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Police to get choppers – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has told Parliament on Thursday, February 20, 2020 that the government is procuring helicopters for the Ghana Police Service. He said this forms part of efforts to resource the police service well enough to fight crime. Delivering his fourth state of the nation address to …

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SOTN2020: We have overcome dumsor – Akufo-Addo declares

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced an end to the erratic power supply the country has been experiencing over the past years. According to the president, his government has taken necessary steps in making sure the deals and agreements have been signed to ensure that Ghanaians enjoy stable power …

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[VIDEO]: Minority boycotts 2020 State of the Nation Address

Members of the minority side of parliament on Thursday boycotted the State of the Nation Address as they staged a walkout. The side which earlier announced they will be boycotting the sitting made their way out just as the national anthem ended. They moved out repeating a part of the …

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American Rapper, Pop Smoke, Murdered In Cold Blood

Twenty year old popular American songwriter and rapper, Bashar Barakah Jackson, professionally known as Pop Smoke, was murdered in his home. The fast rising star was shot and killed on Wednesday morning in a robbery. TMZ reports that, the rapper was at his rented apartment in the Hollywood Hills at …

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Angry taxi drivers fight UCC Vice Chancellor

Taxi drivers in University of Cape Coast (UCC) campus on Wednesday blocked part of the road that links the University’s main campus to Kowpoh community to protest the university’s management decision to introduce stickers for taxis. The drivers blocked the Kowpoh junction to the university road for over three hours, …

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Drama in court over Mahama video

There was controversy over the tendering of the video detailing the gruesome murder of Major Maxwell Adams Mahama by a mob in May 2017. In court on Tuesday, the investigator in the matter, Chief Inspector Samuel Agyarkwa, who is the 14th prosecution witness in the case in which 14 persons …

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WATCH VIDEO: Emmanuel Adebayor dashes Funny Face another car

Ghanaian comic actor Benson Nana Yaw Boateng aka Funny Face and Togolese superstar Emmanuel Adebayor became very close friends back in 2012 after the latter gave the former an expensive customized Range Rover. The two have ever since that time shared a great bond as brothers and from all indications, …

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Boko Haram burn homes and school in Nigeria town

Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has torched several homes and a school during a raid on a town in north-eastern Nigeria, the army says. The insurgents were heavily armed, storming the town of Korongilum on Tuesday evening in a convoy of trucks mounted with guns, as well as motorcycles. Eyewitnesses …

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Man defiles two daughters in Kaduna

Said Muhammad Al-Masiri, an Imam in Kaduna has confirmed that a Kaduna based civil servant has defiled his two daughters. “He had sex with them front and back, their vaginas and anus are damaged. I gave their mother N10,000 and she took the girls to the hospital. The doctor examined …

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Chocolate danger: Ghana’s cocoa output hit hard by dry, hot winds

Overly dry and hot winds in West Africa are damaging prospects for cocoa output for the second year in Ghana, the world’s second-largest producer, sources told Reuters News Agency. Cocoa futures on Intercontinental Exchange are near their highest in three years, driven in part by the adverse weather, which has …

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Wheelbarrow pusher electrocuted while plucking mango

A teenage wheelbarrow pusher has died after he was electrocuted while plucking mango on a tree in Enugu state, Nigeria. According to reports, the guy who was a wheelbarrow pusher tried plucking the mango on the tree with an iron rod when the rod made contact with a high tension’s …

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Woman burnt after husband pushed her into burning charcoal

A woman was severely burnt after her husband angrily shoved her onto burning charcoal. The incident occurred Tuesday, February 18, 2020, at Akotoe a farming community in the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern region. According to a witness, the couple had a misunderstanding while burning biomass to produce …

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