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Senegal’s engineering students design machines to fight coronavirus

Senegalese engineering students are throwing themselves at the West African state’s growing coronavirus problem with inventions such as automatic sanitiser dispensers and medical robots. Youngsters from a top engineering school in the capital Dakar have turned their technical skills toward easing pressure on the wards – and they are already …

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Patapaa declares himself the new face of High Life music

Patapaa has excused himself from the ongoing beef around rap and carving a new path for himself, however, it wouldn’t be a lonely path for him because there are others on the path he is trekking on. Despite the likes of Kuami Eugene, Bisa Kdei and KiDi, Akwaboah, Dada Hafco among other new …

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Coronavirus: 10 inmates at Ashaimam police station test positive

Ten inmates at the Ashaiman Police Station have tested positive for coronavirus. Ashaiman District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent, Adu Kwadwo Baah confirmed this to Adom News. He said it was confirmed after random tests conducted by health officials two weeks ago. The inmates, Chief Supt. Baah said, have since been transferred …

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IFS cautions gov’t over extra-budgetary expenditure

Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies Dr. Said Boakye has charged the government to be more diligent in the consolidation of extra-budgetary expenditure for better representation of Ghana’s macroeconomic data. This comes on the back of the Finance Ministry’s insistence, that data shared with the IMF in …

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Inflation rate for April rises to 10.6%

The national year-on-year inflation rate for April 2020 hits 10.6%, which is 2.8 percentage points higher than last month, the Ghana Statistical Service has said. The year-on-year inflation for March 2020 was at 7.8 percent. The Month-on-month inflation between March 2020 and April 2020 was 3.2%. These are the highest …

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Video | Moment Shatta Wale met Sarkodie’s lookalike

Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has got everyone talking as a video of him with his ‘rival’ Sarkodie’s look-alike surface the net. In the video, Shatta Wale was seen having fun and enjoying the company of Sarkodie’s look-alike and that got a lot of people surprised. Shatta showed in the video …

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Allotey Jacobs resigns from Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’ show

“I decided that today I will not come . . . I am very sorry; I know I will disappoint you (Kwami Sefa Kayi),” Social Commentator, Allotey Jacobs said in an interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’ programme Wednesday. The former Central Regional Chairman of the National …

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Violence forces 23,000 Nigerians to flee to Niger

At least 23,000 people escaping violence in north-western Nigeria have fled to neighbouring Niger in recent weeks, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has said. The refugees were “mainly desperate women and children”, who had been allowed to seek protection in Niger despite border closures as a result of coronavirus pandemic, …

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Girl kills baby for making her miss university admission

A 22-year-old lady, Adisa Funmilola, has drowned her baby because she prevented her from going to the university to study law. According to reports, she drowned the one-year and six-months-old baby inside a bucket of water in her apartment in Lagos, on Monday, after which she reported herself to the …

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Polo commends C.K. Akonnor for adopting 1978 AFCON squad

Mohamed Ahmed Polo a member of the 1978 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Cup-winning squad has said Black Stars coach Charles Kwablan Akonnor will be able to replicate their style of play if he ensures competition in the squad. Coach Akonnor has indicated that he would adopt and modify the …

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Nurses at Ashaiman polyclinic in trouble for stealing PPEs

The Ashaiman District Police is currently  is currently investigating suspected stealing of facemask and other Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) by  some nurses at the Ashaiman polyclinic The case was officially reported by one Foster Bampoe, an opinion leader in the area, and a failed Assembly Member aspirant to the police …

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I feel hunted by Martin Amidu – Mahama Ayariga

Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central Mahama Ayariga has said he feels hunted by Special Prosecutor over an ongoing corruption probe by the newly established office. According to the MP, evidence provided by the Office of The Special Prosecutor does not warrant the level of disdain expressed by the …

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Coronavirus: KMA issues trotro stickers to regulate operations

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) in collaboration with all the transport unions in the Ashanti Region have begun distribution of specialized vehicle stickers to various commercial vehicles to avert congestion in the Region. The move is to ensure that commercial vehicles operate within a confined jurisdiction in order to curb …

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Police training school reopens despite COVID-19 scare

The Ghana Police Service has reopened its training school in Koforidua in the Eastern region despite the directive against school attendance by President Akufo-Addo. The recruits of the training school who were asked to go home when President Akufo-Addo directed the closure of educational institutions have been recalled. On Sunday, …

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