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I’ll welcome ideas from Ghanaians for effective policing – Acting IGP

The acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) James Oppong-Boanuh has said he is open to public opinion in shaping policies to make the police service an effective one. He says, his administration will continue with programs started by his predecessor to ensure the highest professional standard such as capacity building, provision …

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Fake pastor jailed 10 years for fraud

Thirty-year-old self-acclaimed pastor, Isaac Kofi, has been jailed 10 years by the Ashaiman circuit court for defrauding by false pretence. Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ahenkorah Afrifa, Ashaiman divisional police command, told the court that, the accused was arrested on 09/07/2019 from his hideout after series of complaints were …

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Cuba to train 40 Zongo medical students yearly

The Government of Cuba has accepted to train 40 brilliant but needy medical students a year from Zongo, inner city and other deprived communities in Ghana. This follows a proposal by Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, to the Government of Cuba to extend the special arrangement between the two countries …

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Second-year SHS students to remain on double-track

The government has announced that second-year senior high school (SHS) students will remain on the double-track system when the next academic year begins in September this year. The announcement follows the delay in the execution of the additional projects being embarked on by schools operating the double-track system in the …

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Scores feared drowned in shipwreck off Libya

Up to 150 people may have drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the UN refugee agency says. A further 150 people were rescued by fishermen and returned to Libya by coastguards, the UNHCR said. It is not clear if the migrants were on one or two boats …

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The US federal government is to resume executing death-row inmates after nearly two decades without an execution, the justice department said.Attorney General William Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to schedule the executions of five inmates convicted of murder and other crimes.Mr Barr said the five had been convicted …

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Audio: Stop peddling falsehood; be truthful to cocoa farmers – Minority to Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo The Minority in Parliament has urged President Nana Akufo-Addo to stop misleading cocoa farmers and tell them the true state of cocoa production he inherited from the erstwhile John Mahama administration. “We believe it is about time they stopped peddling falsehood and tell cocoa farmers the true …

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Akufo-Addo launches Community Mining programme

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, 25 July 2019, launched the Community Mining Programme at Wassa Akropong in the Western Region.The Community Mining Programme is aimed at formalising mining in selected communities across the country.With, at least, one community mine expected to be set up in each of the …

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Sanitation Minister gifts Adom FM intern chocolate after Multimedia visit, apology

The Multimedia Group and its business unit Adom FM, on Wednesday, 25 July 2019 visited the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah in her office to apologise to her over a recent publication by an intern of the local-language speaking radio station which attracted public opprobrium against …

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Supreme Court orders sale of 2 Woyome Trassaco mansions

The woes of embattled businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome is far from over as Supreme Court yet in another ruling has ordered for the sale of two of his Trassaco mansions to offset part of the debt owed the state. The court presided over by Justice Baffoe Bonnie directed that the …

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