2017

The Minority in Parliament has asked government to abort plans of imposing taxes on mobile money transactions in the country. Speaking at a Breakfast meeting on Monday with stakeholders ahead of the 2018 budget and economic policy in…
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Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has called on the Supreme Court to throw out petitions challenging his election on October 26. Kenyatta said in a statement on Sunday that the over ten petitioners’ claims were unsubstantiated and a…
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Ministers and Deputies will from 2018 start using Camrys and Corollas instead of V8s as part of cost-cutting measures to be introduced by the Akufo-Addo administration, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has hinted.“I hear so much talk about V8 this…
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A train crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 33 people, UN radio station Okapi reports. It happened in Buyofwe in the province Lualaba, in the south of the country. Radio Okapi said that the train caught fire after…
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Former Attorney General Martin Amidu has appealed to President Nana Akufo-Addo not to sign into law, the recently passed Major Mahama Trust Bill by parliament, saying it is defective in many ways. Parliament on Thursday, 9 November gave…
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Accra, Nov. 13, GNA -President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has pulled the symbolic switch to officially commission Cargill’s solar facility at the company’s factory in Tema. A statement from Cargill said the President in a brief remark…
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Iranians spent the night digging through rubble in a frantic search for survivors after a powerful earthquake struck near the Iraqi border on Sunday evening, killing more than 300 people and injuring thousands of others, officials said.…
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Ghana's President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that African journalists have a duty to help change the image about Africa, and establish a narrative, which is more positive. According to President Akufo-Addo, African media…
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Ghana can grow dynamically as China and any successful East Asian economy if government could create conditions for the private sector to thrive, Professor Yifu Lin, a renowned Chinese Structural Economist, has said. He said the…
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Thousands of Somaliland voters came out early Monday morning to vote in the self-declared independent state’s third presidential election since it declared unilateral independence from Somalia in 1991. Polls opened at 0400 GMT and…
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