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SDA elders don’t support musicians – Great Ampong

Ghanaian gospel musician, Isaac Ampong, popularly called Great Ampong has disclosed that the leadership of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church neither supports nor cares about gospel artistes in the church. The artiste disclosed this on the No.1 Showbiz on Sunday, 8 March 2020. He told show host Nana Kwame …

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COVID-19: Ghana confirms two cases

Ghana has confirmed two cases of COVID-19 on March 12, 2020, being the first cases to be reported in the country. The Ministry of Health disclosed in a statement on Thursday that the two confirmed cases were received at the same time from the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research. …

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Rawlings praises COCOBOD

Former President, Flt. -Lt. (Rtd) Jerry John Rawlings has commended the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) for its efforts to mechanise cocoa farming in the country. He said the board’s decision to replace the age-old cutlasses and machetes used to prune cocoa trees and weed farms, with motorised pruners and slashers …

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Government suspends consular services in countries hit by Coronavirus

Government has suspended consular services provided by embassies and high commissions in countries affected by the deadly Coronavirus. The Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charles Owiredu said this while outlining measures being taken by the government to prevent a spread of the virus. The Deputy Minister also pointed out that …

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Italian medical chief dies from coronavirus

Italy’s medical community is mourning the death of the head of the medical association in the northern Italian region of Varese, Italy’s state-run ANSA reported Wednesday. Roberto Stella, president of the Medical Guild of Varese, died Tuesday night in Como, where the 67-year-old was hospitalized for respiratory failure due to …

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Police Hospital to hold mass burial for 120 bodies

The management of the Ghana Police Hospital at Cantonment has served notice it will carry out a mass burial for one hundred and twenty unidentified bodies in their mortuary. This, according to a statement from the Hospital, is part of their routine exercise to decongest the hospital mortuary. “The Ghana …

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Police officer jailed 40 years for robbery [photos]

A Circuit Court in Koforidua in the Eastern region has sentenced a 37-year-old police officer to a total of 40 years in prison for robbery. The court presided over by Her Honour, Mercy Addai Kotei, found him guilty of two counts of conspiracy to commit crime, to wit robbery and robbery. He is …

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Dangote loses N240 billion in five hours due to coronavirus

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote suffered a huge loss due to coronavirus on Wednesday, March 11, as he lost N240 billion in five hours. Dangote’s firms under the parent-company ‘Dangote Group’, suffered huge losses just after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared coronavirus a pandemic (spreading in multiple countries around …

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Akwaboah’s brother goes blind a few days after a lady cursed them

Information reaching Ghpage.com news desk has it that the brother of songwriter and musician Akwaboah has gone blind days after a man of God dropped the prophecy. It would be remembered that Ghpage.com reported on a story where a Pastor identified as Prophet Eric Boahen revealed in an interview that Akwaboah and his …

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Parliament approves GHS41m tax waivers for Metro Mass, three others

Parliament has approved a request for tax waivers amounting to GHS41 million for four state institutions. The Ghana Immigration Service sought GHS 841,000 in tax waivers on weapons, the Ministry of Regional Re-Organisation sought GHS708,000 in waivers for vehicles to be procured for the six new regions, the Metro Mass …

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3 Ghanaians petition UN to remove Akufo-Addo as SDGs co-chair

Three Ghanaian citizens, Elikem Kotoko, Stephen Kwabena Attuh and Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese, have petitioned UN Secretary-General António Guterres to remove President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo from the Eminent Group of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates as a Co-Chair. According to the petition, the President is complicit in the resurgence of illegal small-scale …

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DCE’s house burgled

Some hoodlums have broken into the residence of Joseph Owusu, aka Odenkyem, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sekyere Afram Plains in the Ashanti Region, and made away with over GH¢40,000. The thieves stole the cash from the DCE’s parked vehicle after gaining access into his house at Akyeremade in the …

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Girl, 4, killed by her school bus in freak accident

A Muslim couple in the Ashanti Regional town of Sawaba, is in grief after their four-year-old daughter died on the spot after she was run over by her school bus Wednesday. The incident occurred at approximately 6:30 am when the deceased, Aisha Abdul Aziz and her seven-year-old brother had converged …

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Landfill sites risk closure over GH¢42m debt

Some operators of landfill sites in the country are threatening closure due to government’s inability to pay GH¢42million debt owed them. The situation, according to the operators, has put them in the difficult position of not being able to service equipment required to manage the sites, and pay workers as …

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13-year-old boy stabs his elder brother, 20, to death

A 13-year-old boy stabbed his elder brother to death while they were engaged in an argument. Ebikari Andrew, 13, stabbed Tarikebina Andrew, 20, to death at Jehovah Witness Road, off Goodnews Street in Azikoro, Bayelsa State. The brothers were at a friend’s house at about 9pm on Saturday, March 7, …

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Dominase residents turn JHS into brothel

The Chief of Wassa Dominase in the Mpohor district of the Western region, Nana Adusa II has called for the arrest of some unscrupulous individuals in the community who have converted the Dominase JHS into a brothel. According to the chief, after making love in the classrooms, the people then …

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