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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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Suspected mentally unstable boy defiles girl, 13

A 17-year-old boy [name witheld] suspected to be living with a mental health condition has allegedly defiled a 13-year-old girl at Kasoa in the Central Region. Rainbow Radio’s Kwabena Agyekum Banahene reporting the incident said the 17-year-old was caught in the act by a neighbour. It has also been established …

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Kasoa: Father allegedly rapes daughter, niece and step-daughter

  A 53-year-old man has been remanded into police custody by the Ofaakor Circuit Court in Kasoa, in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central Region, for allegedly defiling and raping his 13-year-old biological daughter at Kasoa CP. The suspect, Kwabena Nkrumah was arrested after the victim complained to …

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‘It is a fact, NDC hates Kennedy Agyapong’ – Ben Ephson

  Pollster and the Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch Newspaper, Ben Ephson has stated that sympathizers of the biggest opposition party in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress, NDC, have gross hatred for the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong. He was making submissions in reaction to comments made by …

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HOT VIDEO: Shatta Bandle fights musician on Instagram Live

  Internet sensation, Shatta Bandle, has descended on an upcoming musician for dropping a song that doesn’t resonate well with him. According to him, he cannot comprehend why emerging singer, Twetwe will cause many young women to display their private parts on social media. Unlike Patapaa’s One Corner viral song where …

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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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4 UN peacekeepers killed in northern Mali

Four United Nations peacekeepers were killed in an attack by jihadists on their camp in Aguelhok in northern Mali, the U.N. mission in Mali said Friday. The U.N. mission said that helicopters were dispatched to the scene to evacuate the wounded from the camp, which houses mostly Chadian peacekeepers. The …

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AU calls for urgent action after Mozambique jihadist attack

The African Union on Thursday called for urgent and coordinated international action after a jihadist attack that killed dozens and uprooted thousands on the northern Mozambican coastal town of Palma. The jihadists captured Palma on March 24, ransacking buildings and beheading residents and forcing thousands to seek safety in the …

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How weak accountability system costing Ghana billions

Co-founder of the Center for Democratic Development, Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah has indicated that Ghana’s history of poor accountability and incessant borrowing is responsible for its current and future economic woes. Recounting what he called a “very progressive movement” in debt accumulation, Prof Agyeman-Duah, traced a steady increase in Ghana’s national …

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LIVE UPDATES: 2021 VGMAs nominee list announcement

Hello and welcome to our comprehensive-text coverage of the 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs) nomination announcement. On January 19, 2021, a call was made to artistes, music producers, beatmakers, instrumentalists, and stakeholders to submit their works which fall within the VGMAs calendar year – January 1 to December 31, …

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VIDEO: Ghana’s economy will bounce back – Akufo-Addo reassures

  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reassured Ghanaians the economy will bounce back despite the ravaging effects of the coronavirus pandemic. According to him, government is determined to outline a series of measures to revive and revitalise the economy. ”I know that, as a result of the pandemic and its impact …

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