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Kweku Baako schools ‘ignorant’ Nzema Chief on Ghana Gas

Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has schooled Chief of Akropong in the Ellembelle District, Nana Adu Kwame on how Ghana Gas Company came about. The Chief at the weekend hailed Former President John Dramani Mahama for his vision of establishing the Ghana Gas Company Limited at Atuabo in the Nzemaland of the Western Region ...

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Online petition to find missing Takoradi girls gathers momentum; nears 1,000 signatories

Close to 1,000 Ghanaians have signed an online petition to mount pressure on the police to find the three kidnapped Takoradi girls. After nine months Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, 15, Ruth Love Quayson, 18, and Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21 are yet to be found after they were reported kidnapped in the Takoradi metropolis. Nigerian Samuel Wills is standing trial as the ...

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Shot fired as Tamale mayor escapes stone attacks

The bodyguard of the Tamale mayor Iddrisu Musah Superior had to fire a warning shot to prevent a mob from attacking his boss at a suburb called Viting. Mr. Superior was in the community upon an invitation by authorities of the Viting Senior High School, following a renewed land encroachment dispute between the school and some residents. Dozens of structures ...

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US$95 million spent between 2013 and 2016 without drilling a single oil well – Deputy Minister

Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, a Deputy Minister of Energy in charge of Petroleum, says a total of US$95 million dollars was spent between 2013 and 2016 for drilling oil wells but none resulted in the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantities. He said 13 petroleum contracts were signed between the previous government and oil investors with US$880 million set ...

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Ghana’s first open-heart surgery in private health facility successful

Ghana has recorded its first open-heart surgery, outside tits premier public hospital, the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH). Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, the renowned Cardiothoracic Surgeon, over the weekend, led a medical team of 10, to replace the damaged mitral valve of a 61-year man with an artificial one at the Providence Specialist Hospital, in Accra. The move will lead the way ...

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Mass registration of Ghana Card begins today

The National Identification Authority (NIA) will today begin the mass registration of Ghanaians for the Ghana Card. The registration will be done on regional basis beginning from the Greater Accra region. It will be done between 8am and 5pm daily. The Card will replace many of the current proof of identity required by many state organisations and also be recognised ...

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Afram Plains: Nine in police grips over hazardous child labour

Nine men from Edrakpota a fishing community in Afram Plains, Eastern Region, are in the grips of the police for using children for fishing and hazardous work. Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Region Police, Francis Gomado, said police intelligence revealed that there were 11 suspected child traffickers and 24 children being kept for trafficking. He said some of ...

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