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[Photos] Fire Guts House in Akim Oda, 2 Seriously Injured

Two persons are currently in critical condition after fire gutted a house at Akim Oda in the Birim Central Municipality of the Eastern Region. The two were sleeping when the outbreak happened. The victims, both adults have been referred from the Oda Government Hospital Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua. According to the Birim Central …

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Police storm Obuasi over protest against coronavirus isolation centre

Security personnel have been deployed to Obuasi in the Ashanti Region after residents there protested against plans to establish an isolation centre for COVID-19 patients in that part of the country. The residents fear contracting the virus from the isolation centre. District Chief Executive (DCE) of Obuasi East, Faustina Amissah, urged the …

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Coronavirus kills health personnel in Tarkwa

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases recorded in Tarkwa has increased to 13 with one death. The deceased, a female health employee of a hospital within Tarkwa, passed on before her COVID-19 status was confirmed. Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Tarkwa-Nsuaem, Gilbert Kennedy Asmah who confirmed this to the GNA, said the health facility …

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Covid-19: Residents of Obuasi beg for a lockdown

Some residents of Obuasi in the Ashanti region are living in fear amid calls for lockdown over the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the area. This comes after the Director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Aboagye, at a press briefing on Tuesday announced Obuasi as the hottest …

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Man dies after s3x workers threw him out of two-storey building [audio]

A tricycle truck rider is feared dead after allegedly being thrown out of a two-storey building by persons suspected to be commercial sex workers at Asafo Larry Terminal. The man, who is yet to be identified, is alleged to have refused to pay the sex workers after patronising their services, …

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Auditor-General, Domelevo In Trouble as High Court Finds Him Guilty Of Contempt

An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Afia Asare Botwe has found Auditor General Daniel Domelovo guilty of contempt. The court held that the reason was given by Mr Domelovo’s Dormelevo’s defence “untenable and an afterthought. Mr Domelevo had told the High Court as part of his defence that …

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Why is the church in a rush to open – Methodist cleric questions

A Superintendent Minister of the Calvary Methodist Church in Kumasi, Right Rev. Stephen Bosomtwe Ayensu has taken a swipe at the Christian Ecumenical Bodies calling for an ease in restrictions on social gathering, describing their actions as that of a hostile pressure group. On Angel Fm’s flagship program, Angel in …

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Muslims fume over Justice Tanko Amadu’s comment on Hijab

Muslims across the country are unhappy with the remarks of Supreme Court judge nominee Justice Issifu Tank Amadu over the wearing of Hijab in schools. The Appeal Court judge told the Parliament vetting committee Monday that he saw no problem with secular schools stopping Muslim girls from wearing the Hijab …

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Seth Terkper exposes NDC’s hypocrisy, vindicates Bawumia on ‘Dumsor’ in viral video

Former Finance Minister Seth Tekper has made an honest admission which has vindicated Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia‘s clash with the NDC over comparisons of effects of dumsor and Coronaviruson the Ghanaian economy, and governments’ socio-responses. The controversy was ignited by former President John Dramani Mahama, who criticised government’s response to the Coronaviruspandemic, and also …

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Local foods are great but we don’t have lands to farm – Farmer to Akufo-Addo

An award-winning farmer in the Awutu Senya District of Central Region, Mr. John Amo, has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for admonishing Ghanaians to eat, local foods. However, the farmer says they lack available lands to help them farm, a situation he explained is dangerous for food security Mr. John Amo …

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