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Two dead in fire incident at Asante Mampong

A 90-year-old woman and an 11-year-old boy have reportedly died from a fire outbreak recorded at Worakese near Asante Mampong in the Ashanti Region. This was after a fire, which according to firefighters, started around 3:40am, razed through a five-bedroom house on Friday March 11, 2022. Ghana National Fire Service …

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Asokore – Senchi residents scrape stones from newly constructed road

Some residents of Asokore Senchi have been captured in a viral video scrapping stones from their newly constructed roads. The residents say they are going to use the stones from the road which construction is currently ongoing, to fill roads leading to their home and their bathrooms because they are …

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Kumasi: Asafo Assemblyman registers 300 residents under NHIS

The Assembly Member for Asafo Electoral Area in the Kumasi metropolis, Hon Ernest Okai, has registered 300 residents under the National Health Insurance Scheme in the Ashanti region. Those benefitted from the free scheme are the residents from Asafo BB/Bayakasoa, who are mostly vulnerable and financially challenged to access the …

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Over 30 houses at Janga destroyed by a rainstorm, many displaced

Some residents at Janga in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region have been displaced following a rainstorm that ripped off over 30 houses in the community on Sunday evening (13 March 2022). Several houses, provision stores, drugstores, football game centres, container kiosks, and other structures have been …

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‘Our 60-year-old MD must go’ – ECG workers

Workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) say they do not want a contract extension for their Managing Director, Kwame Agyeman-Budu who has reportedly attained the mandatory retirement age of 60.     The workers led by their divisional leadership under the Trade Union Congress (TUC) are calling for …

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4 killed, 7 sustain injuries in road accident

Some four persons, three females and a male, have died in a fatal road crash on the Eastern Corridor Road at Peki Avetile in the South Dayi District of the Volta region. The accident occurred on March 14, 2022, at about 12 am in front of the Peki College of …

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Nkrankwanta mourns death of 3 persons in Asuboi accident

The entire Nkrankwanta community in the Dormaa West District of the Bono Region is in grieve following the death of three persons in the tragic accident that occurred at Asuboi in the Eastern Region in the early hours of Sunday, March 13, 2022. According to the residents, they are yet …

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We’ve not been informed about death of Corporal Stephen Nyame – Family alleges

The family of the late police officer, Lance Corporal Stephen Kwaku Nyame who was killed in connection with the bullion van robberies, has said they are uninformed about the death of their beloved. According to a brother, Richard Nyame, the Ghana Police Service administration has not formally written to inform the deceased …

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Youth in Afforestation personnel threaten to boycott Green Ghana project

Some personnel of the Youth in Afforestation program say the Green Ghana project will fail if the government does not pay their three-month arrears owed them. Last month the group protested over their allowances, which had been in arrears for five months, prompting authorities to make two months payments. But …

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Probe Chief of Staff’s cash doling spree – ASEPA boss to Auditor-General, PAC

Executive Director of the Alliance of Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson, has called on the Auditor–General and Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to initiate a probe into the expenditures of the office of the Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare. In a post on his social media handle, …

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