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BPS Report: Use Of Firearms For Violent Crimes Up By 4%

The Bureau of Public Safety (BPS) has appealed to the Minister in charge of the Interior and other law enforcement agencies to come up with policies that will reduce the increasing number of violent crimes executed with firearms. The Bureau Public Safety explained that the execution of violent crimes with …

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Ofori-Atta To Speaker: The State Of The Economy Is A Painful One For Me To Report To You

The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has admitted that the state of the Ghanaian economy is not in the best shape.   Presenting the mid year budget review in Parliament on Monday July 25, he recounted the challenges Ghanaians are going through due to the impact of the warfare between Russia …

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All New Roads To Be Tolled – Finance Minister

The Finance Minister Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta has served notice that new roads to be constructed by government in partnership with investors will be tolled. He said the roads, most of which will be by public-private partnership (PPP), will have users paying while travelling on them in order to recover …

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Gov’t Has Instructed CAGD To Release ¢50m To WAEC

Vice Chairman of the Education Committee of Parliament, Dr Prince Hamid Armah has revealed that the government has instructed the Controller and Accountant General Department to make available an amount of ¢50M for the conduct of the West Africa Examinations Council Examinations (WASSCE). According to the Member of Parliament (MP) …

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Greater Accra Has More Than 50% Of Monkeypox cCses

The total confirmed cases of the monkeypox outbreak in Ghana is now 34 with the cases recorded in six regions. More than 50 percent of cases are in the Greater Accra Region. The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said Greater Accra, Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Eastern, and Upper West are …

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Mahama Narrates Events Before Prof. Atta-Mills’ Death

Ghana’s former president John Dramani Mahama has described late President John Evans Atta-Mills as an “honourable and dignified statesman whose love for his country and his people was without question.”   For him, Prof. Atta-Mills was a “phenomenon best felt than described,” he posted on Facebook on Sunday, July 24, …

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GWCL Announces Amnesty For Defaulting Customers

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has announced an amnesty for its defaulting customers. The Head of Communications of the water company, Stanley Martey made the announcement in a statement.   He said management will in the month of August 2022, grant the following amnesty to all defaulting customers.   …

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AfCFTA Programme To Be Added To Tertiary Education Curriculum

The AfCFTA Policy Network (APN) is developing a programme to be included in the curriculum of tertiary schools starting from the University of Ghana (UG). The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has one of its core mandates being the elimination of trade barriers, while boosting intra-African trade. The APN …

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Is Dome-Kwabenya MP, Adwoa Safo Returning To Ghana? – Ghanaians Ask As New Photos Pop Up

A recent Facebook post by the Dome-Kwabenya Member of Parliament (MP), Sarah Adwoa Safo, has left many asking questions over whether or not she is returning to the country. Despite fierce public backlash against her absence from Parliament, the lawmaker shared photos of herself on a private jet looking very …

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