CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Six persons arrested over missing excavators

The Ghana Police Serice has announced the arrest of six persons over missing excavators and other equipment seized by operatives of Operation Vanguard. The six persons arrested so far are; Horace Ekow Ewusi, Frederick Ewusi, Joel Asamoah, Adnan Haruna, Frank Gyan and John Arhin. According to the police, all suspects …

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GES shuts down Buipe SHS after fire razed school

Nearly 300 students of Buipe Senior High School have been asked to go home after they lost all their personal belongings in a fire that burnt down their dormitory, Monday, February 3, 2020. Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Northern Region, Kanzoni Donald, in a …

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GES shuts down Buipe SHS after fire razed school

Nearly 300 students of Buipe Senior High School have been asked to go home after they lost all their personal belongings in a fire that burnt down their dormitory, Monday, February 3, 2020. Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Northern Region, Kanzoni Donald, in a …

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Ghana Education system defective – Catholic Priest

A Kumasi based Catholic Priest, Rev. Father Mary James Opoku Ware, has described the current educational system in Ghana as defective. According to the renowned Radio preacher, the new curriculum introduced by the Ghana Education Service (GES) will gradually take away the mutual respect between a teacher and a student. …

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NPP Vice Chair arrested over missing excavators

The Central Regional Vice Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Horace Ekow Ewusi, is in the grips of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), according to Adomonline.com. He is being interrogated over his alleged role in some missing excavators and other equipment seized from illegal mining operators. His arrest follows a request made …

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Mahama Will Collapse Free SHS Policy- Napo Reiterates

The Minister of ’Education Minister, Dr.Matthew Opoku Prempeh aka ‘Napo’, has reiterated that the free Senior High School (SHS) policy will not survive under John Mahamah Presidency and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) government. Hon. Opoku Prempeh who also the MP for Manhyia South Constituency has therefore, admonished Ghanaians to …

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37 Hospital closes two units for fumigation exercise

The 37 Military Hospital has announced that it will from Friday, 7 February 2020, to Friday, 6 March 2020, close down two of its units for a fumigation exercise. The affected units are the Medical and Emergency Unit (MEU) and the Trauma, Surgical and Emergency Unit. A press statement signed …

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Buipe SHS girl’s dormitory destroyed by fire

Fire has gutted part of the Buipe Senior High School. The fire which swept through the girls’ dormitory, ClassFM 97.3 understands, have destroyed the personal belongings of the girls. The fire started Monday morning when the girls were preparing to go to class. The cause of the fire is not …

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Boy,17, lynched for stealing ‘Pragia’ motorbike

A 17 -year- old boy, Kwabena Agyei, was beaten to death by an angry mob on Friday morning for stealing a ‘Pragia’ Motorbike at Aboaso in the Kodie District of the Ashanti Region. According to eyewitness accounts, the victim, Agyei, was a native at Offinso Asamankama but traveled to Aboaso …

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Anaesthetists declare indefinite strike

Members of the Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anaesthetists have laid down their tools effective today, Friday, January 31, 2020. The decision to declare an indefinite strike, according to the group is to protest the refusal of the Medical and Dental Council to rescind its decision to change the group’s …

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Man Kills Rival For Having Sex With Wife In Toilet

“Upon my return from work, I heard my wife moaning inside our toilet and when I went close, I spotted her having sex with a man inside the toilet, and I kicked the man to the ground…” These were the words of a 46-year-old electrician who has been arrested for …

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Ghanaian teachers to benefit from ‘world class’ Teacher Survey App

A ground-breaking innovation, certain to create a significant impact across the education landscape in Ghana, is about to be launched. Known as TeacherTapp Ghana, this teacher survey mobile app, is aimed at gathering information regarding the daily lives of teachers and education in general, through a series of programmed questions …

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Anaesthetists to strike from Friday over title change

Members of the Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anaesthetists (GACRA) have served notice they will embark on strike from Friday, January 31, 2020. According to the association, their appeal to the Medical and Dental Council over plans to change their name has been ignored. They claim the MDC has instead …

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3 Nigerian stowaways land in Ghana instead of Spain

Three Nigerians have become the latest suspects to be arrested by the Tema Port Authorities in the year 2020 after they failed in their attempt to stowaway to Europe. The three stowaways who have since been placed in police custody had boarded the vessel from Nigeria in hope of going …

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Man, 52, jailed for defiling 3-year-old girl

A 52 year old unemployed, who defiled a three-year-old girl at Apatrapa New Site, near Kumasi, has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by a Kumasi Circuit Court. Owusu Sebi pleaded not guilty to the offence but was found guilty after trial by the Court, presided over by Comfort Tasiame. …

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Another fire incident at Accra Academy

There is another fire outbreak on the campus of Accra Academy, a few days after a similar incident on the campus. The Alema Hall fire according to GhanaWeb sources started round 8:30 pm. This is the second time since January 15, when the first fire outbreak swept the same Alema …

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New ambulances can locate caller, connect to nearest health centre

The newly-commissioned ambulances are fitted with digitised state-of-the-art dispatch management system, integrated with the national digital property addressing system which will automatically generate the digital address location of the caller, President Akufo-Addo has disclosed. This according to the President, will enable the control centre to determine straightaway the nearest ambulance to dispatch, he …

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One person arrested over bizarre exhumation of corpse

The Nkawkaw District Police Command has arrested one person in connection with the exhumation of remains of a deceased at Awenade, a community near Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region. The suspect Nana Kwaku Ampadu, 39, was picked up by Police Monday, January 27, 2020 at about 12:35 pm at his …

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Midwife calls for security for CHPS compound

Madam Faustina Lami Abatera, the Midwife in charge of the Kolinvai Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound located in the East Mumprusi Municipality of the North East Region has called for security guards to protect the facility and medical equipment. She said the facility which has a nurses’ quarters …

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Takoradi-Tarkwa railway ready for free passenger service

The Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL) has successfully completed its reformation exercise on the Takoradi-Tarkwa Railway line and urged the public to patronize its services for free on the stretch beginning today, Tuesday January 28. The GRCL said it was fully prepared to begin passenger services after a concurrent test …

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SHSs risk closure over lack of funds and food

Senior High Schools in the country risk closure over lack of funds and shortage of food. Funds have not been disbursed to the schools since the beginning of the 2019/2020 academic year affecting the smooth running of the schools. Starr News checks in the Eastern region reveal most schools have …

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Farmer guns down Surveyor

A 34-year-old Mapping and Surveying apprentice, Thomas Yaw Kyame, has been gunned down by a farmer after mistaking him for a game. The incident occurred at Sikorkor, a farming community near Agavenya in the New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region. The body of the deceased has been retrieved …

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