Bricy Boateng

 A list of 'top 20 Facebook political advertisement spend circulating on social media details how much money in US dollars was paid by political parties, political figures, popular personalities and the news platform for  promoting their party, flag-bearers and election related contents to tens of thousands of facebook users towards the 2020 general elections. The list is a summation of political advertisements shown to Facebook users from the month of August through to December 2020. From a look at the list, the former president - John Mahama is seen at the top as the highest spender of political Facebook advertisements with an amount of $65,120 followed by the president of the Republic of Ghana-H. E. Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo as the second highest with a budget of $ 53,598 itemized in that order.  A second part of the list details the regional proportions that received more of these political advertisement from the same time period. From the list, it could be seen that, th...

  In Ghana, a lot of the traditional fabric we sew and wear have meanings. Traditionally, this is the practice of the Akans, from kingship to marriage, the kind of fabric they wear speaks volume. Every occasion determines the kind of cloth to wear. For example, during funerals, you see many wearing clothes inscribed in it, "who do you leave me behind", "a good mother" among many others. The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Jean Mensah wore a similar cloth as she sat down to declare the presidential results as the returning officer of the commission. Madam Jean has won the admiration of many Ghanaians including  presidential candidates like Sofo Kyiri Abosom and Akua Donkor in addition to election observes like Coalition Of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) for the competence shown. A gentleman named ChristDeKing on Twitter has explained the meaning of the chairperson's Kente fabric.He said: "The Kente fabric the EC chairwoman Jean Mensah wore ...

  The Ghana Police Service has released to the general public the various security agencies who will be present at all the Polling stations on December 7,2020.You are not going to see all of them present at one polling station however, you will definitely see one or two of them in all the 33,000 polling stations for this year's election.  For the purpose of identification, their uniforms in which they will wear to the polling stations have been displayed to the general public.The security agencies include :The Ghana Police Service,Ghana Immigration Service,Ghana Customs, Ghana National Fire Service, Ghana Armed Forces and Ghana Prisons Service in their approved uniforms, boots and caps with their name tag on their chest.  The general public should not panic to go and cast their vote since they are not a threat to any law abiding citizen but to safeguard the electoral process peacefully against deviants in the society.  "Below are the various uniforms to be worn by pe...