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Ghana’s President Reassigns Sports Ministers After Woeful World Cup Campaign
Accra, Ghana- President John Dramani Mahama has reassigned Youth and Sports Minister Elvis Afriyie Ankrah to the Presidency as Minister of State after a woeful World Cup campaign. Information Minister, Mahama Ayariga (MP) is to replace him. Even though no mention of the issues at the World Cup was mentioned it is widely believed that
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African Leaders Determined To Police Continent’s Conflicts Themselves
African leaders called on Thursday for firm action against the rising Islamist militant threat stretching across the continent from Kenya to Mali and pledged to provide the tools for Africa to police its own conflicts. Violence cast a shadow over the opening of the two-day summit of the 54-nation African Union (AU) as Nigerian President
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WHO Calls Emergency Sub-regional Ministerial Meeting To Tackle Ebola Outbreak In West Africa.
In an effort to interrupt further spread of the Ebola virus in the shortest possible time, the World Health Organization is convening a special meeting of Ministers of Health of eleven (11) countries and partners involved in the Ebola outbreak response in Accra, Ghana from 2-3 July 2014 to discuss the best way of tackling
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Did The ‘Unpatriotic’ Black Stars Blackmail Ghanaians? The Inside Story Of The Loss To Portugal
Ghana’s Loss To Portugal – The Inside Story: Many Ghanaians Were Supporting Portugal Against Ghana. Ghana’s Black Stars are finally out of the FIFA World Cup following a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Portugal. However, it does not seem as if many Ghanaians are as disappointed as they normally are when they are kicked
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Ghana To Be Declared Guinea Worm Free By July
Ghana is on the verge of being declared a guinea worm free country by World Health Organisation (WHO) if it continues to record no incidence of the disease by the end of 2014. Ghana has not recorded a single case in three years which qualifies the country for certification by the WHO. In that regard, a
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Soldiers, Police Arrested For Robbing Nigerians In Ghana; Claim They Were Engaged In Cyber Fraud
By Isaac Bediako Justice ACCRA, Ghana- Two soldiers, a police officer and two others have been remanded into police custody by an Accra Circuit court for allegedly robbing tenants of a household at gunpoint. The soldiers, Emmanuel Obeng Domson and Obed Kwaku Agamati, together with Ibrahim Iddrisu, the police officer, and Noah Mensah, unemployed, in
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Voices From Within: [Tema Site 2, Ghana] A Resident’s Anguish
By Kpakpo Addo – Tema, Ghana Tema township is a place built by Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah to house the workers of the burgeoning industries that he had set up. Among some of the places built as residential complexes for workers of these industries were site 20, site 2, site1 etc. This news letter
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Ghanaians Urged To Create Jobs Through Tourism And Hospitality
By Isaac Bediako Justice Ghanaians must embrace the rich opportunities in tourism and take advantage of that to create business activities to promote the industry for the growth of the economy, Goyimwole Enukomekuo Kpodo, president of the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management, has said. He said: “The African cultural heritage and tradition surpass
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Baby Girl Abandoned At Ghana’s Second Largest Hospital
By Isaac Bediako Justice KUMASI, Ghana – Ghana’s second largest Hospital, the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) is keeping a baby girl abandoned by the mother at the facility two weeks ago. The four-month-old baby is being kept at the maternity block and is reported to be doing well. The mother had left her in
