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Today's Front Pages [22nd January 2016]

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PHONEY RESHUFFLE CAUSES PANIC

A phoney cabinet reshuffle purported to be the second in the series and circulated on social media platforms yesterday caused fear and panic among some functionaries of the government.

GOVERNMENT, LABOUR MAKE ‘PROGRESS’ ON PRICE HIKES

The government and organized labour have made some progress towards reaching a common ground in their negotiations on workers’ demands over the upward adjustments in petroleum prices and utility tariffs.

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GHANA GAS RESUMES SUPPLY TO VRA

The Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) has resumed the supply of gas to the Volta River Authority after a planned shutdown of the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant for mandatory maintenance work.

MAHAMA ‘RESHUFFLE’ CAUSES STIR

Ghanaians were Thursday taken on a wild goose chase when a fresh list of reshuffled ministers which turned out to be a hoax popped up, trending on social media and subsequently on radio and television stations with an almost speed of light.

KILLER COP ARRESTED

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A police officer, Sergeant Jacob Adoye, with the SWAT Unit of the Accra Regional Police command, has been detained for allegedly shooting two persons including a suspected murderer, during an arrest.

AFOKO MURDER TRIAL BEGINS

State prosecutors are set to begin the indictment processes of Gregory Afoko over the murder of Adams Mahama, the Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party.

NEW MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS ARE A HOAX – FLAGSTAFF HOUSE

The Flagstaff House Communications Bureau has dismissed social media reports that President John Mahama has made latest reshuffle. The Flagstaff House has however asked Ghanaians to disregard the purported list.

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SAM GEORGE TAKE DR BAWUMIA TO TASK OVER COMMENTS ON PRESIDENTIAL RESHUFFLE

One of the presidential staffers and the parliamentary candidate for Ningo-Prampram constituency in the Greater Accra Region, has taken to task the vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party Dr Mahamudu Bawumia over his comments that the recent presidential reshuffle amounts to nothing.

POLICE SHOOT TWO DEAD

The police have shot two people, including someone they described as a murder suspect dead at Nmai-Dzorn in Accra.

INTEREST RATES TO GO UP AS IMF DEMANDS POLICY RATE HIKE

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As the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana commences its 68th Regular Meeting Friday, the International Monetary Fund is urging that the policy rate – which remains at an 11-year-high  - be further increased as inflation continues to draft from the target.

NEMESIS CATCHES UP WITH ECG

Decades of underinvestment significant system loses and mismanagement by the Electricity Company of Ghana was evident last Thursday, as large parts of the country were plunged into darkness following the collapse of the electricity distributor’s system.

FUEL PRICES COULD DROP BY FEBRUARY

Barring any further depreciation of the Ghana cedi, ex-refinery prices of petroleum product should “fairly drop” in the next selling window, which is from February 1 to 15, 2016, the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors has said in its latest market update.

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