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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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The business of selling off old churches
Posted on | CommentEvery year, about 7,000 churches in the United States close their doors, the Christian ministers’ organization Pastoral Care estimates. In some cases, members’ numbers have declined, and those who remain cannot support the considerable cost of maintaining the buildings. Many … Read more →
Full Speech: J.J. Rawlings at University of Education, Winneba
Posted on | CommentHis Excellency, the President of the Republic of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama;His Excellency General Abdulsalami Abubakar;Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah,The Honourable Minister for Education;The Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba;Chairman and Members of the Council of the University of Education, Winneba;Neenyi … Read more →
Chinese businessman shot in Tema
Posted on | CommentA Chinese businessman has been killed by unknown assailants at his construction site at Community 9, opposite the Tema General Hospital. The deceased who was only identified as ma, a resident of Community 8, Tema, was said have been shot in an uncompleted building behind Imperial Perking. The assailant reportedly arrived at … Read more →
Teachers angry: Electronic salary payment system won’t work
Posted on | CommentSome public school teachers are vehemently opposing the Ministry of Finance’s yet to be introduced Electronic Salary Payment Voucher system. The teachers calling themselves Innovative Teachers, say the new system will be counter-productive and can be abused easily. The system … Read more →
Gold dealer reveals: I had sex with 183 women for rituals
Posted on | CommentEmotions ran high last Friday at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region following the startling confession of a 28- year old gold dealer of how he had sex with more than 183 women and used their vaginal fluids for money rituals. Kwame … Read more →
Ghana needs a new leadership response to crisis – Dr Mensa Otabil
Posted on | CommentHead Pastor of the International Central Gospel Church Dr Mensa Otabil has called for a new leadership response to crisis situation in Ghana. In a short but thought provoking message at the festival of ideas 2014, Dr Otabil said there … Read more →
Rev. Owusu Bempah shares why his wife divorced him
Posted on | CommentGeneral Overseer of Glorious Word Power Ministry International, Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah has broken his silence over what led to his divorce with his former wife. Speaking on Hitz FM’s ‘The Profiler’ show hosted by Mark Okraku Mantey, Rev. Owusu … Read more →
Ebola in Ghana? 2 Liberians show signs of it at Kasoa
Posted on | CommentIt is yet to be confirmed whether the deadly Ebola Viral Disease has found its way into Ghana but reports reaching Peace FMindicates that two persons, currently admitted at the Kasoa Poly Clinic, have shown signs of it. The two, according … Read more →
National Service Personnel to undergo compulsory military training
Posted on | CommentDeputy Minister for Education in charge of Tertiary, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has disclosed that the National Service Law (Act 426, 1980) is being reviewed to ensure that service personnel undergo compulsory military training. According to the Minister, a committee had … Read more →
Korle Bu facing imminent shutdown
Posted on | 1 CommentThe Korle Bu Teaching Hospital may have to close its doors to patients due to a financial crisis which the Senior Staff Association of the Hospital say looms. The association has petitioned the Health Minister to intervene to prevent a … Read more →
Man, 66, defiles girl, 12
Posted on | CommentThe Kumasi Gender-based court, presided over by Mrs. Rita Agyeman-Budu, has sentenced a 66-year-old security man to 15 years’ imprisonment in hard labour for defiling a 12-year-old girl at Asonomaso, near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Antwi Gyeabour pleaded guilty … Read more →
PHOTOS: 5 Togolese arrested for electoral fraud
Posted on | CommentThe vigilance of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at the registration centres in the Ahanta West constituency of the Western Region, has led to the arrest of some Togolese, who managed to register in the on-going limited registration exercise by … Read more →
PHOTO: Man Kills mother for using witchcraft to stall his progress
Posted on | CommentA 29-year-old man, Ekene Ucheagwu, who killed his 65-year-old mother, Agnes in her home at Ogbunka in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria was yesterday paraded by men of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Awkuzu. Ekene, … Read more →
Details: Ghana Immigration Service deports 1,065
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Immigration Service descended heavily on foreigners who broke immigration laws in 2013. The Service repatriated 1,065 foreigners who broke immigration laws of Ghana to their respective home countries after exhaustive investigations. This figure shows a significant increase of … Read more →
Kenyan men in hiding fearing circumcision
Posted on | CommentKenyan men from several ethnic groups in the western town of Moi’s Bridge have gone into hiding fearing they will be forcibly circumcised. This follows the forced circumcision of at least eight men in the small agricultural town by groups … Read more →
Canada to give WHO Ebola vaccine
Posted on | CommentCanada says it will donate up to 1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine to help battle the disease’s outbreak in West Africa. It comes after the World Health Organization said it was ethical to use untested drugs on Ebola … Read more →
Tertiary institutions to delay re-opening for 2 weeks
Posted on | CommentThe Ministry of Education has directed all tertiary institutions in the country to postpone the 2014/2015 academic year by at least two weeks as part of measures to prevent an outbreak of the Ebola virus in Ghana. The directive also … Read more →
Spain Priest dies of Ebola
Posted on | CommentSpanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, the first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa, has died in hospital in Madrid, a spokeswoman for the city’s health authorities said on Tuesday. … Read more →
33 trafficked children intercepted
Posted on | CommentThe Police Anti- Human Trafficking Unit in collaboration with Challenging Heights, a non-governmental organization (NGO), has intercepted 33 children being trafficked to Yeji at Bunso Junction. Briefing the press at Koforidua, the Eastern Regional Public Relations Officer of the Police Service, … Read more →
PHOTO: 16-year-old St. Johns SHS Student hangs himself
Posted on | CommentThe entire Township of Daboase, the District capital of the Wassa East in the Western Region of Ghana was virtually thrown into a state of bewilderment and amazement last Sunday when news broke out that a 16 year old boy … Read more →
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