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Benin’s Wadagni wins presidency in landslide with over 94% of votes
Posted on with No CommentBenin’s Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni secured a landslide victory in the West African nation’s April 12 presidential election, garnering over 94% of ?the votes, provisional results from the electoral commission showed on Monday. Sacca Lafia, head ?of the country’s ?independent … Read more →
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Ghana needs $2 million to prevent HIV spread
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has appealed to the public to help it to raise $2 million to procure more test kits and anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) to sustain activities towards preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. Currently, the commission says it … Read more →
PHOTO: 4 before court for stealing GH¢823,120 from public funds
Posted on | CommentFour persons accused of stealing GH¢823,120 belonging to the state were last Tuesday arraigned before the Accra Circuit Court. The money, believed to be pension benefits, were paid into the accounts of some beneficiaries whose relations had purportedly passed on. … Read more →
US cameraman diagnosed with Ebola
Posted on | CommentA cameraman working in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola and is to be flown home to the US for treatment. The 33-year-old freelancer has been working in the country for three years for a number of media outlets, most … Read more →
Eastern Region: 12 dead in VIP bus accident
Posted on | Comment12 people have died in a gory accident which occurred at Ankaase, near Osino in the Eastern Region in the early hours of Friday. The accident occurred when two VIP passenger buses collided head on around 1: 30 am. One … Read more →
New video shows Boko Haram leader is not dead
Posted on | CommentA video has been released showing the purported leader of Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram dismissing the military’s allegations that he is dead. In the video, Abubakar Shekau says his fighters shot down an air force jet that went missing … Read more →
I saw the Synagogue tragedy in a vision – T. B. Joshua
Posted on | CommentThe founder of the Synagogue Church of all Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, has claimed that he saw a vision of the incident that killed at least 115 persons in the guesthouse belonging to his church. The victims, mainly South Africans, died … Read more →
PHOTO: Couple jailed 30 days for molesting 2 kids
Posted on | CommentThe Kumasi Circuit Court last Tuesday committed a couple to a prison term of 30 days each for molesting their two children aged six and four. The couple, a 35-year-old trader, Akua Birago, and her 36-year-old driver husband, James Adams, … Read more →
PHOTO: 33 Suspected criminals arrested in police swoop
Posted on | CommentThirty-three people, including eight women, who the police suspect to be engaged in various criminal activities, were yesterday arrested in a swoop at Madina. The suspects, aged between 15 and 50, included gamblers, car snatchers, drug peddlers, phone snatchers and … Read more →
GH¢7.9m paid to ghost National Service personnel in July 2014
Posted on | CommentOfficials of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) have uncovered a GH¢7.9 million deep-rooted rot at the National Service Secretariat (NSS). The amount represents the allowance paid to 22,612 non-existent service persons in more than 100 districts across the country … Read more →
First Ebola case diagnosed in USA
Posted on | CommentThe first case of the deadly Ebola virus diagnosed on US soil has been confirmed in Dallas, Texas. Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital say the unidentified patient is being kept in isolation. The man is thought to have contracted … Read more →
2 contractors receive GH¢500m to complete Eastern Corridor roads
Posted on | CommentThe Government has released over GH¢500 million to two of the contractors working on the Eastern Corridor roads to enable them expedite work on the project. The contractors, Messrs G.S. International Developer GH Ltd and the China Jiangxi International Corp … Read more →
24-year-old man electrocuted at Pobiman
Posted on | CommentA 24-year-old man has been electrocuted by a high tension wire at Pobiman, near Amasaman in the Ga West District. The police identified the deceased as Ernest Oheme, an employee of Judefred Signs, an advertising company. He was mounting a … Read more →
PHOTO: I wear $10 wristwatch – Bill Gates
Posted on | CommentThe richest man in America, who leads one of the world’s biggest and most influential philanthropies, keeps time with a 10-dollar wristwatch. And this summer, for his wife’s 50th birthday, Bill Gates and family headed to Austria for a “Sound … Read more →
Captain Planet’s wife heads Tigo operations in the DRC
Posted on | CommentThe former Chief Marketing Officer of Vodafone, Uche Ofodile is now heading to Tigo to head the mobile network’s operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Joy Business gathers that she will assume office on October 1 as the General … Read more →
JobWebGhana ends unemployment situation in Ghana
Posted on | CommentThousands of graduates who come out of universities and other tertiary institutions every year are unable to find job placements either in the public or private sectors. This increasing number of young and youthful graduates without jobs poses a serious … Read more →
PHOTO: Another Nigerian church building collapses
Posted on | CommentThis seems to be the era of collapsing of church buildings as barely three weeks, Nigeria has recorded three incidents. Shortly after TB Joshua’s church building collapsed, another building belonging to Christ Chosen Church of God collapsed in Edo state … Read more →
Beware: Criminals now posing as ECG officials and shoe makers
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Police Service has warned the public to be wary of a fresh modus operandi of criminals, who pose as staff of ECG and shoe makers. The police says it has observed a trend where people who are in … Read more →
Social media is affecting students – Dep. Education Minister
Posted on | CommentGhana’s Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwah has stated that the advent of social media is negatively affecting the writing and speaking of English language among students in the country, especially those in the Senior … Read more →
19-year-old impregnates mum to to test love charm
Posted on | CommentResidents of Asaba, Delta State are yet to recover from the shock of how a 19-year-old Godwin (not real name) allegedly impregnated his mother while testing his love charm. According to report, the boy, famously known as Ekenem, was said … Read more →
National Service Secretariat to account for over GH? 1.3m
Posted on | CommentThe Auditor General’s 2012 report has cited authorities at the Ghana National Service Secretariat of several acts of misappropriation including the payment of over Gh?1.3 million without proper documentation. The authorities have therefore been asked to produce documents to cover … Read more →
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