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Dec polls: Police demand helicopter to distribute electoral materials

The Eastern Regional Police Command has tabled a proposal for the provision of a helicopter to airlift security personnel and electoral materials to Island Communities in the Kwahu Afram Plains area during the elections on December 7. Kwahu Afram Plains North and South have about 87 polling stations on the …

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Minority Leader wants number of MPs to be capped

Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu on Tuesday reiterated the need to place a cap on the number of Members of Parliament(MP). He said experts and opinion leaders also agreed that “we need to place a cap on the size of the legislature” and “that we cannot continue to expand the membership of the …

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5 Street Preachers Convicted For Making Noise

The Nkawie Circuit Court has convicted five street preachers to a fine of GH¢600.00 for making noise at Abuakwa in the Atwima-Nwabiagya South Municipality. The court in the Ashanti Region convicted Abraham Kobina, Kwaku Boateng, Benjamin Owusu, Frank Agyei and Daniel Anokye on their plea of guilty and would serve …

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Many fear dead in Ahinsan, Kumasi road crash

Residents of Ahinsan Estates at Ahinsan in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti Region were not given peace as two drivers lost total control of their cars and ended the lives of many others. Ahinsan Estate is a community of its own at Ahinsan. It dates back to the late …

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2 dead, several injured as ‘National Security Operatives’ clash with residents

Two persons have been confirmed dead while several persons are nursing varying degrees of injuries after self-styled National Security Operatives clashed with residents of Doryu near Dodowa in the Dangme West District of the Greater Accra Region. MyNewsGh.com confirmed that the supposed armed operatives had gone to the community in a …

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29 Volta ‘secessionists’ charged with treason felony, 22 discharged

The state has charged 29 out of the 51 persons who are being held over attempts to secede from Ghana with treason felony. The 29 are also facing five additional charges to wit conspiracy to commit crime, causing unlawful damage, rioting with weapons and participation in a campaign of a …

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Akufo-Addo commissions Job 600 annex

President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned the Job 600 annex to provide additional offices to Members of Parliament (MP). The building comprises 100 offices for MPs, staff, research assistants, 150-seater multi-purpose hall, archival centre, drivers centre and visitors centre. Parliament gets annex Addressing the gathering at a short ceremony, President Akufo-Addo …

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Dissolve TOR Board – Workers to Akufo-Addo

Workers of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) who are members of the Union of Commerce, Industry and Finance (UNICOF) and the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union are demanding the dissolution of the board of the refinery with immediate effect. According to them, the board and management have shown …

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Kwadaso MP extends water to constituents, schools

Four communities in the Kwadaso Constituency of the Ashanti Region have benefited from the Public Utilities Regulation Commission’s (PURC) pro-poor water expansion project. Under the project, four boreholes have been constructed in different localities of the communities including Nwamase, Kokode, and Nyankyerenase, to improve regular portable water supply to the …

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Children tied to trees during weighing at Ga West Municipality

Access to quality primary health care is a fundamental human right and central in the performance of health care systems, however children in Agotikope, Kokoma and Sabahman in the Ga West Municipality in Accra are experiencing greater barriers in accessing quality Health Care, with some parents having to go through …

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