2018

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has signed a twelve-year agreement with Rosneft, a Russian integrated energy company, for the supply of natural gas to the country. The supply contract is a hybrid Liquefied Natural Gas…
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Victims of the 2015 June 3 flood and fire disaster will today gather at the site of the incident, near the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, where over 150 people died. They are massing up to demand compensation they feel they have been denied.…
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The six-year-old daughter of deceased Deputy CEO of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP), Stacy Offei-Darko, is distraught and seeking answers about the whereabouts of her mother having not seen her for days. This was…
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Wife of late J.B. Danquah, Ivy Heward-Mills has written a veiled response to lawmaker Kennedy Agyapong’s insinuation that investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas may have been in an amorous relationship with her even while her husband…
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A national chairman hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Abubarkari Abdul-Rahman (Alhaji Short), has stepped down from the race. He was contesting against acting chairman Freddie Blay and Stephen Ntim. A statement signed…
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Selected pharmacies in the Rwandan capital Kigali are in line to begin selling over-the- counter oral HIV self-testing kits, Rwanda’s New Times Daily has reported. The report added that the price of the kit had also been slashed by…
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Algerian authorities have seized more than 700kg (1,543lb) of cocaine smuggled aboard a container ship and made 20 arrests. The vessel was carrying frozen meat from Brazil and had previously docked in Valencia, Spain. It was due to…
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Uganda's parliament has passed a law to impose a controversial tax on people using social media platforms. It imposes a 200 shilling daily levy on people using internet messaging platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber and Twitter.…
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The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) strike is taking a financial toll on patients seeking affordable health care. The strike has now forced some patients to use private laboratories which are said to be…
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In our series of letters from African journalists, writer Elizabeth Ohene considers why bodies are not buried for months, sometimes years, in Ghana. This past week there was another one of those typically Ghanaian funeral stories in the…
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