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Talented sports presenter Dominic Fobih gets scholarship

The Board of Directors for Vine Christian High School, Accra, has awarded the wonder kid, Dominic Fobih, a full scholarship to continue his education. Principal of the East Legon-based school, Joshua Tsatro Mordy, said that “we want to give him the best, we want to put him in a system …

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Ghanaian retail traders clash with Nigerian counterparts at Circle

ome members of the Ghana Union of Traders Associations (GUTA) on Friday, July 24, 2020, clashed with Nigerian traders who are operating illegally at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle despite GUTA’s directive for them to remain closed until they provide legal documents. The scuffle once again was about the infiltration of …

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Akufo-Addo presents GH¢2 million to 1,000 persons living with disability

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has presented GH¢2 million to 1,000 persons with disabilities, who are also entrepreneurs, under the Presidential Empowerment for Male Entrepreneurs with Disability (PEMED). Launching the event at the Jubilee House, on Friday, 24th July 2020, President Akufo-Addo stated that the funds would provide some …

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Coronavirus: All patients in Upper East recovered and discharged

Dr Josephat Nyuzaghl, the Upper East Deputy Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in charge of Public Health, has said all 279 COVID-19 patients in the Region have been treated and discharged from the various health facilities. According to him, all COVID-19 patients had fully recovered, adding that “As we speak, we …

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70-Year-Old Man Gets 30 Years For Defiling 8-Year-Old Girl

A 70-year-old Nigerian man will spend the next three decades in prison after he was sentenced to serve 30 years jail term for defiling an 8-year-old girl. Mohammed Sani Umar was sentenced on Friday, July 23, 2020 by a Magistrate Court in Minna, Niger state. According to a source in Nigeria, …

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Political intolerance: NPP, NDC are the same – Gyampo

A six-month study, spanning January to June 2020, and involving some 315 respondents purposively sampled among supporters of both the NDC and NPP has shown that the supporters of both the NDC and NPP are all intolerant. The study, undertaken by Professor Ransford Gyampo of the Department of Political Science, …

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Hawa Koomson arrested by Police

The Awutu Senya East Constituency MP, Mavis Hawa Koomson has been arrested by police in the Central Region. This follows a misunderstanding at a voters’ registration centre in Kasoa on Monday, which resulted in the Special Development Initiatives Minister firing a gun. The Special Development Initiatives Minister told JoyNews that …

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Nothing good in mid-year budget – Ato Forson

A former Deputy Minister of Finance Casiel Ato Forson, has said the mid-year budget statement presented to parliament on Thursday July 23 by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is disappointing. He said there is nothing good in the budget for the ordinary Ghanaians. “I am disappointed as a Ghanaian and I am disappointed …

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Stonebwoy releases ‘Good Morning’ remix ft Sarkodie, Kelvyn Colt

Award-winning Reggae/Afro-Dancehall musician Stonebwoy has released a remix version of his “Good Morning” song featuring Ghanaian rap heavyweight, Sarkodie and London-based German/Nigerian musician, Kelvyn Colt. Stonebwoy took fans and followers worldwide by surprise with the latest record, especially at a time when they are still in the “Putuu” mood in the “Anloga Junction” album atmosphere. …

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Lottery Operator Commits Suicide In His Shop Over Winnings

A lottery shop operator simply identified as Baba Pool, on Thursday, July 23, allegedly committed suicide inside his shop in Kayode Market, Abule Ijesha, in the Sabo area of Lagos State over his ”inability to pay the winnings of his customers.”   Baba Pool, 70, left a suicide note before hanging himself …

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Driver, passersby save fuel tanker from near-explosion

The vigilance of a tanker driver and his mate together with help from passersby prevented what could have been a deadly explosion at Anloga Junction in the Oforikrom Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The tanker, with registration number GT 4796-12, carrying 52,000 litres of petrol from Accra toward the BOST …

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Rawlings visits Atta Mills’ Asomdwee Park

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has visited the final resting place of the former head of state, the late President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills. The founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) visited the Asomdwee Park, near the Osu Castle in Accra to lay a wreath to commemorate the eighth anniversary of …

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Tanzania’s former president Benjamin Mkapa dies

He was the country’s third president after independence from Britain in 1962. Ruling the East African country for two terms from 1995 to 2005, he’ll be remembered for working to end the conflict in the Great Lakes. Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa has died age 81 at a hospital in …

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CJ returns to work after 14-Day self-isolation

The Chief Justice Anin Yeboah has returned from a 14-day self-isolation in compliance with Covid-19 Protocols which he took on July 6, 2020. The CJ went on a two-week self-Isolation following advice from his doctors from July 6 and the CJ has since returned to work. On July 6, a …

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Moyo denies hand in Mugabe atrocities

Exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has denied knowledge of inside information linking the state to past acts of citizen brutality although emphatically pinning all blame on security forces for the atrocities. Moyo was once fierce aide to late former President Robert Mugabe who led a brutal regime blamed for …

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E/R COVID-19: 2 more die as case count jumps to 1,161

Two more persons have died of COVID -19 in the Eastern Region while 41 new confirmed cases have been recorded increasing the regional case count to 1,161, according to the Eastern Regional Health Directorate. The two deaths bring to 12 the death toll in the region. The new cases and …

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