The Anti-Human trafficking Unit of the Eastern Regional Police Command has arrested four suspected human traffickers including a female for using trafficked children for fishing. The suspects are Akwetey Kwame alias Frenchman, 32, Korbla Egbezutsor alias Tata , 49, Gadri Agbake alias JJ , 36 and Mawusi Amlade alias Sherifa …

Two teenagers who were stabbed to death at a house party in Milton Keynes have been formally identified by police. Dom Ansah (a Ghanaian) and Ben Gillham-Rice, who were both 17, were attacked in Archford Croft, Emerson Valley, on Saturday night, reports ITV news. Thames Valley Police have now formally …

A Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced a 38-year old corn mill operator to nine years imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old, at Fankyenebra in Kumasi. Kwame Michael pleaded guilty and was convicted on his plea. Police Chief Inspector Mercy Quaye, prosecuting, told the Court presided over by Mrs Comfort Tasiame that …

Broadcast journalism students of the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) were the toast of the audience on Wednesday, 23 October 2019, as they trashed graduate students from the University of Ghana, Legon and their undergraduate counterparts from the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), African University College of Communications (AUCC), …

Police in the Bono Region have busted two people for allegedly possessing 89 compressed slabs of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp. Abena Abuyaa, 71, and a 35-year-old farmer, Kwadwo Kintoh, popularly known as Ghanaboy, were arrested while trying to transact business on the Adantia-Badu road, near Sunyani in …

Some youth resident at the Sokoban Wood Village in Kumasi last Thursday went on the rampage and set some wooden structures suspected to be housing prostitutes ablaze over the death of a young man in the community. The 22-year-old man, identified as Akugure Limann, was alleged to have engaged the …

Former President JJ Rawlings has waded in the impasse between authorities of the University of Education-Winneba and Professor Mawutor Avoke saying there is a “clear case of injustice”. The former President’s position comes after the former Vice Chancellor of the school petitioned him over his removal by the council of …

Some youth resident at the Sokoban Wood Village in Kumasi last Thursday went on the rampage and set some wooden structures suspected to be housing prostitutes ablaze over the death of a young man in the community. The 22-year-old man, identified as Akugure Limann, was alleged to have engaged the …

One Joseph Sunday of Obot Ideng, in Ibesikpo local government area of Akwa Ibom state, has landed himself in police net for allegedly raping his two daughters aged nine and thirteen years. The suspect, it was gathered had been having threesome with his daughters for over three years after he …

Three armed robbers have attacked the Manhyia Government Hospital in the Asokore Mampong municipal of the Ashanti region and made away mobile phones and undisclosed sums of money. The incident which was recorded at 3 am on Thursday, October 24, 2019, happened at the Out-Patient Department (OPD) and the Emergency …

The Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana, TUTAG, has rejected the government’s proposal to pay its members extra allowances instead of migrating them onto the public university single spine salary structure. Government officials led by the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations reportedly proposed the payment of entertainment and responsibility …

The Adjabeng magistrate court in Accra presided over by His Worship Mr Isaac Addo has issued a stern warning and threatened to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of Charles Nii Armah a popularly known as called Shatta Wale if he fails to appear in court at the next …

Five suspected fraudsters have been busted by the Tafo-Pankrono Police Divisional Command in the Ashanti region for duping people into various sums of money. They were arrested at their operational hideout in a hotel at Atimatim in the Afigya Kwabre South district in the Ashanti region upon a tip off …

Residents of Kentinkrono in the Oforikrom municipality of the Ashanti region are angry at the municipal assembly for their inability to open for services, a constructed and equipped Community-Based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) compound that have been left to rot for years. The health facility which was constructed by …

Two (2) Persons have been arrested by Zongo Police in Kumasi for allegedly stealing and registering Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II’s Club known as Kumasi Club in their name at the Registrar Generals Department in Kumasi in order to perpetrate fraud. One other person who is said to have played …

