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Hundreds of Students Feared Missing After Attack at Nigeria School
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Hundreds of Students Feared Missing After Attack at Nigeria School

Hundreds of Nigerian students are feared missing after gunmen raided a secondary school in the northern state of Katsina. The military later exchanged fire with the attackers in a forest. Gunmen stormed the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, in Nigeria’s north, on Friday.Credit…Abdullahi Inuwa/Reuters Hundreds of students in Nigeria […]

Nana Akufo Addo, President elect.
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Ghana re-elects Nana Akufo-Addo as President

Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has been re-elected as the president of Ghana for the next four years and will be inaugurated on January 7, 2021. President Akufo Addo who was elected president in 2016 after failing twice in 2008 and 2012 has been declared as winner by the electoral commissioner […]

President Akufo Addo with Martin Amidu
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President Akufo-Addo responds to matters raised in Amidu’s resignation letter

The Secretary of the President, Nana Asante Bediatuo (on behalf of president Akufo Addo) has responded to Mr Martin Amidu’s allegation of interference in his work as Special Prosecutor following which he resigned on Monday. Below is the full response from the Presidency I refer to your letter dated 16 […]

Mr. Martin Amidu
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Prez Akufo Addo orders payment of Martin Amidu’s salaries

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, to ensure that all emoluments and benefits due the immediate past Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, are paid. Mr Amidu who resigned from the Office of the Special Prosecutor on Monday, November 16, cited what he described […]

Mr Martin Amidu, & President Nana Akufo-Addo
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Martin Amidu accused Prez Akufo Addo of interference

In his resignation letter to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu, directly told the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces that he could not direct him about as far as his handling of the corruption and anti-corruption assessment report of the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal was […]

President Akufo Addo
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Contracts for sale: CHRAJ ask Akufo Addo to sack CEO of PPA

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has said CEO of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) Adjenim Boateng Adjei should be sacked by President Akufo-Addo. He is also disqualified from holding public office for the next five years. Mr. Adjei was suspended from office by President Akufo-Addo following […]

Osafo-Maafo (R) and Daniel Domelevo (L)
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High Court clears Osafo-Maafo and others of $1m Kroll & Associates deal

An Accra High Court has delivered judgement in a matter in which the Auditor General sought to surcharge the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, and five others over a $1 million deal. According to Starr FM, the High Court, presided over by Justice Afia Asare Botwe has ruled that Auditor-General, Daniel […]

Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang
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Confirmed: Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang is Mahama’s running mate

Former President John Mahama has settled on former Education Minister Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang as his running mate for the 2020 elections. The Council of Elders and Founder of the National Democratic Congress ( NDC) have approved the choice of the candidate. She prevailed after stiff competition from former finance […]

Hon. Carlos Ahenkora, Deputy Trade Minister
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NPP’s campaign manager, Mac Manu and Carlos Ahenkorah test positive for Covid-19

The campaign manager for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Mac Manu is reported to be at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after he tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease. Also on admission to the Unit is the Deputy Trade Minister, Carlos Ahenkorah. There are reports that two […]

Mr Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie (Sir John)
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Former NPP General Secretary Sir John die of Covid -19

Former General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John, is dead. He is reported to have died in Accra after a short illness. Until his death, Sir John was the CEO of the Forestry Commission. He died after testing positive for […]