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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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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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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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NCA CASE: SC cautions High Court Judge, AG over procedural errors

A five-member Supreme Court panel presided over by Justice Sule Gbadegbe, has cautioned the trial judge in the case of the Republic verses Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie and four others, Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, as well as the Attorney General’s Department not to abuse the criminal trial procedure in pursuit of the …

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