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Bagre Dam Spillage Kills 4 Year Old Girl In Daboya

A four-year-old girl has died in Daboya due to the spillage of the Bagre dam from Burkina Faso. The Bagre Dam spillage overflowed to Daboya in the North Gonja district of the Savannah region. The spillage has affected about nine communities in the Daboya-Mankarigu district with over 750 households displaced. …

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Four trotros carrying 36 West Africa nationals intercepted at Elubo

The Western Regional Command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) in a joint operation with the Ghana Armed Forces on Thursday, September 10 intercepted four commercial vehicles en route to Takoradi. The vehicles had on board illegal West African nationals who were consequently arrested. According to GIS, intelligence was gathered …

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5 dead, 7 others injured in a car crash on the Kasoa-Cape Coast highway

Five passengers died on the spot after the cars they were travelling in were involved in a head-on collision at Gomoa Adam near Gomoa Anteadze on the Kasoa-Cape Coast highway in the Central Region. The accident involved two passenger cars, a Ford Transit with the Registration number GS 6031- 20 …

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Youth unemployment time bomb waiting to explode – Haruna Iddrisu

Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has said the growing rate of graduate youth unemployment in Ghana is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode if nothing is done immediately to address the situation. According to him,  at the moment a lot of the youth in the country are unable to afford …

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How a five-year-old child was looking for the mother who died in the Kyekyewere accident

The Kyekyewere accident, which occurred around 4:30 am on Tuesday, involved a cargo truck and two commercial buses. Recent updates show that 14 people have died and over 50 injured. The injured are currently receiving treatment at the Suhum and Nsawam government hospitals. ‘Confused’ five-year-old child The Eastern Regional Director …

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Mali coup: Hand over to a civilian leader – ECOWAS orders the Military

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has advised the military in Mali to return to civilian rule in the coming days. The chairman, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, stated that the meeting with Mali’s new military junta headed by Col. Assimi Goita was progressive. Col. Assimi Goita was reported …

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Give us traffic lights so that our kids can also learn -Goaso Chief begs Akufo-Addo

The Omanhene of Goaso Traditional Council Nana Baffour Kwasi Bosomprah is pleading with president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for traffic lights in the area and the Ahafo Region as a whole. His justification is that school children have over years learnt about traffic lights but only see them physically when …

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Angry Jacobu residents storm cemetery, protest over lack of infrastructure

Angry residents of Jacobu in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region, on Tuesday, September 15, stormed a cemetery in the community to protest the lack of development in the district. Personnel from the Odotobri Police Command earlier prevented the group calling itself Concerned Youth of Odotobri Constituency, from …

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Govt to give update on National Unemployment Insurance Scheme today

The Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Honourable Ignatius Baffour-Awuah will today September 16, deliver an update on the state of the National Unemployment Scheme which government hinted of recently. The minister is expected to delineate also, the number of jobs government has been able to protect and restored amidst …

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