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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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Transport fares goes up today
Posted on | CommentMetro Mass Transit Ltd. has announced that it transport fares across the country would remain unchanged despite the 15% increment in transport fares. Transport operators on Saturday announced that effective Monday July 14, transport fares would go up by 15%. … Read more →
Food shortage to hit Ghana if… – Farmers
Posted on | CommentThe Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) have made a passionate appeal to the government to immediately release fertilizers to farmers to avert low crop yield this year and imminent food shortage in the country next year. The President of … Read more →
We’ll lock all school buildings we built – Getfund Contractors to Gov’t
Posted on | CommentThe Getfund Contractors Association is threatening to lock all school buildings they have constructed if government fails to pay outstanding arrears owed for the work done. The Association said the lack of payments to its members is impacting negatively on their families. In … Read more →
Gay men should take HIV drugs – WHO
Posted on | CommentThe World Health Organization (WHO) is urging all sexually active gay men to take antiretroviral drugs to reduce the spread of HIV. The organisation says the move may help prevent a million new HIV infections over 10 years. Officials warn … Read more →
Father attempted using his class 2 son for sakawa: the story of the son
Posted on | CommentHe told me his name in English but that was about how far he could express himself in the Queen’s language, “my name is Odei kweku Samuel” and continues the rest of the conversation in Twi. Fourteen (14) year old … Read more →
4,080 couples divorce in Accra
Posted on | CommentA total of 4,080 divorce cases were recorded in Accra alone over the last eight years. According to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), the divorced marriages were mainly customary ones and occurred between 2006 and 2013. Only the law courts … Read more →
School girl kills herself after Brazil’s 7-1 defeat to Germany
Posted on | CommentA teenager in Nepal committed suicide after her favorite team Brazil were thrashed by Germany in the World Cup, police said today. Police said the 10th grade student was depressed and hanged herself yesterday morning in Bharaul village 250 miles … Read more →
PHOTO: Girl robber grabbed in Kumasi
Posted on | CommentFOUR SUSPECTED robbers, including an 18-year-old girl, Zakiya Abdullai Asofo, a student, have been grabbed by the police in connection with a series of robberies that had been going on at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) … Read more →
PHOTO: Pastor arrested for robbing Indians
Posted on | CommentPastor Joseph Tommy, 42, has been arrested together with four others for allegedly attempting to rob some Indians of precious mineral in Accra. The other suspects include Bright Agbesi, 20-year- old driver of the victims; Samuel Bright, 23, a student; … Read more →
We support sanitary pads for girls – GNECC
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has expressed its support for the provision of sanitary pads for needy girls in deprived schools and communities as part of government’s Secondary Education Improvement Programme (SEIP). “On the inclusion of sanitary pads … Read more →
School feeding programme “suspended”; Caterers unpaid for 7 months
Posted on | CommentGovernment as part of its plans for 2014, indicated its readiness to expand the School Feeding Programme. The expansion was to cover all metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies, making it a total of 2 million pupils. The School Feeding Programme … Read more →
I don’t know why POTAG have embarked on a month-long strike – Dep. Education Minister
Posted on | CommentDeputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, says he cannot fathom why members of the Polytechnic Teachers Association (POTAG) have embarked on a month-long strike action when payment of their book and research allowances was not due. Such allowance is … Read more →
GETFund Contractors to demonstrate on Friday
Posted on | CommentMembers of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) Contractors Association are threatening a massive demonstration against government if they are not paid the arrears owed them. According to the contractors, government has failed to pay arrears owed them for over one and a half … Read more →
$597 million Bank of Ghana cash missing
Posted on | CommentMarked depletion of foreign assets reserves at the Bank of Ghana (BoG) in the election year of 2012, yesterday became a huge bone of contention at the resumed sitting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament. At the sitting … Read more →
Pharmaceutical companies to stop supplying drugs to NHIS
Posted on | CommentSpokesperson for the Ghana Chamber of Pharmacy, Ernest Owusu Aboagyen says they will cut its supply of drugs to health insurance service providers who depend on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to pay for their drugs effective August 1, 2014. … Read more →
Ban on Vodafone lifted
Posted on | CommentThe National Communications Authority (NCA) has lifted the ban imposed on Vodafone Ghana on the 6th of June, 2014, which was as a result of a nationwide outage on the network. Sanctions were imposed on Vodafone, banning them from the … Read more →
PHOTO: ‘Remote control’ contraceptive chip available by 2018
Posted on | CommentA contraceptive computer chip that can be controlled by remote control has been developed in Massachusetts. The chip is implanted under a woman’s skin, releasing a small dose of levonorgestrel, a hormone. This will happen every day for 16 years, … Read more →
Don’t allow politicians to use you to divide Ghana – Palmer- Buckle to youth
Posted on | CommentMost Rev. Charles Gabriel Palmer- Buckle, the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Accra Archdiocese of the Catholic Church, has appealed to the youth not to allow themselves to be used by politicians to cause division. “You must be careful because people … Read more →
Nyaho Clinic suspected Ebola virus patient is dead
Posted on | CommentThe American who was suspected to be carrying the Ebola virus at the Nyaho Clinic in Accra is reported dead after blood testing on him revealed signs of the disease were glaring. The said American, name withheld, died yesterday afternoon … Read more →
I sense ‘coup d’etat’ coming – Rev. Owusu Bempah
Posted on | CommentThe Founder and General Overseer of Glorious Word and Power Ministries International, Rev. Owusu Bempah, has prophesied that great “misfortune” is about to befall the country soon.Rev. Dr. Owusu Bempah also said if Christians fail to rise up and pray … Read more →
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