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BURKINA CONTRACTOR RUNS AWAY FROM GHC82M ROAD CONTRACT

The Burkinabe contractor, whose personal relationship with President John Dramani Mahama seems to have earned him a number of contracts in Ghana, has finally pulled out of another project he was scheduled to undertake.

MP FEEDS 1,800 BECE CANDIDATES

Member of Parliament (MP) for Agona East Constituency of the Central Region, Queenstar Maame Pokuah Sawyer, has taken it upon herself to provide free meals for candidates writing the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the constituency.

INTERIOR MINISTRY TAKES OVER BNI, NATIONAL SECURITY

The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Financial Intelligence Centre and the National Security have all come under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior.

KWABENA AGYEPONG DUMPS AFOKO

It has been confirmed that suspended General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwabena Agyei Agyepong will not be testifying for the beleaguered National Chairman, Paul Afoko, who has sued the party over his suspension in October last year.

RAWLINGS MOURNS WITH MAHAMA

Ghana's former President Jerry John Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings joined hundreds of mourners yesterday to commiserate with President John Dramani Mahama folllowing the loss of his mother, Hajia Abiba Nnaba.

 

TRADER LOSES EYE OVER GHC10

A twenty-five-year-old trader at Shiabu, a suburb of Dansoman in the Greater Accra Region, Mrs. Esther Agyiri Ofori has lost her right eye over Ghc10.00 debt owed her by a customer.

BECE CANDIDATES TRAVEL 33KM TO WRITE EXAMS

Information gathered by the Daily Heritage from Drobonso in the Sekyere Afram Plains District of the Eastern Region indicates that pupils writing this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) travel some 33 kilometers to examination centres daily.

KWABENA AGYEPONG DUMPS AFOKO

The suspended national chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Paul Afoko was yesterday forced to close his case at an Accra Human Rights Court after Mr Kwabena Agyepong withdrew his witness statement for him.

ONE TERM PRESIDENCY WILL NEVER HAPPEN UNDER OUR WATCH - NDC

The leadership of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Eastern Region has stated they will work hard to avoid a one term presidency in the Fourth Republic.

 

 

LAWYERS CHIDE MAHAMA OVER FORD GIFT, BUT KWEKU BAAKO GOES TO HIS DEFENCE

Two lawyers yesterday took a swipe at President John Dramani Mahama for collecting a Ford Expedition 4x4 2010 model as gift from a Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe, in 2012.

PPP HOLDS YOUTH CONFAB TOMORROW

Youth wing of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) wll hold its maiden national youth conference in the South Dayi constituency in the Volta Region on Saturday, June 18, 2016.

CHIEF APPEALS TO GOV'T OVER UNPAID LAND COMPENSATIOIN

Gbee-Owomli Mantse of Teshie, Nii Adjetey Obuorbuor II, has appealed to President John Dramani Mahama to compensate them for 850 acres of land which was taken by the State some years ago.

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