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Power Cuts To Worsen Over Unpaid Debts To WAPCo et al – Analysts

Analysts in the power sector fear the current disruptions in power supply would linger until such a time that government finds sustainable means to increase gas supplies to power the country’s thermal plants. According to them, the quantity of gas delivered by the Ghana Gas Company is insufficient to meet …

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Complete Ho Central Market – Ho Traders Beg Government

Ho Central Market Shop Owners Association (HCMSOA) in the Volta Region are pleading with the government to speed up the completion of the new Ho central market. According to the President of the association, Isaac Deamesi, unlike Kejetia and Cape-Coast markets where the traders were provided some temporal shops, they …

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Suicides In Ghana: Don’t Trivialise Youth’s Problems – Psychologist

A psychologist who has done extensive research on suicide among young persons in Ghana, Dr. Joseph Osarfo, has warned society against trivializing issues that young people consider as problems. “People tend to trivialize the reasons for which somebody wants to die. Every Ghanaians response to somebody who is going through …

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I’ll Demolish Houses To Fix Accra Flooding – Atta Akyea

The Works and Housing Minister, Samuel Atta Akyea has stated that he is ready to demolish buildings identified to be on water way by the Town and Country Planning Department in order to deal with the perennial flooding in Ghana’s capital, Accra. “We don’t have a choice,” he told Benard …

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Accra Drainage To Cost $700m To Fix, Atta Akyea Promises To Find Money

Works and Housing Minister Samuel Atta Akyea says he would require $700 million to permanently fix the flooding menace in Accra. Although the raining season is some two months away, Sunday’s downpour was a warning that another flooding disaster awaits the capital. The minister, who has been touring some parts …

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Tension Builds Up In Bimbilla; Residents Ready To Flee

Information reaching Joy News indicates residents of Bimbilla in the Nanumba District of the Northern Region are living in fear of possible clashes in the area. Local journalist, Osman Nuhu told Joy News tension has been building in the area for days resulting in the closure of shops in the …

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Release Male Prisoners To Marry Us – Women Beg Akufo-Addo

Some women living in Assin Fosu in the Central region are pleading for clemency for male prison inmates in the region. The motive for the appeal, the woman revealed is to solve the woman to man ratio in the region. Some of the women in an interview on Adom News …

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Man, 20, Killed Over Food-Related Argument

A 20-year-old driver’s mate has been stabbed to death at Gushegu in the Northern Region following an argument over food. The deceased, identified as Yakubu Iddi, died shortly on arrival at the Gushegu Hospital. Confirming the incident to the Daily Graphic, the Gushegu District Police Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police …

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Parliament bans placards on budget day

The Leadership of Ghana’s Parliament has banned the use of placards by members during the budget presentation on Thursday March 2, 2017. In a proposal on the floor of Parliament Friday, Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu argued that the development as has been in the …

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HIV Prevalence Rate In Eastern Region Has Declined

The Regional Dissemination of the National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan (NSP) 2016 – 2020 in Eastern Region took place at Capital View Hotel in Koforidua today. According Ms. Golda Asante, the Eastern Regional technical coordinator Eastern Region has the highest gradient of decline, now…there is a game change. Now …

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