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There is seething anger among some dissatisfied personnel of the Ghana Police Service over seeming refusal to grant them their promotions, after acquiring higher academic qualifications. According to the aggrieved officers, this is after they had applied for the 2017/2018 Academic Year Study Leave with Pay programme for tertiary courses ranging between two and four […]Continue Reading
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According to a BBC report, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake has struck southern Turkey, barely weeks after a deadly a quake devastated the region, claiming over 40, 000 lives in Turkey and Syria. The previous tragedy is now widely known to have also claimed Ghana’s soccer star, Christian Atsu, who was plying his career in Turkey […]Continue Reading
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Pressure has begun to pile on Parliament to pass into law the Non-Custodial Sentencing Bill, which has languished in the august House for years, to honour the memory of the Ghanaian soccer star, Christian Atsu Twasam. Non-Custodial Sentence or Alternative Sentence refers to a punishment given by a court of law that does not involve […]Continue Reading
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The Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) of Ghana has announced that the fund has started negotiations on plans to invest up to $30million in Atlantic Lithium Ltd, an Australian exploration and mining firm, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). Atlantic Lithium has discovered lithium in commercial quantities in Ghana and is on track to […]Continue Reading
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Some 600 local residents at Wenchike in Chereponi, North East Region, have been displaced by the communal skirmishes in the area that led to the death of four people. The police in Chereponi have arrested 10 people in connection with the clash. Some 25 houses were torched in last week’s deadly conflict. Schools have remained […]Continue Reading
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The government, through the recently established National Alternative Employment and Livelihood Programme (NAELP), has reclaimed more than 1,000 hectares of land devastated through the activities of illegal miners in the Western North Region. The reclamation exercise, under the auspices of NAELP, is being carried out by Dredge Masters, a subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Continue Reading
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A project consultancy firm seeing to the construction of some proposed school projects in the Builsa South District Assembly of the Upper East Region has rejected a unilateral directive to have the projects relocated to a different place. According to FASOTA Limited, it is unable to grant the request of the assembly because it has […]Continue Reading
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A seven-member committee has been constituted by the assembly members of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to probe into a litany of allegations against the chief executive, Madam Elizabeth Kwaatso Sackey, following a notice of resolution to pass a vote-of-no-confidence on the city mayor. The aggrieved assemblymembers allege thatthe AMA,which could not afford to pay Continue Reading