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Rats blamed for eating 500 kilograms of marijuana seized by Indian police

Rats in northern India have been accused of eating hundreds of kilograms of marijuana seized from drug dealers and stored in police warehouses. “Rats are small animals, and they aren’t scared of the police,” noted a court in the city of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, after hearing that local police were …

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VIDEO&PHOTOS: See Akon’s $7,500 hair transplant

Popular Senegalese-American musician, Akon, has opened up on undergoing a $7,500 worth of hair transplant to restore his receding hairline. In an interview with American hip-hop personality, Bootleg Kev, the 49-year-old singer admitted that he hopped on a plane to Turkey for that particular procedure. Akon also established that in …

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More than 500 dead in Nigeria floods – authorities

The authorities in Nigeria say the number of people killed by floods ravaging the country in recent weeks has risen to more than 500. More than 1,500 others have been wounded while 1.4 million are displaced. Since the end of July, the West African country has been grappling with a …

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Floods sweep away 1,500 corpses from Nigerian cemetery

Floods have destroyed more than 1,500 graves at a cemetery in the central Nigerian town of Mariga in Niger state. More than 500 graves have been swept away by the floods in the past week alone. The chief imam of the town, Alhassan Musa Na’ibi, told the BBC about 1,000 …

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PAC orders Zoomlion to refund GH¢517,500 for failure to execute fumigation contract

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has ordered Zoomlion Ghana Limited to refund GH¢517,500. 00 into government chest for failure to execute a fumigation contract awarded to it by government during the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. The contract was for the fumigation of schools, markets, and other public institutions in the Kintampo …

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50-year-old man kills girlfriend over GH¢1,500

A 50-year-old man has reportedly killed his girlfriend, who he accused of stealing his GH¢1,500, in Dzodze, the district capital of the Ketu North Municipality in the Volta Region. According to reports, the man shot his girlfriend as they were having an altercation over the said amount on Monday, June …

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Court orders landlord to refund GHC6,500 to prospective tenant

The Sunyani District Court ‘A’ on Monday ordered one Mr Samuel Oteng, a landlord at Asuakwaa, a suburb in the Sunyani Municipality, to refund an amount of GHC6,500 to his prospective tenant. The court, presided by Mr Divine Kwaku Ahiadu entered judgement in favor of Mr Osondo Chikezie, the plaintiff …

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March 2022: Ton of iron rods jumps from GHC6,200 to Ghc8,500 in 24 hours

The price of iron rods on the market starting from 1/4 (6mm) to 32mm (40ft) high tensile has jumped by 34% in less than 24 hours, MyNewsGh.com has filed. This is the second time MyNewsGh.com is covering the price of iron rods after our January 2021 report on same. At …

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Marriage statistics: Over 500,000 Ghanaians divorced, 400,000 separated – GSS findings

The rate of divorced persons to separated couples in the country is currently at 553,065 to 405,090, according to latest data from the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC). The data also showed that, of the separated people, females formed the majority, with a corresponding figure of 252,079 persons, while …

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Adwoa Safo saga: Government lavished GH¢1,068,500 just for one vote – Okudzeto alleges

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has disclosed the actual details on the flight that supposedly brought the MP for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, back into the country to pass a vote on the controversial E-Levy in late 2021. Having become quite notorious for disclosing the details of private jet …

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