EC confirmed 56,000 people registered with NHIS cards

The Electoral Commission has confirmed that 56,000 people registered with National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cards ahead of the 2012 general elections.

Lawyers for the plaintiff Abu Ramadan are, however, arguing that the list of names submitted by the EC are falsified, fake and spurious.

They argue that some do have registration numbers while other do not have. But according to Starr FM’s Court reporter Wilberforce Asare, the EC argued that the list was compiled manually and the omissions may have been a clear oversight.

Background

The order by the Supreme Court for the EC to submit the list of NHIS card registrants follows the interpretation-confusion that ensued between the electoral commission and Abu Ramadan, the plaintiff who went to court to seek interpretation of the legality or otherwise of such names in the electoral roll.

Ramadan therefore went to court to seek clarification on the initial judgment that asked the EC to take steps to remove names of NHIS registrants from the register.

Although concerns were raised that the EC cannot provide all the names due to the short requirement notice, the election management body gave the assurance it will provide the full list to the court.

Komenda Sugar Factory suffering from erratic power supply - Spio

Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah

The Minister of Trade and Industry Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah has said constant operation of the Komenda Sugar Factory is being hampered by erratic power supply.
According to him, the factory is yet to be connected to the national grid to enjoy constant power from the Electricity Company of Ghana.
“…Almost all industries depend on power so if you have heard about some difficulties with the Komenda Sugar Factory it is not about them closing down. It is the fact that they have had some difficulty with having access to direct power from the ECG and have been using some generators and transformers which don’t give them all the power they need.
“So it is not a fault of the factory that they have that problem. It is just the challenge we have in the power sector as a whole which all of us endure in our homes and offices when power goes off from time to time and the factory is enduring that,” Dr. Spio-Garbrah told journalists at the launch of the First ECOWAS Industrial Summit in Ghana.
He added that the development is a threat to the production of quality sugar for consumers, “but you know factories are very unique they must have consistent power. So just imagine that a sugar factory needs to produce sugar in a manner which allows the sugarcane and the liquid to move a certain pace to be heated to cold and to go through about 20 different processes before the crystal called sugar are produced. If you don’t get power at a certain point and the liquids do not get to the right heat or cannot get to the right lower temperature you won’t get the so called crystals at the end.”
President John Mahama commissioned the Komenda Sugar Factory on Tuesday, May 31.
The sugar factory, one of Ghana’s oldest factories, is located in the coastal community of Komenda, near Cape Coast, 144 km west of the national capital.
The EXIM bank invested 35 million U.S. dollars while the government of Ghana provided 1.5 million dollars for the construction.
The factory, originally established by Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah in 1960, was closed down in the 1980s after years of mismanagement.
Ghana now spends at least 200 million dollars annually on sugar imports, thereby contributing greatly to the weakening of Ghana’s local cedi currency.

I hate mosquitoes with passion – Diana Hamilton

Gospel Musician, Diana Hamilton says she passionately hate mosquitoes and will not stand and watch the insect people to early grave.

 “I don’t mind i am on camera having an interview, I may slap you if I see a mosquito on you cheek before I come back to the interview”, Diana noted in an interview with Adom TV.

Malaria is one of the six killer diseases in the world.

An infected female Anopheles mosquito can transmit the malaria causing parasites-plasmodium into as many people it can bite to suck blood for its eggs breeding in its life time.

According to the latest WHO estimates, released in December 2015, there were 214 million cases of malaria in 2015 and 438 000 deaths.

The gospel musician through her Diana Hamilton Ministries donated two-hundred pieces of treated bed nets to Kumasi Apeadu residents after she had partook in the just ended National Sanitation day.

“As a nurse and a singer and mosquitoes are what I hate, I thought it wise that when I am giving to the society, I have to let the beneficiaries be on the same page”, she noted.

The ‘Work in progress’ hit singer says much must be done to eradicate malaria in the country and she is doing her part as a professional nurse to help.

She however called of the public to be serious with sanitation issues as far as National Sanitation Day is concerned.

“I was impressed with what I saw in Kumasi in the just passed Sanitation Day, they had closed all their shops to partake in the exercise. I think this is a very good thing that Ghana is doing.  I will encourage other celebrities, stars to take part in the exercise and also tidy our environments as well.”

