Operation Vanguard personnel in the Eastern Region on Sunday morning at about 02:00 hours arrested 20 suspected illegal miners during a search operation in the general area of the Kibi Zongo Township. The illegal miners made up of 15 Nigerians, a Bissau Guinean and four locals had been handed over …
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Teachers ill-prepared for rushed new curriculum – Educationist
A quality education specialist with the SOS Villages Ghana has indicated that the new curriculum for basic and high schools is being rushed. Beginning the 2019 – 2020 academic years, Ghana will be moving towards a standardized practical based curriculum with national assessment examinations to be written in classes two, …
Read More »Court jails 6 men who flogged boy in viral video, fined GHC1,200 each
A Magistrate court in Enchi in the Western North Region on Thursday, August 22, 2019 has sentenced six men who mercilessly flogged a young man recently for allegedly flouting the chief’s orders to 40 days imprisonment with hard labour. The convicts, Bullu Adjei, Alfred Ban in Obboye, Kwasi Kah, Stephen …
Read More »Photos+Audio: Woman, 22, found dead in lover’s room
A 22-year-old woman, identified as Vera Adu, has been found dead in her boyfriend’s room at Adu Gyemfi near Sowutwom in the Greater Accra region. Unconfirmed reports have it that the boyfriend allegedly poisoned her when she paid a visit to him. It is, however, unclear what would trigger the …
Read More »There Is A Rule In The Game
I certainly can not be happy with comments from some of the aspirants who did not emerge victorious at yesterday’s primaries. It can’t be justify in anyway, but I believe we must give them the second chance. We can not throw the baby away with the bath water. There are …
Read More »Missing Takoradi girls: Nigerian authorities arrest wanted suspect
Operatives of Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition in Trafficking of Persons (NAPTIP) have arrested a man accused of being involved in kidnapping Ghanaian girls to Nigeria. According to The Nation, the suspect Chika Nnodim is believed to be part of a cross border criminal gang including kidnapping and have …
Read More »Midwife converts ‘aboboyaa’ into ambulance; saves life of mother, new baby
Belinda Zumebome, a young Ghanaian midwife in the Asikiri CHPS compound, Bawku Municipal Assembly, has received national praise for her humane service to a birthing mother. The 29-year-old midwife was captured in a photo transporting a mother who had just given birth in a tricycle to a referral health facility …
Read More »UPSA introduces ‘dual qualification’ for students
The University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), as part of its new academic policy has introduced what the University termed, as the “dual qualification scheme” for all its students. Under the dual qualification scheme which will begin this (2019/2020) academic year, students who enroll in a degree programme will compulsorily …
Read More »‘It was 419, I did not mean to rob her’ – Suspect
An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a 44-year-old trader into police custody for allegedly robbing a businesswoman. Ebenezer Larbi pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and robbery. He told the Court that he and his accomplice did not mean to rob their victim but just played a “419” trick on her. …
Read More »PHOTOS: Young Lady Flogged Mercilessly By Her Uncle With A Cutlass
In a sad report, a young lady has been flogged by her uncle and her uncle used a sharp cutlass to commit such atrocity. According to sources, she was flogged by the uncle because she expressed herself in an argument which involved her and her uncle. Per what we have …
Read More »GES releases GHC 7.6m for curriculum training participants
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has disbursed a further transportation allowance of GHC50 per person to participants of the just ended curriculum training programme. The money has been released to the districts through GES’ regional offices. A total of 152,000 KG to class 6 teachers across the country participated in …
Read More »Dismissed police officer among arrested robbers
It has been established that one of the three suspected armed robbers paraded Friday at the Koforidua Central Police Station is a dismissed Police Officer. Eric Agyei alias Kuma, 48, the dismissed officer and his accomplices – Samuel Appiah, a 35-year-old Wood Carver and Mutakilu Sadiq, 41, a driver – …
Read More »Bono: 2 carjack taxicab; shoot, kill driver
The police command in the Bono Region has commenced investigations into the murder of a taxi driver by two assailants who bolted with the taxicab at Wawase near Duayaw Nkwanta in the region.A police situation report cited by ClassFMonline.com said at about 1800hrs on Thursday, 22 August 2019, one Yaw …
Read More »[VIDEO]: 75-year-old woman ‘buried alive’ at Wiawso
The life of a 75-year-old woman was cut short when she was mauled to death by a tractor clearing a piece of land for a school project. Madam Adwoa Fomwaa, a resident of Wiawso, a farming community near Obuasi in the Ashanti region was harvesting her crops to pave way …
Read More »3rd pick-up vehicle snatched at gunpoint in Tamale
Another pick-up vehicle has snatched in Rambo style within the Tamale Metropolis bringing the number of missing vehicles in similar fashion to three. Sources reveal to MyNewsGh.com that the latest vehicle belonged to the Northern Regional Director of the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo), Abdul Hakeem Yahaya which taken away from …
Read More »Man jailed 20 years for defiling own daughter
