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ECG to deploy drones for operations

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has taken delivery of 15 drones to provide effective monitoring and auditing of the company’s networks. This is to ensure more efficient services to clients in line with modern trends. The deployment of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the company’s operations is meant …

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Akyem Batabi building collapse: Body of baby girl among 22 fatalities

It has emerged that the body of a baby girl is among the 22 fatalities that have so been recorded in the building collapse disaster at Akyem Batabi in the Eastern Region. Reports indicate that the baby was pulled from the rubble of the collapsed building on Friday, October 23, …

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Petroleum tanker drivers call off sit-down strike

The Petroleum tanker drivers have called off their sit down strike. They resumed full operation on Friday, October 23, 2020, following an amicable resolution between the Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union and the National Petroleum Authority. According to leaders of the union, they decided to call off the strike …

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Tanker Drivers Union chairman allegedly missing

The Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union, George Nyaunu is reportedly missing. This according to the Vice Chairman of the Union chairman, Sunday Alabi According to him, the chairman went missing at 5 pm yesterday, Thursday, October 22, 2020. The Vice Chairman claims there have been threats …

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Ghana Armed Forces employs driver who rescued 17 people out of collapsed church building

A taxi driver known as ‘Cote D’Ivoire has been honored for his phenomenal gutsiness after he single-handedly extricated 17 people from the wreckage of a collapsed 3-storey church building at Akyem Batabi in the Asene Manso Akroso District of the Eastern Region of Ghana. Pursuing the information of his escapade …

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Police identify over 4k hotspots ahead of December polls

The Police Service has identified over 4000 constituencies across the country as hotspots ahead of the December polls. The Ashanti region which is the stronghold of the ruling party tops the number of hotspots in the police list. Hotspots are areas of potential conflicts or tensions during, before or after …

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Coup plot: Go back home – Court varies WOII Esther Saan’s bail

The Commercial Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Samuel Asiedu has varied the bail conditions of WOII Esther Saan with the new order allowing her to go home. WOII Saan is the only female among the 10 accused persons who have been held for an alleged …

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Armed police, soldiers to be deployed on streets of Kumasi and other areas – Minister reveals

Residents within the Ashanti Region mostly around the Kumasi Metropolis will soon see heavy police and military presence, Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah has revealed. According to the minister, the move by the Regional Security Council is one of the measures taken in the region to ensure peace before and after the …

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Man bathes in fountain at Adum

The old adage that it is an abomination for a day to pass by without a strange happening was the order of the day on Tuesday afternoon at Adum, a central business district of Kumasi, capital of the Ashanti region. A man believed to be in his late thirties turned …

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Fake prophet, pregnant woman dupe Koforidua residents

A gang of fraudsters operating under the guise of preaching the gospel on the streets has succeeded in duping many residents in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional capital. The modus operandi of the suspects, led by a fake prophet aged about 50 and a pregnant woman, is that they obtain information about their …

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