A military officer with the Ghana Armed Forces who has been allegedly having sexual intercourse with his own daughter has been dragged before an Accra Circuit Court. Sergeant Eric Asare-Mante is accused of sexually abusing his daughter since she was nine years old – between 2013 and November 2018 when …

A 38-year-old self-styled fetish priest has been remanded into prison custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court for allegedly duping a businessman of GHC8,000. He pleaded guilty to the charge and would reappear before the Court presided over by Mr Michael Johnson Abbey on August 23, this year. Police Inspector Jonas …

President Akufo-Addo has told the chiefs and people of Wechianu in the West District of the Upper West Region that the Mahama government did not pay for the majority of the E-Block schools it constructed. The Mahama government had told Ghanaians that it constructed and completed some of the schools …

A 14-year-old boy is currently in the grip of the Breman Asikuma District Police Command in the Central region for allegedly sodomising a five-year-old boy at Breman Brakwa. Information gathered by Adom News suggested that the victim and the suspect were playmates, who lived at Mantemankabi, a suburb of Breman Brakwa. The …

A 22-year-old apprentice, who was abducted by some unknown assailants at Inchaban in the Western Region and later dumped in Accra, has been reunited with her family. The victim, Edem Amevor, tells CONNECT FM’s OMANBAPA morning show host Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson, she had closed from work on Thursday, August …

A 38-year-old self-styled fetish priest has been remanded into prison custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court for allegedly duping a businessman of GH?8,000. He pleaded guilty to the charge and would reappear before the Court presided over by Mr Michael Johnson Abbey on August 23, this year. Police Inspector Jonas …

The Yilo Krobo Police Command has arrested six people for allegedly smuggling 4,000 bags of fertiliser meant for the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs programme at Ogorme, a suburb of Somanya, Eastern Region.The fertilisers are believed to be meant for cocoa farmers in Samreboi in the Western Region.This comes …

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has picked up two suspects in connection with what the Police suspect to be contract killing of the Asamponhene of Kumasi Oheneba Kwadwo Fodour. The Police for security reasons has declined to reveal the identity of the suspects. The chief, Oheneba Kwadwo Fodour, 46, was …

Seven suspects, including a driver of a Nigerien-bound bus and a physically-challenged man have been arrested in Kumasi for attempting to transport 37 parcels of dried leaves suspected to be Indian Hemp. The suspects include Ibrahim Mumuni, 35, the Ghanaian driver and two Nigerien accomplices Adamu Isaku-48, Abubakari Janilo, 32 …

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) is unhappy with the Ghana Education Service’s (GES) directive to third-year students in Senior High Schools to return to school earlier than the planned reopening date for extra classes. The students, the first batch of government’s Free SHS program who were supposed to …

Two electricians impersonating as workers of Power Distribution Service (PDS) have been remanded into Police custody by the Kibi District Magistrate Court today Friday 16 August 2019. The suspects were arrested at Teacher Mante in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern Region for extorting monies from postpaid customers with bill …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says no pupil will be sacked for not wearing the new school uniforms for Junior High School students when the academic year starts in September. Commenting on its implementation, the Director-General of GES, Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwa said the old uniform will be phased out …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has shifted the reopening of school for third-year Senior High School (SHS) students from Monday, August 19 to Sunday, August 25, 2019. A statement issued on Friday and signed by the Director-General of the GES, Prof Kwasi Opoku Amankwa, said the new date was arrived …

Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, has criticized the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama over his recent comments about the government’s flagship Free Senior High School policy. Speaking at the commissioning an ultra-modern Fertilizer Blending Factory at Asuboi in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern Region on …

A 35-year-old unemployed man, Mr Ebo Larry, has been arrested by officials of Power Distribution Services (PDS) at Tafo Mile 3, a suburb of Kumasi, for stealing power over the last two years. He allegedly reconnected his electricity mete after he was initially disconnected for owing electricity bills. Despite persistent …

Dear Mr Mahama, Your pretentious u-turn on President Akufo-Addo’s Free Senior High School implementation has been exposed by the affable and competent Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. You and your surrogates, since 2012, have caused for over forty advertisements to be made against President Akufo-Addo’s Free S.H.S …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed that all Senior High School (SHS) third-year students are to report to school on Monday, August 19, to begin the first term of the 2019-2020 Academic Year. The directive brings forward, the re-opening date initially set for September for the third-year students, the …

The General Overseer of Liberty Vineyard International Ministries, Rev. Edward Buabeng, and two others have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defrauding over 100 people of various sums of money totalling over GH¢2 million. The 48-year-old pastor and his two accomplices, Wilfred Brown, a 55-year-old accountant, and one …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has for the second time suspended the GES-SIC insurance policy program for public school teachers across the country. It said the suspension is only temporary until the end of August when it will be lifted. In 2018, teachers in public basic and senior high schools …

The government of Ghana, through the Ministry of Health (MoH), has paid the final tranche of allowance to nurse trainees for the 2018/19 academic year.The ministry, in a statement, said each trainee nurse received GHS400 for 10 months in each academic year to support their academic and clinical works.In all, …

Government is to provide free WiFi (Internet) service in all tertiary and secondary schools across the country to aid teaching and learning. It is in fulfilment of the campaign pledge of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration to pursue free WiFi for certain categories of educational institutions. “I’m happy to …

The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has revealed that the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will soon be scrapped from the country’s educational system. According to executive secretary of NaCCA, Dr Prince Hamid Armah, the popular examination has outlived its relevance. Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning …

The families of the three Takoradi kidnapped girls say the greatest mistake they’ve made is not killing the Nigerian suspected kidnapper believed to be the brain behind the kidnapping of the girls when he was arrested. According to them, being law-abiding and handing him over to the police for prosecution …

The Obuasi District Police Command has arrested a 29-year-old unemployed who goes about posing as a military officer. Frederick Kulepe, wearing a military uniform, goes about extorting various sums of monies, thus defrauding mobile phone dealers at Obuasi and surrounding communities. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Martin Asenso, Obuasi District …

Details are emerging about the investigations conducted by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) into the saga involving the Takoradi missing girls. According to BNI sources, the outcome of the investigations paints a different picture from the recent revelations at the Takoradi house of the prime suspect, Samuel Udoetuk Wills, …

A combined team of police and Forestry Commission has arrested two illegal miners who have been operating in the Desiri Forest in the Mankraso District in the Ashanti Region. Kwabena Yeboah, 42 and his 41-year-old accomplice, Akwasi Yeboah were arrested in the process of mining for gold in Compartment 89  section …

The Governing Council of the University of Energy and Natural Resources, on the 3rd day of August, 2018, decided to honour the son of the soil, Kofi Abrefa Busia by naming the University after him. That decision, it must be reiterated, was taken by the Governing Council of the University …

The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr James Oppong-Boanuh has interdicted two Police officers in connection with a missing service rifle under their custody. The two officers are Superintendent Mr Edward Tetteh, the Abokobi/Ayimensah District Commander and C/Inspector Christopher Bekor, the Akporman Manna station officer. Additionally, the acting IGP has …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has applauded the decision by the Governing Council of the University of Energy and Natural Resources to name the outfit after Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of the Government of the 2nd Republic. The decision was taken by Governing Council of the University on 3rd August, …

Although Mobile Money (MoMo) has resulted in financial inclusion of the poor and unbanked in developing economies, it has also become a target for fraudsters whose activities have led to the loss of money, stealing of passwords and even deaths of vendors. A former fraudster has come out to confess …