CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

2 arrested for stealing Otumfuo’s Club for $1.3 million

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 …

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Two commit suicide after misunderstanding with lovers

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 …

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Asantehene to award teachers November 27

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 …

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2018 trained teachers to be posted by November – GES

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 …

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TUTAG strike: Gov’t accused of disrespecting lecturers, students

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 …

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Six jobless nurses arrested for picketing

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 …

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KTI students vandalise school; 10 arrested

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 …

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Jobless Nurses Picket At Ministry of Health Today

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 …

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KATH’s local elections suspended after court injunction

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 …

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Photos: University of Energy bus catches fire mid-way to Kumasi

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 …

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Administrators in Technical Universities declare indefinite strike

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 …

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Otumfuo’s chief ‘killer’ remanded

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 …

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Momo fraud: How scammers steal your money

Stephen Nyuur is a businessman who operates his provision shop at Achimota Mile 7, a suburb of Accra. He deals in general merchandise and has several customers that buy the products for retail purposes. Stephen receives payments of his merchandise in cash, and through the electronic system of payment i.e. …

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Father gets 15 years for defiling daughter

A trader, who had sex at knife-point with his 12-year-old daughter, has been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court. The convict, King Arthur, was said to have sexually abused his own daughter on multiple occasions in the absence of her mother. According to …

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Cyber fraud: Ghanaians lose $200m in 3 years

Despite the consistent caution and education on cyber fraud, many people are still falling prey to the activities of criminals through the Internet, resulting in the loss of millions of US dollars to businesses and individuals in Ghana. Last year alone, Ghanaian businesses and individuals lost $97 million to fraudsters. …

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[VIDEO]: Nsawam prisoners enrolled on NHIS – Bawumia

The Ghana News Agency has reported that 80) per cent of inmates at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison have been registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). This is to enable them get access to quality healthcare. That is not all, an additional 40 medical practitioners have been seconded …

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Group protests renaming of Navrongo UDS after C.K. Tedam

A group calling itself the Concerned Navrongo Citizens for Development in the Kassena-Nankana Municipal is demanding the suspension of plans to rename the now autonomous University for Development Studies, Navrongo campus after C.K. Tedam. The group on Friday marched on the streets of Navrongo in protest to the change. President Nana Akufo-Addo …

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Coconut seller butchers friend to death over coconut husks

A man believed to be in his twenties has been butchered to death by his friend at Breman Kokoso in the Asikuma Odobeng Brakwa district of the Central Region. The Victim Kojo Mensah popularly Known as Mandela had an argument with his friend Kweku Boadu popularly known as Cantona over …

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Canadian kidnapping: Seidu Mba, 3 others discharged

The Criminal Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice George Boadi has discharged four out of the eight accused persons who have been held in connection with the kidnapping of two Canadian nationals in Kumasi. The four are Seidu Abubarkar also known as Mba, Abdul Rahman Sulemana, …

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3 ‘killer’ cops who butchered Adonfe driver interdicted

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has interdicted three police officers for manhandling and butchering a civilian driver at Adonfe on Tuesday, 15 October 2019. They have been handed over to the Police Intelligence and Professional Standard Bureau for investigation. A statement from the police Command said it has recommended, as …

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Ghana’s food in danger as chemicals pose health threat

Some traders have called on the Government to stop farmers from applying chemicals to the food they grow because the chemicals pose health threat and shorten the life span of most of the perishable food items like vegetables and fruits. In an interview on the World Food Day today, the …

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Schools in Sunyani to be closed today

The Bono Regional Coordinating Council in collaboration with the Sunyani Municipal Education Directorate have declared Friday, October 18, 2019, a holiday for schools in the Sunyani township. This was due to the one-week funeral observation rite of the late Nana Yaa Nyamaa Puduo II, the Paramount Queen of the Sunyani …

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