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Bring back our Taadi girls!

“Dad! Dad! Dad!” she shouted repeatedly. A father gets a distress call from his daughter. She is agitated. Her father is worried and scared for his child. The phone suddenly goes dead. She has been kidnapped. That was in August 2018. She is one of a growing number of teenagers and young Ghanaian women to have been kidnapped in Ghana’s Western ...

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CAF CC: Cameroon’s Coton Sport file protest against Kotoko

Cameroonian side Coton Sport Garoua have launched a protest against Asante Kotoko over claims of “irregularities” of Kwame Bonsu. Cotton Sport, after their two-legged encounter in the playoff phase of the Confederation Cup against Kotoko, alleges that the player was used in an unqualified jersey. Reports in Cameroon are that the Cameroonian Football Federation together with the leadership of the club have petitioned ...

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Kidnapping: We’re on top of issues – Police

The police have allayed fears of the public in the wake of “recent violent crimes” in the country. The law enforcement agency is urging calm as it marshals “all resources” towards closing in on suspects. About six high profile deaths have been recorded in the past three months with the recent being the killing of an undercover journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale ...

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Former YEA deputy Co-ordinator arrested by BNI?

Luv News has learnt of the reported arrest of former Deputy Co-ordinator of the erstwhile National Youth Employment Agency (YEA) in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, Alhassan Tapsoba. He is said to have been picked up from his residence in Kumasi on Monday by unidentified persons and relatives say they have not heard from him since. His wife has ...

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Mining deaths: Minerals C’ssion orders shut down of Shaanxi firm

The Mineral Commission has directed Shaanxi Mining Ghana Limited to suspend all mining operations at its Gbane mining site with immediate effect. It follows the death of at least 11 small-scale miners in a blast on the concession with several others reportedly injured. The disaster  struck before the wee hours of Wednesday at Gbane, a community in the eastern area ...

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I’m not breaking away from NDC – Rawlings

Former president JJ Rawlings has on Wednesday denied reports he is breaking away from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to form a new political party. Media reports have it that the former military leader is masterminding the formation of a new party with some leading members of the Umbrella family. The founder of the largest opposition party urged the “general ...

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Takoradi kidnapper mocking Ghana in cells

The Nigerian kidnapping suspect who is being prosecuted in Takoradi is reported to be mocking the Ghanaian security agencies in his cells, a police source has told Starr News. According to the source, Sammy Willis boasts among his cell mates that he alone is holding the security forces in Ghana to ransom even after a number of kidnappings. “The guy ...

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