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Dumsor trends on Twitter after midnight electricity disruption

  Dumsor trended on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday, April 4; when parts of the country experienced low currents and in other places total blackouts. Many Twitter users called out the Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG; whiles others blamed government for refusing to admit that dumsor – power …

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Man suffering epilepsy falls into naked fire; family seeks help

  A 20-year-old man, Amos Ayi, living with epilepsy has sustained serious burns after falling into a naked fire during a seizure attack. The incident occurred at Oboho, a farming community in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern Region. The father of the victim, Anoma Nyarko, a chief farmer narrated …

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Businessman accuses police, land guards of harassment over his 38 acres Katapor lands

  A Ghanaian businessman is accusing the police of working with some land guards to deprive him of his 38 acres of land located at Katapor. Lawrence Acquah said he has been at the end of constant police harassment since an Accra High Court gave its judgment in a dispute …

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CID releases Whatsup News editor, says arrest was for extortion

  The Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service has released the editor-in-chief of Whatup News on bail but denied arresting him at gunpoint. A statement signed by DSP Juliana Obeng, Head, Public Affairs, CID, said the investigative arm of the police service, “on Thursday, 1 April 2021, arrested …

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Collapsing gold pit kills 14-year-old boy at Manso-Tontokrom

A 14-year-old boy has died at Komkom near Manso-Tontokrom, a farming community in the Amansie West District after an abandoned gold pit collapsed on him last night. The deceased, Amadu Hamba, was mining in the restricted area when the dugout sand came crashing down, a police report sighted by dailymailgh.com …

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Lifeless body found in Densu river in Nsawam

A dead body has been found in the Densu River at Nsawam in the Eastern Region. The body of the unidentified man wearing a dress was found Thursday by passersby. It is not clear what caused the death. Police were yet to retrieve the dead body. The resident was upset …

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Let’s abide by the Covid-19 Safety Protocols during the Easter Celebrations – Hon Francis Addai Nimoh

  On this occasion of Easter festivities, I would like to extend warm wishes to all Christians in Ghana.     It is my fervent prayer that the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ would cleanse us from all our iniquities and sins, and usher us into a …

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PHOTOS: 90-year-old deathtrap Huhunya Presby Basic School in distress

The Presby Basic School at Huhunya, a farming community, in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region, has over the past years been using a deathtrap school building facility that poses danger to both teachers and pupils of the school. The dilapidated basic school, built with laterite which serves …

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LGBT is an abomination – Bagbin tells Australian High Commissioner

The Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has described LGBTQI+ as an abomination that will never be accepted. His comments come after the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Gregory Andrews urged Ghana’s Parliament not to pass any legislation that will discriminate against the rights of the LGBTQI+ community. The Australian …

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VIDEO: Lady flees from abusive husband to settle in Ghana

Ghanaian-based Burkinabe, Rashida, has revealed that she exited her marriage of five years due to constant physical abuse. In an interview with SVTV Africa, Rashida indicated that all her woes begun immediately after the wedding. “He was not like that when we were dating. But when I ask why he’s …

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