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OFFICIAL: Chris Attoh and Damilola Adegbite are divorced

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After 2 years of marriage and months of speculations, Chris Attoh has confirmed that his marriage to Damilola Adegbite is over. The rumors started this valentine's day when Chris posted photos of his wife on social media, wishing her a happy second wedding anniversary but she "blueticked" him. Damilola tried to salvage the situation some months later by posting a birthday shout out to Chris, proclaiming her love for him. But Chris Attoh in a recent interview with Bella Naija, confirmed that they've  divorced. According to him, “I believe throughout our marriage, it has probably been one of the most challenging things we have ever done, however, the key word is balance. At times when we both had to work, our parents would be there to hold the fort. God bless family because they were and still are very supportive.” He added that, “However, since the divorce, we are obviously now reworking things to create a new balance between work, spending time with and rai...

Ghana wins maritime dispute; Cote d'Ivoire denied rights to the oil

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The International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) accepted Ghana’s arguments in the maritime dispute with Ivory Coast and ruled in favour of Ghana. Ghana argued that the equidistance rule be used in delimiting the maritime boundary between the two countries. The Chamber rejected Ivory Coast’s claim that a meridian measurement be used.

Achimota school student convicted for murder

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After almost a year of court activities, a juvenile Court in Accra has sentenced the 18-year old final year student of Achimota School who shot his girlfriend with his father’s single barrel gun to three years at the correctional home. The deceased Lily Dzigbordi Asigbetse who lived at Cantonments had visited the accused person at Community eight (8) in Tema. The incident occurred on January 5 2017. The accused told the police that he intended to shoot into the air however the gravity of the gun changed course and hit the deceased. The latest judgement by the court has been met with praise by the family of the deceased. A family member, Peggy Ama Donkor wrote on her Facebook Timeline:  “Our God indeed answers by fire and vindicates his own. On behalf of the Asigbetse and Donkor families, I wish to thank you all for your prayers and advice during our darkest times. Special thanks to Dr Joyce Aryee, Kojo Anan Ankomah, Mrs . Ansah , Egbert Faibille and all the silent prayer partners. ...

Check out Sarkodie's 5th studio album titled "Highest"

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Sarkodie has released a 19-track album (15 songs, 3 interludes and a bonus track) at exactly 12am on Friday, September 8, on popular online store, iTunes. "Highest" features some major local and International acts such as his long-time friend and Producer Jayso, UK’s very own Big Narstie, Victoria Kimani (Kenya), Moelogo (UK), renowned Spoken Word artist Suli Breaks (UK), Korede Bello (Nigeria), Praiz (Nigeria), Yung L (Nigeria), Joey B (Ghana), Jesse Jagz (Nigeria), Flavour (Nigeria) and Bobii Lewis (UK). Purchase the album here: "Highest" album by Sarkodie .

SEE: Afia Schwarzenegger caught cheating on her husband

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Interesting. The 2:23 minute video showed the entire incident believed to have happened at the home of Afia Schwarzenegger, Mr Abrokwah budges into the room that appeared not to have been locked and found the two lovers naked in bed. Mynewsgh report continued, he is heard asking the man whose face cannot readily be identified if he is unaware Afia is a married woman amidst shouts of “Ashawo! Ashawo!” to wit prostitute. Out of shame, Afia in defense rushed into the bathroom for a towel to cover herself and asked what he was doing in the house and who invited him.

Archbishop Duncan-Williams reveals how he lost his finger

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In an interview with Bola Ray on Starr Chat, Archbishop Nicolas Duncan Williams said he didn't have a smooth childhood including visit to many traditional shrines.  He indicated that he used to hear a lot of voices which he believed were a contention of the forces of ‘light and darkness’. He said that on that fateful night on which he lost his fingers, he heard some voices in his head.  He continued to say that the voices instructed him to light a candle and hold his fingers in the flame. The Man of God said that he obliged to the voice of the spirit thinking it was one of the sacrifices required to see him become successful.  When his fingers turned into ashes and the pain became unbearable, he screamed out alerting his siblings who rushed to the scene and took him to the hospital for medical assistance.   He was on admission at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for months after the ‘ordeal’. The action led to the loss of his fingers. He indicat...

