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Work progresses steadily on Bolga-Bawku Road

Work on the Bolgatanga-Bawku Road is progressing steadily with the Brazilian construction firm Queiroz Galvao targeting to complete the construction of the entire stretch by August 2021 MyNewsGh.com has gathered. Work resumed on the 116km stretch after the project stalled several months due to lack of funds and also for …

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VIDEO: Fire guts server room of GRA office at Madina

The server room of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) office at Madina, Zongo junction near Oman FM caught fire on Monday, December 16, 2019. According to sources, the main section for record-keeping went up in flames though the cause of fire in the building is currently unknown. Several attempts by …

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Voters’ register credible but overstretched – EC

The Electoral Commission has justified the decision to change the voters’ register with just a year to the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. According to the Commission, the current register has been over-stretched, hence, the need for a new one with enhanced features to protect its credibility. Addressing the media …

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Kumasi: Most wanted criminal Baba Musah arrested

The Ashanti regional Police anti-robbery task force has arrested Baba Musah one of the alleged deadly armed robbers in the region. Baba Musah until his arrest has been on the Police command’s wanted list for more than six years dating from the era of COP Kofi Nathan Boakye. The suspect …

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COPEC threatens court action over fuel hike

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers has threatened legal action against the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) over a directive to oil marketers to increase fuel prices at the pumps. This directive according to COPEC is illegal and unconstitutional and must be reversed immediately else face court tomorrow. According to the chamber, …

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Leaked nudes Of Princess Shyngle Pops Up On Social Media

Gambian goddess and popular slay queen, Princess Shyngle is once again shaking the internet as her almost completely nude photo made its way into the social media. Many people are wondering how the photo got out. However, some believe Princess Shyngle leaked the photo herself due to an emotional trauma …

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Metro Mass Transit drivers embark on sit down strike

Metro Mass Transit Limited drivers in Cape Coast, Central Region have embarked on a sit-down strike effective Monday, December 16, 2019. They are striking over what they termed as “poor treatments by managements to drivers”. Passengers who trooped to the Cape Coast terminal Monday morning were stranded. The drivers say …

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Goodbye to Her Ladyship Chief Justice Sophia Abena Boafoa Akuffo

Friday, December 20, 2019, marks the end of Her Ladyship the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo’s tenure as Ghana’s 13thChief Justice since independence and the 6th Chief Justice under Ghana’s 4th Republican Constitution. Quite unfortunately, there seems to be a growing notion that Her Ladyship the Chief Justice has not acquitted …

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Fuel prices to go up again

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers has hinted of another upward adjustment in fuel prices at the pumps. According to the chamber, the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has written to Petroleum Service Providers notifying them of an adjustment “some elements on the already high petroleum price build-up and fuel prices”. Fuel …

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Are you crazy? – Andy Dosty to Shatta Wale

Radio presenter Andy Dosty cannot fathom Shatta Wale’s behaviour towards him over the weekend and is posing a rhetorical question to the dancehall artiste in that regard. “Is he crazy or what?” He asked on the Daybreak Hitz show, Monday. According to Andy Dosty, he dared Shatta Wale on Twitter …

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Police arrest five suspected illegal gun manufacturers

The Central Regional Police Command has arrested five people for allegedly manufacturing local weapons in a special operation at Assin Brofoyedur in the Assin Municipality of the region. Commissioner of Police (COP) Paul Manly Awini, the Regional Commander of the Ghana Police Service, said the Police acted on intelligence that …

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CDD reacts to Akufo-Addo’s 72 per cent grading

IMANI, in a latest assessment of the promises made by President Nana Akufo-Addo in the run-up to the 2016 elections concluded that only 48.78 percent of the promises have been fulfilled. The report further indicated out of the 510 promises made by government, only 27 per cent of them have …

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Zambia asks US to withdraw ambassador over gay row

The president of Zambia Edgar Lungu says his government has asked the United States to withdraw its ambassador, after the diplomat criticised the jailing of two men for being in a gay relationship. Daniel Foote said he was “horrified” last month when a judge sentenced the men to 15 years …

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Zimbabwe vice president’s wife due in court over fraud

Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Zimbabwe’s Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, will on Monday appear in court to face charges of money laundering and fraud. The fraud charges arise from an alleged attempt to forge a marriage certificate without her husband’s consent while he was sick. The couple was customarily married …

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Ghana’s foreign missions unable to pay rent, utilities

Member of Parliament for North Tongu says the country’s foreign missions are playing hide and seek with their landlords because of their inability to pay rent. According to Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, this is because the Finance Ministry is starving the foreign missions of funds they need to operate. “The Foreign Ministry has suffered …

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