The United Arab Emirates president dies at age 73, Emirati state news agency WAM reports. United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has died, Emirati state news agency WAM reported. He was 73. The Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced that ”There will be 40 days of official mourning with flags at half...
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Parliament approves GETFund infrastructure completion plan
The Administrator of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), Dr. Richard Boadu, has said the Fund has received Parliamentary approval to bring to completion all awarded projects prior to 2017 (legacy projects) and projects post-2017 to date, over the next three years. Giving the background to this approval, Dr. Boadu stated that on March 17, 2022, the...
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PL Player of the Season nominees named; Ronaldo, Chelsea players miss out
Eight players have been nominated for the EA SPORTS Player of the Season award for 2021/22. The fans have until 18:00 BST on Monday 16 May to vote for their favourite below. The votes of the public will be combined with those of the 20 club captains and a panel of football experts to decide...
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Bawku: 5 persons nabbed over renewed disturbances, deaths remanded
The Bolgatanga Circuit court has remanded into police custody five persons suspected of murder and discharging of firearms without authority at Bawku in the Upper East Region. They were arrested in Bawku in connection with renewed ethnic disturbances that recorded four deaths. The presiding judge of the Bolga circuit court, His Honour Alexander Graham, remanded...
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Police arrest driver who run over seven kids at Ankaase
The driver who hit and killed seven children at Ankaase in the Krachi West District of the Oti Region has been arrested. The driver is now in police custody for further investigations to be carried out,” the Municipal Chief Executive for Krachi West, Emmanuel Jalula Kajal, said to Citi News. Six of the students died on...
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You can’t tax the people when you haven’t increased salaries – Jantuah tells gov’t
The government cannot continue to tax the people when salaries have not been increased, a private legal practitioner, Kwame Jantuah has said. He believes that taxing the people without increasing salaries will create fertile grounds for corruption to take place among workers. “You can’t continue taxing the people when you don’t increase salaries. What then...
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Marwako La, East Legon branches do not have food hygiene permit –FDA
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has said that the La branch of Marwako restaurant did not have food hygiene permit to operate. The FDA says even the East Legon branch which the suspected food poisoning occurred had its permit expired at the time of the suspected food poison. The Director for Legal and Corporate Affairs at...
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Don’t leave Ghana; stay and help the people – Gov’t appeals to nurses
The Government of Ghana has appealed to nurses and other health professionals not to leave Ghana to other countries to seek greener pastures. Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare has told the nurses that Ghanaians are looking up to them to meet their health needs in the country hence they should stay. His comments...
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Nigerian student killed following alleged blasphemy
Violence has broken out at a tertiary college in the northern Nigerian city of Sokoto after a female Christian student allegedly made blasphemous comments against Islam. The region is predominantly Muslim. Muslim students at the Shehu Shagari College of Education reportedly killed the woman and set her body alight. They then went on the rampage...
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High court orders NPP to set aside album used for Sunyani East constituency elections
The High Court in Sunyani, presided over by Douglas Seidu, has ordered the New Patriotic Party in the Sunyani East Constituency to set aside a purported album used for the party’s recent constituency elections. This directive was given following a suit filed by four members of the NPP who appealed to the court to set...