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Again, Customs allegedly kill 15-year-old boy

Men of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in Ogun State have been accused of killing a 15-year-old boy, Riliwan Bello, in Owode, Yewa South Local Government of the state. Bello, a student of Area Community High School was allegedly killed by a stray bullet fired by men of the NCS, …

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Another big exit! DJ Vyrusky leaves Starr FM

RazzNews.com is reliably informed that multiple award-winning Disc Jockey DJ Vyrusky has parted ways with EIB network’s Accra-based Starr FM. According the source,the celebrated DJ tendered his resignation on Thursday,May 7,2020.Known in real life as Kofi Amoako,DJ Vyrusky thus becomes the 3rd heavyweight employee of the EIB network to resign. …

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Coronavirus: Lockdown struggles of a Nigerian sex worker

A sex worker in the northern Nigerian has told the BBC how coronavirus has affected her livelihood. She lives in the main Muslim state of Kano, which is in the fourth week of a lockdown. No-one is allowed to leave their houses, except on Mondays and Thursdays between 10:00 and …

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DR Congo army kills 23 rebel members

The Congolese army has announced that government solders have killed 23 members of the Codesco rebel group and taken back control of two villages, including one of the group’s important bases in Djugu town in the north-eastern Ituri province. Codesco has been active in the region for three years. Its …

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Uganda reverses second-hand clothes ban

Uganda has decided to allow imports of used clothing, reversing a previous decision introduced last month, to ban second-hand garments and footwear, amid fears they could spread coronavirus. The ban was welcomed by textile and clothing manufacturers as a boost to the Ugandan industry. But traders of used garments complained, …

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Monitoring And Evaluation Minister Stranded In US

The Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation, Anthony Akoto Osei has been stranded in the United States for more than a month. The Tafo MP, Citi News understands, was out on official assignment before the President ordered the closure of the airport making it impossible for him to return into the …

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Ghana Revenue Authority pilots renamed UNIPASS at ports

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) aims to fully operationalize the use of the Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) as the national single window platform for import facilitation effective June 1, 2020 at the Ports and other entry points. ICUMS which is currently being piloted since April 28, at the Tema …

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Fire razes 58-year-old widow’s cold store

The cold store of Madam Gladys Afari, a 58-year-old widow at North Taifa (Nkate Burger) in Accra, was razed last Wednesday, with the cause of the fire unknown. Items destroyed included cartons of fish and meat, two deep freezers, and an unspecified amount of money, being the previous day’s sales. …

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Armed gang vandalises Northern Region NDC party office

Gun-wielding men on Friday besieged the Northern Regional office of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and destroyed properties belonging to the party. The incident occurred minutes before the start of an executive meeting, Regional Secretary, Mohammed Abdul-Salam said in an interview. Abdul-Salam said the attackers bounced into the office, started ransacking and destroying …

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CPP throws out Bright Akwetey, others

The Convention People’s Party (CPP’s) Acting General Secretary Kwabena Bomfeh (aka Kabila), has single-handedly thrown out Lawyer Bright Akwetey, a three-time failed flagbearer aspirant of the CPP and others from the party’s headquarters. The incident occurred on Friday, May 8, 2020. Recently, Bright Akwetey and a defeated former Central Regional …

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Ghana’s Covid-19 cases are now 4,012

Ghana has recorded its biggest single-day spike of 921 new infections of the COVID-19 pandemic. This has effectively seen the country record a quantum leap of infections from 3,091 to 4,012 after recording its first two cases on March 12, 2020. According to an update on the Ghana Health Service’s …

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Revealed: Why Caroline Sampson was sacked from YFM

The working relationship between Caroline Sampson and Y107.9FM has come to an end, the award-winning radio personality announced, Friday. Caroline who had been with the subsidiary of Global Media Alliance Broadcasting Company for close to a decade confirmed to GhanaWeb her appointment was terminated by the employers with immediate effect. …

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Kenyan widow who cooked stones for children loses baby

A Kenyan widow filmed cooking stones to make her children believe she was preparing food has lost her last-born child, the Daily Nation newspaper report. The four-month-old baby died on Thursday after being discharged from hospital where she was treated for a persistent fever, the newspaper reports, quoting Peninah Bahati …

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Correctional services centres records three deaths

Correctional services centres across South Africa have 172 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with three deaths and 59 recoveries. A total of 95 officials have tested positive for COVID-19, with 77 inmates also being affected by the virus. “Currently, our COVID-19 preventative measures are stretched to the brink.We have managed thus far, but the spread …

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Allotey Jacobs is a “schemer” – Ama Benyiwa Doe

Former Member of Parliament for Gomoa West, Ama Benyiwa Doe has described the embattled former NDC Chairman of Central Region, Bernard Nii Allotey Jacobs as a “schemer”. According to her, the former Chairman was nothing until he joined the National Democratic Congress (NDC). She claimed that Bernard Allotey Jacobs did …

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Coronavirus: Churches prepare for reopening

The Heads of Christian Ecumenical Bodies in Ghana have issued guidelines to mitigate the spread of coronavirus when church reopens. The bodies that presented the guidelines included the Christian Council, the National Association of Charismatic and Christian Churches, Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Signing the mitigating guidelines were; Most Rev Dr …

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Court remands cheating wife, lover who conspired to kill husband

The Asokwa District Court 2 has remanded a married woman and her boyfriend who conspired to kill her husband at Pamen near Kwabeng in the Eastern region. The two were remanded after the prosecutor, Chief Superintendent Kofi Blagodzi, prayed the court, presided over by His worship Korkor Achaw Owusu, to …

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NDC MP donates “fake” thermometers to health centers

Member of Parliament for Talensi Constituency, Benson Tongo Baba’s Infrared Thermometers donated in the Upper East Region have been detected to be fake. The MP has made some donations to health facilities in his constituency as part of his contributions to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. It is unclear …

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