Kwesi Pratt, Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, is utterly shocked by a new study that indicates nicotine could prevent infection and serious illness from coronavirus. A recent French study has indicated that nicotine is helpful in guarding against coronavirus, functioning as an anti-inflammatory agent that kills the virus. Nicotine …

A bullion van belonging to Absa Bank was on Friday afternoon robbed at gunpoint by 8 unmasked men at Maapehia on the Techiman – Sunyani in the Bono East Region, MyNewsGh.com has confirmed. The incident happened when one Lance Corporal Yussif Abubakar , a Police officer stationed at Tanoso District Headquarters on …

  Mavis Brepor, the woman accused of conniving with her boyfriend, Patrick Asare, to kill her husband says she had been manipulated by Mr. Asare with a charm. According to her, she had no control of herself and was hypnotized to take instructions from Mr. Asare. Mavis and Patrick are …

Ghana has recorded its biggest single-day spike of 921 new infections of the COVID-19 pandemic. This has effectively seen the country record a quantum leap of infections from 3,091 to 4,012 after recording its first two cases on March 12, 2020. According to an update on the Ghana Health Service’s …

The Asokwa District Court 2 has remanded a married woman and her boyfriend who conspired to kill her husband at Pamen near Kwabeng in the Eastern region. The two were remanded after the prosecutor, Chief Superintendent Kofi Blagodzi, prayed the court, presided over by His worship Korkor Achaw Owusu, to …

The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Her Honour Mrs Afia Owusua Appiah, has remanded into police custody one Mohammed Buzu, who has been absent from court for two years for possessing firearms and ammunition without lawful authority. Buzu, a trader, was arrested in November 2017 and granted bail …

The Ghana Scholarship Secretariat on Thursday in Sekondi encouraged interested applicants to quickly log on to the www.scholarshipgh.com portal and follow the three-step application process before May, 15 deadline. Mr. Kingsley Agyeman, the Director of the Secretariat, told Journalists that about 70,000 people are expected to be sponsored with tax …

A Burkinabe National is on the wanted list of the Ghana Police Service in the Upper East Region for alleged theft. Abdulai Bari, the suspect, is 26 years old and an ex-convict who lives in Takuna in Navrongo and is alleged to be the one after a set of robberies …

A mother-of-four who recently gave birth to a baby girl at the Kumasi South Hospital in the Ashanti Region, has recovered fully and discharged with her new child who was not infected by the virus. The baby has tested negative twice, even though it is being breastfed by the mother, …

The ‘fugitive’ Pastor, Bishop Eric Borngreat Aboagye of Heavens Life Global Church at Ashaiman, has been arrested after being on the run for almost week. He made himself available at the Ashaiman Divisional Police Headquarters on Monday, May 4, after a bench warrant had been issued for his arrest by …

Management of the University of Education, Winneba, has revised its measures for mid-semester and end of semester examinations. The review comes after students revolted against the e-learning portal ‘Learning Management System’ after they claimed it was inefficient. The school’s management said in its effort at ensuring that no student is …

THE ‘FUGITIVE’ Pastor, Bishop Eric Borngreat Aboagye of Heavens Life Global Church at Ashaiman, has finally been arrested after being on the run for almost week. He made himself available at the Ashaiman Divisional Police Headquarters on Monday, May 4, after a bench warrant had been issued for his arrest …

The blood transfusion unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital is in a dire state as blood stocks is at its lowest in the only tertiary referral facility in the middle belt of Ghana. The unit is unable to pool blood from schools, religious institutions and other organized bodies as …

A 60-year-old farmer has been Butchered multiple times in the head by unknown attackers at 44 a suburb community in the Suhum Municipality of the Eastern Region. The victim Lawrence Obuobi Nyanteh suffered multiple serious injuries in the head by his attackers who also fled with few monies in his pocket. …

The Greater Accra region leads with 2,579 cases of the novel Coronavirus, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has updated. The Ashanti Region, however, has also recorded 165 of COVID-19 with the Bono region becoming the 13th region to record a case. The Savannah, Ahafo and Bono East remain the only regions in Ghana …

