Voting at the Korley Klottey constituency in Accra came to a standstill at about 12 noon when the parliamentary candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Nii Armah Ashitey raised objections to proceedings at the Osu Police Barracks polling centre. Voting which started at about 7am yesterday, unlike the Nima Police Barracks polling centre, was characterized by lots of intimidation and confusion. The Presiding Officer, Clement Adonae told DAILY GUIDE

Fellow Ghanaians, I have just one word for you: CHANGE. It has been eight long and painful years of failed and broken NPP promises. Mr. Kuffour was the cross we had to carry on this painful journey in our nation’s history. Thank God in one week, we shall dump this albatross hanging on our necks and CHANGE will come to Ghana. Even the stubborn and arrogant Kukrudu knows it. No wonder they quickly CHANGED their slogan after eight years of failed and broken promises

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, indisputably the most popular political figure in Ghana today, is glaringly cruising to a clear electoral victory come Sunday. Four days to the titanic elections that is considered to be a yardstick for all emerging democracies, poll after poll has continued to place him far ahead of any of his major opponents, such that some political pundits believe his name has currently overshadowed

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) have swiftly reacted to a nationwide survey conducted by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), which predicted a first round win for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).  According to the two political parties, the report was a gimmick being used by the investigative body to please the ruling party. The Convention People’s Party (CPP), however,

A man who broke into the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation has been shot by security personnel at the corporation.  The unidentified man, wielding a matchete allegedly threatened to kill someone in the company. According to Joy News’ the man broke into the premises of the corporation and was chased by military personnel and shot in the leg. The man who dropped by a vehicle was whisked away by the security personnel after they had allegedly beaten him severely.

The Technical Committee on the Niger Delta yesterday presented its report and called on the Federal Government to increase the oil and gas revenue allocation to the region from the present 13 per cent to 25 per cent. Also, the committee asked for the open trial for the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Mr. Henry Okah. The committee also recommended the establishment of Decommissioning, Disarmament and Rehabilitation (DDR) for the region within the next six months.

Nigerians, last week, were inundated with reports of the loss of about 39 children following administration of My Pikin teething mixture. According to the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Dora Akunyili, 28 children were reported to have died of kidney failure following treatment with the drug. Akunyili said 15 children died in Lagos University Teething Hospital (LUTH),

Two pregnant housewives have recounted the chilling details of how their husband was brutally killed by rampaging youths who shot him and then burnt their house to ashes. Hafsatu Mallam Muhammadu and Adama Muhammadu who said they narrowly escaped added that they watched helplessly as their husband died of gun shots in the neck at FOMWAN Hospital in Gangere where he was rushed to after he was shot and beaten to pulp.

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua may have stylishly shunned Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang as he refused to grant the governor audience yesterday. Over 300 people were said to have been killed in the sectarian riots that broke out last Friday in the state over the local government election in Jos North. According to a Presidency source, Jang arrived the Presidential Villa early in the morning and waited for Yar’Adua to return from the National Assembly where he had gone to present the 2009 budget.

Tragedy struck weekend in Ureje Quarters in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital as five daughter of Mr. Mutiu Nurein, were found dead in the booth of his car. Mutiu, a 35-year old butcher, at Okebola Area of the State had six of his female children locked up in the booth by unidentified assailants, with only one, Rasidat surviving the onslaught. Narrating the ordeal to newsmen, Mutiu said he travelled on a business trip to Jebba in Kwara State on the said day, only to be called around 9 pm about the incident.

