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Fuel hikes: GPRTU meets next week over transport fare increment

The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) will hold a crunch meeting next week to deliberate on a “possible” upward adjustment of transport fares. The Union said the meeting had become necessary due to what they described as “significant hikes” in fuel prices over the past few weeks. Prices of …

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ECG warns Kumasi residents of imminent power and water crisis

The Electricity Company of Ghana has warned of an imminent power and water crisis within the Greater Kumasi areas if stringent measures are not instituted to check encroachment on lands bordering transmission sites and power lines. The power distributor is also worried as the situation is adversely affecting its operations, …

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EFCC declares Christ Embassy pastor, wife wanted over alleged N2bn fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared wanted Pastor Onyimiebi Bribena and his wife, Beatrice Bribena, over alleged fraud. Pastor Onyimiebi is the Chief Executive Officer of Baraza Multipurpose Cooperative, a Ponzi scheme based in Bayelsa. According to the EFCC via its verified Facebook page on Thursday, June …

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MonkeyPox: Nigeria records 10 new cases in 7 days – NCDC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 10 additional monkeypox cases in the last seven days in the country. The NCDC disclosed this via its official website, in its latest monkeypox situation report released on Friday. NAN reports that as global monkeypox cases continue to rise, public-health officials …

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EFCC storms NOVA Bank to arrest its chairman, MD over alleged fraud

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are currently at the head office of NOVA Merchant Bank Limited to arrest the Chairman of the institution, Phillips Oduoza and its Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Nath Ude. NOVA Bank is an investment-grade merchant bank in Nigeria which offers an integrated …

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GAF confirms military truck accident, says 16 soldiers injured

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have confirmed that its officers were involved in an accident along the Suhum-Anum Apapam Road after viral pictures on social media showed a crashed military track with injured soldiers. According to GAF, the soldiers were embarking on an operation, dubbed Operation Halt II, to stop …

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17-year-old boy rapes sister, physically assaults her

A 17-year-old boy, Kofi Sammy, has allegedly physically assaulted and raped his sister in Assin Kyekyewere, a community in the Assin South District of the Central Region. The victim, a 12-year-old class four pupil, Akosua Bornah, said that the incident happened as she was returning from school during a heavy …

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Agradaa fires husband for abandoning her after becoming a Christian

Former Fetish Priestess, Agradaa now turned Evangelist Mama Patricia Oduro has called out her husband for abandoning her after she started doing God’s work. Agradaa is known to have engaged in fetishism for a long time while married to her Pastor Husband, Mr.Eric Oduro Koranteng. Few months after her conversion, …

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Terrorism: Ghana making Nigeria’s mistakes – Adam Bonna

A security analyst, Adam Bonna says Ghana’s posture towards the fight against terrorism is not different from what Nigeria has done over the years. Speaking to Francis Abban on GHOne TV on Nigeria’s violence wave and terrorism in West Africa , Mr. Bonna indicated that Ghana needs to do all it can …

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