Diana when asked if she will suggest for dustbins to be placed at vantage points in the country says “that is right but when government puts the garbage cans out there and later comes see it stolen. When that happens, government among other bodies won’t be encouraged to redeposit another one there. In fact that habit of some Ghanaians must stop”, she said.

She believes this is because Ghanaians do not have the sense of owning what belongs to the state.

“Let us always have the sense of belongingness, own whatever government gives our area and prevent others from stealing them” Diana stressed on.

She however called on government to deposit more dustbins in cities so that pedestrians can deposit rubbishes in them to prevent them from throwing it around.

“You can hold rubbish for a long time without seeing a trashcan to put it in. That is not the best, there should be dustbins provided at vantage points and also the rubbish collators should empty then on time when they get full. ” she lamented.

Diana however urged her fans and the public not to dump rubbish in water ways as well as the streets but rather dump them at the right places to avoid Cholera, Malaria, among other deadly rubbish causing diseases as well as flood.

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I hate mosquitoes with passion – Diana Hamilton

Source: Adom News|Samuel Sefa| Instagram @hwenebobo |Twitter @hwenebobo
Date: 10-06-2016 Time: 06:06:17:pm

Diana Hamilton

Gospel Musician, Diana Hamilton says she passionately hate mosquitoes and will not stand and watch the insect people to early grave.
 “I don’t mind i am on camera having an interview, I may slap you if I see a mosquito on you cheek before I come back to the interview”, Diana noted in an interview with Adom TV.
Malaria is one of the six killer diseases in the world.
An infected female Anopheles mosquito can transmit the malaria causing parasites-plasmodium into as many people it can bite to suck blood for its eggs breeding in its life time.
According to the latest WHO estimates, released in December 2015, there were 214 million cases of malaria in 2015 and 438 000 deaths.
The gospel musician through her Diana Hamilton Ministries donated two-hundred pieces of treated bed nets to Kumasi Apeadu residents after she had partook in the just ended National Sanitation day.
“As a nurse and a singer and mosquitoes are what I hate, I thought it wise that when I am giving to the society, I have to let the beneficiaries be on the same page”, she noted.
The ‘Work in progress’ hit singer says much must be done to eradicate malaria in the country and she is doing her part as a professional nurse to help.
She however called of the public to be serious with sanitation issues as far as National Sanitation Day is concerned.
“I was impressed with what I saw in Kumasi in the just passed Sanitation Day, they had closed all their shops to partake in the exercise. I think this is a very good thing that Ghana is doing.  I will encourage other celebrities, stars to take part in the exercise and also tidy our environments as well.”
Diana when asked if she will suggest for dustbins to be placed at vantage points in the country says “that is right but when government puts the garbage cans out there and later comes see it stolen. When that happens, government among other bodies won’t be encouraged to redeposit another one there. In fact that habit of some Ghanaians must stop”, she said.
She believes this is because Ghanaians do not have the sense of owning what belongs to the state.
“Let us always have the sense of belongingness, own whatever government gives our area and prevent others from stealing them” Diana stressed on.
She however called on government to deposit more dustbins in cities so that pedestrians can deposit rubbishes in them to prevent them from throwing it around.
“You can hold rubbish for a long time without seeing a trashcan to put it in. That is not the best, there should be dustbins provided at vantage points and also the rubbish collators should empty then on time when they get full. ” she lamented.
Diana however urged her fans and the public not to dump rubbish in water ways as well as the streets but rather dump them at the right places to avoid Cholera, Malaria, among other deadly rubbish causing diseases as well as flood.

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Black Stars Defeat Mauritius 2-0 to Qualify for AFCON 2017

The Black Stars of Ghana have booked a qualification to the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2017 to be hosted by Gabon after beating Mauritius 2-0 on Sunday.
The first goal of the match was scored by caretaker skipper Andre Dede Ayew on the 71st minute with a strike from close range.
Christian Atsu increased the tally three minutes later after an excellent pass from Chelsea star Baba Rahman. The Black Stars needed just a draw to book their qualification to the AFCON 2017.
By this win, Ghana joins five continental giants who have already sealed their places at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.
These include; Cameroon, Morocco, Algeria and hosts Gabon who have already booked their tickets to Africa’s premier football competition.

MORE LIVES LIKELY TO BE LOST IN YEJI

MORE LIVES LIKELY TO BE LOST IN YEJI

It is likely more lives may be lost on the Yeji Lake as some boat owners claim they cannot afford live jackets for their passengers.