WITH a monthly growth figure of 1.1 million new subscribers to various mobile networks, Nigeria is now the eighth fastest growing telecommunications environment in the world. There are now 57 million connected subscribers to the Nigeria's five mobile networks of MTN Nigeria, Globacom, Zain, Etisalat and M-tel. In a similar development, European telecommunications ministers have endorsed a plan to cap retail prices for sending SMS (Short Message Service)

The Nigerian Army on Sunday took over security in Jos, the Plateau State capital, two days after riots broke out in the city.Chief of Army Staff, General Abdulrahman Dambazza, on Sunday personally led fully armed troops to take over security in the Plataeu State capital where hundreds have lost their lives since riots broke out in the city on Friday. The police had earlier dispatched an Assistant Inspector General of Police, Mr. Richard Chime,

THREE hundred and seventy-six bodies said to be victims of Jos violence at the weekend were given a mass burial. The burial held on the same day the Federal Government deployed more troops in the trouble spot, and fears were expressed over the starvation being faced by about 4,000 persons that have been displaced by the crisis. But the Plateau State government allayed fears that a state of emergency could be declared to restore peace to the state.

Plateau state governor has warned residents of Jos to remain indoors as it has given an order to security personnel to shoot at sight any individual or group seen on the streets.This is in addition to 24-hour curfew imposed in four troubled spots within the metropolis following the assessment of security situation by Governor Jonah Jang yesterday morning. This happened just as the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the state alleged the arrest of over 1,000 mercenaries

Police in Yola, the Adamawa state capital, are now on the trail of a middle-aged woman, Mrs. Hanatu Ishaya, over the gruesome murder of her children last Friday through poison after a matrimonial quarrel with her husband in Song Local Government area. Police investigation revealed that the suspect in company of a friend visited her husband’s house since she relocated out of her matrimonial home due to disagreements with her husband.

Pope Benedict XVI has condemned as "cruel and senseless" the sectarian fighting in Nigeria and the terrorist attacks in India that have killed hundreds of people in the two countries.  Addressing a crowd in St. Peter's Square after his traditional Sunday blessing, Benedict denounced the "brutal terrorist attacks" in Mumbai as well as the ethnic and religious clashes that have rocked the central Nigerian city of Jos. In Nigeria, Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III,

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that apart from the fact that he served as the number two citizen of the country for eight years under Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, he has nothing in common with the former President, adding that as long as he remained in politics he would continue to contest the presidency. When asked about his relationship with his former boss of eight years he said, "we have never really been friends and so we don’t have common friends,

Investigations have revealed that while in office as the Vice-President of Ghana and Chairman of the National Economic Management Team from 1997 to 2000, Professor John Evans Atta Mills made it a policy and actually demanded that whoever accused any person of corruption should “provide evidence, substantiate the accusation, otherwise we destroy good and innocent people”. Kofi Bentum Quantson, a former security capo and security co-ordinator in the National Democratic Congress

“We shall measure our progress by the improvement in the health of our people; by the number of children in school, and electricity in our towns and villages and by the happiness which our people take in being able to manage their own affairs. The welfare of our people is our chief pride, and it is by this that my Government will ask to be judged.” Broadcast to nation, 24th Dec. 1957 By Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The Washington post also reports 06.Nov 2008,

Dr Edward Nasigre Mahama, the presidential candidate of the People's National Convention (PNC), on Saturday said the December 7 election would knock some presidential candidates out because they would not win. He said some of the presidential candidates were sure of winning as if they had been ordained by God to be president and that Ghanaians wanted a genuine change for someone with humility to address their concerns.

ALL EIGHT candidates contesting this year’s presidential election have been warned against engaging in ‘juju’ practices to help them win the election. Rev. Dr. Peter Adjei Annoh, National President of the Grace Bible Church in Kumasi who gave the caution, said the devil do not have the power to elect the next leader for the country.   He therefore told politicians, “If you rely on ‘juju’ or occult practices, you will surely lose in the polls because those deities do not have powers to influence the electorate”.

Twelve years after being arrested in Switzerland for dealing in narcotic drugs, Frank Benneh, a former Career Diplomat has disclosed that he was an undercover cocaine courier for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the ‘powers that be’ at the time of his arrest. Mr. Benneh on Saturday told DAILY GUIDE that he was by then attached to Ghana’s foreign intelligence and that was the platform on which he engaged in the drug trade for the NDC, saying money from the trade was piled