Adom is a boy under 18 years who has been sentenced to a two-year jail term at the Kumasi Central Prison for allegedly stealing Two thousand Ghana cedis. According to the juvenile, he will turn 15 years in three months’ time. However “the policeman who handled my case falsified my …
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Takoradi kidnapping suspects used coded language in Facebook chats – State Attorney
The Chief State Attorney in the Takoradi kidnapping case, Patience Klinogo says the two Nigerian suspects, Sam Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, used coded language in their conversations on Facebook. During court proceedings on Wednesday, she revealed that the suspects used a language that is related to kidnapping and …
Read More »Forty-eight remand prisoners benefit from legal aid
A project that seeks to protect and improve the welfare of prisoners and ex-convicts has, within the period of 12-months, extended free legal services to 48 remand prisoners in and around Tamale. The project dubbed: “Harnessing Opportunities for Prison Ex-convicts” (HOPE), is an initiative of the Centre for Social Development …
Read More »NAGRAT threatens to withdraw services over unsolicited insurance policy deductions
Members of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) have threatened to lay down their tools effective September 1, 2019, should the Ghana Education Service fail to halt monthly deductions of GHc10 from their salaries. The Ghana Education Service introduced an insurance policy which has become unpopular with many teachers. …
Read More »Military dressed armed robbers kill police woman in Tamale; bolt with weapon
Lance Corporal Agartha Nana Nabin at the Northern Regional Police Headquarters in Tamale was on Tuesday evening shot to death by military dressed armed robbers at a police check point on the Kumbungu road. According to MyNewsGh.com sources, the incident occurred at about 10:45pm near Star Oil Filing Station when …
Read More »Asunafo South: Pastor rapes 3 Church members
29-year-old pastor has been arrested by the Asunafo south district police command for raping three of his Church members. Pastor Daniel Abisah aka OGYABOFO of the Adom Power Ministry according to the District Police Commander, ASP Lawrence Adombire reportedly arrived at Akrodie on July 22, 2019, and started a crusade …
Read More »Tamale: Gunmen shoot dead cop; seize weapons
A female cop identified only as Corporal Agartha has been shot dead by unknown gunmen adorned in military camouflage. The incident occurred Tuesday around 10.30pm at a checkpoint at a Star Oil Filling Station near Tamale, the Northern regional crime officer Superintendent Otuo Acheampong confirmed the news to Starr News. …
Read More »PHOTO: Police gun down two suspected armed robbers
Police on Monday night shot dead two suspected robbers in Kilimani area after they robbed a Nigerian national. The victim, Taiwo Gbenga, reported to Kileleshwa Police Station that he had been robbed by four armed men who sped off in a white saloon car registration number KCE 567 B. He …
Read More »Court cautions Former Masloc CEO’s alleged accomplice after failure to appear for trial
The Accra High Court has cautioned Daniel Axim, an official of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), who is standing trial together with a former CEO of MASLOC, Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, on allegations of causing financial loss to the state. The court, presided over by Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe, …
Read More »GHC2m NHIS debt cripples Kwesimintsim hospital
The Kwesimintsim hospital in the Western Region is in dire need of financial support as government is unable to pay its nine months national health insurance payments amounting in excess of 2 million Ghana Cedis. The Administrator of the facility, Felix Kesse told Empire News’ Emmanuel Ohene-Gyan that the last …
Read More »Fake Barclays Bank Staff jailed for fraud
A 47-year-old man Mohammed Ali also known as Eric has been jailed by two Courts for defrauding by false pretence. The convict parading as a staff of Barclays Bank succeeded in defrauding multiple unsuspecting victims in Koforidua and Suhum. Having been slapped with nine-years and 10 months jail sentence by …
Read More »GHS begins mass drug administration
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) through the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) programme will from today begin the mass administration of anti-lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and river blindness (onchocerciasis) drugs across 126 endemic districts in the country. In all, 15 districts have been targeted for elephantiasis, 120 districts for river blindness and …
Read More »2019 WASSCE results released, 48,855 results withheld
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of candidates who wrote the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The examination body however withheld results of 48,855 (14.12%) candidates pending conclusion of investigations into various cases of examination malpractice detected during and after the conduct of …
Read More »Nurse rapes patient on sickbed
A male nurse on duty has raped a first-year student of the Northern School of Business in Tamale on her sickbed at the school’s sickbay. The girl (name withheld) was sick and reported to the school sickbay but the school nurse took advantage of her condition and allegedly raped her …
Read More »Canadian kidnappers: Four suspects granted GH₵200k bail
Four of the eight suspects arrested over the kidnapping of two Canadians girls in Kumasi have been granted bail by an Accra High Court. They were granted bail in the sum of GH₵200,000 each with two sureties. As part of the bail condition, one of the sureties must be justified …
Read More »OTEC FM Records Massive Turnout In Maiden Health Walk
