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Man who shot his pregnant wife in her sleep jailed 39 years

An Accra High Court has sentenced Effort Dankwa to 39 years imprisonment for attempted murder. Effort Dankwa shot his pregnant wife, Benita Dankwa, in August...

These 1D1F factories can’t find raw materials, others are broke  

Shortage of raw materials and financial challenges are grounding a number of factories under the One District, One Factory(1D1F) policy, The Fourth Estate has...

RTI Commission fines GES over refusal to give Covid-19 spraying information

  The Right to Information (RTI) Commission has fined the Ghana Education Service (GES) GHS50,000. The penalty was a result of the GES's failure to...

US Embassy supports Ghanaian media with laptops, other equipment

The United States (U.S.) Embassy in Accra has donated laptops and other electronic equipment to some selected media houses and the National Media Commission...

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EXCLUSIVE: Fraudulent payment for school placement traced to Education Minister’s access

A fraudulent payment made for the placement of a student into a category “A” school in 2022 was traced to the login access of...

High Court judge convicts paramount chief’s secretary and another chief over attempts to influence him

When the Acting Upper East Regional Supervising High Court Judge, Justice Alexander Graham, asked the two men in the dock to tell the court...

“School Placement is shrouded in secrecy”—Education Ministry Committee

A committee set up by the Ministry of Education to investigate allegations of corruption in the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) has...

Health

CHAINED: Helpless families, communities troubled by untreated mentally ill persons

Around midnight of February 5, 2016, a mentally ill young man, Kingsford Akagiire, unleashed a sudden attack on his mother, Atampoka Akagiire, at the...

How Akua Donkor seized and converted public slaughterhouse into private residence

In Djankrom, residents are fighting battles that threaten their very existence—a search for fresh air and soot-free homes. They have, for many years now, been...

Billions in the bush: 8 hospitals delayed, abandoned

Governance is supposed to be a continuum, such that development policies and initiatives of an outgoing administration must be seen to its planned completion...

Frontiers lays off Covid-19 testing staff at the airport

The management of Frontiers Healthcare Services Limited, the company in charge of COVID-19 testing at the Kotoka International Airport, has laid off staff it...

Human Rights

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Husband of pregnant woman shot in her sleep found guilty of attempted murder

A seven-member jury has found Effort Dankwa guilty of attempted murder for shooting his pregnant wife in her sleep. Benita Dankwa woke up on August...

Abduction, rape and impregnation: the story of child brides

For fear of victimization, the names of the victims and their parents have been changed Before primary class six pupil Agartha make sense of what...

Hope and Despair: Burkina Faso’s displaced persons in Ghana

Under the scorching sun in a displaced people’s camp in the Upper East Region, toddlers gather around a mortar and pestle, pounding what looks...

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Hope and Despair: Burkina Faso’s displaced persons in Ghana

Under the scorching sun in a displaced people’s camp in the Upper East Region, toddlers gather around a mortar and pestle, pounding what looks...

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