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224 stranded Ghanaians return from Britain

  Some 224 stranded Ghanaians have returned from the United Kingdom. They arrived on Wednesday night, June 17, through a special travel arrangement. The Government of Ghana has been assisting stranded Ghanaians to return home due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Upon arrival at the Kotoka International Airport …

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Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam Project: Chiefs Heap Praises Government and VRA for Community Sensitization Process

  The Volta River Authority (VRA) is currently undertaking an aggressive Stakeholder and Community Sensitization in the Upper East and North East Regions as part of the construction of the Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Hydro and Irrigation Dam (PMD) with Solar facility. After an extensive Pre-implementation Phase engagement with key Stakeholders at …

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Help me secure my Land – 89-year-old woman cries out

89-year-old Madam Alice Akoher Sowah, a property owner at East Legon – Shiashie a suburb of the Greater Accra Region, has called on the government, the land commission and other security agencies to intervene as land guards are preventing her from renovating her property she owns for over 50 years …

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Boy, 4, found dead in a car at Atafoa Palace

    A 4-year-old boy who had been missing for about one week was found dead inside a parked vehicle in front of the Atafoa Palace in the Suame Municipality in the Ashanti region. After an extensive search for him, the deceased, Agyemang, was found unconscious and rotten in a …

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My gates are open – Ibrah One reacts to Kennedy Agyapong’s threat

    Following Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong’s claim that Ghana’s Security operatives will soon arrest Ibrahim Dauda for his involvement in money laundering and failure to pay duties on his cars, the businessman popularly known as Ibrah One says he is ready for them. An unperturbed Ibrah …

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State increases charges against Duffour, others from 68 to 71

    The Attorney General’s Office has amended its case against the founder of uniBank Dr. Kwabena Duffour and eight others bringing the charges up from 68 to 71. Director of Public Prosecution, Yvonne Attakora Obuobisa informed the court presided over by Justice Bright Mensah that the State has also …

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Parliament empty as NPP primaries nears

    The impending parliamentary primaries of the governing New Patriotic Party, NPP has compelled Parliament to truncate its sitting for today and set aside that of tomorrow Friday, June, 19. This follows a near-empty chamber owing to some majority MPs fighting for their seats in various constituencies. Wa West MP Joseph Yileh …

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Retiring Chief of Defence Staff gets six months contract

      Ghana’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Lieutenant General OB Akwa is due for retirement on Saturday, June 20, 2020, but will stay in office until January 2021. Lt. Gen. Akwa, who will be 65 years – the mandatory retirement age – over the weekend, has been given …

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Zoomlion Disinfects 3,000 Military Facilities In Ashanti Region Again

  About three thousand (3,000) military facilities and installations in the Ashanti Region received disinfection again.   The two-ay exercise, carried out by waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, began last Tuesday and ended on Wednesday, June 17.   The exercise covered military facilities including barracks, offices, parade grounds among …

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Coronavirus: 224 Stranded Ghanaians Arrive From UK

Some 224 Ghanaians have arrived in Ghana from the UK as part of the government’s efforts to evacuate Ghanaians stranded abroad due to covid-19. Of the persons who arrived on Wednesday evening, 108 were men, 106 were women, nine were infants and four were babies. They were checked in by …

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