The Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association (GHAPFA) has attributed the recent increase in egg prices to the high-cost feed used by the poultry farmers. The president for the association, Mr. Michael Nyarko-Ampem stated that the raw materials used in preparing the feed has surged by over 100 percent. “There …
Read More »Mob lynches kidnap suspect, sets police station, patrol vans ablaze
Angry mob on Tuesday attacked Kware Divisional Police Station in Sokoto State and lynched a suspected kidnapper. Members of the mob, who are residents of the area, went violent and also set ablaze a car belonging to the Divisional Police Officer and two other police vans. The Command’s Public Relations …
Read More »Police officers involved in death, secret burial of inmate at Seikwa remanded
The Sunyani Circuit Court A has remanded the three police officers and three others, who allegedly brutalised a suspect in custody to death and secretly buried him, into prison custody. The six were charged on two counts; conspiracy to commit a crime to wit: murder, contrary to section 23(1) and …
Read More »Shop attendant stabbed to death at Lapaz
A middle-aged man has allegedly been stabbed to death inside a Phone shop at Lapaz, a suburb of Accra. Police say at about 8:00 am on Wednesday, a distress call was placed to the Lapaz station on the murder of the young man. Sources say the man who was …
Read More »Agradaa’s Pastor husband speaks after his wife denounced priesthood
Speaking at a press conference addressed by his wife on Monday, Pastor Koranteng who described the development as monumental, he said it has taken him five years of constant efforts to have finally gotten his wife to renounce her activities. When you listened outside you would’ve heard people insulting me …
Read More »FDA sacks Head of Legal Affairs over US$100,000 bribery report
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has on the basis of stated misconduct, terminated the appointment of Mrs. Cynthia Dapaah-Ntow, its Head of Legal Affairs. The move comes after an internal Disciplinary Committee implicated her in a bribery scandal involving a food supplement manufacturer last year. An internal memo …
Read More »LIVE: President Cyril Ramaphosa to appear at Zondo commission
WATCH THE LIVE VIDEO BELOW: Ramaphosa will be wearing his party cap when he appears on Wednesday and Thursday, and will be expected to take the punches for both his personal role and that of the ANC in the state capture project. He will return to the commission in …
Read More »Let’s process cocoa into finished products for AfCFTA — MD, PBC
Players in the cocoa production and processing value-chain in the country have called for immediate and rigorous measures to be placed to ensure improvement of the commodity into more semi-finished and finished products. This, they said would enable not only large scale companies but more importantly, small-scale and artisanal companies …
Read More »Nine policemen killed by unidentified gunmen in Nigeria
Five security officers including two soldiers were killed at the weekend by suspected separatists in Nigeria’s oil hub of Port Harcourt, according to a police memo seen Monday by AFP. The southeastern part of Nigeria is experiencing a spate of attacks on security forces, which authorities attribute to members …
Read More »‘Nana Addo will not finish his term’: Second witness testifies against Bulldog
Theodosia Antwiwaa Appiah, the second prosecution witness in the trial of Lawrence Nana Asiamah aka Bulldog mounted the witness box at an Accra Circuit Court. Testifying before an Accra Circuit Court, Theodosia, a complainant in the case, led in evidence by Chief Inspector Simon Apiorsornu said on January 9, …
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