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DONATE BLOOD TO SAVE LIVES ~~~ NGO URGES GHANAIANS.

Shaip Africa Foundation led by its founder, Mr. Clement Clinton Blay in collaboration with the National Service Personnel in Ellembelle district has organized blood donation exercise to the St. Martins De Poress Hospital to support the hospital’s blood bank. The Shaip Africa Foundation, a non-governmental Organization saw the need to enrich the blood bank of the St. Martins De Poress ...

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Akufo-Addo orders inquiry into Ejura Killings

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Minister for Interior, Ambrose Dery to conduct a public inquiry into the circumstances that led to the unfortunate incidents at Ejura in the Ashanti region. A statement signed by the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, also revealed that the President has given the Interior ...

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Nyantakyi Re-Arraigned, Remains On GH¢1m Bail

Former President of Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, was yesterday re-arraigned before an Accra High Court over alleged shady deals which were exposed by popular investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in his ‘Number 12’ investigative piece. Mr. Nyatakyi together with a former member of the Executive Committee of the GFA, Abdulai Alhassan, appeared in court, charged with three counts ...

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Akufo-Addo opens Toyota assembly plant

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, 29 June 2021, opened the Toyota Tsusho Vehicle Assembly Plant, which is assembling some models of Toyota and Suzuki vehicles in the country. Describing the occasion as a very happy one for him, the Ghanaian people, and for the government’s industrial transformation agenda, President Akufo-Addo stated that Toyota Tsusho’s presence in Ghana has ...

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Three killers of Mfantsiman MP jailed 20 years each for robbery

Three armed robbers who were arrested following a robbery incident in Obuasi in the Ashanti region have admitted taking part in the murder of the late Mfantsiman MP, Ekow Quansah Hayford. The robbers, according to the Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, COP Isaac Ken Yeboah, who were arrested during a robbery incident on the ...

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Terrorists can exploit internal conflicts to invade Ghana – NPC warns

The National Peace Council (NPC) is seriously pointing at existing internal conflicts in Ghana as loopholes through which violent extremists can march into the country to wreak havoc. The warning, delivered during a peace-building training meeting in the Upper East Region, comes weeks after a terrorist attack claimed at least 160 lives in next-door Burkina Faso. The NPC’s Upper East ...

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Ejura: Be measured in handling demonstrators – NDC to security

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), in a statement signed by its Communication Director Kakra Essamuah, has appealed for calm in Ejura in the Ashanti Region following the lynching of social media activist Ibrahim ‘Kaaka’ Mohammed and the subsequently shooting to death by soldiers, of two of several protesters on Tuesday, 29 June 2021 and called “on the security agencies ...

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Ghana’s active COVID-19 cases shooting up again

Ghana has recorded some 166 new COVID-19 cases, according to the latest figures of the Ghana Health Service. The active caseload is now 1,559. Since mid-March 2020, a total of 95,642 cases have been recorded here in Ghana. Out of that number, 93,288 have recovered. So far, 795 people have died of the disease in Ghana. Regional breakdown: Greater Accra ...

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