Yearly Archives: 2019

I can’t speak on Australia Visa Scandal – Asiamah to Parliament

The Minister for Youth and Sports, Isaac Asiamah, on Thursday, failed to answer questions from Mion MP Mohammed Abdul-Aziz who sought to find out when the Australian Commonwealth Games visa racketeering scandal report will be made public. In an answer to the question on the floor, Mr Asiamah stated his …

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Chief imposes wedding tax in his village

No-one has got married in a village in Kano state, Nigeria, in the past four months after its chief imposed a wedding tax. Ado Sa’id, the chief of Kera village in north-west Nigeria, wants grooms to pay 137,000 naira ($377, £294). This is instead of the current custom of the …

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Two children dead after being shot in farm at Kintampo

The Kintampo Divisional Police Command has started investigations into the death of two children at Krabonso-Adiambra in the Kintampo South District of the Bono East Region. The two died from wounds after they were shot whilst in a farm by an unknown person on Monday. The two, Gabriel Yinye, 10, …

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Listen: Torture of 6-year-old boy an act of wizardry – MP

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano North Constituency, Mrs Freda Akosua Prempeh, has condemned the abuse of a six-year-old boy at Manhea in the Ga West Municipal District in the Greater Accra region. According to the legislator, the act was simply an act of wizardry because there are other …

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Another Journalist Attacked In Kumasi, Equipment Seized

The chief executive officer of a private nursing school in kumasi of the Ashanti region, Afia Kobi Nursing school at Nhyieso, Owusu King has been arrested by the Manhyia Police command for physically assaulting an OTEC FM Reporter. The reporter, Oheneba Kwaku Atta (Apossor) was physically assaulted; equipment seized by …

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Damba 2019: McDan ‘greets’ Mion Lana with Gh¢50,000

The Executive Chairman of McDan group, who is also the Gugba Naa of Tamale, Dr Daniel Mckorley has donated cash and assorted gifts worth Gh¢50 000 to the Mion Lana towards the celebration of the Damba festival. Present at the brief but impressive ceremony to make the presentation was Mr …

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