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Court orders landlords to construct household toilet

A Hohoe Magistrate Court has ordered Francis Ahiaho and Samuel Tenkpor, both household heads to construct a toilet before February 27, 2023. They were brought before the Court for refusal to construct household latrine and depositing of faeces in polythene bags behind their living room and bathhouse. Ahiaho pleaded guilty …

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Man butchered over stolen plantain

A 32-year-old man at Nkawie Panin in the Ashanti Region is battling for his life after he was butchered over a bunch of plantains. According to a police report, the victim, Ali Dawuda was in his house around 6:30 pm on Saturday, January 21, 2023, when the suspect, angrily came …

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Woman arrested for illegal meter installation; 20 fake metres seized

Police in Krobo have arrested a woman on a residential property for illegally replacing her meter. According to sources at angelonline.com.gh, officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana had installed a new prepaid meter in the home of the woman, but routine checks by officers uncovered that the culprit had …

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Motor rider stabs colleague to death at Dagbamate

Agorsor Christian, a 22-year-old commercial motor rider, has allegedly stabbed his colleague rider to death. The Ghana News Agency (GNA) learnt the alleged act was as a result of the suspect’s attempt to pick a passenger ahead of the deceased. Agbesi Davor, 33, died on his way to the Abor …

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Killer of Cape Coast dancehall artiste sentenced to death

The High Court in Cape Coast has sentenced Bright Ellis, the man accused of killing Cape Coast-based dancehall artiste Unruly Grank, to death. The court, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Lodoh, sentenced the accused person to death by hanging. Reacting to the court’s decision, the mother of the deceased dancehall …

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28-year-old teacher allegedly commits suicide

A 28-year-old teacher, Robert Yaw Agboshie Wayome, has reportedly committed suicide in his room at Bibiani Estate, a suburb of Bibiani in the western North region. The mother of the deceased said she became worried that her son did not come out of his room as he does every morning …

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Missing twin: Couple takes 37 Military Hospital to task

When a couple in Accra walked into the 37 Military Hospital Maternity Unit, they were expecting twins, but they were stunned to be handed a single baby after delivery. They are accusing the staff of the hospital of allegedly being re­sponsible for the ‘disappearance’ of one of the freshly-born babies supposed to …

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Alleged crossdresser killed in Kongo

A young man, Bugbil Roger Adaboo Toure, has allegedly been killed for wearing female clothes at Kongo in the Nandom District of the Upper East Region. The man, believed to be in his early twenties, was found dead in the community and suspected to have been killed by some irate …

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Mother hangs son, commits suicide

In the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western Region, in a community called Ajoa, a woman has hanged herself after hanging her child. The tragedy happened in an uncompleted building in the community. A group of labourers working on the property who saw the dead bodies hanging in the building …

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Evangelist ,75, missing after house-to-house evangelism at Kormantse

A 75 year old Jehovah Witness Evangelist is nowhere to be found after a week house to house evangelism. The aged evangelist was always active in the Church’s Evangelism ministry though she cannot speak well. News of the old lady going missing has thrown rsidents of Kormantse-Kokodo near Mankessim in …

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