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General News of Sunday, 18 December 2016

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LIVESTREAMING: NPP holds thanksgiving service

The NPP will take control of the Executive and Legislature from January 7, 2017 play videoThe NPP will take control of the Executive and Legislature from January 7, 2017

Thousands of NPP supporters have thronged the Accra Sports Stadium for an 'inter-denominational Christian Praise and Thanksgiving Service' to thank God for the party’s victory in the just ended December polls.

It follows a similar service on Friday when the president-elect and his vice offered thanksgiving prayers at the Central Mosque with Chief Imam, Nuhu Sharubutu.

Today's thanksgiving service is on the theme: “We will rejoice in thy salvation and in the name of our God. We will set up our banners. The Lord fulfill all thy petition, Psalm 20:5.”

The New Patriotic Party beat the incumbent National Democratic Congress in the 2016 general elections. The party will control parliament having secured 171 seats while also taking charge of the Executive all from January 7, 2017.