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GES interdicts teacher of Dekpema JHS for defiling student

Ghana Education Service (GES) has interdicted Mr. Imoro Eliasu a Junior High School teacher for sexually assaulting a third-year female student of the Dekpema M/A Junior High School in Tamale in the Northern region. Mr. Imoro who is currently being investigated for indecent assault by the DOVVSU has been granted …

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Police arrest gang leader in Nima violence

One of the leaders in the gang violence that erupted in Nima last month has been arrested by the police. Violence erupted on the streets of Nima and its environs in Accra on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. The incident that had machete-wielding young men take over the streets in a …

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Ex-Ugandan soldier abandons eight children over unpaid gratuity

A disgruntled retired Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier has abandoned his children. Mr Zaidi Bafonza,54, number RA/ 118292, who retired in 1992 from UPDF a month ago, abandoned his eight children in a makeshift house in Bukolooto trading centre in Kayunga District on claims that he had failed to …

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Fire destroys 200-hectare rice farm at Agege

Fire outbreak has caused extensive destruction to 200 hectares of rice farm at Agege, a farming community in the Kintampo North Municipality of the Bono East Region. Mr. Tikuni Alhassan, the Assemblyman for Tahiru Akura Electoral, and the farm’s owner told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) personnel of the fire …

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GES interdicts teacher of Dekpema JHS for defiling student

Ghana Education Service (GES) has interdicted Mr. Imoro Eliasu a Junior High School teacher for sexually assaulting a third year female student of the Dekpema M/A Junior High School in Tamale in the Northern region. Mr. Imoro who is currently being investigated for indecent Assault by the DOVVSU has been …

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Tullow to increase Jubilee, TEN stakes in 2022

Tullow Oil plc CEO Rahul Dhir has said 2021 was a year of positive change and transformation for the oil company, and “we ended the year on a firm financial and operational footing”. Mr Dhir said the delivery of Tullow’s “long-term business plan is progressing well with significant improvements in …

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V/R: Police arrest 17 suspected narcotics dealers

The Volta Regional Command of the Ghana Police Service has picked up 17 persons suspected to be dealing in narcotics in separate operations conducted across the region. Thirteen (13) of the suspects were on February 3, 2022 round-up in an hour operation at Juapong upon intelligence. Quantities of dried leaves …

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Reject invitations from Ghana – Charles Taylor to players abroad

Ghana Premier League legend, Charles Taylor has urged Ghanaian players born abroad to decline Black Stars call-up if they will get the chance to play for their host countries. The Ghana Football Association and other stakeholders are pushing hard to get some talented Ghanaian players who were born in Europe to switch allegiance from …

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Hawker feared dead in an accident at Oda lorry station

  One hawker is feared dead while three others are injured after a driver ran into them at the Oda lorry station in the Birem Central Municipality of the Eastern Region. The driver of the passenger car with registration number AS 7487-18 was reported to have mistakenly ran into the …

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VIDEO: Jackie Appiah incurs Shatta Wale’s wrath, tops Twitter trends

Jackie Appiah has occupied the number one spot on Twitter trends after being chastised by Shatta Wale on social media. The Dancehall artiste in his usual rants on Facebook dug up a past encounter with the Ghanaian actress. Shatta Wale whiles recounting the experience recalled how Jackie poohpoohed his idea of receiving money from …

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I joined Hearts of Oak because of my son – Sulley Muntari

Ghanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari has revealed that his decision to join Accra Hearts of Oak was inspired by his six-year-old son, Jamal Kruise Muntari. Sulley Muntari joined the Ghana Premier League giants on a 1-year contract which will see him at the club for the rest of the season. The former AC Milan player …

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Akufo-Addo leaves for 35th AU Summit In Ethiopia

President Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Friday, 4th February 2022 to lead the Ghanaian delegation to the 35th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, which is being held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The meeting of the Heads of State will take place from 5th to 6th February, 2022, …

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Meet the Kenyan presidential aspirant who looks just like Sarkodie

A striking resemblance between Professor George Wajackoyah and Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie has been spotted after pictures of the Kenyan presidential aspirant circulated on social media. Tweeps after closely analysing pictures of both persons have concluded that indeed they possess some similar physical features. Their faces particularly looked somewhat similar after the …

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This is my last term in parliament – Majority Leader

Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has indicated that he would serve as a member of parliament for the last time in the 8th Parliament of Ghana. According to Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu who has been an MP since 1996, he would no longer contest to be an MP because he feels this was the …

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VIDEO: Salma Mumin gifts Shatta Wale a car

  Shatta Wale advises everyone to have rich friends Shatta Wale launches Shaxi Shatta Wale shows appreciation to Salma Mumin Ghanaian dancehall musician, Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr, well known as Shatta Wale, has expressed his profound gratitude to actress Salma Mumin for gifting him a car to support his hailing business. According to Shatta Wale, he was …

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NDC women’s organiser arrested for fraud

A National Democratic Congress (NDC) women’s organiser of the Benso Oil Palm Plantation (BOPP) branch has been arrested for allegedly defrauding a man on Thursday, February 4. Joyce Adamtey, a female believed to be in her thirties allegedly defrauded one John Aryeh, 30, of an amount of GHS7,000 with the …

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Kofi Adoma opens up on ‘countless threats’ on his life

  The host of Angel FM’s Anopa Bofoɔ show, Kofi Adoma Nwanwani, has shared with audiences of the morning programme the insecurity he has been battling in recent times. The journalist has been living in a state of fear, occasioned by the “countless threats” he has been receiving from strangers. …

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Two 70-year-olds arrested for manufacturing weapons for criminals

The Police in the Eastern Region have arrested two septuagenarians believed to be involved in the manufacture and sale of locally made pistols to criminals. The two, Richard Kwame Asare, 76, and Kojo Tetteh, 74, are both professional blacksmiths and residents of Pakro near Adawso in the Akuapem North Municipality …

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President Akufo-Addo suspends Sekondi-Takoradi MCE

Abdul-Mummin Issah is Sekondi-Takoradi MCE   The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has suspended the Municipal Chief Executive Officer for Sekondi-Takoradi, Adbul Mumin Issah. The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has suspended the Municipal Chief Executive Officer for Sekondi-Takoradi, Adbul Mumin Issah. More soon…   Source: www.ghanaweb.com

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South Africa undertakes its most important census since the end of apartheid

     Deputy Minister in the Presidency Thembi Siweya, left, visits homeless people at Johannnesburg's Park Station on 'Census Night', 2 February. – Source: GCIS/Flickr Statistics South Africa has embarked on its once-a-decade process to count all people in the country – including non-citizens. Census 2022 is arguably the most important …

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