The minister of state for Monitoring and Evaluation has served notice of stringent assessment of all ministers beginning in the first quarter of this year.

The Upper West Regional Police Command says it has picked signals that groups of illegal miners from the southern part of the country have relocated to the Upper West Region following the clampdown on their activities in the south.

The AMA and the police will from next week wage war on traders and hawkers on the streets of Accra as part of a major decongestion exercise.

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