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At least 27 people from sub-Saharan Africa have died in recent days after being expelled from Tunisia towards the Libya border and abandoned in the desert in relentless heat, according to Libyan authorities. Libyan border guards found the bodies “in the desert [in] a vast area to the south of …

Some 300 students took part in the 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at the Bethany Methodist Junior High School, one of the centres for the examination in the nation’s capital, Accra. According to one of the supervisors, who spoke to GhanaWeb’s team during a visit to the centre, 162 of …

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has taken disciplinary action against 27 officers, including three senior officers and 24 junior officers, on suspicion of engaging in various offenses that have tarnished the Service’s reputation. In a circular signed by the Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mr. Kwame Asuah Takyi, it announced that the …

Convicted William Ato Essien, the founder of the defunct Capital Bank has been given at least up to July 27 to redeem his first installment of GH¢20 million to the State. It has emerged in Court on Tuesday, July 4, that Mr Ato Essien has so far paid GH¢8 million of …

Ghana’s Hajj Board is making efforts to fly some 27 hopeful pilgrims to Saudi Arabia after they couldn’t get spots on the last flight that transported pilgrims for the 2023 Hajj. According to a report on 3news.com, the last flight to Saudi Arabia successfully arrived in the country with 430 …

A 27-year-old young man, identified as Prince Yoma, has been arrested by the police at Sehwi for shooting a motorbike rider he boarded in a bush. Information gathered revealed that the suspect hired the motorbike rider, Charles Bosompim from Sehwi Essase, a farming community in the Akontombra district to transport …

The Bank of Ghana has hiked the monetary policy rate by 250 basis points from 24.5 percent to 27 percent. Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee and BoG Governor, Dr. Ernest Addison said the decision is expected to anchor inflation expectations in the country with the figure standing at 40.4 percent in October 2022. …

The staff of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Upper East Regional Hospital in Bolgatanga have saved a preterm baby born at 27 weeks of pregnancy. The said baby recorded a birth weight of 0.9 kilograms (Kg) instead of the normal 2.5 kg but pulled through and survived …

The Tano South Municipal Assembly in the Ahafo Region has served notice to auction 27 goats and one sheep in its custody. The move the Assembly explains is in accordance with section 300 sub-section 4 of Act 29/60. The auction will take place on Thursday, September 15, 2022, at the municipal administration …

A 27-year-old lady at Abessim in the Sunyani Municipality of the Bono Region, Madam Hilda Asumani Embro Tuesday July 27, 2022 broke down in tears when the Sunyani Circuit Court presided over by Her Ladyship Justice Mavis Ekua Andoh sentenced her to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour. The sentence …