Check your BECE-SHS placement 2017 here

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The time is here again. Anxious Junior High School leavers who are done with Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) are ready to check their Senior High School placement. The Mfantsipims, the Adiscos, the Gey Heys and co. All the best! You can check the SHS placement from the comfort of your phones. A total of 424, 092 candidates representing 92 per cent, who qualified have been posted to the various senior high schools across the country under the Computerised School Selection Placement System (CSSPS). From 8:00am today, candidates can log onto  www.myjhsresult.net  to know their SHS postings, a statement issued by the Ghana Education Service and signed by its acting Director General, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa said. Candidates who find any difficulty with their placement are advised to contact their Junior High Schools or the District/Regional Education Directorate for rectification.

10,000 NSS personnel to undergo military training next year - Defence Minister

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Minister of Defence Mr Dominic Nitiwul has revealed that 10,000 national service personnel would be selected to embark on six months of military training as part of their national service next year. According to him, officials of the National Service Scheme (NSS) have already written to the military to inform them about the exercise. Mr Nitiwul made the revelation when he spoke to the media after appearing before the Public Account Committee (PAC) over the 2015 Auditor General’s Report. The PAC is currently holding public sittings on the Report of the Auditor General for the Public Accounts of Ghana for the year ended 31st December, 2015. Mr Nitiwul also stated that the law to allow service personnel to do military training already existed. He explained that the National Service Act allows service personnel to do two years of national service and six months of military training. He said the reason why for a long time the country could not undertake this programme was as a result of la...

WAEC releases 2017 BECE results. Check it out here

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The West African Examinations Council has released provisional results of the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) written in June. A statement issued by Waec on Monday said subject results of 1,298 candidates have been withheld while investigations are carried out. It said the Item Differentia Profile (IDP) software was used to detect cheating in the objective tests. Check it here

Bank of Ghana revokes UT Bank & Capital Bank licenses

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Bank of Ghana revokes UT Bank & Capital Bank licenses. GCB Bank to take over the two distressed entities. Says depositors need not panic. BoG approved a transaction that transfers all deposits & selected assets of UT Bank Ltd and Capital Bank Ltd to GCB Bank Ltd This action became necessary due to severe impairment of their capital The main offices and branches of UT Bank and Capital Bank will be under the control of GCB bank & will be opened at 1pm today.

BREAKING NEWS: Afia Schwarzenegger arrested for fraud

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Controversial Ghanaian actress Afia Schwarzenegger has been arrested for fraud according to a report on GhanaCelebrities . Afia is reported to have been arrested for defrauding Kiki Banson, singer Becca’s former manager. The actress is being held at the Nima Police Station, the report by GhanaCelebrities.com claims and has been charged with fraud, threatening, assault and insulting behaviour. Afia Schwarzenegger is married to Lawrence Abrokwah and has three children (two boys and a girl). via GhanaCelebrities

"Nursing Trainee Quota Is About Quality Not Allowances" - Minister

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Aboagye Gyedu, a Deputy Health Minister, has said the quota allocated to public and private nursing training schools is an attempt to increase the quality of training and it has nothing to do with the payment of trainee allowances. Mr. Gyedu insisted that the quota put in place is to ensure and improvement of the quality of nurses. “We want to ensure that the training environment is optimum so that you come out with the best knowledge and skill that you need to serve our people.” Mr. Gyedu also stressed that “it has nothing to do with the payment of allowances that we promised our people.” Congestion is a major problem in these schools and in consultation with the Health Infrastructure Regulatory Authority and the Nurses and Midwifery Council, the government came up with this solution to the problem “What the nursing training colleges do is that, if you give them a quota, they exceed it. We are trying to be very firm, that this time around. In order to decongest the nursing and mid...

After finding Christ, these people returned their SSCE/WASSCE certificates for cheating

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29 Ghanaians who recently accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour have returned their SSCE/WASSCE results slips to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) after they had confessed cheating in the examination. According to them, cheating in examination hall is a sin noting that as born again Christians they have decided to tender in their certificates in other to be forgiven by God. The examination body in a statement released after its 62nd National Examination Committee meeting recently, stated that the 29 certificates returned by the born again Christians were among the examination council’s results issued 32 and 33years ago respectively. They further disclosed that there were others which includes three that sat for the examinations in 2000, 2004, 2008, two each in 1992 and 2003 while one certificate each was returned by born again Christians who sat for the examination in 1984, 1985, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2012. However, four certificates each were also retu...