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Fourth industrial revolution key to Africa’s survival and prosperity – Bawumia
Former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has urged African nations to embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution, stressing that it presents a crucial opportunity for economic transformation and the prosperity of Africans.
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President Mahama urges collective action on reparations at 38th AU Summit
President John Dramani Mahama has called for collective action to achieve justice for Africans and people of African descent through reparations.
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Djibouti’s Mahamoud Ali Youssouf elected AU Commission Chairperson
Djibouti’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, has been elected as the new Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission after a tightly contested race that went into the seventh round.
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Kpabi residents in dire need of potable water: Depend on stream, well water unsafe for consumption
KPABI, a small farming community with a population of about 3,000 inhabitants, mostly farmers and traders, lies in the Northern belt of the Nanumba North Municipality in the Northern Region.
In view of its location in the northern part of the country, it is grappling with a number of challenges such as lack of potable water for the inhabitants as well as a market centre for the people to undertake their trading activities.
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President Mahama calls for collective action on reparations at 38th AU summit
President John Dramani Mahama has called for collective action towards achieving justice for Africans and people of African descent through reparations.
Launching the African Union theme of the year 2025 during the 38th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia on Saturday, February 15, President Mahama said the pursuit of justice requires stronger legal and institutional mechanisms at national, regional, and international levels.
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Polluted lakes, rivers affect fertility
Lakes and rivers that used to be trusted sources of potable water in the country now pose danger to women's fertility.
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President Mahama engages USAFRICOM Commander
President John Dramani Mahama has stressed the urgent need for increased US support in tackling the challenges of subregional security threats.
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Sexual abstinence increases risk of heart disease
Sexual abstinence, defined as the voluntary avoidance of sexual activity, has been practised for centuries.
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'My wife fears sex, I fear death' - impacts of the USAID freeze
Life for Mike Elvis Tusubira, a motorcycle taxi rider with HIV in Uganda, has been turned upside down since US President Donald Trump halted foreign aid last month.
Not only does the 35-year-old fear for his own survival as he takes life-saving anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs - but he says he will have to split up from his wife as they can no longer have safe sex.
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Nigeria angered after military chief denied Canada entry
The Nigerian government has condemned Canada for denying visas to its senior military officers, including the head of the military.
Chief of Defence Staff Gen Christopher Musa said half of his delegation, who were supposed to be in Canada for an official assignment on Wednesday, were left in Nigeria after not getting the correct paperwork.
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GRNMA urges government to exempt newly recruited nurses from public service recruitment suspension
The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has called on the government to exclude newly recruited nurses from its directive suspending all public service appointments made after December 7, 2024.
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President Mahama arrives in Addis Ababa for 38th AU Heads of States Summit
President John Dramani Mahama has arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to participate in the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union.
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Patricia Poku: An audacious socialite
She turns heads when she enters places. Aside from her unique sense of style, she sports a daring hairstyle — a bald head — which has become her identity.
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Mahama urges African self-reliance amid USAID withdrawal
President John Dramani Mahama has called on African nations to become more self-reliant following the withdrawal of funding support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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KNUST welcomes over 50,000 new students for 2024/2025 academic year
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has admitted a total of 50,895 new students for the 2024/2025 academic year.
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Sofo Rashid Tanko-Computer takes office as Acting CEO of GIFEC
The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) has welcomed Sofo Rashid Tanko-Computer as its new acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
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Fetish priest, two others remanded over alleged theft of communication cables
A fetish priest and two others have been remanded in Police custody by the Asante Akropong Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District for their alleged involvement in the theft of communication wire cables in Mfensi, near Akropong.
Kwabena Appiah Agyei, the 24-year-old fetish priest, Eric Kusi, a 20-year-old Network Installer, and Emmanuel Ampofo, a 22-year-old Electrician, did not enter a plea.
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Godfred Dame accuses President Mahama administration of whitewashing criminal cases
Former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Dame, has strongly criticised the John Mahama-led administration for what he describes as a deliberate strategy to clear its officials of wrongdoing through the discontinuation of high-profile criminal cases.
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Karpower threatens shutdown over $370 million debt
The operators of the Karpowership located at Aboadze in the Western Region have notified the government that it will not be able to continue with the supply of power if the debt owed its company is not settled immediately.
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Political class must hold itself accountable - Majority Leader
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, says it is dangerous for the political class in the country to refrain from holding one another accountable whenever there is a change in government.
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Agric ministry rolls out “Irrigation for wealth creation” in 8 regions
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has begun the process to install irrigation facilities in eight regions to provide an all year-round production of raw materials to feed government’s 24-hour policy.
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Committee probes recruitments into security agencies
The Ministry for the Interior has set up a seven-member committee to review the recruitments that were made into the security services last year.
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Government resolves CLOGSAG strike with reassignment of Births and Deaths Registrar
The government has announced the reassignment of Samuel Adom Botchway from his role as Registrar of the Births and Deaths Registry following opposition from the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG).
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Number 12 exposé: Court frees Nyantakyi
A Former Ghana Football Association (GFA) President, Kwesi Nyantakyi, has been discharged by the High Court in Accra, bringing an end to a five-year legal saga that gripped the nation.
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We’ll cooperate with institutions to uncover fraud at NSA — Felix Gyamfi
The Director-General of the National Service Authority (NSA), Felix Gyamfi, has given a firm assurance that the current management of the authority will wholly cooperate with the mandated state institutions to dig deeper into the circumstances under which numerous ghost names infiltrated the system and caused financial loss to the state.