GENERAL NEWS

Law students to embark on demo October 7

Students of the Ghana School of Law will stage a protest on Monday, October 7 to register their displeasure over recent developments at the school. In results released from the latest entrance examinations, 90 percent of students who sat the test failed to make a pass mark. The results showed …

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Bawumia Directs All Institutions To Purchase Toilet Roll From Locals

All government institutions have been directed to procure all their toilet paper from local manufacturers in the next procurement cycle. The Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, gave the directive when he toured the Brompton Portfolio’s toilet paper manufacturing factory located at the Nsawam Prisons in the Eastern …

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Mysterious deaths to hit Parliament – Kwaku Bonsam predicts

Popular fetish priest Nana Kwaku Bonsam has prophesied that Members of Parliament (MPs) and Ministers including those who have involved themselves in corrupt practices will die by the end of this year, MyNewsGh.com reports. The dreaded Afrancho-based fetish priest in an interview with Kumasi based Angel FM DriveTime, hosted by …

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Corruption is a problem in Ghana – Austrialian High Commissioner

The Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr. Andrew Barnes has expressed shock at the level of corruption in Ghana, a nation dominated by Christians. To Mr. Barnes, corruption should not be an issue eating up a country which Christian population constitutes approximately 71.2% of the entire population. Christianity is the …

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Poverty no longer barrier to education in Ghana – Nana Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his Government has ensured that poverty is no longer a stumbling block to the access of education of Ghana’s children, as a result of the implementation of the Free Senior High School policy in September 2017. According to President Akufo-Addo, “I am glad that …

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EOCO has failed in corruption fight – Osafo Marfo

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has failed in its efforts to help fight corruption, the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo has stated. The Office was set up with the aim to monitor and investigate economic and organised crime, and on the authority of the Attorney-General prosecute these offences …

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UNIDO, Ghana And Switzerland Launch A New Country Programme To Improve Standards And Quality Of Cashew, Oil Palm And Cocoa Exports From Ghana

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Government of Ghana and Government of Switzerland through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), launched on Tuesday the Global Quality and Standards Programme (GQSP) to improve standards and quality of exports. The GQSP is an innovative new global programme developed by UNIDO …

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‘Coup’ plotters planned to attack Defense ministry – Derrick Oduro

Deputy Minister for Defense, Major Derrick Oduro, has disclosed that the three individuals who are being held for attempting attack the presidency also planned to attack the defense ministry. “The intelligence we gathered at a point indicated that these young men wanted to attack the Defense Ministry,” he told Morning …

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Akufo-Addo receives 2019 FOCOS Humanitarian Award

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has received the 2019 FOCOS Humanitarian Award, on behalf of the people of Ghana, for the country’s “longstanding support for the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine”. Receiving the award on Monday, September 23, 2019, at the FOCOS NYC Gala ceremony, Mr. Akufo-Addo noted that …

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Ghanaian-born US citizen who ‘killed himself’ was sacked from Navy for sexual assault

A Ghanaian-born US citizen, Prince Yeboah Wiredu, who allegedly committed suicide had been sacked from the US navy in August 2017. The deceased was a Personnel Specialist Second Class (E-5) in the U.S. Navy A copy of the judgement obtained by JoyNews reads “the members [of the court] sentenced the …

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