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ATL awarded contract to provide textiles for NABCO uniforms – Bawumia

The Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) and Akosombo Textiles Limited (ATL) are back in operation following government’s intervention, Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed. He said through the provision of incentives to both local and foreign industries, the two well-known industries which had shut-down because of high production cost, have been revived – with many other dormant industries also at various ...

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GH¢20m sweet-potato processing factory to transform rural economy

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is hopeful that the new GH¢20million Sweet Potato Processing Factory under construction will transform rural communities in and around Gomoa Bewadze in the Gomoa West district of the Central Region. The factory, to be operated by CASA de ROPA Limited – a wholly-owned Ghanaian private agribusiness company financed by the Ghana Export-Import (EXIM) Bank – ...

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Free SHS boosts business in Kumasi

Reports reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that business is currently booming in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital. The Kumasi Mayor, Osei Assibey Antwi, attributed the positive trend to the implementation of the free Senior High School (SHS) policy. He said the free SHS policy, notably the Double Track System, has increased enrolment in schools. “Parents and students have been trooping to ...

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NDC names committees to manage 2018 congress

The National Democratic Congress has announced membership of committees to manage its up-coming national delegates congress to elect executive officers. The congress will be held on Saturday, November 3, 2018 at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra, according to the party at press conference it held Wednesday. Apart from a 17-member planning committee chaired by the party’s General Secretary, Johnson ...

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Nana Addo storms NPP office for appointment of new officers

The National Executives Committee (NEC) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), in consultation with the party’s National Council, on Wednesday appointed deputy national officers and directors to head the various directorates of the party. After a meeting of the two bodies at the party’s headquarters at Asylum Down in Accra, seven officers were appointed to head key directorates of the ...

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Lage decolletés zitten priester hoog: ‘Betalen voor te blote trouwjurk in de kerk’

Een priester uit het Italiaans Oriago, nabij Venetië, is het zat om nog langer in de bodemloze decolletés van trouwlustige dames te moeten staren. De roomse geestelijke ziet met afgrijzen de halslijn van trouwjurken lager en lager worden en stelt daarom voor een fatsoenstaks in te voeren. Hoe lager het japonnetje, hoe hoger de prijs. De door het celibaat gebonden prelaat Cristiano Bobbo kan het niet ...

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Bekende Franse slangentrainer overleden na slangenbeten

Frankrijk is in de ban van het mysterieuze overlijden van een bekende slangentrainer. Enrico Horn werd vorige week dood aangetroffen in het huis in een voorstad van Parijs waarin hij met zijn moeder woonde. Het overlijden van de 46-jarige slangentrainer, die een show begeleidde in het bekende cabarettheater Moulin Rouge, wordt met raadsels omgeven. Het was zijn moeder die Horn ...

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3 words describe Kwame Nkrumah: ‘Africa must unite’ – Samia

The daughter of Ghana’s first President says her father’s vision to see a united Africa is relevant today as it was some six decades ago. “’Africa must unite.’ Not ought to, not should; a must. Africa must unite,” said Samia Nkrumah in reference to three words that describe her father. Samia was speaking Friday on the Super Morning Show on ...

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Mahama girl in trouble over GHC3.1m MASLOC cash

The immediate-past Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) under previous Mahama administration is likely to face prosecution for alleged corruption. Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, according to a forensic audit report, allegedly misappropriated GH¢3,193,592 and is therefore expected to account for the huge amount of money. Ms Attionu and other former heads of six state-owned agencies have ...

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