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Nigerian couple turned away from registration centre in Ketu South

A Nigerien couple has been turned away from registering in the ongoing limited voter registration exercise being held at the Ketu South Municipal office of the Electoral Commission (EC). The man and his wife, who had been resident at Aflao for the past 26 years, on Saturday showed up and …

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NDC rejects calls for a re-run in Ketu North

The biggest opposition party in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has rejected calls from concerned delegates in Ketu North to conduct a re-run of elections in the constituency. The party leadership was responding to calls from NDC delegates who expressed their discontentment with a winner being declared without re-run despite a …

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Welcome to Iwoye-Ketu, the Nigerian community where it is taboo to use umbrella

An umbrella is an object for protection against rain or hot sun. When it starts to rain, people stop to put up their umbrellas at once against the rain, but not in Iwoye-Ketu, a border community in Imeko/Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria. There, residents would rather be …

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Tidal waves hit Ketu, Ada; scores displaced, stranded

Tidal waves have hit parts of the Volta and Greater Accra regions just as happened last year. Pictures and videos of homes inundated with seawater in places like Agavedzi in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region as well as Aklabanya in the Ada West District of the Greater …

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Seven children die of severe acute malnutrition in Ketu South

The Ketu South Municipality lost seven children to Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) in 2021. The deaths caused by the life-threatening condition because of low weight for height or by the presence of nutritional oedema were the highest in the last three years. Records of in-patient management of SAM at the …

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Police arrest two motorbike thieves in Ketu

The Volta Regional Police Command has arrested two armed robbers who attacked and stole a motorbike from a resident at Tadzewu in the Ketu North Municipal Area of the Volta Region. The suspects, Michael Maccatus, aged 31, and Wisdom Agbotokpo, aged 25 robbed a victim of his motorcycle after inflicting …

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Ketu South residents express worry over ‘heavy military presence’

  Residents in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region say they are living in fear and panic following the deployment of some heavily armed security personnel into the area. The security contingent which includes the military and officials of the Ghana Immigration Service has been deployed into some …

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