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Parliament approves facility agreement for construction of trauma Hospitals

Parliament on Tuesday approved a facility agreement amounting to fifty six million, one hundred and fifty-three thousand, five hundred euros (€56,153,500.000) from Deutsche Bank AG and Global Services (UK) Limited for the construction of health facilities in parts of the country. These include the construction of Trauma Hospitals in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region and Anyinam in the Eastern, an ...

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BoG grants IT Consortium enhanced Payment Service Provider license

The Bank of Ghana (BOG) has granted one of the country’s leading FinTech companies, IT Consortium Limited (ITC), an enhanced Payment Service Provider (PSP) license. The acquisition of the license, which is the highest license within the PSP category, follows the passage of the Payment Systems and Services Act, 2019 (Act 987) which creates an enabling regulatory and supervisory framework ...

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Bono: Student killed after clashes at registration center

One person has been killed in Banda in the Bono region over a confrontation at a registration centre. Starr News understands that the scuffle at the registration center began after some persons associated with the NPP parliamentary candidate for the constituency confronted brother of the MP for the area, Ahmed Ibrahim, over reasons not yet known. The deceased, according to ...

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SC adjourns Ofosu Ampofo case indefinitely

A five-member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Justice Victor Jones Dotse has adjourned the case in which the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Samuel Ofosu Ampofo is challenging a High Court decision in his leaked tape trial at the High Court. The NDC chairman and Kweku Boahen are standing trial at the High Court ...

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Lengendary Gospel Musician Elder Mireku’s Son Set To unveil “Africa is Home.”

James Mireku, the son of the Renowned Gospel musician Elder Akwasi Mireku’s will set the online portals and the various social media platforms ablaze with his maiden music titled “Africa Is Home.” He has not stopped serving his followers and lovers of music with various forms of soothing tunes through his  project dubbed “James Sessions” which has run for a ...

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COVID-19: Angry parents storm Accra Girls over wards whereabout

Parents of students at the Accra Girls Senior High School are currently at the school premises to demand answers as to the whereabout of their children who have tested positive for the Covid-19. This comes after a joint communique from the GHS and the GES revealed that 55 persons in the school have tested positive for the novel coronavirus According ...

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NDC Female Deputy Regional Secretaries Congratulate Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang

The deputy regional secretaries of the opposition NDC have issued a press release congratulating Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman in her appointment as running mate for the 2020 election. The statement read: “We are extremely excited about the nomination of Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as the Vice Presidential Candidate of the NDC for election 2020. “ “It is a great honour ...

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Calls to shutdown reopened schools untenable – Education Minister

Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has said calls for re-opened schools to be shut down over rising cases of the Coronavirus, particularly in Senior High Schools, are untenable. Speaking during an interview on Adom TV’s ‘Badwam’ programme on Monday, July 13, 2020, the Minister said he disagreed with the calls for SHSs to be closed down and the students ...

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