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Former President Mahama receives family of the late Raymond Okudzeto

Former President John Dramani Mahama today received a delegation from the Anlo Traditional Council to announce the death and funeral rites for the late Dumega Raymond Okudzeto. Led by Anlo Statesman and former Inspector General of Police, Mr. CK Dewornu, the delegation described the late Raymond Okudzeto who was the President of the Volta Foundation as an industrialist who championed ...

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MTN keen on partnering government for national ID system

MTN is keen on partnering government and other agencies to deliver the digitalisation of the National Identification system, Mr Phuthuma Nhleko, MTN Group Chairman, has said. Mr Nhleko said the significance of the National Identification as a bedrock for National digitalisation agenda, and the efficiencies and cost benefits of e-government presented real potential for meaningful partnership with government. He was ...

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Address me as ‘Doctor Governor Chairman Wontumi’ – NPP stalwart

Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako affectionately called Chairman Wontumi wants henceforth to be addressed as ”Doctor Governor Chairman Wontumi” “Henceforth everyone must address me as Doctor Governor Chairman Wontumi because these names are my titles”, he disclosed on Accra-based Okay FM on Wednesday. The African Gold Awards ceremony which seeks to honour ...

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Majority leader chastises Inusah over bugging device

The Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has slammed the former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Inusah Fuseini, for hiding the existence of a bugging device in the office he once occupied from his successors. The National Security Monday July 1o, 2017 uncovered the secretly planted audio-visual recorder in a huge Coat of Arms plaque hanging in the ...

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Photos: Pantang Hospital nurses hit street

Staff of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital have hit the streets to register their displeasure over encroachment on the facility’s land. The staff, mainly nurses, poured on the streets in their uniforms and red bands with placards to ward off private developers on their land. The inscriptions on some of the placards read: “Mr. President, stop the encroachment,” “Mr. President use Executive ...

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A/R: Police Officer shoots himself to death

A Police officer with the Central Police Station in Kumasi in the Ashanti region has shot and killed himself . According to Ultimate FM’s Issac Bediako Justice who visited the crime scene Wednesday, residents said a gunshot was heard from the room of the deceased officer, Ebenezer Kofi Okyere, in the morning attracting neighbors to his room. The police officer ...

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E/R: Two illegal loggers arrested in Atiwa forest

Two persons have been arrested by a joint team of Police and Forestry Commission rangers over illegal lumbering of economic trees in the Atiwa Forest Reserve. The patrol team of the Forestry Commission detected the two suspects smuggling the harvested beams from the forest. Wireless message was sent to the Officer in Charge of the Anyinam Range of the Atiwa ...

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Bedbugs invade Keta Senior High School; authorities unconcerned

A marauding army of bedbugs have invaded Keta Senior High School in the Volta Region in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region yet school authorities and the Regional Education Directorate are unconcerned as students wallow in pain and agony. The mass of tough insects are reported to have devastated students of the school making life uncomfortable. The development has ...

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