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Airtel Africa raises $1.25 bln from SoftBank, five other investors Source: Reuters

Airtel Africa Ltd, a subsidiary of India’s Bharti Airtel Ltd, said on Wednesday it raised $1.25 billion from six global investors including SoftBank Group Corp, Warburg Pincus LLC and Temasek Holdings (Private) Ltd. It also said it was looking to go public on an international stock exchange. The fundraising, through a primary equity issuance, now values the company at $4.4 ...

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Felix Kwakye-Ofosu under fire for calling Bawumia ‘narrow-minded’

A former deputy communications minister under the erstwhile Mahama government, Felix Kwakye-Ofosu, has incurred the wrath of some Ghanaians on social media for what they call an insult to Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia. Bawumia had earlier stated that despite its many boasts, the NDC did not introduce any social intervention programme in its eight-year rule. According to Bawumia, both the late ...

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Ghana Maritime Authority boss blows over GHC135,000 on food bought from his own hotel

Ghanaians on social media are exploding with anger over the brazen impunity and allegations of corruption that is bathing appointees of President Akufo-Addo one after the other as news has emerged that the Director-General of the Ghana Maritime Authority, Mr. Kwame Owusu blew GHC135,125 (the old Ghana cedis equivalent of GHC1,351,250,000) one night on food and GHC10,652 on another occasion ...

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IGP escapes sentence in contempt case

Inspector General of Police David Asante Appeatu has escaped a possible jail time or imposition of a fine, as the Attorney-General has appealed a court decision that found him guilty of contempt. Deputy Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, on Thursday succeeded in preventing an Accra High Court from sentencing the IGP. He has filed three applications all geared at ensuring that ...

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Man Utd masterplan: Sanchez for Lukaku and Pogba as captain… how Mourinho can save job

MANCHESTER UNITED boss Jose Mourinho needs a masterplan if he is to remain at Old Trafford for the long-term. Express Sport looks at five ways the Red Devils boss can turn things around. Manchester United manager Mourinho is safe, for now. Express Sport understands the 55-year-old has the backing of Ed Woodward, despite reports linking the club with Zinedine Zidane ...

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Oti region long overdue – Obed Asamoah

With barely two months to the referenda for the creation of six additional regions, one of Ghana’s veteran politician and legal luminary, Dr. Obed Asamoah has said the carving out of the Oti region from the Volta region is “long overdue.” The Agbogbomefia of Asogli State and President of the National House of Chiefs, Togbe Afede XIV accused the Commission ...

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Gov’t behind Charlotte Osei’s removal – Nyaho Tamakloe

Dr Nyaho Nyaho Tamakloe has said the Akufo-Addo led government was deeply involved in the plot that led to the removal of Charlotte Osei as the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission. Mrs Osei and two of her deputies—Amadu Sulley and Georgina Opoku Amankwah were sacked by President Akufo-Addo June this year. Their dismissal was after the Committee set up by ...

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UE/R: Cleaner killed, three choked in Shaanxi mining pit accident

An underground cleaner has died after a machine smashed his chest inside a mining pit in the latest tragedy to have befallen the Shaanxi Mining Company Limited in Talensi, a district in the Upper East region. The Upper East Regional Hospital’s Medical Superintendent, Dr Patrick Atobrah, told Starr News Baarn Loligbil-Tii died on arrival last Friday with his ribcage, lungs ...

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Video: Wizkid and Tiwa Savage confirm relationship in new video?

Nigerian music stars, Wizkid and Tiwa Savage, for some months now, have been at the centre of an alleged relationship. Although they had been seen together in public on several occasions, they have insisted that the kind of bond that existed between them was strictly platonic, several others think otherwise. Tiwa’s estranged husband, Teebillz, wading into the controversy said Wizkid, ...

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