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Download Lyrics : Shatta Wale – Mama Stories

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Shatta Wale – Mama Stories (Prod. by Damage Music) Learn below and sing along to Shatta Wale’s new mothers jam titled Mama Stories. Play for your mom for she is all you have. Jah Know Me know say sometimes, life nuh too fair for some of we Me know how you feel, a stud inna a day now But dis nuh go last forever no I want to make you proud and wipe away unnu tears Mama you know So we still ah search and find Me promise seh me never ah go waste my time Bad company ah nuh my style Cud’ah never hear seh me ah dey jail and I do time Me know the streets dem really hot Everybody know the system tough But we still focus and got we eyes pon di prize Mama, even though we poor today We ah go turn rich tomorrow Just gimme some likkle time mama, me ah go stop this sorrow And you seh time go tell You seh me i go rise above dem Everything soon change like heaven but nuh dis hearse I say Mama I know how you feel Mama Soon we ah go get out from di slums After the storm comes a ...
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Upper West RCC releases impounded trucks suspected of smuggling PFJs fertilizers

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The Upper West Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) has released the 54 articulated trucks impounded last Monday on suspicion of smuggling over 8,000 bags of fertilizers designated for Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJs) programme. The RCC freed the vehicles upon advice from the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) that cleared the vehicles after thorough inspections on them established they were embarking on legal journey to designated areas in the Region. Mr Eli Tsikata, Deputy Coordinating Director at the Upper West RCC, told the Ghana News Agency that full investigations by the security agencies revealed that the trucks were really moving to appropriate designations. “We called authorities from Accra and they confirmed that the vehicles were going to Tumu and Gwolu and so, we were left with no option than to dispatch them,” he said. Even though, the police reported on Monday that the trucks were 54, the RCC pegged the number at 74 and that they were loaded with maize seeds and ferti...
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Mobile Money Interoperability records more than 4.4million transactions

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Mobile Money Interoperability (MMI) recorded more than 4.4 million transactions in its first year of operation. Beginning with just 96,907 transactions in its first month, public usage of the cross network platform grew phenomenally to 422,275 transactions in December last year and 502,873 transactions in May this year. MMI or seamless cross mobile money network transactions became possible in May last year, following a challenge thrown to the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement System (GhIPSS), the Telcos and financial institutions by the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. The Chief Executive Officer of GhIPSS, Archie Hesse in an interview described the MMI initiative as successful. He said it has provided a very efficient way of funds transfer for many people, opening up the mobile money payment platform, enabling people and businesses to use it in different ways. Before MMI came into being, cross network transactions through the ‘token’ system was hovering around 90,000 t...
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