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Avail Your Children Under Five Years To Receive Polio Vaccines – NCCE

The Anloga District Director of NCCE Mr. Godwin Agbenyo has urged all parents, guardians and those who are in charge of children to make available their children under five years to receive this year’s two rounds POLIO VACCINES from September 10 to 13 and October 8 to 11 to boost …

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Suspend Agyapa deal – CSOs reiterate call on gov’t

Civil society groups in the country have reiterated their calls for government to suspend the controversial Agyapa royalties deal. According to them, government appears to be pushing through the deal despite calls for the further stakeholder consultation in the matter. In a statement Tuesday, the CSOs said: “It is not …

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[VIDEO]: Motorbike rider killed in horrible accident on Kanda Highway

A motorbike rider has crashed to death after colliding with a salon car on the Kanda Highway in front of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Accra. The incident which occurred on the afternoon of Monday, 7th September 2020 has seen the driver of the salon car in critical …

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Old Man Killed for Dating A 15-year-old JHS Leaver in Ashanti Region

A 54-year-old man has been killed for allegedly dating a 15-year girl in a small village in the Ashanti Region. Before the incident, elders brothers of the 15-year-old girl gave the deceased and their younger sister a warning about the affair but both turned death ears to those warning The …

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Courageous driver knocks and kills highway robber

Luck has eluded a highway robber on the Buipe-Tamale road in the Savannah Region as he has been killed after he was knocked down by a vehicle he attempted to rob. According to the police in the Central Gonja District, the armed robber was hiding in the nearby bush between …

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NDC manifesto: 7 days paternity leave for fathers

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in its 2020 manifesto has promised seven days paternity leave for fathers in the country. Under its health policies, the main opposition party noted that it will “amend the law to provide four months maternity leave, in addition to existing legal maternity provisions and grant …

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SAD VIDEO: Six killed in gruesome accident at Suhum

Information states six persons have died on the spot when a VVIP Bus with registration number, GL 527-13 driving from the Northern part of the country and heading towards Accra was involved in an accident at Amanase near Suhum in the Eastern Region. The accident occurred in the early morning of …

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We don’t believe you’ll return our excavators – Obuasi miners to Mahama

The Association of Small Scale Miners at Obuasi in the Ashanti region say they do not trust the NDC will deliver on their promise to return their seized excavators if they win the December polls. Former President John Mahama while unveiling the NDC’s manifesto for the 2020 elections, among other …

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CSIR lands, properties under attack

Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation has disclosed to a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) public hearing in Accra that lands and estate properties of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are under attack by encroachers. Such attacks and threats of ejection of staff …

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MFWA slams Mahama for endorsing ‘Akyem sakawa boys’ comments

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has condemned the NDC flagbearer John Dramani Mahama for endorsing ethnocentric comments made against Akyems by the Bolgatanga Central MP. In a statement, MFWA explained that the statement tends to “provoke and incite reprisal attacks which can fuel political tensions” in the country. …

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