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JAN 27, 2015 LISTEN

EX- GREDA BOSS, 5 OTHER ARRESTED
An operation to clump down on illegal SIM box fraud operators has led to the arrest of six persons, including a former President of the Ghana Real Estate Developers Association (GREDA)

STARS, BAFANA BAFANA IN CRUNCHY DECIDER
Power consumers have to gird their loins for an intensified load shedding regime because of the generation shortfall of more than 500 megawatts.

PREPARE FOR INTENSIFIED LOAD SHEDDING
In Mongomo this evening, Ghana's Black Stars must be better off winning their last match in Group C against South Africa's Bafana Bafana to qualify for the quarter finals of the ongoing AFCON in Equatorial Guinea.

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GREDA BOSS ARRESTED OVER $33M SIM BOX FRAUD
A former boss of Ghana Real Estate Developers Association (GREDA), Dr Alexander Tweneboah, and nine others have been arrested by an Anti-Telecommunications Fraud taskforce in collaboration with the Criminal Investigation (CID) of the Ghana Police Service with support from SUBAH Info Solutions Ghana Limited.

WEE NABBED IN DIPLOMATIC VEHICLE
Two men are currently in the grips of the Volta Regional Police Command for attempting to use a fake diplomatic vehicle to convey suspected Indian Hemp.

APOLLONIA FAMILY ACCUSES MINISTER
Three leading families in Apollonia under the Katamanso Assembly in the Greater Accra Region have lambasted the Regional Minister Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo and accused him of meddling in a current chieftaincy dispute in that area.

ALLEGED LOOTING AT CENTRAL MEDICAL STROES - GANG OF 11 EXPOSED

Eleven other senior officers of the Central Medical Stores (CMS) in Tema were implicated in the looting of drugs six clear months before fire gutted the place, giving credence to strong suspicion of arson.

BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF HFC BANK DEEPENS
An extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of HFC Bank slated for today was called off at the last minute following the filling of an application of an application for stay of execution pending the appeal by a shareholder dated January 26, 2015.

SUBAH EQUIPMENT BUSTS SIM FRAUD KINGPINS
A specialized equipment deployed by SUBAH Info Solutions Ghana Limited has led to the arrest of a SIM fraud syndicate operating in the country.

GERMAN TRIP NOT FASHION SHOW
The managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Junior is calling for heads to roll at state Protocol for failing to evaluate the outfit of the General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Aseidu Nketia during a state visit to Germany.

BOY, 3 DYING SLOWLY AFTER DRINKING CAUSTIC SODA
A family at Akuape Tutu in the eastern Region is appealing to the public, philanthropists and corporate organization to save the life of Danso Bismark, a four-year-old boy whose condition is worsening three years after drinking caustic soda also known as sodium hydroxide.

TEACHERS, NURSES FLEE COMMUNITY – DUE TO TERROR OF FULANI HERDSMEN

Teachers and nurses at Dwerebease, a farming ommunity in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region are yet to return to the community following attacks on the community by Fulani Herdsmen a week ago.

MARITIME WORKERS OPPOSE LONRHO'S FREE PORT
The Maritime and Dockworkers Union has vowed to fight a commercial agreement between the governance of Ghana and London-based firm, Lonrho Ports Limited, for the development of a free port at Atuabo in the Western Region.

BOG SHORES UP CURRENCY
Barely a month into the year, the Ghana cedi has started showing early sighs of losing its value to major currencies, particularly the United States dollar, a scare that is forcing the Bank of Ghana to almost double its weekly dollar float into the market.

SADA SEEKS FRESH START
The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) is determined to put the several controversies that dogged its initial years of operation behind it by pursuing what it believes is a practical roadmap to help in development of the northern regions.

SUBAH FACILITATES BIGGEST SIMBOX SWOOP
The joint Anti-Telecom Fraud Task Force, a combined team of selected security agencies and representatives from various telecommunication companies, has recorded by far its largest swoop on SIMbox fraudsters.

DOMESTIC CARRIERS PLAN REGIONAL FLIGHTS FROM K'SI          

Indigenous airlines are planning regional operations out of the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi to populous Nigerian city Lagos, following a successful maiden night flight from Accra to Kumasi last Friday.

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