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US 2020 ELECTIONS: Biden on the verge of 270

With a fresh batch of votes coming in from Pennsylvania, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has grown his lead in the critical Keystone State. “It’s is now up to 6,737 votes ahead of [President] Trump,” reported CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. The latest collection of ballots arrived from Bucks County, an area just …

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Minister Wants Amidu To Resign For Indicting Gov’t In Agyapa Deal!

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has already had enough of the Special Prosecutor and are calling for Martin Amidu’s head for publicly reacting to President Akufo-Addo’s decision to forward his (SP) report on the rejected Agyapa Royalties deal to Parliament. A Deputy Minister for Works and Housing and Member …

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APPLY NOW: ECOWAS job vacancies in Ghana

In order to ensure effective implementation of its sectoral programs, ECOWAS specialized agencies and institutions including the Community Court of Justice, the ECOWAS Parliament, the West African Health Organization (WAHO), and the Intergovernmental Action Group against Money Laundering (GIABA) wishes to recruit qualified and capable, national candidates from the ECOWAS …

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Asante Kotoko to Sign Paul Pogba; Chairman Wontumi to bare Cost

Ashanti Region Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wonntumi, has asked Ghana Premier League giants Asante Kotoko to submit a bid for Manchester United’s Paul Pogba. Paul Pogba has two years left on his contract but multiple reports suggest that the English …

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Takoradi Girl’s Picture Found On Kidnapper’s Mobile Phone

A photograph of one of the four missing girls in Takoradi was found on one of the mobile phones retrieved from the room of one of the Nigerian kidnappers on trial in connection with the killing of the girls. According to Detective Chief Inspector Dorcas Asare of the Criminal Investigations …

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Mason, 21, kills apprentice for money rituals

A 21-year-old bricklayer, Biodun Owolabi, has been arrested for killing his apprentice for money rituals. Mr Owolabi is alleged to have killed the 13-year-old secondary school boy, Quadri Olalekan, with the help of his accomplices, 20-year-old Festus Simon. The incident happened on Saturday, October 31, 2020, after they tricked the …

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Publish 30k names deleted from voters’ register – NCCE to EC

The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has called on the Electoral Commission to publish the details of over 30,000 voters whose names were deleted from the voters’ register for breaching registration regulations. The move according to the NCCE will help avoid chaos on Election Day. The chairperson for the commission, Josephine …

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I’ve decided already – Fomena MP going independent

The embattled Member of Parliament for Fomena Constituency, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, says despite the President’s continuous plea for him to rescind his decision on contesting the seat as an independent candidate, his mind is already made up. A spokesperson for the former New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP Seth Oduro, in an interview …

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From Ghana to Nigeria: Little pieces of home

The young Ghanaian men and boys who come to this farm in Osun state, Nigeria, each year to find work mostly say they do it in order to improve their lives once they return home. They have been brought into the country in groups by a “master” – usually an …

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Tamale residents butcher police officers, set suspect free

Two officers with the Tamale Police Station are fighting for their lives at the hospital, after they were violently attacked by residents of Kpawumu-Fuo, a community in the Northern Region capital, Tamale on Thursday, November 5, 2020. The victims are Lance Corporal Atsu Adanu and Lance Corporal Samuel Mordzi. A …

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Three burnt to death in Anloga junction accident

Three people have died in gory accident at Anloga Junction in Kumasi Thursday evening. The incident involved a Hyundai vehicle with registration number GC-3897-20 and a tricycle, popularly known as ‘Pragya’. The deceased, a woman and a kid believed to be her child and another young man were all in …

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Fire guts offices of Ghana Business News in Accra

The offices of Ghana Business News (GBN), was on Thursday, razed down by fire in the Greater Accra regional capital, Accra. The Accra High Street-based edifice was home, not only to the online media portal but other administrative offices and a health facility. Although no casualty has been recorded, several …

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Man raped and hanged girlfriend on mountain

A North West man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping, raping and hanging his former girlfriend in 2018. The Madikwe Regional Court found Mpho Mkhibane Nkwe, 33, guilty of kidnapping, rape and the contravention of a protection order. The court heard that Nkwe kidnapped, assaulted and raped his former …

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Asamoah Gyan Will Struggle At Legon Cities – Malik Jabir

Former Ghana and Asante Kotoko coach Malik Jabir believes striker Asamoah Gyan will struggle at Legon Cities. Gyan has returned to Ghana Premier League by signing a contract with Legon Cities worth more than $1 million. The 34-year-old had been linked with Asante Kotoko but the Royals offered the most …

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Rawlings is not a Ghanaian – LPG flagbearer challenges

Founder and flagbearer of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), Percival Kofi Akpaloo has challenged the nationality of former President Jerry John Rawlings born in 1947 and hailing from Volta Region. According to the presidential aspirant, the first President of Ghana [under 4th Republic] is not and cannot be a …

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Akufo-Addo cuts sod for US$330m Boankra inland port

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cut the sod for the commencement of work on the US$330 million Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal project, popularly referred to as the Boankra Inland Port Project, which has been on the drawing board for some eighteen (18) years. The idea of the Boankra Integrated …

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Akufo-Addo opens Asokore-Mampong affordable housing project

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, 5th November 2020, commissioned three hundred and twelve (312) completed units under the Asokore-Mampong Affordable Housing Project. The Asokore-Mampong Housing Unit, now referred to as Osei Tutu II Housing Estates, is part of six (6) housing projects started by …

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Robbers kill mobile money vendor

News reaching MyNewsGH.com indicates that unknown gunmen believed to be armed robbers have attacked a mobile money vendor in Adugyama Capital of the Ahafo Ano South District of the Ashanti Region. According to an eyewitness who spoke to Don Summar on Angel FM Kumasi monitored by MyNewsGh.com a while ago, …

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