The Kumasi Based first private radio station in Ghana, OTEC FM on Saturday July 27, 2019, drifted from their usual busy schedules to participate in the maiden edition of ‘’Exercise With Koda” Health Walk ashundreds joined yet another crowd puller to promote physical fitness. The event which saw hundreds of …
Read More »Teacher arrested for raping 17-year-old student inside biology lab
A 28-year-old teacher, Idowu Daniel has been arrested the Nigerian police command for allegedly raping one of his female students inside the school’s biology laboratory. According to police report, Daniel first made sexual advances at the victim on Thursday June 27th when he asked her to come to the laboratory …
Read More »Stop enhancing your genitals – Marriage counsellor
A marriage counsellor and relationship expert, Dr John Boakye, has cautioned married couples against enhancing their genitals for sexual pleasures, saying the fuss about genital enhancement is a “myth”. He said many people were obsessed with enhancing their body parts and spent huge sums of money in buying products for …
Read More »Letter To The President on Sanitation
LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT Dear Sir, I believe and hope you very well and enjoying the full grace of our Lord Jess Christmas. Your Exellency, I will love to remind of view things you and your government are forgetting, Please I hope you witnessed …
Read More »New education policy will remove barriers to varsity education – Prof. Yankah
The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah has said that the new tertiary education policy document seeks to eliminate all barriers that restrict applicants from gaining admissions into tertiary institutions. According to him, the demand for pass mark in some core subjects before qualifying for …
Read More »Securityman kidnapped as galamseyers’ attack Newmont Gold concession security operatives
One person was killed and four others sustained machete wounds when suspected illegal miners on Thursday, attacked security men at a gold mining concession of Newmont Gold Corp Limited in Kenyase. Stephen Amankwah, 44, a securityman, according to the police, was killed and dumped in a pit by the illegal …
Read More »JUSTICE & RIGHTS: Gregory Afoko, suffering five ‘cruel’ years in unlawful ‘degrading’ detention without Trial
Having been arrested on May 2015; yesterday 26th August 2019, which commenced officially the 2019 legal vacation for Ghana’s Judiciary, marked the fifth time, Gregory Afoko ‘innocent until proven guilty according to law’, would endure painfully in the continue unlawful sub-human custody and degrading treatments from the ‘coercive’ powers of …
Read More »Consult broadly on Universities Bill to ensure peace on campuses – Otumfuo to government
The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has urged the government to consult broadly before presenting the draft University Bill to parliament. Otumfuo Osei Tutu, who is also the Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science Technology (KNUST) said consulting broadly and incorporating the views of all stakeholders in the …
Read More »Two arrested in attempt to smuggle 1,000 bags of PFJ fertilizer
The Police in Navrongo have intercepted an articulated truck loaded with 1,000 bags of fertilizer being smuggled to neighboring Burkina Faso following a tip-off by the Bureau of National Investigations. The bags, each weighing 50kg meant for government’s flagship programme, Planting for Food and Jobs, were being offloaded onto another …
Read More »Too poor to afford surgery, leaves 11-month baby with persisting swollen head
Financial challenges have compelled a young couple at Abuoso in Techiman in the Bono East Region, to abandon treatment of their baby with obstructive hydrocephalus at the hospital and resorted to herbal medicine. The 11-month-old baby was diagnosed with the condition at the Holy Family Hospital in Techiman, and was …
Read More »JUST IN: SHS 1 student of Kumasi Academy c*ught in a new S*X VIDEO
Last year was a particularly good one for people who have interest in leaked adult videos as a number of them popped up online. This year looks promising as we are continuing from where we left off as another ‘atopa video has hit social media. And it is very disturbing …
Read More »1,000 bags of PFJ smuggled fertilizer enroute to Burkina Faso intercepted
Over 1,000 bags of 50 kilograms fertilizer meant for government’s planting for Food and Jobs that were being smuggled into neighbouring Burkina Faso have been intercepted at the Paga border. According to Upper East Regional Minister, Madam Paulina Patience Abayage the arrest follows a tip off by the Bureau of …
Read More »Church elder’s penis almost mutilated after trying to have sex with a married woman
But for the timely intervention of the police, residents of Akim Akwatia in the Eastern Region would have mutilated the penis of a Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) elder, Kwasi Agbo, after he was caught allegedly attempting to have sexual intercourse with another man’s wife. Police in the area confirmed to …
Read More »UPDATES: Pupil Teacher defiles minor
A video of a supposed Teacher in Komenda in the central region of Ghana penetrating minor in the corner of a bathhouse of an uncompleted building has hit online and fast going viral. According to the man who finally caught the teacher in the middle of the act, he has …
Read More »Teachers express worry over implementation of Student Information System
Some teachers have expressed worry over the limited information made available to them on the new Student Information System(SIS) proposed by government. The teachers lament that very little information on the project is known to them despite the fact that they remain key stakeholders in the implementation of the SIS …
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