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Over 50 commercial sex workers arrested in Koforidua
12Jun By AdminNo Comments
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Over 50 commercial sex workers arrested in Koforidua

The Member of Parliament for the New Juaben South Constituency, Michael Kofi Okyere Baafi has vowed to make commercial sex work operations an unprofitable venture in the Eastern Regional capital Koforidua. According to the MP who doubles as the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, the upsurge of commercial sex work operations in Koforidua has the tendency to negatively corrupt the youth and taint the reputable image of the regional capital. The MP made this vow after he sanctioned an operation by the Koforidua District Police Command which led to the arrest of about 50 commercial sex workers of which more than 90 percent are of Nigerian descent at notable brothels and ghettos in the regional capital on Saturday. Confirming the operation and arrest while addressing congregants at Penteco...
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GES cancels pillow fight in schools
10Jun By AdminNo Comments
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GES cancels pillow fight in schools

  The implementation of pillow fights and tug-of-war in second cycle schools has been put on hold by the Ghana Education Service (GES). The Tug of War and Pillow Fight Federation had before requested authorisation from the GES in order to launch the sport in second cycle schools. Despite the assurances of safety precautions put in place for competitors, certain stakeholders have highlighted concerns about participant safety. The interested parties have stated that if the new sport is offered in schools, it will result in student injuries. GES has chosen to suspend the approval after carefully weighing the issues brought up by stakeholders. The Tug of War and Pillow Fight Federation was informed of this decision by the GES in a letter. The GES has also given statewide instructi...
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Government promises to pay allowances for rotational nurses & midwives
9Jun By AdminNo Comments
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Government promises to pay allowances for rotational nurses & midwives

The Ministry of Health says it is still in talks with the Ministry of Finance about the unpaid allowances of the Rotational Nurses and Midwives Association. This comes after the association announced its intention to stage a nationwide protest on June 30, 2023, if the government fails to meet its commitment to pay outstanding allowances. This decision comes after the association initially postponed the demonstration over their conditions of service. Speaking to Citi News, the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Health, Issac Baah Offei, said the ministry is committed to ensuring that all outstanding allowances are paid, and therefore urged members of the association to remain calm. “I am pleading with them that the money will be paid to you in any way or by any means. The ministry...
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8yr-old boy die after allegedly drinking contaminated palm wine at Senya West
22May By AdminNo Comments
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8yr-old boy die after allegedly drinking contaminated palm wine at Senya West

An eight-year-old boy lost his life after drinking a substance suspected to be palm wine at Awutu Bantama in the Awutu Senya West District of the Central Region. The boy known as Agya Kwao died after drinking the substance from the farm of a palm wine tapper who allegedly poisoned the substance after he suspected that some persons have been stealing from him. Auntie of the deceased, Mercy Acquah says she saw the boy screaming for help and was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead a few hours later. “I was home when I had a call to come and see my nephew. I got there, and I saw him drunk and unconscious. We rushed him to the hospital, and it was detected that he had taken poison. We tried forcing him to vomit the poison, but it didn’t work. He died a few hours later. The ...
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Water tariffs to go up from June 1
20May By AdminNo Comments
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Water tariffs to go up from June 1

Effective June 1, 2023, the cost of water services will see an upward adjustment for all consumer groups. This follows a review and approval by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) for water tariffs to go up for the second quarter of 2023. “In taking this decision, the commission took cognizance of the cost of electricity, increased volume cost of chemicals for raw water treatment, the Ghana Cedi/US Dollar exchange rate and inflation,” PURC announced in a statement issued on Thursday, May 18. “The Commission will continue to monitor the operations of the utility service providers to ensure value for money and quality service delivery,” it added. During the same period, PURC has increased tariffs for electricity and natural gas by 18.36% across the board. P...
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Farmer sues Bagbin, Attorney General over anti-LGBQ+ bill
6May By AdminNo Comments
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Farmer sues Bagbin, Attorney General over anti-LGBQ+ bill

A private citizen, Paul Boama Sefa has dragged the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin and the Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, to court over the anti-LGBTQ+ bill. Mr. Sefa, a farmer in the Ashanti Region in his writ sighted by citinewsroom.com alleges that the Speaker and the Attorney General have violated the constitution in the handling of the Proper Sexual Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill. He argued that, Parliament did not conduct a fiscal impact analysis of the Bill given its financial implication. According to the plaintiff, provisions of section 100(1) of the Public Financial Management Act, 2026 (Act 921), which requires that the Bill shall be accompanied by a fiscal impact analysis when the Bill was first laid in Parliament, was not complied with and h...
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Galamsey queen Aisha Huang convicted
4May By AdminNo Comments
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Galamsey queen Aisha Huang convicted

Galamsey queen Aisha Huang has been convicted after she changed her plea in the immigration offence she is facing at the High Court to guilty. The Chinese galamsey operator had earlier pleaded not guilty to four counts of undertaking a mining operation without license, facilitating the participation of persons engaged in a mining operation, the illegal employment of foreigners and entering Ghana while she had been prohibited from entry.  But after months of trial, Aisha Huang decided to change her plea in the last charge but her plea to counts on illegal mining remains not guilty. The decision follows prosecution’s presentation of its last witness, an immigration officer who testified to Aisha Huang entering the country illegally.  The sentencing has however been d...
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STC bus involved in accident on Accra-Cape Coast Highway
17Apr By AdminNo Comments
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STC bus involved in accident on Accra-Cape Coast Highway

25 passengers sustained minor injuries after an STC bus with registration number GB 107-09 hit the back of a tipper truck with registration GW 7932-22 after losing control of the bus resulting in both vehicles veering off the road and entering into a ditch by the roadside. The accident happened at Gomoa Buduaatta junction on the Accra Cape Coast highway today, Monday, April 17, 2023. Police and fire officers arrived on the scene to help rescue persons who were trapped in the STC bus. The driver of the tipper truck, Kwabena Tawiah told the media the driver of the STC bus lost control of the bus and hit the tip of his truck resulting in the accident. “I was fully loaded and heading in the Accra direction then all I saw was the driver of the STC bus struggling to control the bus,...
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Continue to cook we will pay later – gov’t to School Feeding caterers
12Apr By AdminNo Comments
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Continue to cook we will pay later – gov’t to School Feeding caterers

The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) Upper East Regional Secretariat is pleading with caterers in the area to continue providing meals for students while the government takes immediate action to pay its obligation to caterers. Many caterers complain that the situation is adversely hurting their business operations because they are owed the third term and the first term of the academic years 2021/22 and 2022/23, respectively. Yet in a press release forwarded to Citi News, Georgina Ayamba, the Upper East Regional Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Program, pleaded with caterers to continue serving meals to the kids while their outstanding debts were being resolved and would soon be reimbursed. She also made it clear that the government is seriously contemplating raising t...
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