Author Archives: larryehu

Ghana Card: Adenta residents upset over NIA’s insistence on digital address

Some residents of Adenta have expressed worry over the decision of the National Identification Authority (NIA) to insist on their digital postal address before issuing them with the National ID cards. The NIA chose Adenta in Accra to begin the mass distribution of the Ghana card after several postponements. So far, officials at the Presidency, Parliament, former presidents as well as ...

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2019 AFCON Qualifier: Kenya, Sierra Leone game called off

Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) has called off Kenya’s Africa Cup of Nations Qualifier against Sierra Leone, that was scheduled to be played at the MISC Kasarani on Sunday, November 18, 2018. In a letter from the Continental governing body’s Competition’s Division, CAF cited a suspension on Sierra Leone by World Governing body FIFA, noting that the status of the ...

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We’re impressed with Bagbin – NDC delegates

Some delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Central region say they have had a change of mind about the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, after having the opportunity to interact with him. More importantly, the delegates claim that the vision of Bagbin which he outlined to them at separate locations in the ...

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My dog connected me to my wife – Captain Planet

Ghanaian hip pop artist Sylvanus Dodji Jeoffrey popularly known as captain planet says his dead dog connected him to his wife. Speaking in an interview on Hitz FM, Monday, he said, “the excitement of the dog, whenever I went to her house, was overwhelming, the dog followed me where ever I went, it was very protective of me” he disclosed. ...

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Uganda boarding school inferno kills nine students – Police

Nine students died after fire engulfed a dormitory at a secondary school in southern Uganda early Monday, police said, one of the deadliest in a string of conflagrations at schools across the country in recent years. Police spokesman Patrick Onyango told Reuters the nine male students died when the blaze erupted at a dormitory that housed about 130 students at ...

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ECG wants 38% increase in power tariffs

The Electricity Company of Ghana wants Parliament to approve an increase in end user tariffs of at least 37.6 percent to cover the losses it is making on electricity sales under the current tariff structure which has been in effect since April this year. This year’s edition of the annual major review of electricity tariffs is currently ongoing, under the ...

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Addis Ababa hosts 10km Ethiopia – Eritrea peace race

Capital of Ethiopia Addis Ababa was flooded by runners over the weekend. Runners running in support of the peace deal signed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his Eritrean counterpart, Isaias Afwerki in July 2018. Thousands of nationals from both sides cheered as they ran a 10 km race, which is the first major sporting event since the signing of ...

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I won’t respond to NDC aspirants – Nana jabs Mahama

President Akufo-Addo on Saturday took a swipe at the presidential aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President John Dramani Mahama, indicating that he does not respond to mere presidential aspirants who do not know their fate. “I am sure you have seen and heard some of the presidential aspirants of the leading opposition party taking jabs at my ...

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Duncan Williams slams Christian critics of National Cathedral

The founder and Head Pastor of the Action Chapel, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams, has expressed dismay at the seemingly opposing concerns by Christians as regards to the building of the National Cathedral. Archbishop Duncan Williams said some Christians are opposing the intervention because it is not their political party that is building it. Speaking to his congregation on Sunday he ...

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