It has emerged that the Police Officer found dead on duty with a gunshot wound at Akyem Swedru in the Eastern Region was depressed after he was diagnosed with diabetes. The widow, Aisha Asare, popularly known as Twumwaa Angelina on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 told the media after the visit …
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Mahama Is A “Terror” To Free SHS – Wontumi
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako popularly, known as “Wontum” has described Former President John Dramani Mahama as a terror to NPP flagship policy Free Senior High School. According to him, Mr. Mahama is against education and he appears confused and as …
Read More »Goldsmith shoots colleague in disagreement over gold in Kumasi
A disagreement between two goldsmiths turned bloody when one shot the other at Ashanti New Town K.O., a suburb of Kumasi on Wednesday. The victim, Kofi Brentuo is said to be in critical condition after one Nana Asamoah reportedly fired at him three times at close range. He was rushed to nearby …
Read More »#OFOR Campaign: Fix Our Roads Now or Forget 2020 Elections- Obuasi Residents
Residents and motorists at Obuasi West Municipality of the Ashanti region have threatened to vote against the Nana Addo led government if they refuse to fix bad roads in the area before the end of 2018. They said several efforts had been made to get the attention of the authorities …
Read More »LPG Operators Strike: Taxi Drivers, Consumers Queue For Gas in Kumasi
The ongoing strike by the LPG operators in the country has left some drivers and consumers no choice but to travel long district in search of gas for domestic and commercial activities in the country. Otec News reporters Kwame Agyenim Boateng and Yvonne Osei after visiting some gas stations in …
Read More »PPI for petroleum sub-sector records 42.2 %
‘The Producer Price Inflation (PPI) in the petroleum subsector was 42.2 percent in July 2018. The rate decreased to 31.1 percent in September 2018, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), has said. However, the GSS said, the sector increased again to 36.1 percent in October 2018 but resumed a downward trend …
Read More »Small scale miners welcome new mining law
The Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners (GNASSM) has welcomed the amended mining law, but with some reservations that it says must have been addressed before the president would assent to the bill. The amended Minerals and Mining Act, 2015 (Act 900) and the Minerals Commission Act, 1993 (Act …
Read More »Immigration intercepts non-custom vehicle
Officers of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) at Menusu in the Kadjebi District of the Oti Region have intercepted a Nissan Navara pickup vehicle with suspected fake documents and registration number. Mr Felix Klu-Adjei, Volta Regional Public Relations Officer, GIS, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said the …
Read More »WADUME: Investigative panel worried over confessional video
The Joint Investigative Panel set up by the Defence Headquarters to unravel the circumstances surrounding killings of three Police detectives and a civilian in Taraba during an encounter with troops of the 93 Battalion is worried over the trending confessional video of the principal suspect in the case, Alhaji Hamisu …
Read More »Military panel probes Wadume’s confession, invites Police
The Joint Investigative Panel set up by the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, to probe the killing of three police in Ibi, Taraba State, has opened an investigation into the video showing arrested kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Wadume, indicting soldiers over his escape. This is just as the DHQ on Wednesday invited the …
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