March 2018

International charity ships and Libya’s coastguard and picked up several hundred migrants on Saturday as smugglers trying to take advantage of calm seas launched a flurry of boats towards Italy. Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted three…
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The Bank of Ghana has assured the general public that it is taking steps to address the challenges in the micro-finance sector. Caroline Otoo, Secretary, BoG in a statement said the Bank is working on a comprehensive reform program to…
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Kenya's president and opposition leader said they met for talks on Friday, months after the presidential elections sparked turmoil as the opposition charged there was electoral fraud. President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister…
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The Northern Region Lotto Marketing Companies and Retailers Association has appealed to the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) to increase the commission it paid to its agents from the current 20 per cent to 30 per cent. Nana Kofi…
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China's parliament has scrapped presidential term limits, paving the way for President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely over the world's most populous country. Out of 2,963 delegates at the annual session of the National People's…
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Judges of the lower courts have threatened to embark on a strike if issues relating to their salaries and conditions services are not addressed immediately. The lower court judges who include circuit court judges and magistrates of the…
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The Minister of State in-charge-of-Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has warned that many of Ghana’s private universities are in danger of collapse. One of the signs of this danger is in the unused capacity within the private…
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The Ghana Health Service says it is making efforts to secure a ban on the smoking of water-pipe tobacco popularly known as shisha and electronic cigarettes by the middle of  2018. The Principal Research Officer of the…
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Actress Yvonne Okoro has donated an amount of 2,600 dollars to help buy desks for pupils in Yikurugu D/A School, in the Upper West Region. Speaking to the media after making the donation, the actress said she did that as part of her…
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The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) has called for a probe regarding the sale of crude by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited to BB Energy Company resulting in a loss of some GHS 23m to the state. Executive…
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