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Some prominent officials in the country and Minority in Parliament are demanding the immediate removal  of Cecilia Dapaah, the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources for keeping large sums of money in her home and subsequently alleged to have been stolen by her house helps. Member of Parliament for Bole Bamboi, Yussif Sulemana and Kumbungu constituency, Rasheed Pelpuo asked President Akufo-Addo to commence immediate investigation into the matter whiles sacking the Minister from government duties. READ ALSO: Ghanaians React After Cecilia Dapaah’s House Helps Stole $1m, €300k And Millions Of Cedis “I expect the President to fire her if it’s true…

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An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Olivia Obeng Owusu has awarded an amount of GH6,000 cost against the side chick by name Deborah Seyram Adablah who sued her sugar daddy and former Chief Financial Officer of the First Atlantic Bank.  Lawyers of the bank in a motion argued that, First Atlantic Bank should be struck out of the case, demanding cost reward of GH50,000. The Court after agreeing to the argument by attorneys of the bank struck their name out, and rather awarded 6,000 cedis cost. Meanwhile the main case is yet to be commenced. This comes after…

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Former Ghanaian President, John Dramani Mahama has expressed shock over an amount of US$1 million, €300,000, and other millions of Ghana cedis stolen from the residence of Mrs. Cecilia Dapaah, the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, and her husband, Mr. Daniel Osei Kuffour, in Abelemkpe, Accra. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) 2024 presidential flagbearer in a tweet described the news of such money kept in the home of the Minister as “scandalous”. “$1m + €300k and millions of GHS in a Ghanaian Minister’s home? Scandalous!!. Even if genuinely acquired, why keep millions of hard currency at home?” he said.…

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An appointee under the Akufo-Addo administration is said to have kept a whopping amount of US$1 million, €300,000 and millions of Ghana cedis at her residence in Abelemkpe, a suburb of Accra.  The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah and her husband, Daniel Osei Kuffour is said to have such an amount of money in their home which was subsequently stolen. The people who stole the money are said to be house helps of the Minister. This was revealed at an Accra Circuit Court reported by the Chronicle Newspaper in its Friday, July 21, 2023 edition. The…

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A petition that was submitted by nine candidates of the National Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopefuls to the National Council requesting that the party’s election on August 26 be centralized has been dismissed.  Without Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the nine candidates for flagbearer made the case that a centralized poll would be more transparent and effective. The nine candidates are Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, Kwadwo Poku, Boakye Kyerematen Agyarko, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, Dr. Owusu Akoto Afriyie, Joe Ghartey and Francis Addai-Nimoh. They emphasized that they did not agree with the proposal to limit…

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The National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) has detained a personal assistant and receptionist of Daniel Bugri Naabu – former Northern Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for questioning.  The former Chairman told Kwesi Parker Wilson of Oyerepa TV that he suspects his employees were arrested in connection with the audio that was leaked about an alleged attempt to remove Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr. George Akuffo Dampare. “My personal aide, SK, and my receptionist also called Akua left in the morning that they were going to the office. I came to the office and I couldn’t find them.…

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Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the works of illustrious Ghanaian poet, playwright and academician, Professor Ama Ata Aidoo as one that was on the lips of every “school-going boy or girl’. A state burial service was held last Thursday, July 13 at the Forecourt of the State House in Accra for the professor who died on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at age 81. Eulogizing the works of the state person in a Facebook post after the ceremony, the former President said “Aunt Ama Ata Aidoo was the candle, and I have had the privilege of being one of…

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A vehicle that the Lighthouse Chapel International (LCI) gave to Kwame Yirenkyi Ampofo, a former church bishop, when he served the organization, has been withdrawn. The Auto Theft Unit of the police Criminal Investigations Department (CID), according to Mr. Kwame Ampofo, an engineer by training, is investigating him for stealing the said vehicle. According to him, the Chevrolet Tahoe was presented to him in 2016 after being used from 2013 to 2016 by Mrs. Adelaide Heward-Mills, the church’s founder’s wife. After dismissing him due to confusion between him and the church’s leadership in 2022, he claimed the Healing Jesus branch…

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Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Minister of Education, and Hanan Abdul-Wahab, the CEO of the National Buffer Stock Company, appear to be fighting regarding whether or not the Akufo-Addo administration owes food suppliers any money. Traders who claim they are owed enormous amounts of money have been picketing at the National Buffer Stock Company’s offices over the past few weeks. Aside from the picketing, however, official documents have been made public and interviews with government officials regarding the substantial debt, which the Ministry of Education estimates to be in the hundreds of millions of Ghana Cedis but claims to cover…

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A police officer by name COP Titus Avoka Azasiyande has been found shot to death with bullet wounds all over him at a barrier near Bia-Tano Forest in the Ahafo Region. The dead body was found lying in a pool of blood with his service weapon right next to him in the early hours of Thursday, July 13, 2023. Uncertainty surrounding the circumstances of Sergeant Azasiyande’s murder has been highlighted on the potential of foul play, suggesting that he may have been the target of unknown attackers, while others have blamed it on suicide. Initial investigations indicate that Sergeant Azasiyande…

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