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Three Students Of Opoku Ware SHS Who Competed In Vodafone Icons Have Been Suspended For Allegedly Having Gay S*x

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Opoku Ware

 
Issues surrounding gays in this country often comes down to childish feelings about religion and some supposed immorality, when the important issue is about the legality.
And the law in Ghana is muddled enough about that, whatever ‘unnatural carnal knowledge’ means. And if that refers to gay s*x, then it is a wrong law that should be repealed. Who decides what natural is anyway, nature; which has no problem with homos*xuality.

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Jada Pinkett Announces She's Boycotting The Oscars

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Jada Pinkett is still seething over the fact that no black actor were nominated for Oscars 2016 nomination. The actress on Sunday hinted at boycotting the 2016 Oscars over the snubbing and marginalization of people of colour. She fumed: “At the Oscars…people of color are always welcomed to give out awards…even entertain. But we are … Read more

Selassie Ibrahim’s Smarttys To Refund Ghc 1.54m To The State By March

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Selassie Ibrahim

The status quo in Ghana is that you fleece the state, and if you’re unfortunate enough to be caught you just pay back the money and go your way, no harm no foul.
Which powerful person goes to jail for fraud in Ghana? Why punish those who steal millions when you can punish those who steal goats and 100 cedis out of necessity and poverty?

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NDC Organiser Busted With Cocaine At Heathrow Airport

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Another Nayele situation? A national organiser of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has reportedly been arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport for travelling with substance believed to be cocaine.
The identity of the man is being withheld for now, claims the Daily Guide, which reported the story.

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STATEMENT: Ghana AIDS Commission Says Joyce Dzidzor Mensah’s Confession Clears Them Of Any Wrongdoing

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The Ghana AIDS came under severe criticism following the ‘confession’ by Joyce Dzidzor in 2014 that she never had HIV/AIDS.
Since she had been working as an ambassador for the commission, it stood to reason that people wondered aloud how they could miss such a significant things as their top ambassador not having the disease she was supposed to be representing.

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Association Of ‘Kayayei’ Donates Ghc 5,000 At NPP Fundraiser

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Head porters (Kayayei)

Frankly I’m not quite sure how to react to this one.
On the one hand, it is foolhardy to donate money to politicians when for the most part you do not have a place to lay your head. But on the other, there is a sort of nobility in being so prepared to fight for what you believe in.

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Ghanaian Women Lead in Weed Smoking in the Country Says Narcotics Control Board

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Ghanaians women are smoking more weed than the men, claims the Narcotics Control Board—and we think, that’s something interesting and unexpected.
Considering the traditional notion of the Ghanaian woman, associating weed smoking or any sort of smoking to her would have been the last on the sheet. But it has emerged that, they are not only smoking weed—they are doing it in large numbers, more than the men.
Perhaps, a lot of our women are high while on the move.

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Al-Qaeda Siege In Burkinabe Hotel Ended By Security Forces: 126 Hostages Freed

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Burkinabe security forces ended a stand-off with Islamist Al-Qaeda militants by retaking the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou after a few hours of gun battle.
Security minister Simon Compaore confirmed the news to reporters, revealing that 126 hostages had been freed, with 33 wounded. He also added that three of the terrorists were killed in the attack.

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Onlookers Rush To Siphon Fuel After A Tanker Got Overturned In Kumasi Despite The Obvious Danger- Four Arrested

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One would think with the memory of June 3rd fresh in our collective consciousness; people would apply more circumspection to such an incident.
A fuel tanker got overturned in Oforikrom, a suburb of Kumasi on Saturday morning, with the fuel spilling everywhere.

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Akua Donkor Says 'I Will BAN Jehovah Witness If I Become President | BAN All Religions Rather

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Akua Donkor
Akua Donkor

Akua Donkor seems to think one sect of Christianity is toxic, so much such that she would ban them in Ghana if she becomes a President.
When the fact is that, all religions are toxic, evil and impede against human progress as well as civilization.
The founder of Ghana Freedom Party has stated in a recent interview that, because members of Jehovah Witness take no interest in countless civic duties due to their own interpreting the Bible, they ought to be banned in Ghana and she will rightfully do so when she takes up the presidency.
Apart from the fact that this will never happen in Ghana; because the probability of Akua Donkor winning an election in Ghana is slimmer than me waking up on Mars tomorrow.

