Justice Dzido

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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The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday cut the sod for the construction of a new Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra. The new facility is urgently needed to help provide…
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Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has justified reasons the government awarded the $89.4million contract to Kelni-GVG, disputing claims by IMANI Africa. Addressing Parliament Thursday on the contract, the Communication…
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The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) says it is investigating claims that some electricity consumers are reportedly not benefitting from the tariff reductions announced a few months ago. The PURC, in March, announced a…
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