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#NSMQ2017: Quiz mistress’ purse, IDs found without bag

The ID cards and purse of the 2017 National Science and Maths Quiz mistress Dr. Elsie Effah Kauffman have been found after being stolen at the finals. The items which were in her stolen bag were dropped at the University of Ghana, Legon, according to her sister Belinda Yaa Dankwaa Effah. The bewildered senior lecturer and head of the Biomedical ...

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1-district-1-factory won’t compete with existing factories – Minister

The Volta Regional Minister, Dr. Archibald Letsa has disclosed that, Agro-base Processing factories which are already operating in some districts of the region will not be given any competition from the government’s ‘one-district-one-factory’ policy. The policy which forms part of the Akufo-Addo led administration’s national industrialization agenda, intends to establish a factory in each of the country’s 216 districts to ...

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Criticise my gov’t – Akufo-Addo to senior citizens

President Akufo-Addo has urged all senior citizens of the country to speak out boldly and criticise his government. Referring to his inaugural speech were he called on the people of Ghana to be “citizens and not spectators”, the President said he has one more request to make of senior citizens and that is for them to offer him constructive criticisms ...

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Akufo-Addo attends 29th AU Summit

President Akufo-Addo has left Ghana Sunday, July 2, 2017, to attend the 29th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, which is being held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The meeting of the Heads of State will take place from July 3 to July 4, 2017, under the theme, “Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through Investment in the Youth”. Issues ...

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Sam George dismisses calls for probe into GHC100,000 NLA bribery scandal

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram in Accra, Samuel Nartey George has kicked against calls for independent probe into the bribery scandal involving Members of the Finance Committee of Parliament. Head of Legal Department at the National Lottery Authority (NLA), David Lamptey requested then Director General, Brigadier General Martin Ahiaglo (Rtd.) to authorise the release of a total sum of ?150,000 ...

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BOST MD’s continuous stay in office disrespect to Ghanaians – NDC

An activist of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has observed that the continuous stay in office by the embattled Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST), Alfred Obeng Boateng smacks of gross disrespect to Ghanaians. He indicates that a scandal of that magnitude he is alleged to be involved in does not ...

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Republic Day: Don’t give up fight on corruption, injustice – CPP to Ghanaians

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has charged Ghanaians not to give up in their quest in saving the country from injustice, corruption and political victimization. The party in a press statement signed by its Chairman, Prof. Edmund Delle to mark the country’s 57th Republic Day anniversary further commended Ghanaians for protecting the sovereignty of the country over the years. “The ...

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8 feared dead in Banda boat capsize accident

Eight persons are feared dead at the Bui Power reservoir site at Banda in the Brong Ahafo Region after the boat they were traveling in capsized on Friday. The victims mostly market women and children from Jama, a farming community along the reservoir were on their way to a neighboring area known as Accra town for a market day transaction. ...

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