Two persons, a man and a lady, have committed suicide by hanging to end matters following misunderstandings with their respective lovers on Thursday and Saturday at Agbagblakope and Agblekpui, suburbs of Aflao, in the Ketu South Municipality. The man, Julius Sewor, aged 25, was found hanging after his wife quarreled …

The Vice-Chancellors of Technical Universities in Ghana have given strong indications that the academic calendar of technical universities may be extended by three weeks if the ongoing strike by lecturers and administrators is not called off by the end of this week. The group which has been appealing to the …

The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is expected to award 100 teachers across the country on 27 November 2019 at the Manhyia Palace. The awardees are basic school teachers teaching in deprive communities across the country for a period of five years. The 7th Otumfuo teachers awards seeks to appreciate hardworking teachers …

The Ghana Education Service says it has commenced the process of posting teachers who completed Colleges of Education in 2018. Only trainees who have written and passed the Teacher Licensure Examination, and are completing their National Service are eligible. “Candidates who duly applied online will be shortlisted and postings effected …

A study done by a German scientist, Dr. Karen Weatherby, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has revealed that staring at women’s breasts is healthy and also elongates men’s lifespan. The study, which was carried out over a period of five years, involved 500 men, half of …

The Technical University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has accused the government of not taking their concerns seriously despite their strike. Chairman of the Accra Technical University branch of TUTAG, Dr. Ibrahim Zubairu, told media that government’s posture is disrespectful to both students and teachers. TUTAG went on strike on October …

The leadership of the Coalition of Unemployed Nurses (CUN) has said six members of the group have been arrested by the Police for picketing the Ministry of Health to demand that they are employed. A statement dated 21 October 2019 and signed by Mr Paul Selorm, the Convener of the …

Ten students of the Kumasi Technical Institute (KTI) have been arrested over Sunday’s [20 October 2019] protest in the school. The Manhyia Divisional Police Commander, ACP Kwaku Buah, told Kumasi FM’s Elisha Adarkwah that the students are currently in their custody. The form-three students of the school on Sunday protested …

Members of the Graduate Unemployed Nurses and Midwives Association will today, Monday, 21 October 2019 picket the Ministry of Health (MoH) to demand their immediate employment. The association is made up of public-trained nurses and midwives who graduated in 2017 and 2018 and have been home unemployed. “We are going …

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) Health Service Workers Union(HSWU) elections which was scheduled to come of Friday October19, 2019 has been called off. The suspension is due to a court injunction placed on the elections by two aggrieved members of HSWU- Awuni Akyireba and Emmanuel Kusi Sarpong, who are also …

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection has told teachers to stop complaining about the food they receive from caterers implementing the School Feeding Programme. Cynthia Morrison said the caterers are only doing the teachers a favour because the programme covers only school children. “There are a lot of …

A bus conveying students from the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Sunyani to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi has caught fire. Photos circulating on multiple online platforms show huge flames breaking out through the windows of the white bus. The cause of the fire is yet …

Administrators of Technical Universities have declared an indefinite strike. The administrators, who are members of the Technical Universities Administrators Association of Ghana (TUAAG) say their decision is premised on the failure of the government to address their concerns. Key among these is their base pay in line with their new …

A coconut seller, identified as Kwaku Boadu, has allegedly inflicted cutlass wounds on one Kojo Mensah, another coconut seller over price reduction from GHc 1.00 to 50 pesewas at Breman Kokoso in the Central region. Information gathered by Adom News suggested that Mr Boadu, popularly known as Cantona, inflicted the wounds during …

For the third consecutive time, Anwar Sadat Mohammed aka Alhaji, the prime suspect in the murder of the Otumfuo’s Asamponhene, Oheneba Kwadwo Aforduo, has been remanded in prison custody. During its sitting on Thursday, a District Court in the Asokore Mampong Municipality granted the wish of the prosecution team by …