Course introduces the next generation of professionals to ‘the new language for the future of work’ – Coding. Tunis / Casablanca / Durban, May 05 2020 – Honoris United Universities, the first and largest pan-African network of private higher education institutions, today announced that it has joined forces with the …

Some angry youth of Adabraka Odorna in Accra who have been incensed by the death of a fellow resident have vandalised the Adabraka police station. The residents blamed the police for the death of a man who fell and drowned in the Odaw drain. Scores of the residents besieged the …

The Upper East Regional Police Command is urging the General Public to assist in tracing a 51-year-old suspect Mallam Ali for his alleged involvement in the gruesome murder of a 20-year-old Tricycle rider at the Sherigu, a suburb of Bolgatanga. This follows a bench warrant issued for his arrest by …

Ghana has recorded 372 more novel Coronavirus cases, making the total case count 3,091, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has stated. As of May 7, 2020, nine more patients have recovered and discharged making the total number of recoveries 303. The death toll, according to the GHS update is still 18. The …

Emmanuel Antwi, 19, is said to have made his way through the ceiling of the drinking spot located at Maabang, near Adankwame in the Atwima-Nwabiagya North District, with iron bars at about 2300 hours, and took drinks valued at GHc 4,000.00 and cash of GHc 400.00. He pleaded guilty and …

A commercial vehicle driver, Gbenga Ogungbemi, and his friend, Tosin Olbamoyo, have been arrested by men of the Ogun state police command for allegedly killing a businesswoman, Evelyn Ebere, and stealing her N400,000. A statement by the state police command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said Gbenga who usually takes the deceased to Ire-Ekiti …

The Effiduase Magistrate Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced a 27-year-old fetish priest at Effiduase two years imprisonment for attempting to exhume the body of one Francis Kwabena Agyapong, who was buried recently. The court, presided over by Michael Derrick Ocloo, sentenced Yaw Michael after pleading guilty to the …

The Akropong Circuit Court has fined four Kingmakers arrested for flouting imposition of restriction on gathering a total of GHC48,576. The convicted persons are Odehye Kofi Asiedu Adu-Mfum,57, Nana Semenhyia Ohene Asa Krofa, 43, Benet Osei opoku alias Ohenenana BS Opoku,55, and Nana Odiasempa Krobea Asante,70, were Charged for failing …

The two fetish priests, who have been arrested for murder, had in their possession an idol-looking sculpture fitted with human skulls, which they allegedly used for their rituals. The fetish priest A special police team raided the shrine last Thursday and retrieved an assortment of tell-tale exhibits. Apart from the …

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has given updates on the Power 1 Shrine saga. According to the CID, the accipient who went missing and later found buried at the Power 1 Shrine at Maame Dede in the Eastern Region has been identified as Mr Edward Quartey Papafio. The deceased was …

The Manhyia Divisional Police Command in the Ashanti Region has arrested a wedded wife and her boyfriend for conniving to kill her husband at Pamen near Kwabeng in the Eastern region. The two were arrested after they mistook the would-be contract killer’s cell phone number for Manhyia Divisional Police Commander’s. …

The Ghana Health Service has expressed concern the COVID-19 pandemic is having a weighty toll on other aspects of healthcare in the country. According to the GHS, health facilities have recorded low Out Patient Attendance as well as a decline in visits for routine pregnancy and child health checkups. The …

A first-year Senior High School (SHS) student has been stabbed dead following “a slight misunderstanding”, eyewitnesses narrated. The suspect, identified as only Gideon, who lives in the same house with the deceased (name withheld), had since been apprehended. Reports emerging from the corridors of the police said the suspect would …

Gallons filled with suspected human blood were discovered at the shrine in the Eastern Region where a special police team raided last Thursday and exhumed some remains. The two fetish priests who have been arrested in connection with the heinous crimes have reportedly confessed killing two people and burying them …

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, on Monday, sentenced a driver, Olalekan Hameed to death for killing his employer’s 76-year-old mother, Jolasun Okunsanya. Justice Dada delivered the judgment in a virtual court session approved by the state Chief Judge, Justice Kazeem Alogba, in line with the …