The lack of live jackets and overloading are some of the safety precautions that were overlooked which killed several people last Sunday.

As a result, Head of Yeji NADMO, Justice Doula instructed that boat owners will not be allowed to operate if they don’t adhere to safety measures including having live jackets.

But the boat owners claim unless the assemblies provide them with live jackets they will continue to operate in the same way which claimed the lives of 15 people including children.

CONFUSION GALORE IN MAHAMA'S GOVERNMENT SAYS NANA ADDO

CONFUSION GALORE IN MAHAMA'S GOVERNMENT SAYS NANA ADDO

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the unending social and economic crises Ghana finds herself in is because the Mahama-led government over the last 7 years has proven itself to be corrupt, incompetent, indecisive and confused.

According to Nana Akufo-Addo, events of last week where Minister for Finance, Seth Terkper, and President John Mahama issued conflicting directives on the taxation of allowances and pensions are enough testament to how Ghana has been run to the ground by a clueless government.

"Mismanagement, corruption and incompetence have brought us to where we are today. When the word 'incompetent' is used to describe his government, the President gets very upset. But this week we have seen another example," he said.

He continued, "The Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, told us that he is preparing to tax pensions and allowances. And his President, two days later, stated that they were not going to do anything like that. If this is not confusion in his government, then I don't know what it is; and if this is not a sign of incompetence, then you would have to tell me what incompetence means.

"President says one thing, the Finance a minister says another. So who is telling us the truth? Are we going with the Finance Minister or with the President? There is complete confusion in his government."

The NPP flagbearer made this known when he addressed a packed town hall meeting in Modena, Italy, on Saturday, June 4, 2016, on the 2nd day of his visit to that country.

Reiterating his belief that Ghana, under President Mahama, is reeling from the effects of mismanagement, Nana Akufo-Addo recounted how Ghana's GDP growth rate slumped to 3.9% in 2015, less than half of what President Kufuor left, which was a growth rate of 8.4% without the benefit of oil revenues.

With government propagandists quick to cite "external shocks" as the reasons for Ghana's slump, Nana Akufo-Addo stated that Cote d'Ivoire is experiencing the same ‘external shocks’ as Ghana, and, yet, it is experiencing a boom, evidenced in it being the number one investment destination on the African continent, 9% annual GDP growth rates and $12 billion in agricultural export revenues. Ghana, on the other hand, is in decline and could only garner $2 billion from her agricultural exports.

To this end, Nana Akufo-Addo urged NPP members, in and out of Ghana, to work hard to take Ghana out of this mess, and bring her back to prosperity.

"We have to change these statistics. We cannot continue, whilst other people are prospering, to go down the hill. We need to have a change in Ghana. John Mahama cannot help us," he said.

An Akufo-Addo government, God-willing from 2017, he assured, is going to focus on expanding industry and modernizing our agriculture, adding that “these are going to be the main themes for the next four years."

This twin-track of rapid industrial expansion and increase of agricultural productivity, he indicated, is what will generate the hundreds of thousands of jobs that the teeming masses of unemployed Ghanaian youth need.

The NPP flagbearer also reiterated his pledge to reduce electricity tariffs when he wins this year's elections stating that "we are going to reduce electricity tariffs when we come into office. No ifs, no buts. We are going to reduce electricity tariffs so we can bring relief to our citizens and to our businesses."

With the 2016 election being his third shot at the Presidency, he was optimistic of victory stating that "I believe that, like Buhari in Nigeria and Ouattara in Côte d'Ivoire, third time lucky is what is going to happen to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo."

On what remains his motivation for contesting for the Presidency, he explained that "I want, one day, in our grandchildrens’ time, when things are going well and they are writing the history of Ghana that they will say it was in our grandparents' time when Akufo-Addo was President that Ghana was put on the road to progress and prosperity. That is what I am fighting for."

Present at the event were wife of the NPP flagbearer, Rebecca Akufo-Addo; NPP Italy Branch Chairman, Mr. OwusuBoateng, and branch executives; acting NPP Western Regional Chairman, Francis Ndedesiah; NPP Western Regional Secretary, Charles Bissue; NPP parliamentary candidate for EvalueAjomoroGwira, Hon. Catherine Afeku; NPP parliamentary candidate for EffiduaseAsokore; Dr. AyewAfriyie; Italy NPP party elder, Dr. Afrifa; and a large, enthusiastic crowd of Ghanaians resident in Italy.