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NOV 27, 2014 LISTEN

BLOWS OVER RUBY COCAINE
The recent 12.5kg cocaine bust at the Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom  involving Nayele Ametefeh, aka Ruby Adu Gyamfi, seems to be setting government and its agents apart as the Chairman of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) goes to town over the dissolution of the board.

MINORITY CALLS FOR PROBE  CONFUSION OVER VVIP
Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) handling the other aspect of the arrest in Ghana, has said the two ladies with whom Ruby traveled  to the UK had admitted being escorted by two officials at the airport -- Theophilus Kissi and Ahmed Abubakar -- who facilitated their (Ruby and and her alleged accomplices') passage without going through normal checks.

BOY, 11, SHOOTS SISTER DEAD
An eleven-year-old boy is said to have  accidentally shot dead his younger sister, Shallote Wilson, at Asarekrom, a village near New Edubiase in the Adansi South  District  of the Ashanti Region, Tuesday afternoon.

EXIM BANK TO BOOST EXPORTS?
The 2015 budget presented last week by government  announced the establishment of an Export-Import (EXIM) Bank with the aim of transforming Ghana's economy into an export oriented one.

POWER CRISIS: BUSINESSES LOSE $62M MONTHLY
The recent unpredictable power supply in the country is continually pushing the cost of doing business further up and subjecting domestic consumers to live with the discomfort of the power outages and its attendant  effect on the prices of goods and services.

SIMULATION EXERCISE AT VIP LOUNGE: 5 COCAINE SUSPECTS INVOLVED;ALHAJI DAWOOD ON WANTED LIST

The Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) has declared Alhaji Mohammed Alamid Dawood wanted for allegedly helping Nayele Ametefeh, the suspect busted with 12.5 kilgrammes of cocaine, and her two friends to use the VIP Lounge of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra.

MINORITY CALLS FOR BI-PARTISAN COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE NAYELE AMETEFEH'S COCAINE CASE

The Minority in Parliament has called for the establishment of a bipartisan parliamentary committee to investigate the Nayele Ametefe cocaine case.

$85,000 E-WASTE RECYCLING FACILITY GOES TO WASTE AT AGBOGBLOSHIE

A new e-waste recycling facility intended to transform the recycling of scrap metals at Agbogbloshie in Accra is gradually becoming a white elephant.

MAHAMA, GNASSINGBE INAUGURATE GHANA-TOGO RAILWAY
Presidents John Dramani Mahama and Faure Gnassingbe jointly inaugurated the Ghana-Togo railway yesterday, promising that the two countries would continue to show the way in what effective collaboration could do.

ANTI-CORRUPTION WAR: OCCUPYGHANA BANS 'SOLI' TO JOURNALISTS

OccupyGhana, a socio-political non-partisan pressure group with the vision of engaging Ghanaians in development process and ensuring good and responsible governance, as well as highlighting corrupt practices has decided to halt the payment of solidarity (soli) to journalists who cover their events.

DISTRIBUTION OF MOSQUITO NETS NOT FOR VOTES
The Eastern Regional Coordinator of the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), Rev Richard Yeboah has expressed worry about propaganda onging in some parts of the Eastern Region that the free distribution of insecticide treated nets is an inducement from government to win votes.

ROT AT K'DUA PLY: SRC PAST EXECUTIVES FACE ARREST
The General Assembly of the Student Representative Council (SRC) of Koforidua Polytechnic has ordered the executives of the 2013/2014 immediate past executives of the SRC for allegedly embezzling a total amount of over GH¢50,000.00

I HAVE MY SHARE OF MARRIAGE PROBLEMS -- MAMA ZIMBI

KSM: MAKING OF A LEGEND
MZVEE: A LITTLE HELP FROM FRIENDS

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