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‘Kick’ boxer Patrick Allotey arrested

WBO Africa Super welterweight champion, Patrick Allotey, has been arrested by the Ministries Police in Accra. The boxer was captured in a video inflicting punches on Asante Kotoko fan Michael Siaw who was celebrating Kotoko’s 2-1 victory over Accra Hearts of Oak last Sunday. The shameful conduct sparked outrage on …

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PHOTOS: Fire guts boys’ dormitory of Oppong Memorial SHS

Over 300 students of Oppong Memorial Senior High School at Kokofu in Ashanti Region have been displaced as fire ravaged the school’s boy’s dormitory on Thursday. There were no casualties, students were in class at the time of the blaze which, however, destroyed education materials and other property. The cause …

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SAD: Four siblings burnt to death near Kintampo

Tragedy hit a family when four children of the family were burnt to death at Bonche, a farming community near Portor in the Kintampo municipality in the Bono East Region, yesterday. The deceased are Freda Stephen, seven; Nyanne Nabada, four; Nabada Uwumboryakii, three, and Faith Stephen, nine months. How it …

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Ghana Passport Application Fees Increased

Parliament has given the final approval to increase passport application fees. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration noted that Passport fees for booklets with 32 pages will now cost GHS100 while fees for the newly introduced booklets with 48 pages will cost GHS150 effective February …

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Armed robbers seize truck carrying 220 bags of cocoa

A gang of armed robbers has reportedly seized and fled with a KIA truck, loaded with 220 bags of cocoa, on the Bogoso-Tarkwa-Nsuaem road. The truck, with registration number AS 8864 – 19, was carrying the cocoa to the Takoradi Port. The incident happened at about 0200 hours on January …

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[VIDEO]: Miss Ghana brouhaha: Inna Patty ‘gives up’

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Exclusive Events Ghana, Inna Patty, has established that she has stopped fighting the several rumors by some individuals who constantly try to discredit her hard-earned reputation. The pageant has been saddled with contentions including the incessant resignation of beauty queens in the last couple of …

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[VIDEO]: Snake charmer killed by cobra

  A snake charmer has died after being bitten by a king cobra while he was showing off his “magic skills” to villagers. The black magic shaman, named Norjani, caught the huge reptile a week ago in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. He kept it locked in his wooden hut for “traditional …

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A portion of US border wall falls into Mexico

Newly installed panels from the US border wall fell over in high winds Wednesday, landing on trees on the Mexican side of the border. The area is part of an ongoing construction project to improve existing sections of the wall.Agent Carlos Pitones of the Customs and Border Protection sector in El Centro, …

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Voter roll: Near-blows at deadlocked IPAC meeting

The meeting between the Electoral Commission, its Eminent Advisory Committee and the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) over the election management body’s decision to compile a new voter roll ended in a deadlock on Thursday, 30 January 2020 with some of the participants almost exchanging blows but for the intervention of …

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Nigeria to announce reopening of its border on Friday

The Nigerian government is expected to announce the reopening of its border with Benin after months of closure. According to Citi FM’s report, the Nigerian government in a memo signed by the Comptroller of its Immigration Service, Victor David Dimka, said a decision will be announced on Friday 31st January …

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Man Kills Rival For Having Sex With Wife In Toilet

“Upon my return from work, I heard my wife moaning inside our toilet and when I went close, I spotted her having sex with a man inside the toilet, and I kicked the man to the ground…” These were the words of a 46-year-old electrician who has been arrested for …

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A Plus descends on Barclays over Liwin video, bank reacts

Musician and satirist A Plus is mad at Barclays Bank, accusing the financial institution which is changing its name to Absa of trying to “take advantage” of budding artiste Bosom P-Yung. A Plus’s fury was triggered after he sighted a video of actor Kwadwo Nkansah (Liwin) performing Bosom P-Yung’s monster …

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Why Voltarians are called number 9

Monica Amekoafia, the winner of the first edition of the Miss Ghana contest in 1957 while representing the Trans-Volta Togoland. She was contestant Number 9. It was from her number that people from the Volta Region are called Number 9. Background Monica Amekoafia was born on 30th June 1934 to Augustus Amekoafia …

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Cedi to fall 8.60 percent in 2020 – Report

The Ghana cedi is projected to decline in value to the US dollar by 8.60% ± 1.50% at the end of 2020. This will be lower than the 12.9% depreciation to the American currency in 2019. This means the cedi will hover around GHS6.05 ± GH¢0.10 by 31 December, 2020. …

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Ghanaian teachers to benefit from ‘world class’ Teacher Survey App

A ground-breaking innovation, certain to create a significant impact across the education landscape in Ghana, is about to be launched. Known as TeacherTapp Ghana, this teacher survey mobile app, is aimed at gathering information regarding the daily lives of teachers and education in general, through a series of programmed questions …

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ECG: Prepaid credit deductions’re service charges

The Electricity Company of Ghana has attributed the deductions effected on prepaid electricity to service charges. According to the power distribution company, all residential and non-residential electricity prepaid customers in the country are charged a monthly service charge depending on their consumption. The Public Relations Manager of the utility provider, …

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Stock Market pulls back to start week

The GSE Composite Index tumbled by 12.46 points (-0.55%) due to losses in two banking and telecom counters to close at 2,236.29 with a -0.92% year-to-date return while the market capitalization declined by 0.23% to settle at GH¢57.96 billion. CAL Bank (-1.02%) lowered the GSE Financial Index by 1.11 points …

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ECG attributes prepaid electricity deductions to service charges

The Electricity Company of Ghana is attributing deductions on prepaid electricity to service charges. According to the power distribution company, all residential and non-residential electricity prepaid customers in the country are charged a monthly service charge, depending on their consumption. Public Relations Manager, Theresa Osabutey disclosed this in an interview …

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Anaesthetists to strike from Friday over title change

Members of the Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anaesthetists (GACRA) have served notice they will embark on strike from Friday, January 31, 2020. According to the association, their appeal to the Medical and Dental Council over plans to change their name has been ignored. They claim the MDC has instead …

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