Bangkok Bomb: Deadly Blast Rocks Thailand Capital
A bomb has exploded close to a shrine in the centre of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, killing at least 16 people and injuring more than 80.
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Nigerian Lady Drags Ghanaian Man To Jamaican Court For Stealing Her Organic Chicken (Comedy)
Comedy: A Nigerian lady accuses her Ghanaian neighbor of stealing her chicken and drags him before the erudite Judge Beng Beng. The Jamaican judge asks for proof and Mama Sade tells him he smelled the soup Kwame was cooking and knew that was her chicken he was cooking. A witness tells the judge she can
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Ghanaian Doctors’ Strike: Gov’t Pulls Out Of Negotiations With GMA
Government has pulled out of conditions of service negotiations with striking members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA). According to government, it cannot negotiate with the doctors while they are on strike. The GMA last month called the strike demanding that government puts in place conditions of service for its members. The two parties have
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Ghana’ Majority Leader Questions Frequent Reshuffles
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin, has said the frequent reshuffle of ministerial appointees is the bane of the country’s development. He said if reshuffles were too frequent appointees did not get enough time to transform the sectors they were assigned to. Mr Bagbin was speaking with the Daily Graphic in Accra
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Thoughts Of A Doctor
It was a few years ago at the then Central Regional (now Cape Coast Teaching) Hospital. We were grossly understaffed those years. There was no opening or closing time. You worked as long as there were cases, day or night. I remember often being called two to three times in a single night to perform
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Ugandan Journalist Wins BBC World News Komla Dumor Award
A Ugandan journalist with a background as an entrepreneur, radio and TV reporter and presenter has won the first BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Nancy Kacungira, a television anchor for Kenya’s KTN television channel, was selected from nearly 200 applicants. She will spend three months at the BBC in London and also report from
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Indonesian Plane: Rescuers Head For Suspected Papua Crash Site
Indonesian search and rescue teams are heading to a remote part of the western Papua region where a plane is believed to have crashed on Sunday.
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Egypt’s Al-Sisi Imposes Strict Anti-Terrorism Laws
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has approved stringent new counter-terrorism laws to fight a growing jihadist insurgency.
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Ghana’s Graduate Unemployment To Hit 271,000
Professor Kwesi Yankah, President of the Central University College has predicted that the number of unemployed graduates would likely surge to 271,000 this year up from the existing figure of 200,000. “The graduate unemployment will swell up by 71,000, including new graduates to be churned out during the year,” he said. The grim unemployment situation,
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China Tianjin Explosions: Nearly 100 People Still Missing
Ninety-five people, 85 of them firefighters, are still missing four days after multiple blasts in the north-eastern port of Tianjin, Chinese authorities have said.
