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PURC To Adjust Tariffs Again On January 1

December 22, 2022

Just less than four months after increasing tariffs for utility companies, the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC) is set to make a quarterly tariff adjustment announcement again, expected to happen this week. The review measure, The Anchor understands, will take effect on the New Year Day, January 1, 2023. The adjustment, according to the PURC, […]Continue Reading

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NDC’s Sammy Gyamfi Out Of Bachelors’ Market…Efia Odo, Others Left Broken-hearted

December 22, 2022

Mr. Sammy Gyamfi, the communications officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has officially joined what some call the ‘Table of men’ association, after he got married to his longtime girlfriend yesterday, December 21. The outspoken lawyer-politician tied the knot with Irene Amankwaa Karikari, in a traditional wedding at a ‘strictly-by-invitation’ ceremony at Continue Reading

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Okobeng Mines CEO Opened Gunfire

December 21, 2022

A 34-year-old man and father of three is currently battling for his life, with life-threatening wounds, following an alleged gun attack on him by a popular small-scale miner based in the Western Region, for allegedly trespassing on his mining concession. The victim, Rockson Asuo, said he was shot personally, together with one Dziwornu Agbado, by […]Continue Reading

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Western North Minister In Big Trouble

December 21, 2022

Some chiefs and community leaders from the Aowin Municipality in the Western North Region are demanding the immediate removal of the Western North Regional Minister, Richard Ebbah Obeng, over alleged assassination attempts on the life of the Aowin Paramount Chief, Beyeeman Tano KwawBenbuin III. The angry chiefs, in a petition signed by about 16 sub-chiefs […]Continue Reading

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Minister Courts Support of Queen Mothers To Fight Galamsey

December 21, 2022

Mr. Samuel A. Jinapor, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has appealed to queen-mothers of the Asanteman Traditional Council to assist government in the fight against illegal mining in their various traditional areas. According to him, the fight against the menace, popularly called “galamsey,” is a collective one and, therefore, cannot be won without […]Continue Reading

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Bright SHS Wins Another ‘Best Private School’ Award

December 21, 2022

The Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Abuakwa North Municipal Assembly have honoured Bright Senior High School (SHS), located at Akyem Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region, as “Best Private School” in the municipality. The award comes months after the West Africa International Press Limited adjudged the school as Best Private School in Ghana,2021 at the […]Continue Reading

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Public Sector Workers To Strike On Dec 27

December 20, 2022

Organized Labour has set in motion the next phase of its call to government to stay off its pension funds, in the wake of the debt restructuring programme announced barely two weeks ago by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. The workers have threatened a total shutdown from Tuesday, 27th December, if government does not rescind its […]Continue Reading

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Okobeng Mines Invades Ankobra Riverbanks

December 20, 2022

Some troubling videos and images available to The Anchor reveal a heavily-polluted Ankobra River, around the Nzema East Municipality enclave in the Western Region, as a result of extraction activities by a small-scale mining firm, Okobeng Mining Company Limited, at the bank of the river. The allegedactivities by the mining firm, whose concession is located […]Continue Reading

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Discovery Bay Int’l Celebrates 5 Years of Success

December 20, 2022

Discovery Bay International School (DBIS), a private educational facility providing quality education at Ziopein Agotime-Ziope District in the Volta Region, has celebrated five years of great milestones. The school, since its existence, according to the co-founder and principal, has worked hard to ensure services it offers to students meet the best standard in Ghana and Continue Reading

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NDC, NPP Finally ‘Expel’ Political Love-Birds

December 20, 2022

It appears the beautiful marriage between Chief Hamilton Nixon Biney of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party’s Afia Akoto has greatly cost the political fortunes of the couple. The duo became officially out of a job after Ms Akoto was dropped as an appointee of President Nana Akufo-Addo last year […]Continue Reading