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Probe shady RLG, flying Guinea fowls under your watch, not NAM 1 – Blakk Rasta hits at Mahama

Radio personality and Reggae musician, Blakk Rasta born Abubakar Ahmed, has asked former President John Dramani Mahama to rather chase the guinea fowls that fled Ghana for Burkina Faso under his watch as President and not Nana Appiah Mensah alias NAM 1. The former President has said that when he comes back to power, he will probe Nana Appiah Mensah’s ...

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Saglemi housing project: Atta Akyea’s $114 embezzlement claim empty – GED

A team of economists and technical experts, who have pooled their expertise under the umbrella of the Ghana Economic Dialogue (GED) to help contribute to shaping the national developmental discourse has disputed claims by the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Samuel Atta Akyea, that the Saglemi Housing project was a piece of machinery for embezzlement under the erstwhile Mahama-led ...

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State files more evidence in coup plot trial

The Attorney General’s Department has been granted leave of court to file additional evidence in the case in which Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Benjamin Agodzor, Dr Frederick Yao Mac Palm, and eight others are standing trial for allegedly plotting to destabilise the state. The accused persons have all pleaded not guilty to their respective charges of treasons and abetement ...

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Free SHS: Headteachers being gagged over Free SHS challenges – Apaak

The Member of Parliament for Builsa South Dr Clement Appak says headteachers of government schools across the country are being gagged over Free SHS challenges. The minority has continuously criticised the policy saying it has been poorly implemented. Dr Apaak believes school heads have been intimidated so that they do not voice out difficulties they face. He also downplayed the ...

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Ghanaian churches as weak as the State – Kwabena Donkor

Member of Parliament for Pru East Kwabena Donkor says the Church in Ghana is as weak the state itself. His sentiments are placed in the context of leadership and accountability in institutions, which he says are the cause of delayed development in the country. This comes on the back of the collapse of a church building in Akyem Batabi where ...

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Church building Collapse: Death toll now 21

The death toll from the Church building collapse in Akyem Batabi in the Eastern Region has risen to 21, out of 29 victims retrieved. The deceased persons are made up of 12 females and 9 males. There are eight survivors so far. More victims are expected to be extricated as rescue workers worked throughout last night to enter day four ...

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Akufo-addo commissions 64km kete krachi – dodiokope road

President Akufo-Addo has commissioned the sixty-four-kilometre (64km) Kete Krachi – Dodiokope Road Project, in the newly created Oti Region. This project was undertaken in three (3) phases by Messrs First Sky Limited, at a total cost of GH¢156 million, and was funded by COCOBOD, with the Ghana Highway Authority serving as the implementing agency and supervising consultant. The project was ...

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Akufo-Addo calls for emergency action on Creative Arts Bill

President Nana Akufo-Addo has directed that there should be a true sense of urgency on the part of Parliament and all relevant stakeholders in passing the Creative Arts Bill into law, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Barbara Oteng-Gyasi has disclosed. She said the president hopes the Bill becomes law before the end of tenure of the current Parliament. The ...

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