GENERAL NEWS

Deputy Defence Minister warns persons calling for coup in Ghana

Deputy Minister of Defence, Kofi Amankwa-Manu, has cautioned persons calling for for coup d’états in Ghana to desist from their utterances. He said that such pronouncements only create fear and panic and also derail development. He said this in an interview with journalists on the sidelines of a programme to …

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Airport MD’s sack: Sam George asks 5 glaring questions that beg for answers

When the announcement of the sacking of the Managing Director of Ghana Airports Company, Yaw Kwakwa hit the news, Ningo Prampram MP, Sam George was one of the few people who isolated the development from the issues between Mr Kwakwa and the CEO of McDan Group, Daniel McKorley. Speaking on …

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Residents of Navrongo want sports stadium, street named after Kofi Adda

Residents of Navrongo have appealed to government to name the Navrongo sports stadium after the late Joseph Kofi Adda to preserve his memory. Even before the clergy started the funeral service morning of Saturday, February 12, 2022, some of the residents who flooded the COS Park, were screaming suggestions of …

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Four injured as Police fire shots to quell riot in Lamashegu

Four persons including a minor from Lamashegu in Tamale in the Northern Region have sustained various degrees of gunshots wounds Sunday afternoon following a misunderstanding between police and a cross-section of the youth. The incident took place after a police officer allegedly shot a young man who was driving an …

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World Condom Day Marked

The 13th day of February in every year has by convention become a day marked globally as Condom Day. World Condom Day is celebrated in conjunction with Valentines Day which falls on February 14 of every year. The day is commemorated to promote condom use and safe sex practice and …

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Site selection for Ghana’s first Nuclear Plant to be concluded this year

The Nuclear Power Ghana (NPG) says it will by the end of this year complete the selection of a preferred site for the country’s first nuclear power plant. The NPG, charged with the mandate to lead the construction and operation of the Plant, had identified four candidate sites for the …

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Dormaahene quotes Chieftaincy Act to make argument about Otumfuo’s supremacy

The Omanhene of Dormaa Traditional Area, Oseadeyo Agyeman Badu II has emphasized that it cannot be said that the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is bigger than him. The Dormaahene, having dominated the news some weeks ago is back for the same reason – accusing the Asantehene of twisting history. Otumfuo …

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Ghana’s forests risk further depletion – Report

Ghana’s forest risks further depletion with the prices of charcoal and firewood increasing in Accra, a lower-middle-income earning region, amid reduction in consumption of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) in its latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) observed that the solid fuel (charcoal and firewood) component of …

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Police clash with youth at Lamashegu

Gunshots have been heard in Tamale as armed police personnel clash with Lamashegu youth in the metropolis. According to eyewitnesses, the chaos started after a police patrol team allegedly shot and killed a young man driving a white Toyota Camry with a DV number plate who speed off after the …

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VIDEO: How young girls used to hide out at this cave for Dipo rites

Dipo is a rite performed by the Ses (Shai) people made up of the Dangmes in Kordiabe, Ada, Krobo, Klo, Osudoku, and Ningo among others. This rite is performed to initiate their young girls into adulthood. It is the next social status transformation ritual after birth and has been one …

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