The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has announced that the 2020 Cocoa Light Crop Season would end at the close of business on Thursday, September 17, 2020.
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NPP govt WILL NOT legalize Okada business – Bawumia
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced that the Akufo-Addo government will not legalize ‘Okada’ business. According to him, though it’s a tough decision to make, the government has had to take this stance in the supreme interest of Ghanaians.
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98 new courts and judges’ bungalows are being built – Akufo-Addo reveals
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says Government, through the Administrator of the District Assembly Common Fund, is constructing ninety-eight (98) Courts and bungalows for Judges in all sixteen (16) Regions of the country.
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Mahama’s $10bn Hope City became hopeless; he lacks credibility – Nana Bee
The National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, has stated that the US$10bn Hope City project initiated by John Dramani Mahama under a Public-Private Partnership when he was President of the land but which never materialized, is a clear indication that the project wasn’t thought-through properly.
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€71.5m secured for 12 new hospitals after commissioning Dadiesoaba Health Centre – Akufo-Addo reveals
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says Government has secured €71.5 million to construct and equip twelve (12) 40-bed hospitals, with the associated staff accommodation facilities for hospital workers, across the country.
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Free and fair elections are basis for strengthening national cohesion – Akufo-Addo
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the conduct of a free, fair, and transparent election, one whose result is beyond dispute, forms a good basis for strengthening cohesion amongst the Ghanaian citizenry, and preventing needless disputations.
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E/R: 10 dead, over 80 injured as cargo truck crash two buses at Kyekyewere
At least ten(10) passengers are dead while over 80 others have sustained serious injuries in a fatal accident at Kyekyewere Community stretch of the Accra to Kumasi Highways in the Eastern Region.
The accident occurred Tuesday morning around 5:30am.
According to witnesses, a DAF Cargo Truck believed to be heading towards Kumasi direction to Burkina Faso burst a tyre causing the driver to lose control of the steering wheel hence veered off its lane and crashed two buses fully loaded with passengers from Kumasi direction to Accra.
The Buses crashed are an STC bus with registration number GE 8131-16 and another Bus with registration Number GT4997 -20.
Personnel from the Ghana Police Service, Ambulance, and National Disaster Management Organization were at the scene to rescue the victims to Nsawam and Suhum Government Hospitals. While dead bodies and pieces of body parts conveyed to the morgue.
“The articulated truck fully loaded with goods had a burst tyre. According to an eyewitness while descending a hill. The Truck veered off its lane turning left-right then hit one of the buses and hit another Bus so two buses crashed and has resulted in a lot of casualties. As I speak to you know I am unable to flow because of what I have seen. Very sad scene. So far I counted about ten dead bodies. Body parts such as hands, heads, legs, are littered all over the highway” one of the rescue officers Kwadwo Minta told Kasapa News.
Source: Kasapafmonline.com
EC pegs Presidential, Parliamentary nomination forms at GH₵100k and GH₵10k
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has taken a decision to charge GH₵100,000.00 and GH₵10,000.00 respectively for its Presidential and Parliamentary nominations forms for the December 7, 2020 general elections.
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Akufo-Addo commissions Bechem Business Resource Centre
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has commissioned the Bechem Business Resource Centre, which has been set up by the Ministry of Trade and Industry to provide strategic support and assistance to the domestic private sector operating at the Tano South district level.
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Bolga Imam commends Bawumia for keeping faith with zongo community
The Upper East Regional Imam, Sheikh Yusif Adams, has commended Vice President Bawumia for keeping faith with the Zongo community and helping other less privileged people.
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Akufo-Addo cuts sod for €30m construction of Wenchi water supply project
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has cut the sod for the commencement of construction of the Wenchi Water Supply Project, at a ceremony at the Jubilee Park in Wenchi.
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Okada operationalization: Gov’t to resume further consultations on October
Government has served notice that the final stage of its stakeholder consultations on whether to legalize ‘Okada’ operations in the country or not will take off in October 2020.
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