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NDC polls: Dumelo, Suhuyini, Sam George, Kwakye Ofosu win, Ras Mubarak defeated

Popular actor John Dumelo has won the Ayawaso West Wuogon parliamentary primaries of the opposition National Democratic Congress. According to provisional results, the actor-cum-businessman won the ticket with 758 votes while his competitor Suzy Efua Adoboe polled 99 votes. In Ningo Prampram, Sam George has retained the ticket with 407 votes as against his contender’s 400 votes. In the Tamale ...

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Bompeh SHS Benefits From GNPC Foundation

Dominic Eduah (left) and other dignitaries cutting the tape to commission the facility INSET: The sanitary facility. Executive Director of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Foundation, Dominic Eduah, has given an assurance that the oil revenues will be distributed equitably across the country. According to him, the decision would not only help to accelerate development in communities where oil ...

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NCA vows to rid country of sub-standard telecommunication equipment

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has reiterated its resolve to ensure a safe and standardised electronic communications industry so as to protect consumers. At a consultation workshop on its “Type Approval Draft Regulation” in Accra yesterday, Acting Director General of the NCA, Mr Joe Anokye, hinted of plans by the Authority to “undertake market surveillance to ensure compliance such that ...

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High rent nailed Kofi Amoah’s Global Access

The high rent expense paid by Global Access Savings and Loans Company Limited to its majority shareholder, Dr. Kofi Amoah was one of the main factors that collapsed the company. The Bank of Ghana (BoG) dossier on the 23 savings and loans companies, whose licences have been revoked, said: “Global Access assumed the liability of a loan contracted by the ...

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Junior Agogo is dead

Ex-Ghana striker and 2008 Africa Cup of Nations poster boy Junior Agogo is reported dead at age 40, GHANASoccernet.com can exclusively report. The leading football website can confirm that the former Zamalek player passed in London on Thursday morning. Agogo was hospitalized in 2015 after suffering stroke which debilitated him. He was remembered for his eye-catching performances for the Black ...

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Elmina plans demo to save Nduom’s GN Savings & Loans

Residents of Elmina are up in arms against the government for revoking the license of GN Savings and Loans. They claim President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is scheming to render the Chairman and President of Groupe Nduom, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, poor. The residents say they consider Dr Nduom their father, son, helper, caretaker of the jobless and father of ...

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Akufo-Addo appoints second female Brigadier General of the Ghana Armed Forces

For the second time, the Ghana Armed Forces has had a female Brigadier General in the person of Felicia Twum-Barima. Having served in the army for 29-years, Brigadier General Felicia Twum-Barima was promoted by President Akufo-Addo on recommendations of the Armed Forces Council. Brigadier General Felicia Twum-Barima has had a successful career in the Ghana Armed Forces. She occupied 22 ...

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NDC polls : Ben Ephson’s forecast on Sam George, Dumelo, others

Pollster Ben Ephson says he will be surprised if Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament Sam George retains the ticket of the party in the upcoming primaries. According to him, the old feud between the MP and his predecessor ET Mensah will still influence the outcome of the Saturday polls. “For Ningo-Prampram if he wins, I’ll congratulate him because he’s struggling ...

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Police retrieve phone of Otumfuo’s Asamponhene

The mobile phone of the late Asamponhene of Otumfuo Osei Tutu, Oheneba Kwadwo Afodour, which was retrieved from his vehicle at the crime scene is giving the Ashanti Regional police a clue which will help them close in on the perpetrators of the heinous crime. The police began investigations into the murder case last Monday, and so far, three arrests ...

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