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COVID-19: Ghana Begins Digital Verification Of Test Results

Ghana has become the first country in West Africa to deploy a system for the digital verification of COVID-19 PCR test results based on the African Union Trusted Travel and ECOWAS BIOMARS standard. The Ministry of Health, through the Ghana Health Service, spearheaded the project which aims to ease verification …

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Meet The Deputy Finance Minister-Designate, John Ampontuah Kumah

  The President, Nana Addo Akufo-Addo on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, released the names of 39 deputy ministers in his second term. The Finance Ministry has two nominees pending vetting and approval by Parliament.  They are John Ampontuah Kumah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin South, and Madam Abena …

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Illegal mining: COCOBOD Woos Farmers With GHC3.6 Million Compensation

    COCOBOD’s deputy CEO in charge of Agronomy and Quality Control, Dr Emmanuel Agyemang Dwomoh farmers COCOBOD’s deputy CEO in charge of Agronomy and Quality Control, Dr Emmanuel Agyemang Dwomoh The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is proposing a GHC3,630,000 compensation to cocoa farmers who have lost their lands to …

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NCA To Shut Down 49 Television Stations

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has embarked on an exercise to shut down 49 television stations for operating without authorization. According to the regulator, this forms part of a continuous monitoring exercise conducted on various Satellite Free-to-Air Television platforms using the Broadcast Monitoring System (BMS) and the Radio Spectrum Monitoring …

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Ursula Owusu Reacts To Arrest Of Nana Agradaa

The Minister of Communication, Ursula Owusu, has confirmed the arrest of popular fetish priestess, Patricia Asieduwaa, popularly known as Nana Agradaa. Ursula took to her Facebook timeline to explain details of her arrest and the closure of her two TV stations at Kasoa. Nana Agradaa’s stations were closed and equipment …

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Official: Akufo-Addo Releases List Of Nominees For Deputy Ministers

  The list of 24 deputy ministers-designate and one Minister of State-designate has been submitted to the Speaker, Alban Bagbin, for vetting The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday 21 April released the list of nominees for deputy ministers. The list of 24 deputy ministers-designate and one Minister of …

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Akuapem Poloo Granted Bail

Ghanaian Actress, Rosemond Brown, popularly known as Akuapem Poloo has been granted a bail of GHC 80,000, with two sureties. This was after her council filed for an appeal of the 90-day jail term handed her for publishing an obscene photograph on social media. Prior to the appeal on the …

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Nana Agradaa Arrested over ‘Sika Gari’ After Kasoa Murder – Her Two TV Stations Have Been Shut Down

A spiritualist who has been arrested, is that one too a spiritualist? Nana Agradaa‘s gods could not save her as she’s been arrested. According to now viral reports, the police are clamping down on money rituals shown on TV after the murder of an 11-year old boy in Kasoa by …

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2 Suspects Arrested For Burning 64-year-Old Woman In North East Region

Police have arrested two suspects Laabik Mathew and Bisom Doodam, for burning a 64-year-old woman alive at Nakpanduri in the Bunkprugu district of the North East Region. Speaking in an interview with JoyNews‘ Eliasu Tanko, the outgoing North East Region Police Crime Officer, Superintendent Dugah, confirmed the arrest of the …

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