The Juaso Circuit Court presided over by Mrs. Veronique Manfort, has sentenced a 46 year-old man to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling his own daughter at Juaso in the Asante-Akim South Municipality. Yaw Boamah, who took advantage of the vulnerability of his 12 year-old daughter and abused …
Read More »UEW impasse: We were naïve – Avoke apologises, begs for Napo’s intervention
The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Prof. Mawutor Avoke has apologised to the Education Minister for undermining the process of resolving the impasse at the University. Prof Avoke who lead a six-member delegation to pay a courtesy call on Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh said their conduct of taking matters …
Read More »Woman tortures daughter to death, escapes with corpes from hospital
The police in Ondo state on Thursday said it has begun investigation to unravel how a woman tortured her daughter to death in Akure, the Ondo State capital. The Command Spokesperson, Femi Joseph, who confirmed the incident, said efforts were on to track the woman to know how it all …
Read More »UEW Impasse: Education Minister meets former VC, 5 dismissed senior staff
The Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh on Thursday morning met with the Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Professor Mawutor Avoke and five other senior who were dismissed by the defunct governing council. MyNewGh.com sources gathered that this move is a major step towards …
Read More »Boy, 16, remanded for sodomising five-year-old boy
The Ajumako Magistrate Court, presided over by His Lordship Alfred Rockson Kpodo, has remanded a 16-year-old boy into prison custody for two weeks for allegedly sodomising a five-year-old boy at Breman Brakwa in the Central region. Information gathered by Adom News revealed that the decision of the court followed a …
Read More »‘I Killed My Mother, slept With Her Corpse For Money Ritual’ – 18-Year Old Boy Confesses
Today’s youth want to get rich at all cost, no matter what it takes, a situation which has led them to have a convenient with the devil. Stories of young men and women indulging in Sakawa and other forms of grave money rituals to escape poverty without recourse to hard …
Read More »We’re angry over Senyo Hosi’s attack – UTAG Legon
Members of the University of Ghana branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) say they are angry over the comments of the the Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distribution Senyo Hosi against the university and its management. The lecturers say they believe Mr. Hosi …
Read More »A/R: 4 arrested over cop’s murder
The police command in the Ashanti Region has arrested four suspects in connection with the murder of a police officer by armed robbers at Manso Abodom Dome in the Amansie West District.The suspects include two men and two women.The Deputy Regional Police Commander, ACP David Agyemang Adjem, told the media …
Read More »Goldsmith shoots colleague in disagreement over gold in Kumasi
A disagreement between two goldsmiths turned bloody when one shot the other at Ashanti New Town K.O., a suburb of Kumasi on Wednesday. The victim, Kofi Brentuo is said to be in critical condition after one Nana Asamoah reportedly fired at him three times at close range. He was rushed to nearby …
Read More »Immigration intercepts non-custom vehicle
Officers of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) at Menusu in the Kadjebi District of the Oti Region have intercepted a Nissan Navara pickup vehicle with suspected fake documents and registration number. Mr Felix Klu-Adjei, Volta Regional Public Relations Officer, GIS, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said the …
Read More »Military panel probes Wadume’s confession, invites Police
The Joint Investigative Panel set up by the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, to probe the killing of three police in Ibi, Taraba State, has opened an investigation into the video showing arrested kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Wadume, indicting soldiers over his escape. This is just as the DHQ on Wednesday invited the …
Read More »Police declares Sadat Mohammed wanted over ASAPONHENE’S death
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has declared one Sadat Mohammed, also known as Alhaji wanted in connection with last Sunday’s murder of the Asantehene’s Asamponhene, Oheneba Kwadwo Afodour. The police has, subsequently, secured an arrest warrant for the 38-year-old suspect. Oheneba Kwadwo Afodour was stabbed multiple times last Sunday by …
Read More »A 40 year old man commits suicide at Sefwi Waiwso
A Forty year old store keeper, Daniel Nyame has committed suicide at Sefwi Dwenase, near Waiwso in the Western North Region. The deceased also known as Atta hanged himself with a nylon robe on a tree. DSP Peter Paul Akabate, the District Police Commander who confirmed the incident to the …
Read More »Assistant headteacher of Prempeh College abusing students in a video
Ghana Education Service has on numerous times said that it has ban all forms of corporal punishments, which mostly are plain abuse of students, at primary and secondary schools in Ghana. In fact, even in the absence of this ban, what is done to Ghanaian students in the name of …
Read More »[VIDEO): Man fakes suicide attempt to condemn societal pressures on unmarried people, couples
A middle-aged man known as ‘Dr Think Twice’ has been arrested by the police in Accra after threatening to commit suicide at the Obetsebi-Lamptey Circle in Accra. Dr Think Twice climbed the Obestebi-Lamptey statue at the Roundabout on Tuesday morning (20 August 2019), to ostensibly, end his life, claiming his wife …
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