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Wikipedia Releases List Of Most Edited Pages On 15th Anniversary: George W. Bush Tops, Game Of Thrones 10th Most Viewed Page

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Wikipedia the online encyclopedia, aka the student’s best friend. Although everyone likes to denigrate the site as not professional since ‘anyone can edit’; that’s where everyone turns to for information whenever they’re in a pickle.
The site turned 15 on Friday, and for an encyclopedia which more than anything is defined by its editorial policy- they released a list of the most edited articles on the site in its decade and a half history.

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Accra High Court Rules In Favour Of Zanetor Rawlings In Suit Challenging Her Position As NDC Parliamentary Candidate

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Dr Zanetor Rawlings
Dr Zanetor Rawlings

The daughter of former President Jerry Rawlings, Dr Zanetor Rawlings, has survived a challenge against her eligibility to stand as the party’s parliamentary candidate for Klottey Korle in the general elections in November.
In a ruling delivered Friday, the trial judge ruled that the suit, brought by four plaintiffs led by Joseph Botchway, lacked any merit to go forward.

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Report: Elikem & Pokello Welcome a Baby Girl

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Congratulations are certainly in order for Polikem Pokello Nare and Elikem Kumordzi have reportedly welcomed a baby girl, BigtriceOnline reports. According to the site, Pokello delivered the baby during the Christmas holidays in Harare. Her hubby has also joined them to celebrate the birth of the baby in the Zimbabwean capital. The report adds that … Read more

PHOTO: See Dr Kwabena Donkor’s Solemn Resignation Letter

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Kwabena Donkor
Kwabena Donkor

Dr Kwabena Donkor tried so hard to hold onto his office despite promising to leave if he failed to solve the load shedding program, but in the end he had to give in.
After making the promise in February, he tried walking it back later, and then tried getting out of it altogether with a premature press release that the dumsor was over. That proved to be the last straw, and he was forced to resign on the last day of the year.

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US Kept Document Indicating The Two Guantanamo Prisoners Are A ‘High Security Risk’ From Ghanaian Government

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John Dramani Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama, at his recent press briefing, drummed home the message that the two prisoners Ghana is taking in from Guantanamo Bay are ‘low risk’ and pose no threat to this country.
However, that was directly contradicted by a Wikileaks report, which classified Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef,36, and Khalid Shayk Mohammed, 34; as ‘high security risks’ who took part in active operations of Al-Qaeda.

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VIDEO: Ghana Would Be Paying For Part Of The Upkeep Of Ex-Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Resettled Here

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Muhammad Bin Atef

The conversation surrounding these guys is not going away anytime soon, what with the people of Ghana being fed lies and half truths- as well as plain distortions from those in charge.
The government of Ghana last week struck a deal with the United States government to resettle two former inmates of the terrorist holding cell at Guantanamo in Ghana.

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Wisa To Collaborate With Supt Kofi Sarpong

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Hiplife singer Wisa Greid is set to collaborate with gospel singer Supt. Kofi Sarpong. Wisa, who received intense flaks for showing his pen*s at a concert few weeks ago, has announced that he is joining forces with Mr. Sarpong to release a gospel track. “Gospel on the way with ‪#‎DSP‬,” the ‘Ekikimi’ hit singer shared … Read more

Nayele Is Back! The Drug Baroness Is Threatening To Release S*x Tapes Of The ‘Big Man’ Close To The NDC Who Was Facilitating Her Cocaine Travels

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Nayele Ametefe aka Ruby Appiah
Nayele Ametefe aka Ruby Appiah

Nayele Ametepe might be cooling her heels in a UK jail cell at the moment, but she has not had her last say in how things run here.
Because according to a sensational report from a local newspaper, the cocaine girl is getting ready to hit this government with a scandal on a scale they have never suffered before.

