
• Agricultural industrialization, government’s focus – MCE
• NDC in Sawla-Tuna-Kalba condemns attacks on NPP Chairman
• 36th Farmers Day celebration in Bole District held at Sonyo
• Bolewura launches educational fund
• I’m coming back to give you asphalted roads – Mahama to Afram Plains South residents
• Coroanvirus: Third phase market disinfection begins in Bono Region
• Nitiwul ‘silences’ NDC over failed propaganda at Bimbilla
• 57-year-old man adjudged Best Farmer for Akuapem-North
• Accident claims three lives in Tumu
• Security man impounds food items being smuggled out of KOTECH
• Rape, murder cases reduced drastically in Eastern Region – Minister
• Wa East Best Farmer advises farmers to follow GAPs
• Plying on Chuchuliga-Sandema road is not safe – Police Commander
• Stop interfering in the National House of Chiefs election - Chieftaincy Forum, Africa
• Ketu South NCCE organises walk for peaceful elections
• Kwaku Bonsam faces Asantehemaa's traditional court
• Elderly woman commits suicide at Ajumako Onwane
• Samira Bawumia to launch 'Zongo Laafia' in Yendi
• Coronavirus: Markets in Ahafo region benefit from governments disinfection exercise
• Akufo-Addo will show Hajia Humu love if elected as MP – Sammi Awuku
• Bawku youth in Kumasi advocates for peaceful election
• Sixty fire volunteers trained to fight outbreaks in Sunyani Municipality
• ACBF to host virtual BOG meeting
• People-centered policy, key to post coronavirus recovery plan - Prof. Bokpin
• Give Nana Addo and Abakasi the opportunity on December 7 - Chigabatia
• Be ethical in election coverage – Journalists told
• NAKDeF hands over Drivers' Licenses to light vehicle trainees
• 676 pupils in Volta pregnant in the coronavirus era
• 'Problem of school fees is now a thing of the past' - Sirigu Chief hails free education
• First Contractors Association calls on govt to resolve feud between them and Ghana First Company
• It is in our interest to embrace sustainable development - Prof Frimpong-Boateng
• 90-year-old landlady, family reportedly evicted for not renewing land lease
• We want the development of the North-Veep