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Forestry Commission Officials Burn Excavators

Although Professor Frimpong Boateng is no more in office as Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, a video has emerged with a young man making unfounded allegations against him. The man popularly known as Ramzy is a known Lord Commey errand boy is stating emphatically that the former minister …

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Fire destroys hospital’s bungalow in Yendi

Fire has destroyed the Bungalow of the Yendi Church of Christ Health Centre in the Northern Region. The four-bedroom bungalow with a hall, kitchen, bathrooms and store was destroyed on Friday when the Medical Officer was in the Health Centre attending to patients. According to witnesses, the fire started with …

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Osu Mantse Nii Kinka Dowuona IV is dead

The Osu Mantse, Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, reportedly joined his ancestors in the early hours of February 6, 2021, according to a Daily Graphic online report. The cause of death was however not revealed. He was 57-years-old. Nii Dowuona VI was elected President of the Greater Accra Regional House …

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Leaders attend 34th African Union summit virtually

The African Union’s 34th heads of state summit kicked off today, Saturday February 6. But due to the coronavirus pandemic, leaders of the 55-member pan-African bloc are meeting virtually. The theme of the two-day summit is “Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want.” But one of …

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Seven file to contest Council of State Election in Upper West

A total of seven candidates have filed their nominations to contest the election of the Member of Council of State position to represent the Upper West Region. The candidates are Kuoro Barecheh Nlowie Baninye II, the Divisional Chief of Niator, Bayon Godfrey Tongu, a former Member of Parliament for Wa …

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Man who bit policeman’s finger remanded

A suspect, Eric Awutey, who reportedly bit a police officer’s finger in an attempt to resist arrest, has been remanded into police custody by the Ofaakor Circuit Court, Kasoa. He has been charged with five counts namely: stealing, resisting arrest, assault on a public officer, causing harm, and causing damage. …

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Are you mad? – Nana Aba Anamoah chides MPs breaking coronavirus protocols

Celebrated television personality Nana Aba Anamoah has taken a swipe at some Members of Parliament who refused to self-isolate despite testing positive for the coronavirus. It came to light on Wednesday, February 3, that some MPs who have been confirmed as coronavirus patients were disobeying the protocols with the ‘impunity of a dying a …

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Muntaka Mubarak apologizes to Supreme Court for alleged bribery comments

The Member of Parliament for Asawase, Mubarak Muntaka, has issued a formal written retraction and apology to the Supreme Court for alleged bribery comments made against an unnamed member of the bench. The legislator and Chief Whip of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Caucus in Parliament had earlier accused a Supreme Court judge of …

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Two jailed 25 years each for robbery

A Koforidua Circuit court presided by Justice Mercy Adei-Kotei has sentenced Amadu Bukari, 34, herdsman and Haruna Asor, 27, labourer to 25 years imprisonment each in hard labour on three counts of robbery and conspiracy to commit a crime, to wit robbery. They pleaded not guilty to all four counts …

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Government gives Ave SHS a new bus

Ave Senior High School (AVESCO) in the Akatsi North District has received a donation of a new bus from the government. The 5×23-seater bus with registration number, GV 2196-20 was one of the 100 buses donated to second cycle institutions across the country. Until the donation, the School had just …

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Widow of former Ayawaso West Wuogon MP dies from Coronavirus

Josephine Baiden Agyarko, a widow of former Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West constituency, Emmanuel Kyeremanteng Agyarko has died from COVID-19 complications, MyNewsGh.com has confirmed. She was receiving treatment and appeared to be doing well until a relapse, leading to her death hours ago. Family members who spoke to MyNewsGh.com confirming her death requested …

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19-year-old girl slashes throat of her day-old baby

A 19-year-old girl has cruelly slashed the throat of her day-old baby and dumped the body in a cocoa farm at Atenrom, a village near Akyem Etwereso in the Eastern Region. The suspect, whose name was given as Patience, better known as Mummie, self-delivered a baby boy last Friday dawn …

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Consumer, business confidence in economy high – BoG

Consumer and business confidence in the Ghanaian economy continues to soar in spite of the difficult macroeconomic challenges facing the country, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has said. Governor of the BoG, Dr Ernest Addison who disclosed this in a press statement on the 98th meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) …

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Kwadwo Asamoah raring to go at Cagliari

Kwadwo Asamoah says he can’t wait to begin his Cagliari Calcio adventure after completing a free agent move on Thursday. The Ghanaian international penned a short team deal that will keep him at the club until the end of the current season. He had been without a club since he …

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Six persons shot in scuffle over Songor salt project

At least six persons have sustained several gunshot wounds in the Toflokpo and Salom communities in Ada, Greater Accra Region, for allegedly preventing Electrochem Ghana Limited from operating there.   The incident occurred on Friday, 5 February 2021.   Sources in the community indicate that a group of surveyors who …

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