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PHOTOS: Tenants escape death as fire destroys house at Anyaa

A three-bedroom house has completely been destroyed at Anyaa last stop in the Ga Central Municipality of the Greater Accra region. It took Firefighters a little over an hour to finally douse the heavy fire that occurred on Wednesday at about 10:30 am with the cause yet to be known. …

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Soldiers intercept 153 bags of wee at Aflao

Officers of the Ghana Armed Forces have impounded over 150 bagged substances suspected to be cannabis at Wudoaba in the Ketu South municipality. The illicit substances were intercepted following the arrest of a Benz Cargo truck with registration number GE8404-13. The incident led to the arrest of the driver of …

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‘Conman’ claiming to be a Ghanaian prince standing trial in US court for $800,000 scam

Directly: whether by blood or by birth, he is not a Ghanaian, but as prosecutors would tell a US court, Daryl Attipoe claims to have been “adopted” by a royal family in Ghana. The man described as a classic “conman” in a bizarre investment scheme is currently standing trial at …

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Immigration officers aiding foreigners to skip screening at KIA – Int. Relations Expert

An International Relations Expert, Collons Kwadwo Amoah has alleged that Immigration Service officers at the Kotoka International Airport of helping foreign passengers who disembark to evade immigration screening. His comment comes on the back of news that Chinese galamsey kingpin, Aisha Huang who was arrested and said to have been …

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Watch Kwame Nkrumah officially open Ghana’s Parliament House in 1960

GhanaWeb chanced on an old video that shows when Ghana’s Parliament House was first opened in 1960. This was during the presidency of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president. The 4 minutes-0 seconds video shared by British Pathé on YouTube showed the president, plus several not-readily identifiable dignitaries, gathering at the …

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King Charles blocks Zimbabwe’s president’s request to attend funeral

King Charles III has blocked the president of Zimbabwe’s request to attend the funeral of his late mother Queen Elizabeth II. Read the letter denying president Mnangagwa’s request to attend the funeral below: President Mnangagwa in a letter expressing his condolence to the King for the passing of his mother …

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Three faces of Huang: En, Aisha, Ruixia

The most talked about personality in Ghana since last week has been a Chinese woman notoriously referred to as queen in the illegal small-scale mining, alias galamsey, business. When her re-arrest was announced on September 5, 2022, legal, political and security concerns were raised from different quarters for different reasons. …

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Breakdown of Ghana’s repatriation of 1,641 Chinese between 2009 – 2022

Ghana arrested and repatriated over 1,600 Chinese nationals engaged in illegal small-scale mining, the Ghana Immigration Service, GIS, has disclosed. The total figure of 1,641 repatriations spanned between 2009 and August 2022. There was no repatriation in 2011 with only nine repatriations in 2009. The highest figure was 713 recorded …

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I’m surprised this small matter has been overhyped – Aisha Huang’s lawyer

The lawyer for Aisha Huang, Nkrabeah Effah Dartey, has said the case of Aisha Huang has been overhyped by the media following her rearrest. According to him, it was so much talked about that one would think the accused persons were standing trial for murder, a thing he sees as …

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Lecturer rains curses on individuals sponsoring galamsey activities

A Lecturer at the Marketing Department of the Kumasi Technical University KsTU Dr Collings Kankam Kwarteng has rained curses on individuals sponsoring illegal small scale mining   activities widely known as galamsey in the country. Dr Kwarteng has asked God to severely punish any grubstakes who are secretly encouraging the galamsey …

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