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Kweku Baako reveals who recorded Akufo-Addo’s ‘bribe’ video

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper has claimed that the person who secretly recorded the viral video of then-candidate Nana Akufo-Addo, taking the $40,000 cash in a brown envelope is one Salis Yakubu Atsuluho of ‘The Salis newspaper’. Baako disclosed that he introduced the said Salis Yakubu Atsuluho to Anas Aremeyaw Anas of the ...

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United Kingdom is the first country in the world to approve Pfizer corona vaccine

The United Kingdom is the first country in the world to approve the corona vaccine from the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and the German biotechnologist BioNTech . The vaccinations will start next week. It is seen on the island as a ‘ Brexit success story ‘. Patrick van IJzendoorn December 2, 2020, 11:33   The hope is that the 94-year-old queen will set an example for ...

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Go to your father’s home and contest as MP – John Mahama to Abu Jinapor

Former President John Dramani Mahama has in a subtle message told the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Damongo Constituency, Abu Jinapor, to go to his father’s home of Buipe in the Yapei-Kusawgu Constituency to contest as a Member of Parliament instead of Damongo where his mother hails from. Speaking during a massive welcome to Damongo where he ...

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Pope overhauls ‘Our Father’ prayer

ROME – The world famous Christian prayer Our Father will change its text at the Italian masses from next Sunday, November 29. At Easter next year, the new text will even be made compulsory in all Italian parishes. Pope Francis believes that the translation used so far is incorrect and does not do justice to the original intention as stated in the Biblical-Greek text ...

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The Rawlingses to fund agro-vocation factory and training centre in Oti

The ground has been broken at Jasikan in the Oti Region for the construction of an agro-vocational factory and a skills training centre to empower womenfolk for self-reliance. It is an initiative of the Oti Region Queenmothers’ Association with financial support from the Rawlingses. Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, a former First Lady in a speech read on her behalf ...

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Were you voted for proverbs or development? – Bawumia quizzes A.B.A Fuseini

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has charged the people of Sagnarigu Constituency to rethink their voting pattern in the impending election, indicating that it could turn their fortunes around in terms of development. He noted that since 1992, the people in the Constituency have voted for the National Democratic Congress but have not seen any changes in development. He ...

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Chairman Wontumi handed $45 million juicy cocoa road contract

Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing NPP, Bernard Antwi-Bosiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, is allegedly involved in a US$45 million cocoa road project awarded to him by the Ghana Cocoa Board. Some screenshots of documents cited online by GhanaWeb indicate that an engineering company with one Bernard Antwi-Bosiako as director registered early 2018 under the name Hallmark Civil Engineering ...

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FDA boss files defamation suit against major media entities

The CEO of the Food and Drugs Authority, Mrs Delese Mimi Darko, has filed a defamation suit against three media houses at the High Court, seeking general damages of 2 million Ghana cedis from each of the institutions and their reporters. She is also demanding a retraction and apology from the media houses’ online platforms with the same prominence within ...

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Government to send ‘brilliant’ Adeiso SHS student to UK university on full scholarship

The Ghana Scholarship Secretariat has announced that it has granted Thomas Amoaning, a student of Adeiso Presby SHS who excelled in his WASSCE, full scholarship for studies in the United Kingdom. The award package, according to the Secretariat, entails full tuition, monthly stipends, return air tickets, accommodation, health insurance and any other benefits given to foreign scholarship beneficiaries. The Head ...

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