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Customers To Enjoy 4% Talk Tax Reduction From September 15

Mobile network subscribers are expected to receive more credit for the same amount purchased beginning September 15, 2020, following a slash in Communication Service Tax. The Mobile Network Operators (MNO) in the country are set to implement the new 5% Communication Service Tax (CST) after the government reduced it from 9% to …

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Why jail Pastors over COVID-19 restriction violations? – Mahama quizzes

Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has described jailing a Volta Region based Pastor, Apostle Sampson Agakpe for four years for flouting COVID-19 protocols a very draconian punishment According to him, government should ensure that there’s is equality before the law so if politicians have been left off the hook, …

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Mahama’s Airport For Sale Claim Inaccurate – GACL

Management of the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) has debunked claims by former President John Mahama that the government intends to sell-off the facility to a foreign company. It has also described as incorrect, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer’s assertions that some US$600 million was invested in the …

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Director-General of Police Welfare installed Queen Mother by Yagbonwura

The overlord of the Gonja Traditional Area, Yagbonwura Tuntumba Boressa I has conferred a chieftaincy title on the Director-General of Police Welfare COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah. COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa who has oversight responsibility of the Savannah Region, was recognized by the King for constantly keeping touch with the …

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Fire Destroys Two-Bedroom House in Akyem Akropong

A two-bedroom house has been gutted by fire at Akyem Akropong in Atiwa West Municipality of the Eastern Region. The fire consumed all household properties in the house. It took the strenuous effort of Firefighters to douse the blazing fire. No casualty or injury was recorded but all four occupants …

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[VIDEO]: Ghanaian who invented water bicycle makes a sweeping bicycle

The adept young Ghanaian engineer known for the famous water bicycle invention has proven he has a bag of ideas as he comes up with another innovation- a sweeping bicycle. Frank Darko has invented a tricycle that sweeps along as you ride it and he calls it a ”sweeping bicycle.” …

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Parliament approves transformation of Kumasi Campus of UEW to autonomous university

Parliament on Monday passed the University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development Bill that would give legal backing to the proposed conversion of the Kumasi Campus of the University of Education, Winneba, after late industrialist, Akenten Appiah-Menka. The suggestion to name the university after the late Appiah-Menka is because of his …

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Video: Another old woman tied to a tree and whipped

In the wake of the lynching of a 90-year-old woman, Akua Denteh in Kafaba in Gonja My News Ghana has chanced upon another video of a an old woman who has been tied to a tree whiles been lashed. The video as shared by TV3’s Nuong Faalong, the woman could …

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Okyenhene demands closure of Bright SHS over exams fraud

The Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council has called for the immediate closure of Bright Senior High School at Akyem Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region for allegedly perpetuating fraud in examinations over the years. The Traditional Council headed by Okyenehene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin is also calling for the prosecution of the …

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