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Special Prosecutor invites Mahama’s ‘brother’, others over Airbus scandal

The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has sent out an invitation to four people to make themselves available to assist in the ongoing investigation into an alleged act of corruption in the purchase of three aircraft from Airbus SE for Ghana. According to the Special Prosecutor, upon completion of preliminary investigation, …

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Akufo-Addo hasn’t given power to police or military to brutalize citizens – Wontumi

‘On Friday when President Akufo-Addo addressed the nation, never did he mention that he has given power to the military or police to use brute force on citizens’, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party has said. According to Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, government isn’t …

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28 courts in Accra and Kumasi designated for only lockdown-related cases

The Chief Justice has directed all hearings within the partial lockdown areas to be adjourned to May and June 2020. This follows a directive by President Nana Akufo-Addo for citizens to stay indoors as part of measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19. This two-week directive is to be enforced …

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Police intercept cargo trucks loaded with 150 kayayes heading North

The Nkawkaw District Police Command has arrested two cargo vehicles with registration numbers AS 8983-12 and GT 4260-15 respectively at Asona in the Kwahu West Municipality fully loaded with head potters popularly known as kayayes who in the fear of  Covid-19 are fleeing to the North for safety. The Kayayes …

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Disturbing video shows dead bodies loaded onto truck outside NYC hospitals

The coronavirus pandemic has slammed New York City so hard that health care workers are using forklifts to load dead bodies into refrigerated trucks, according to a viral video. The 5-minute and 32-second clip posted to YouTube shows medical officials helping to load the corpses in body bags into the …

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VIDEO: COVID -19: Truck smuggling 30 people impounded at Ejisu

Police in Ashanti Region have impounded a KIA truck at Ejisu which was smuggling 30 people to Walewale in the Northern Region in defiance of the lockdown directives issued following the outbreak of coronavirus disease in Ghana. The truck with registration number AS 8983-12 was stopped at the checkpoint of …

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[Video] Man molested for taking videos of military personnel

A young an at Kasoa has been beaten up by military personnel. We here that the unidentified young man was taking videos of the military personnel which didn’t go down well with the military men who are on duty to enforce the lockdown sanctioned by the president. Watch the video below:  Source: mynewsghana.net

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Ministers, other appointees donate 50% of salaries into COVID-19 fund

All Ministers of State, the Chief of Staff at the Office of the President, the deputy Chiefs of Staff, Secretary to the President, Secretary to the Cabinet, Presidential Staffers and Presidential Aides at the Presidency have decided to donate fifty per cent (50%) of their salaries, for the next three …

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[Video] COVID-19: Traditional priests converge at Independence Square to pray for Ghana

A group of traditonal priests have converged at the independence square to pray for the country over the outbreak of coronavirus in the world. The video intercepted by My News Ghana sees a group of traditionalists, presumed to be Ewes praying to the gods and ancestors to deliver Ghana from the dreaded effects of …

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