Author Archives: larryehu

Prosecute officials of BOST over contaminated fuel – COPEC

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers is demanding for the prosecution of officials of BOST over the sale of some 5 million liters of contaminated fuel. BOST had earlier sanctioned the sale of the contaminated fuel out of a number of options after considering that to be economically prudent. According to the Petroleum Chamber, a meeting convened by the National Petroleum ...

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10 feared dead in fatal Winneba accident

Ten people are feared dead in a gory accident on the Winneba – Cape Coast highway in the Central region Monday night around 7:30pm. The accident occurred Monday night specifically at Okyereko in Gomoa West near Winneba. Several others also sustained various degrees of injuries were rushed to the Winneba government hospital and the trauma and specialist centre for treatment. ...

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Controversial 43 Presidential vehicles: Importer in fresh trouble

The woes of the man behind the importation of the controversial 43, but now 55 armor-plated fleet of vehicles for the presidency, Kwabena Boateng Aidoo, is far from over in spite of President Akufo-Addo’s directive that, government takes delivery of the vehicles. Intelligence picked by The aL-hAJJ indicate that the contract for the importation of the vehicles is likely to ...

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Russia targets Telegram app after St Petersburg bombing

Russia’s FSB security agency has said the Telegram mobile messaging app was used by a suicide bomber who killed 15 people in St Petersburg in April. Authorities have already threatened to block the app, founded by Russian businessman Pavel Durov, for refusing to sign up to new data laws. Mr Durov has refused to let regulators access encrypted messages on ...

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Report: Arsenal owner calls Bellerin to state intentions

According to a report by Spanish radio station Cadena SER, Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke has personally called defender Hector Bellerin to tell the Spaniard he would not be sold. The 22-year-old experienced a serious regression at the Emirates last season, and with media speculation surrounding his potential departure, Kroenke wanted to make sure his intentions were clear. Reports had linked ...

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#NSMQ2017: Mfantsipim, Mawuli surrender to Prempeh College

It was an easy run for Prempeh College on Monday as they beat Mfantsipim and Mawuli schools to qualify for the final of the 2017 National Science and Maths Quiz. From leading with 30 points in the first round against Mfantsipim’s 18, Prempeh College managed to maintain their lead to the end of the contest that many expected to be ...

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The great intellectual property trade-off

In January 1842, Charles Dickens arrived on American shores for the first time. He was greeted like a rock star in Boston, Massachusetts, but the great novelist was a man with a cause: he wanted to put an end to cheap, sloppy pirated copies of his work in the US. They circulated with impunity because the United States granted no ...

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Trump travel ban injunction partly lifted by top US court

US President Donald Trump has welcomed a Supreme Court ruling allowing his travel ban to be partly reinstated as a “victory for our national security”. America’s highest court also granted a White House request allowing part of its refugee ban to go into effect. The justices said they would consider in October whether the president’s policy should be upheld or ...

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