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Man In Ghana Pours Acid On His Former Girlfriend After She Broke Up With Him

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The saying about a woman scorned should really be amended to include men as well; because we can also be as vindictive and petty as the most jealous woman.
And as much as these kinds of cases of jilted lovers bathing their former partners with acid goes, it is almost exclusively men carrying out such acts.

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Pressure Group CitizenGhana Movement Sues Attorney General For Failing To Retrieve The Ghc 51.2m Woyome Judgement Debt

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Alfred Woyome

The advocacy group CitizenGhana Movement (CGM) has filed a suit against the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong- due to her failure to retrieve Ghc 51.2m from Woyome.
The money, the so-called judgement debt which was paid to the businessman, had been ordered retrieved by the Supreme Court since July 2014- yet the state’s coffers has not seen the money despite several promises from both quarters concerning its retrieval.

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Load Shedding Committee Says Load Shedding is Finally Over

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Ghana’s Load Shedding Committee as today said that load shedding is over—and that the country has not witnessed any load shedding in the last one month and is enjoying power supply in excess of about 6%.
Of course, we’ve had several dumsor within this period the committee mentioned, however, there seem to be this confusion as to whether dumsor and load shedding are the same thing or not.
The Chairman of the Load shedding Management Committee and CEO of the Gahan Grid Network (GRIDCO) William Amuna at a press briefing on Wednesday in Accra attributed the achievement to the coming on stream of a number of power generation plants.

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NDC MP-Fritz Baffour Slams President Mahama & Gov't Over Gitmo Detainees Saga

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Fritz Baffour

Though President Mahama has explained why his government accepted to resettle the two Gitmo detainees in Ghana despite the two having once been linked to Al-Qaeda and the United States having in the past considered them as a national security threat.
His reasons have not really been accepted by all; and his invoking of the religious virtue of compassion did not even buy the hearts of Ghanaians, largely considered as religious.
Today, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Ablekuma South-Fritz Baffour has added his voice to the conversation, saying, no matter the good intended by President Mahama and his government, they failed to handle the Gitmo saga well.

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Cantonment Robbers Remanded Into Custody At First Court Appearance

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Three co-consprators of the two robbers whose malicious plan was foiled by a heroic taxi driver appeared in court on Wednesday in connection with that robbery.
The Accra circuit court hearing the case remanded the suspects into police custody, to reappear on the 28th of January, 2016.

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REPORTS: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 'Critical Condition' After Heart Attack

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President Mugabe

According to rumors, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has fallen critically ill while on a holiday with family.
The reports suggest “high-level” meetings are being held in case Mugabe does not recover. “But the story is unverified and rumours are circulating on social media that it may be a hoax”, says DailyStar.
When it comes to Mugabe and his health, he is more like Kim-Jong-un of Africa; mostly it’s speculations which never get confirmed.

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SEE PHOTOS: Koala Fulfills Promise As Brave Taxi Driver Receives His Brand New Car

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Koala Brave Taxi Driver

Koala Supermarket has presented a brand new CHEVROLET OPTRA (SEDAN) SALOON CAR to the brave taxi driver, Nana Yaw who foiled the robbery attack on a Koala employee, Lydia Horsu at Cantoments. Following the attack which took place on January 9th, 2016, management of the Koala supermarket who pledged to reward the taxi driver with a car for his heroism have fulfilled their promise.
Nana Yaw upon receiving the keys to his brand new car couldn’t hold back joy, knelt down with his hands lifted and thanked God for his blessings. He was filled with joy as he thanked Koala supermarket for fulfilling their promise.
During the presentation, the Director of Koala, Mr Imad Wolley expressed his heart felt gratitude to the taxi driver for his outstanding bravery which saved the life of his staff. “Koala is not just a supermarket with employees and employers but a supermarket where we look after each other as a family” he said.

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Man In Ghana Dies After Woman Tugs On His Dingdong During Physical Altercation Over Money

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A man in Kotokuom in the Ashanti Region of Ghana endured an ignominious end after he passed away as a direct result of a disagreement over money.
The man, identified as 50 year old Thomas Darko, got into the argument with the woman known as Abena Serwaa, who claims he owed her money. An argument turned physical, during which she grabbed a hold of his ding dong and gave it a good tug.

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