STATEMENT: NDC Opts Out Of Abuakwa North By-Election

National Democratic Congress

The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has decided not to contest the Abuakwa North Constituency by-election scheduled for this month.

The Electoral Commission has fixed March 29 for the by-election in the Abuakwa North Constituency.

The primary became necessary following the demise of the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye Danquah Adu.

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Wednesday 02 March 2016

Militant group beheads 15-year-old boy for listening to pop music

Militant group beheads 15-year-old boy for listening to pop music

A teenage  boy has been executed by a brutal Isis butcher known as 'The Bulldozer' for listening to Western pop music.

The cowering 15-year-old was publicly beheaded by the giant murderer, who wielded a huge sword as a crowd of locals looked on in Isis stronghold Mosul.

Pictures appear to show 'The Bulldozer', who carries out executions for the Islamic extremists using a giant sward, hiding his face behind a black balaclava like Brit terrorist Jihadi John.

Gifty Twum-Ampofo wins Abuakwa North NPP primary

Gifty Twum-Ampofo, (Middle), a tutor at the Akosombo International School

Gifty Twum-Ampofo, a tutor at the Akosombo International School has emerged victorious after polling 207 votes to beat her two main contenders in the Abuakwa North NPP primary.

Isaac Osei Ampadu a businessman polled 104 votes whiles Kyei Brobbey a former Headmaster of Ofori Panin Secondary School polled 27 votes.

The by-election was held in accordance with Article 112 (5) of the Constitution following the death of the Member of Parliament for the Abuakwa North constituency Joseph Boakye Danquah Adu, on February 9, 2016.

Leicester held, Chelsea up to eighth

Leicester and West Bromwich

Craig Gardner's sublime free kick prevented Leicester City going five points clear in the Premier League as West Bromwich Albion held the leaders to a 2-2 draw on Tuesday.

After Salomon Rondon put West Brom ahead, Leicester hit back through Danny Drinkwater and Andy King, only for Gardner to earn the visitors a point by arcing a free kick into the top-left corner in the 50th minute.

Tottenham Hotspur can go above Leicester on goal difference if they win at West Ham United on Wednesday, while Arsenal will be just three points behind them if they overcome Swansea City.

Cape Coast Poly students demonstrate over 'technical university' status

Cape Coast Polytechnic

Students and lecturers of the Cape Coast Polytechnic in the Central Region Tuesday morning demonstrated over their exclusion from the list of six polytechnics to be transformed into technical universities in September.

The students and their lecturers blocked the road leading to the school and prevented any movement to and from the campus, Graphic Online’s Timothy Gobah reported.

According to him, the demonstrators also prevented the Polytechnic’s Council members from entering the campus, accusing them of being unconcerned with their plight.

Nana Addo's address was a propaganda piece - NDC

Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of NDC

The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has fired back at Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for serving Ghanaians with the "same generic, stale, hollow, hackneyed and pedestrian propaganda" in the latter's rebuttal of President John Dramani Mahama’s “incontrovertible proof” put out in his State of the Nation Address (SoTN).

At a press conference in Accra Tuesday, General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketsia accused the leader of the largest opposition party of dabbling in "anti-government propaganda of the most revulting kind", instead of providing "a direct evidence-based disagreement" over what the President said last Thursday.