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Make Ghanaian fabrics compulsory for state functions – NCC boss

The Executive Director of the National Commission on Culture (NCC) Janet Edna Nyame has called on the legislature to pass a law to ensure Ghanaian fabrics are worn at all state and international functions. This according to her will help promote national identity and encourage patronage of local fabrics. Speaking at the launch of the 2021 Wear Ghana Festival, Madam ...

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Power outages: IES demands transparency from GRIDCo

A research analyst at the Institute for Energy Security (IES) Fritz Moses has called on managers of the power sector in the country to be transparent about the recent power outages. Ghana experienced a nationwide power cut on Sunday, March 7 topping weeks of infrequent power supply in parts of the country. The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCO) however says the ...

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Rainstorm rips off houses, schools, markets in Eastern region

A recent rainstorm recorded in parts of the Eastern Region has ripped off over a hundred houses, schools, and markets. Dozens of residents have been also displaced. The violent rainstorms were recorded on March 4th, 5th, and 6th. In Fanteakwa South District for instance Some teachers at Nsutem Senior High School have been displaced after the teacher’s bungalow was ripped. ...

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Bata explosion: Equatorial Guinea death toll rises to 98

The death toll from a series of explosions in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday has risen to 98, officials say. Another 615 people were injured, with 299 still in the hospital. The blasts hit a military base in the country’s main city, Bata. Officials blame badly stored dynamite along with stubble burning by nearby farmers. The death toll, updated after volunteers ...

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How ‘powerful’ Koku Anyidoho nearly made Mahama resign as Vice President

“I never saw the Vice President of His Excellency President John Evans Atta-Mills pay the kinds of compliments Vice President Bawumia pays to President Akufo-Addo,” NDC’s Koku Anyidoho wrote on Twitter recently, adding a photograph of Vice President Bawumia bowing to President Akufo-Addo when the Supreme Court dismissed Mahama’s election petition. Samuel Koku Anyidoho has been incessantly taunting former President John Dramani Mahama especially, and the ...

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Over 200k Ghanaians vaccinated; aged top list – GHS

A little over two hundred thousand Ghanaians have received their first dozes in the ongoing Covid-19 vaccination exercise, government has announced. The exercise began exactly a week ago with the AstraZeneca vaccine. The Greater Accra region has recorded the highest number of persons vaccinated. Director-General of the Ghana Health Service Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye speaking at a press conference at Peduase ...

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UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews

Google is failing to do enough to combat fake reviews within its business listings, and must be held to account by a UK watchdog, according to Which? The consumer group set up a fake company and bought bogus five-star reviews as part of an investigation. In doing so, it was able to tie its sham “customers” to dozens of other ...

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13 bodies of schoolchildren retrieved from Apam River

About 20 schoolchildren are feared to have drowned in the Apam sea in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region while swimming today Monday, March 8,2021. Speaking to EIB Network’s Central Regional Correspondent Yaw Boagyan, an eyewitness said the children were school Pupils whose ages are between 9 and 13 from a basic school in the Apam area.  ...

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