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Shortage of Rawlings’s funeral cloth hits Accra market

Textile traders at Rawlings Park, Minaba plaza, and its environs in Accra Central have witnessed a boost in sales following the outdoor of the late Jerry John Rawlings’s funeral cloth. According to some traders who spoke to GhanaWeb, the constant buying of the various types of funeral cloths released on …

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Boy, 10, drowns in mining pit near school at Anyinam

A ten-year-old boy has been found dead in a mining pit near a school at Anyinam in the Atiwa East Distirct of the Eastern region. The deceased allegedly drowned in a pit after school hours. His body has been retrieved by the Police and deposited at the Kibi Government Hospital …

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Biden Adds South Africa To COVID Travel Bans

The Biden administration has renewed Trump-era Covid-19 travel bans on non-US visitors from Brazil and most of Europe, including the UK and Ireland. The White House also imposed a new ban on South Africa over its virus variant. Former President Donald Trump had ordered the bans to end on 26 …

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I would have slapped the hell out of Cecilia Marfo – Kumchacha

Ghanaian preacher, Nicholas Osei, popularly known as Prophet Kumchacha, has reacted to how Cecilia Marfo slapped Brother Sammy some time ago. Some years ago, the veteran Gospel musician and Prophetess, who was supposedly in the spiritual realm slapped Brother Sammy at an event. During a discussion on UTV which has been sighted …

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Comedian Waris rushed to hospital

Ghanaian comedian Abdul Waris Umaru better known as Comedian Waris has been rushed to the hospital following a health scare. The popular Ghanaian comedian shared a photo of himself in a hospital bed looking quite gloomy. Comedian Waris had some drip sticking to his hand as he lay on the …

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Supreme Court resumes Election Petition hearing today

The Supreme will be resuming hearing of the presidential election petition filed by the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama, today Tuesday, January 26. On Monday, January 25, Mr Mahama has filed another application at the Court to among other things, replace portions of his original statement of …

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VIDEO: Drama as thief gets stuck on rooftop

It was a mission impossible for a young thief when he got trapped in the roof of the building he intended to raid. In a video that has since gone viral, the young man was captured on top of the building while residents wait for him below. It is said …

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Man murdered, penis chopped off at Saltpond

An unidentified man believed to be in his fifty’s has been found dead at Saltpond in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region. He’s suspected to have been murdered and had his penis severed and dumped in the area some days before his decomposing body was found. Speaking to Kasapa …

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Ga North MCE, Gertrude Naa Ankrah is DEAD

Reliable family sources have confirmed that Municipal Chief Executive of Ga North Municipal Assembly Madam Gertrude Naa Ankrah has passed on. Details of her death are sketchy but family has asked for privacy in this difficult time. Gertrude Naa Ankrah has received wide praise from footsoldiers of the ruling New …

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E/R : Headmaster Renovate school Infrastructure from his pocket

Mr Richard Boakye Marfo the Headmaster for Kwasi Nyarko Presby Primary school in Upper West Akim District of the eastern region has renovated the whole school infrastructure with his own Money.       He revealed that as the school was established in 1965 and since then it has never been painted. He painted the schools …

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Coronavirus deaths in South Africa put coffin-makers under pressure

South Africa is the most affected country by the COVID-19 pandemic on the continent, with 1.3 million confirmed cases and just over 40,000 deaths, according to the latest data from the country’s Health Department. A toll that has been putting the funeral industry under immense pressure, as coffin-makers and undertakers contend with …

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Uganda: Minister’s guards shoot agent of Kanungu LC5 winner

A 27-year-old man is admitted with gunshot wounds after he was allegedly shot by security guards of Kinkizi East MP and State Minister for Housing, Dr Chris Baryomunsi. Mr Andrew Musinguzi said he was shot twice in the lower abdomen on January 19 after he had picked his appointment letter …

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Egypt Begins its COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign with China’s Sinopharm

Egypt began the vaccination of medical staff on Sunday with the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in the northeastern province of Ismailia, according to a vaccination program by the Egyptian Health Ministry. Abdel-Moneim Selim, an ICU trainee physician at Abu Khalifa Emergency Hospital, feels confident about the Chinese vaccine. “The …

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Coronavirus: Policy makers face uncertainties amid second wave

Amid the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, policy makers currently face uncertainties on how the economy will respond, Director of Research and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana, Philip Abradu-Otoo, has said. Although the country’s economic growth has been projected by international ratings agency …

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