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22-02-2012

Gang rape at Benkum SHS: five arrested

Gang rape at Benkum SHS: five arrested

Akropong, Feb. 22, 2012 The Akropong Divisional Police Command have arrested five persons in connection with the gang rape of a student of Benkum Senior High School in the Eastern Region. The five suspects have been charged with conspirac...

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22-02-2012

Gov't to complete gas transmission plant early this year

Gov't to complete gas transmission plant early this year

Accra, Feb. 22, 2012 Vice President John Dramani Mahama has announced that government would by the end of the first quarter complete a plant to transmit gas from offshore to onshore to facilitate industrial and other activities. He said t...

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22-02-2012

Imported poultry products likely to cause heart-related diseases -Chief Dieticia…

Imported poultry products likely to cause heart-related diseases -Chief Dietician

Accra, Feb. 22, 2012 A Chief Dietician at the Ministry of Health, Mrs Margaret Hanson has cautioned Ghanaians against the increasing consumption of foreign frozen poultry products. She said such products which had been frozen for long per...

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22-02-2012

Up to 7.5 million Ghanaians at risk of losing phone numbers

Up to 7.5 million Ghanaians at risk of losing phone numbers

Accra, Feb. 22, 2012 Millions of Ghanaians are at risk of losing their phone numbers come March 3, 2012, as statistics recently released by the National Communications Authority (NCA) indicate that 5,580,875 various identity cards presente...

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22-02-2012

Woyome saga: Osafo-Maafo walks freely

Woyome saga: Osafo-Maafo walks freely

Accra, Feb. 22, 2012 The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service yesterday invited former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, for interrogations on his alleged role in the GHC51.2 mil...

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22-02-2012

AMA to arrest road offenders on N1 Highway

AMA to arrest road offenders on N1 Highway

Accra, Feb. 22, 2012 The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has issued a warning to deal ruthlessly with drivers stop at undesignated spots to pick and drop off passengers on the Mallam-Tetteh Quarshie highway. So far, five people have rep...

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21-02-2012

Articulated truck runs over pedestrians

Articulated truck runs over pedestrians

Santasi, Feb. 21, 2012 An articulated truck this morning run over some pedestrians at Santasi in Kumasi, killing a ten-year-old school girl on the spot and injuring twelve others. Five of the injured are in critical condition at the Komfo...

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21-02-2012

DOVVSU investigates alleged child abuse

DOVVSU investigates alleged child abuse

Accra, Feb. 21, 2012 Investigations are underway to substantiate facts against a woman who is alleged to have for several months tortured a six-year old girl under her care. According to officials of the Domestic Violence and Victims Supp...

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22-02-2012

Two journalists killed in Syria

Two journalists killed in Syria

Homs, Feb. 22, 2012 The French government says that two Western journalists, including Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times, have been killed in an attack in the Syrian city of Homs.  The second was named as French photojournalist Remi O...

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22-02-2012

Scores killed in fresh Libya clashes

Scores killed in fresh Libya clashes

Al Kufra, Libya. Feb 21, 2012. Scores have been killed and injured in clashes between two rival ethnic groups in Libya's remote south-eastern area, according to local reports. Rockets, mortars and gunfire have rocked residential areas in ...

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21-02-2012

Zimbabwean President turns 88, vows to cling to power

Zimbabwean President turns 88, vows to cling to power

Harare, Feb. 21, 2012 Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe turned 88 on Tuesday, vowing to stay in power despite grumbling inside his party that he should hand over to a younger leader, and international condemnation of his economic and huma...

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20-02-2012

Bus plunges into ravine killing 26

Bus plunges into ravine killing 26

Ecuador, Feb. 20, 2012 A bus has plunged into a ravine killing twenty-four adults and two children in northern Ecuador. The bus was travelling between Ibarra and San Lorenzo, 120 kilometers of capital Quito, when the driver lost control p...

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20-02-2012

Agric to receive massive boost - President Mills

Agric to receive massive boost - President Mills

Accra, Feb. 20, 2012 The agriculture sector is expected to receive more boosts this year with the implementation of various measures being taken by government. One of such is the commencement of the first phase of the Accra Plains Irrigat...

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20-02-2012

OLAM Ghana to launch ultra-modern wheat milling facility in Tema

OLAM Ghana to launch ultra-modern wheat milling facility in Tema

Accra, February 19, 2012: Olam Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of Olam International Limited and one of the leading agro business companies in the country, is to set to launch a fully functional state-of-the-art Wheat Mill facility. The launch...

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20-02-2012

Housing and real estate development awards launched

Housing and real estate development awards launched

Accra, Feb. 20, 2012 An award aimed at paying recognition to industry players in housing and real estate development has been launched in Accra. The African Real Estate and Housing Finance Academy Awards (AREHFA) is also to highlight the ...

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20-02-2012

Transport fares remain unchanged

Transport fares remain unchanged

Accra, Feb. 20, 2012 The recent reduction in fuel prices meant to cushion the financial burden on Ghanaians may not be realised after all. This is because fuel prices at the pumps have been reduced by up to 40 pesewas. The marginal reduct...

