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Man, 45, electrocuted after lightening strike at Abakrampa

A 45-year-old man Opanyin Kojo a resident of Abakrampa has been electrocuted by striking thunder at Abura Abakrampa in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District of the Central Region. Speaking to Kasapa News Yaw Boagyan, an eyewitness Rass Lobby said the deceased and his two labourers were producing cement blocks at …

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One-and-half-year old drowns after downpour at Nkanfoa

A one and half-year-old girl Abigail Kakraba has died following a heavy flood at Nkanfoa in the Cape Coast North Constituency of the Central Region Friday. The downpour in Cape Coast and its environs also destroyed many properties. The caretaker of the little girl whose mother died last week in …

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‘Galamsayers’ must be shot to death – Former Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa

Immediate-past Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, H.E George Ayisi Boateng says anyone found on illegal mining (galamsey) site should be shot dead by the Military Taskforce. According to him, the war being waged by the government against illegal mining must be fought just as happens on the battlefield where …

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VIDEO: Police officer, soldier fight in public at Osu

  A Police Officer has sustained cuts on his eye after he got into a physical fight with a military officer. The incident occurred at the Osu Bus Stop around the Osu Presby Church on Friday evening when he attempted handcuffing a Military officer for obstructing his lawful duty. The …

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Cigarettes, Shisha killing 75 Ghanaians weekly

Seventy-Five Ghanaians, mostly men, die from tobacco and shisha smoking-related illnesses on a weekly basis, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has disclosed. The ministry also revealed that over 807,600 of the country’s population smoke cigarettes, shisha, and other tobacco products which it says is a “serious public threat.” The MoH …

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32 proud old boys of Pope John Senior High School and Minor Seminary who are setting sail

Our school of the week on our prestigious old students series is Pope John Senior High School and Minor Seminary. Formerly St John’s Seminary and College, nicknamed POJOSS, Pope John is an all-male senior high school. It was built in 1958 by the late Bishop Oliver Bowers at Effiduase, Koforidua, …

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Rawlings died a ‘walking criminal’ – Boakye Djan claims

• Boakye Djan has launched another attack on Rawlings • He has also defended the June 4 uprising but condemned the 1981 coup • He believes Rawlings committed an illegality with the 1981 coup Another June 4 commemoration, another jab at late former President Jerry John Rawlings by his one-time friend and …

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If you deserve to be beaten, you would be beaten – NPP’s Sakaa Salia tells #FixTheCountry group

  Member of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) National Communication Team, Saka Salia has said that members of the #FixTheCountry movement deserved the treatment they received from the police in their attempt to get to the Accra High Court today. The police, today, clashed with the group protestors at the …

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Talensi: Body of missing miner in Gbane pit collapse retrieved

The body of a missing small-scale miner was retrieved from one of the mining pits that got flooded and trapped 17 men at Gbane, a mining community in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region. He was among 10 miners killed when a downpour on Monday night flooded the …

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Strike looms over SSNIT’s refusal to comply with NLC ruling on past credit

Public sector workers under the umbrella of Forum for Public Sector Associations and Unions (FORUM) are threatening labour unrest over what they describe as the Social Security and National Insurance Trust’s (SSNIT) deliberate refusal to comply with a National Labour Commission (NLC) ruling on the payment of past credit. The …

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