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Owners vacate shops to brood over losses after fire disaster

Owners of shops in the story building that was gutted by fire at Adum in Kumasi on Friday evening have vacated the shops and are brooding over their losses. When the Ghana News Agency visited the scene on Monday morning the three shops on the ground floor, which were badly …

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Pressure Mounts On Speaker To Resign

A call has been made to the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to resign on the grounds of infirmness. The call from former CPP acting General Secretary, James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr, aka Kabila, is hinged on grounds of ill-health, principle, and conscience to save Ghana’s Parliament. An earlier call from …

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Gov’t implements six tax relief measures

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has started the implementation of six tax reliefs introduced by the government to lighten the tax burden on businesses and the citizenry. The reliefs are to cushion taxpayers against COVID-19-induced challenges and quicken the recovery to sustain and create jobs. They include the exemption of people whose annual incomes are up to …

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Media General journalist beaten to pulp by police

Connect FM’s morning show Producer Eric Nana Gyetuah has been manhandled by police in the Western Region. He was accused by the officers of unlawfully taking photographs of them at the God Is Love Chop Bar in Sekondi-Takoradi last Thursday. Nana Gyetuah had gone to the eatery for lunch but …

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Cut down expenditure and we will gladly pay the taxes you impose — Sam Korankye Ankrah to gov’t

The Founder of Royal House Chapel, Rev. Sam Korankye Ankrah has urged government to cut down its national expenditure to motivate the citizenry to gladly pay taxes. According to him, leaders must be seen punishing themselves a little by doing away with extravagant lifestyles. He said if Ghanaians know that …

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Islamic Cleric hints of next West African country to witness a coup after Burkina Faso

Popular Ghanaian Islamic Cleric, Numerologist and Philosopher, Mallam Sham-una Uztaz Jibril, has dropped a hint of the next West African country to witness a coup d’etat after Burkina Faso. Though he would not mention the name of the country directly, his explanation suggests it is a francophone country that has …

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Ghana takes decisive steps to reduce high rate of road carnage

The Government is taking steps to review road traffic regulations in the country, Mr Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, the Minister of Transport, has said. “We have commenced a process to review the Road Traffic Act, 2004 (Act 683), and the Road Traffic Regulations, 2012 L.I.2180, to keep up with the changing …

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Thieves Raid NIA Office At Prampram, laptops, printers, other properties stolen

The information available to DGN Online indicates that suspected thieves have broken into the offices of the National Identification Authority (NIA) and the Birth and Death Registry in Prampram near Tema in the Greater Accra Region. The criminals ransacked the offices located at the Town and Country Planning Department of …

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The angry youth of Ghana will start chasing our leaders with hammer – Nunoo-Mensah

The former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces, Brigadier Joseph Nunoo-Mensah (retd), says the youth of Ghana are angry due to extreme hardship in the country. He has therefore advised Ghanaian leaders to tread cautiously to prevent any instability. To him, we are not running Ghana well and the …

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How can an angel of God be arrrested – Kwesi Pratt mocks Obinim

The General Overseer of the of International God’s Way Church, Angel Daniel Obinim, a couple of days ago, had his wings clipped by the Ghana Police Service over the blowing of siren and the use of fitted strobe lights on his vehicle. The Police reportedly acted on a tip off …

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