The Daily IIJ

Kenya Churches have laid the battle ground with the government after pulling out of talks over contentious issues in the draft constitution.

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Ministry of Social Welfare Gender and Children’s Affairs (MSWGCA), on Thursday handed over the National Training Center (NTC) site in Bo to contractors for rehabilitation.

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Observers who graced the thanksgiving service on Sunday, marking the 49th Independence Anniversary of Sierra Leone, at the Cathedral Church of Saint George in Freetown say the business was a flop.

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Sierra Leone’s biggest reggae and afro-pop star felt slighted yesterday after he learnt that his name was not on the list of some twenty musicians to perform alongside Akon, the visiting R&B sensation from the United States of America.

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THE CRIMINAL Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, today took delivery of a GH¢30,000 Toyota Hiace bus from the German Embassy in Accra. The gesture, formed part of a technical support by the German Federal Criminal Investigation Department to its Ghanaian counterpart and to further strengthen the existing cooperation in the area of [...]

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FIRST-TIME voter Diana Aricheta excitedly opened the overseas absentee voting (OAV) packet she received in the mail last week. But when the 20-year-old Los Angeles, California resident spread the contents of the envelope on the table, confusion set in. The packet held three legal-size sheets containing the names of the party-list groups, a ballot, a [...]

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Two years ago, the Electoral Commission of Ghana, refused to accede to the request of the Legal Resources Centre to have Ghanaian prisoners who are eighteen and above and of sound mind registered for the purpose of voting in public elections and referenda.

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From Nathaniel Y.Yankson, Ahafo, B/A Newmont Ghana Gold Limited has executed some developmental projects in parts of the Ahafo community where its mining activities had impacted negatively on the people to the tune of GH¢723,346.43. This amount was generated from the Newmont Ahafo Development Foundation (NADEF) with an accrued fund of $4.3million. One dollar of [...]

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Drivers in selected African countries especially Kenya, South Africa and Ghana can now use Google Maps for directions to their destinations. Sounds awesome. Africa is now getting its fair share of technological transformation across the globe. I became awestruck when I first visited Europe some five years back and sat in the front passenger seat [...]

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WITH barely 14 days left before the elections, multisectoral groups of concerned citizens are making a last ditch effort to convince the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to adopt a parallel nationwide manual count to avoid a possible ‘Automated Garci.’

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