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Education

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21-02-2012

MP for Subin donates biogas plant to AMASS

MP for Subin donates biogas plant to AMASS

Subin, Feb. 21, 2012 Member of Parliament for Subin in the Ashanti Region, Isaac Osei has donated a biogas plant to the T. I. Ahmadiya Senior High School (AMASS). The biogas plant is expected to be used by the school’s pantry in the occas...

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17-02-2012

SHS education to be accessible to all by 2016 - Pres Mills

SHS education to be accessible to all by 2016 - Pres Mills

Accra, Feb. 17, 2012 Government says it will by 2016 make secondary school education accessible to every Ghanaian child of school going age. In his state of the nation’s address to parliament yesterday, President John Evans Atta Mills sai...

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17-02-2012

Government on course to eradicating schools under trees

Government on course to eradicating schools under trees

Accra, Feb. 17, 2012 President John Evans Atta Mills yesterday, in his state of the nation address to Parliament said government is on course to eradicating the schools under trees phenomenon. According to him, contracts for the construct...

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14-02-2012

Obrakyere SHS closed down

Obrakyere SHS closed down

Kasoa, Feb. 14, 2012 The Obrakyere Senior High School in Kasoa has been closed down temporarily following a series of demonstrations by students demanding the removal of the headmistress, Rev. Mrs. Helena Araba Grahl. The angry students ...

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Politics

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20-02-2012

NPP supporters threaten to go naked

NPP supporters threaten to go naked

Nsawam, Feb. 20, 2012 Supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Nsawam-Aburi constituency have threatened to hit the streets naked in a massive demonstration against the government if O.B Amoah is not released from Police custody....

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20-02-2012

Ghanaians yearn for Akuffo-Addo - Kufuor

Ghanaians yearn for Akuffo-Addo - Kufuor

Accra, Feb. 20, 2012 Former President John Agyekum Kufuor says Ghanaians are looking forward to a quality leader like Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), to salvage the country from its current crisis....

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17-02-2012

The state of the nation is precarious - PPP

The state of the nation is precarious - PPP

Accra, Feb. 17, 2012 The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has described President John Evans Atta Mills’ fourth State of the Nation Address to parliament as precarious. According to them, the President’s perception of the state does not r...

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17-02-2012

Minority mourn for Ghana at State of the Nation Address

Minority mourn for Ghana at State of the Nation Address

Accra, Feb. 17, 2012 Minority members in parliament yesterday were clad in black and red attire when President John Evans Atta Mills’ presented his fourth State of the Nation Address to Parliament. This was in direct reverse of the usual ...

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Health

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22-02-2012

Buruli Ulcer surfaces in Eastern Region

Buruli Ulcer surfaces in Eastern Region

Koforidua, Feb. 22, 23 Buruli Ulcer, a devastating bacterial infection on humans, has surfaced in some parts of the Eastern Region, especially communities within the catchment area of the Densu River. One hundred and forty nine cases were...

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21-02-2012

AMA to Korle-Bu's rescue

AMA to Korle-Bu's rescue

Accra, Feb. 21, 2012 The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) is due to dislodge tons of medical waste at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. This follows a breakdown of the hospital’s waste treatment plant which has been used by the hospital fo...

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20-02-2012

Pres Mills calls for consensus to sustain NHIS

Pres Mills calls for consensus to sustain NHIS

Accra, Feb. 20, 2012 President John Evans Atta Mills has called for an urgent dialogue and consensus on financing of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to ensure its sustainability. According to the President, the NHIS continues ...

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15-02-2012

Vodafone celebrates Valentine's Day with an act of kindness to patients

Vodafone celebrates Valentine's Day with an act of kindness to patients

Accra, Feb. 14, 2012 Vodafone Ghana today paid the outstanding medical bills of over two hundred and thirty insolvent patients in hospitals around the country, allowing hospitals to release them to go home to spend Valentine’s Day with ...

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09-02-2012

Sack Plavi if he can’t stay in the country- Jonathan Abbey Pobee

Sack Plavi if he can’t stay in the country- Jonathan Abbey Pobee

Accra, Feb. 9, 2012 By Benjamin Agyei Boateng Chairman of Kumasi based Neoplan Stars, Jonathan Abbey Pobee, says Black Stars coach, Goran Stevanovic, should step aside for another manager to take up his job if he can’t stay in the country...

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02-02-2012

Cleaning Accra's mess

Cleaning Accra's mess

Ghana’s sprawling capital city Accra is heading for lockdown with increasing numbers of urban migration and stalled mass development projects. Accra is being chocked by people, garbage, and environmental waste. In short, Accra is fast ...

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20-01-2012

Kuffour, the boy from Kumasi, denies he is arrogant

Kuffour, the boy from Kumasi, denies he is arrogant

“I’m not arrogant and everybody who knows me, the players who know me, know the type of person I am,” Ghanaian football legend Sammy Osei Kuffour said in an answer to a question on his personality on e.tv Ghana’s Revealed programme. Having...

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16-01-2012

The changing face of Ghanaian culture

The changing face of Ghanaian culture

The dynamics of Ghanaian Culture have, over the years, transformed from traditional societal beliefs and customs into a varied infusion of worldviews and styles thus opening up an atmosphere for the proliferation of ideas, newness and avant...

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