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Stop the ‘toxic politics’; we can be civil and still disagree – Atik Mohammed to Politicians

Atik Mohammed

People’s National Convention (PNC) Stalwart, Atik Mohammed has advised politicians in the country to be decorous in their utterances and the way they play the political game. According to Atik Mohammed, “the kind of politics that is practiced in this country is very toxic” and it has to change. He was commenting on claims made by the opposition National Democratic ...

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Bright SHS WASSCE students attack reporter with sticks

Emmanuel Damalie Pacome

A reporter with the Daily Graphic in Koforidua, Damalie Emmanuel Pacome, has been attacked by students of Bright Senior High School in Akyem Kukurantumi. The students holding Knives, cutlasses, sticks and stones chased the Journalist who was in the school to verify reports of attacks on invigilators by the students. They reportedly accosted and seized his mobile phone in the ...

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Islamists becoming ‘more aggressive’ in Mozambique

People displaced by the attacks have been fleeing to nearby islands

The US has warned that Islamist militants are getting more aggressive in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado with support from the Islamic State. The militants, known locally as al-Shabab – although it has no known links to the Somali jihadi group of the same name, have been attacking remote villages across the province over the past two years. Head ...

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Kennedy Agyapong aids evacuation of 727 stranded Ghanaians in Lebanon

Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration

Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has on behalf of the Government, received a donation of $428,650 from Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, Member of Parliament for Assin Central, to support the evacuation of more than 700 stranded Ghanaians in Lebanon. Mr Agyapong contributed $200,000 himself, while he mobilised the rest through an appeal he ...

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18 foreigners to be prosecuted for cybercrime

The police have arraigned eighteen foreigners before the Wa Circuit Court for allegedly entering the country illegally to engage in cybercrime.The accused, believed to be Nigerians, were arrested after they had duped unsuspecting people of various sums of money and are facing three counts of obtaining electronic medium falsely, possession of illegal devices, and failing to comply with the imposition ...

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Spillage of Bagre and Kompienga dams soon

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has announced that its partner SONABEL, the Agency responsible for the Management the Bagre and Kompienga dams in Burkina Faso will start the annual spillage from today, August 5 to Monday, August 10. It, therefore, urged communities downstream along the White Volta lake to move to higher grounds and safe havens in all such ...

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August 4 is to celebrate traitors – Pan Africanist laments

Kwaku Aboagye Boampong,All African Peoples’ Revolutionary Party( A-ARP)

An organizer of the All African Peoples’ Revolutionary Party( A-ARP), Comrade Kwaku Aboagye Boampong says the establishment of Founders’ day on August 4 as a holiday is celebrating traitors who undermined the Independence struggle led by Ghana’s first President Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Speaking on Radio 360’s morning flagship programme “Y3nsom” hosted by Kwame Malcolm in Takoradi, the avowed Pan ...

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High interest rates collapsing Ghanaian businesses – Kennedy Agyapong

Hon. Kennedy Agyapong

Kennedy Ohene Agyapong says the incumbent NPP administration should take a second look at interest rates in the country because some indigenous businesses are collapsing as a result of high interest rates. To the Assin Central legislator, this is a clear indictment on a government which aims at creating more jobs in the country. “Because of high interest rates, we’re ...

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Voter registration troubles: Rawlings, Kufuor must speak out – Nyaho-Tamakloe

Dr Nyaho-Nyaho Tamakloe

A founding father of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has said he is surprised former Presidents Jerry John Rawlings and John Agyekum Kufuor are silent on the voter registration troubles that have been widely reported about in the media. Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe told Class News on Wednesday, 5 August 2020 that he expects to hear the voices of the ...

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Govt committed to lifting financial barriers on education

Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, Edu. Minister

Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Education has reiterated the government’s resolve to lift financial barriers on education to increase access. He said the government was determined to ensure that every Ghanaian child achieved the dream of attaining higher levels of education to enable him or her to contribute effectively to national development. Dr Opoku Prempeh was speaking at the ...

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