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Female police officer collapses after suffering beatings from Tamale residents

A female police officer has gained consciousness after she blacked out following an attack by some residents of Changli, a suburb in the Tamale Metropolis of the Northern region. The unnamed female officer had gone to the community with two other police officers, on April 16, to effect the arrest …

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Gov’t Starts Distributing Local PPEs

Government has started distributing locally produced Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to frontline workers in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. This came to light when Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia visited a number of local companies including Digital DTRT Apparel, Sleek Garments, Cadling Fashions and Bulluk Apparel (manufacturers of the Nallem Clothing) in …

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COVID-19: The Light Foundation Commends Bodies for supporting Government; Society urged to be compassionate towards the needy

The CEO of the light foundation, Sheikh Ali Abubakar Napari has lauded the efforts of Individuals, Institutions and corporate bodies for their enormous supports to the vulnerable towards the fight against COVID-19 in the midst of the lockdown.   He disclosed this when he interacted with a section of the …

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Gov’t killing school rats to prevent hantavirus outbreak after coronavirus

The government of Ghana is fumigating schools across the country to kill rats, mice and other rodents who transmit diseases so as to avert an outbreak of the hantavirus and other diseases after dealing with the coronavirus which has, so far, killed eight of the 614 confirmed cases in Ghana. …

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Police Hospital morgue to be decongested

The Ghana Police Hospital has announced a mass burial of unclaimed and unidentified bodies within the next two weeks in a move to decongest its morgue. A statement issued by the Head of Public Affairs of the Hospital, DSP Yaw Nketia-Yeboah, on Friday, April 17, 2020 has therefore called on …

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VIDEO: Drama as woman rushes out of room after husband demands ‘too much sex’ during lockdown

Most people in lockdown are probably experiencing big changes to their usual routine. There’s no office commute, no school bus shuttle; there are no parties to attend, no group dinners to plan. It’s unsurprising, then, that for a lot of people, those changes may also be affecting their sex life. …

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VIDEO: Two neighbors get into bloody fight during lockdown over a woman

In a video, MynewsGhana.net sighted on Facebook posted by blogger Linda Ikeji saw two men living in the same compound got into a fight during the lockdown in Enugu and it was really messy. The men – Divine and Nonso – had a disagreement over a woman and neighbors tried to intervene …

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Security man found dead in galamsey pit

A private Security man has been found dead at a galamsey site in Akanteng, a community in the West Akyem Municipality of the Eastern Region. The deceased,  identified as that of  Tetteh Kodah, 50, was found in an abandoned mining pit filled with water while his locally manufactured single barrel gun was …

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AMA provides canopies for displaced Old Fadama squatters [photos]

The Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA) on Thursday provided five canopies to cover squatters at Old Fadama in Accra who have been compelled to sleep in the open after their makeshift home structures were demolished. The squatters at the slum community were on Wednesday evening captured by Joy News cameras sleeping …

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Amnesty Int’l condemns demolition at Old Fadama

Amnesty International (AI) Ghana has condemned the action by the demolition exercise conducted by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) at Old Fadama to dredge the Korle Lagoon. According to the Human Rights group, the action taken by AMA was a violation of human rights and lacks sensitivity. In a Facebook …

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