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How NDC supporters reacted to Mahama’s victory

Both the old and young poured onto the streets in wild jubilation across major towns and villages in the Ashanti Region last Saturday minutes after former President John Dramani Mahama was declared winner in the seven-horse race to elect a candidate to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the …

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Hearts of Oak to sign new players

Accra Hearts of Oak coach Kim Grant has hinted that they will beef up the team in the next transfer window. The Phobians signed six new players and promoted four from their youth team in the January transfer window but their boss says they still need reinforcement. “We are looking …

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Ghanaians want Mahama back; 95% vote margin proves it – Ofosu Ampofo

John Mahama’s 95% endorsement by delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) proves Ghanaians want him back as President, the party’s National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has said. According to him, the former president’s landslide victory is a massive statement ahead of the 2020 general elections. Mahama became the NDC’s …

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Work progressing on N4 footbridges

Work on the three footbridges along the Adentan stretch of the N4 Highway is at various levels of completion. The underground utility and communication cables are the main challenges impeding progress. When this reporter went on a tour of the three footbridges along the Adentan stretch, workers were busy at …

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UN Secretary General calls on Ghana MPs to re-establish public trust

The Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres advised a delegation from Ghana’s Parliament led by Alexander Afenyo-Markin, MP for Effutu at the Inter-Parliamentary Union Annual Hearing on Emerging Challenges to Multilateralism in New York to re-establish trust in the people they lead. The Inter-Parliamentary Union was formed in 1889, …

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Armed Robbers Takes over the Sawla to Damongo

Armed robbers in the early hours of yesterday Sunday ambushed and succeeded  in robbing passengers onboard a Bole bus on its way to Tamale early in the morning with another  in the evening. Speaking to Bole based Nkilgi Fm reporter in Damongo Zion Abdul Rauf in Damongo after the incident, …

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Mahama will remain one-term president – NPP

The Volta regional secretary for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Joseph Homenya, says former President John Mahama will remain an ex-President, despite his victory in the just ended National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearership primaries. The secretary who doubles as the Volta Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Scheme …

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Radio station closed down; 4 persons arrested at Bimbilla

Bimbila based Gmantanbu 96. 1MHz, a powerful radio station serving several under-reported districts in the eastern corridor enclave of the Northern Region, has been shut down temporarily on Friday, February 22, 2019. The closure followed a fistfight which broke out at the Municipal Assembly building between managers of the radio …

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Ministry of Health clears air on nurses’ recruitment

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has reaffirmed the statement by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akofu-Addo that 14,254 nurse assistants (Clinical and Preventive) have received financial clearance to be recruited. According to the MoH, indeed the nurses who belonged to the tranche that passed their exams in 2016 from government health …

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EOCO boss K.K Amoah sacked

Executive Director of anti-graft agency, the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), ACP K.K Amoah, has been removed from office. Myjoyonline.com sources in government say he has been replaced by DCOP Adusei Poku. ACP Amoah has since been ordered to hand over to DCOP on Thursday, February 28, the sources …

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Government unveils 62nd Independence Day activities

The government has announced that this year’s 62nd Independence Anniversary celebration will take place from Thursday, 28th February to 8th March 2019. During his recent state of the nation address on Thursday, 21 February, President Nana Akufo-Addo announced to Parliament that the national celebration, will, for the first time ever, …

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Standards Authority, CID closes down illegal gas cylinder plant

The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) in collaboration with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police Service on Friday closed down a gas cylinder manufacturing plant in Oyarifa for operating illegally. George Anti, the Business Development Manager of the Authority in an interview said the Authority had a tip-off of a …

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Today in History: Kwame Nkrumah’s overthrow

Today marks exactly 53 years when the former president of Ghana Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was unconstitutionally ousted from office through a military and police coup de’tat on February 24th, 1966. Undoubtedly the most important indication of Nkrumah’s lasting impact is how much better he has done in retrospect than those …

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Robbers attack fire officer

One out of three suspected armed robbers who attacked a senior fire officer and robbed him of his mobile phone has been arrested. Suspect Daniel Amevor and his friends, according to the police, attacked Leading Fire Man (LFM) Paul Fofie in front of the Ghana National Fire Service Training School …

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Man fined for unlawfully entering Cape Coast Castle

    A Cape Coast Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday handed down a fine of Gh¢300.00 to Emmanuel Quansah, a 22-year-old trader for unlawfully entering the Cape Coast Castle and harassing tourists. The convict sneaked through the “door of no return” and entered the main castle and proceeded to the “male …

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Furniture shortages compel pupils to learn on bare ground

Pupils of Bosuoyir M/A Primary School in the Wa Municipality are exposed to bad weather conditions and unhygienic environment as several of the pupils sit on the filthy floor to receive lessons. The school, established in September 2014, manages a total enrolment of 107 pupils and has its primary two, …

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