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ECOWAS official shoots down Ablakwa’s ‘50,000 troops needed’ claims

Abdel-Fatau Musah, the Commissioner of Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the ECOWAS, has diputed claims that the bloc needs 50,000 troops in Niger if they are to deploy men to oust the military junta. He said Niger’s military stands at 13,000 and it won’t take 50,000 men to face …

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Over 24,000 teachers have failed their promotional exam – GES

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that 55,917 (69%) out of 80,810 teachers due for promotion in 2023 passed the promotional examination taken in February 2023. This means that 24,000 teachers, representing 31% of the teachers due to be promoted to the various grades, including Deputy Director, Assistant Director …

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Why charge applicants GH¢2,000, GH¢3,000 for a passport? – Angry Foreign Affairs Minister asks

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has gone berserk over the demand of GH¢2,000, GH¢3,000 by middlemen who connive with some staff for the acquisition of passport. Describing it as wrong, the minister wondered how a GH¢100 standard service and a GH¢150 for expedited service be …

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Twitter fined $350,000 for delaying to grant search warrant for Trump’s account in Jan. 6 probe

The U.S. special counsel investigating former US president Donald Trump obtained a search warrant for his Twitter account in January and the company delayed complying, according to a U.S. appeals court opinion published on Wednesday, August 9.   The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed …

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Bawumia paying GH¢50,000 to chairmen for vote – Kennedy Agyapong’s camp alleges

Lawyer William Kusi, the head of the communication team for New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful Kennedy Agyapong in the Ashanti Region, has accused one of the contenders in the race, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, of vote-buying and proxy voter manipulation to sway the outcome of the internal election. In a press release, Lawyer …

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McDan, another slapped with GH¢6,000 cost in alleged trespassing case

A High Court hearing the case in which business magnate, Dr. Daniel McKorley, Chairman and CEO of McDan Group, and one other have been sued for allegedly trespassing on a piece of land at East Legon has slapped the defendants’ with costs of GH¢6,000 for filing applications late and attempting to delay …

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Police officer, two others remanded over robbing Indian nationals of over GH¢595,000, $45,000

A Police officer stationed at the Nima Police Station, Inspector Abednego Bortier and two others including a tutor have been remanded into police custody for one week by the Circuit Court in Accra. They are said to have succeeded in robbing their Indian victims of huge sums of monies but …

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Ofori-Atta defamation suit: Court awards GH¢5,000 cost against Captain Smart for delay in filing defence

An Accra High Court has slapped a cost fine of GH¢ 5,000 on Blessed Godsbrain Smart (aka Captain Smart), the host of Maakye on Onua TV and Onua FM, for failing to timely file a defense in the defamation case brought by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, against him. According to …

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Court orders Asante Kotoko to settle debt of GH₵69,000 to Noks hotel

A court ruling ordered Ghana Premier League giants Asante Kotoko to settle their debt of GH₵69,000 Noks Hotel in Kumasi, according to Kessben FM’s Frank Naro, on Friday, July 21. The Porcupine Warriors had some club officials and players stayed at the Kumasi-based hotel between 2018 and 2020 which has …

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Sexual Harassment: Court slaps ‘side chick’ NSS personnel with GH¢6,000 cost

An Accra High Court has imposed a cost of GH¢6,000 on Deborah Sayram Adablah, a former National Service person, after striking out the name of First Atlantic Bank from her case. Ms. Adablah had taken Ernest Kwasi Nimako, a former Chief Finance Officer at First Atlantic Bank, to court, alleging …

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