Two men who robbed a businesswoman of her bag and inflicted cutlass wounds on her right hand in Cape Coast have been sentenced to a total of 65 years in prison by a Cape Coast circuit court. The convicts, Daniel Bentum, a 33-year-old driver, who had already served a 15-year …
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University of Ghana owes GH¢33m in power debts, ECG threatens to cut supply
The Electricity Company of Ghana has issued a disconnection notice to Ghana’s premier university, the University of Ghana, UG, over power debts to the tune of GH¢33 million. The power distributor issued a 72-hour ultimatum for the university to settle the bill or face disconnection from the national grid. Reports …
Read More »64-year-old woman gains admission to SHS
Rita Offin, a 64-year-old mother of seven, is among hundreds of pupils who have gained admission to various Senior High Schools (SHS) across Ghana. The sexagenarian, who has secured admission at Christ The King Senior High School (CKC) at Obuasi, commenced her studies on Monday, April 11, 2022. Madam Offin sat …
Read More »UG faces disconnection from power grid over GH¢33M debt it owes ECG
The University of Ghana, risks being disconnected from the national power grid if it fails to pay a GH¢33 million debt it owes the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) within the next 72 hours. A disconnection notice has been served on the university, and any further delay will leave the …
Read More »Driver stabs KMA security guard to death over parking space
A commercial driver and his mate are in the grips of the Kumasi Police over the death of a security guard. Thomas Amakye Yankey popularly known as Congo Soldier is said to have been stabbed three times with a knife during an altercation with the said driver. As confirmed by …
Read More »Scientists want me dead for discovering HIV/AIDS cure – COA FS CEO
The Chief Executive Officer of the Awareness Healthcare Centre in Ghana, Dr. Samuel Ato Duncan, has revealed that some influential people in the country and some Scientists want him dead for discovering a cure for HIV/AIDS. According to him, people are hunting him to stop him from making public the …
Read More »Extend deadline for payment of fees – KNUST SRC appeals to management
The Students’ Representative Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) says it would engage management of the university to seek an extension of the deadline for students who are yet to pay their fees. This comes after management announced that students, who could not pay 70% …
Read More »We’ve not prescribed uniforms for teachers – GES
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has dismissed claims on some social media that it has prescribed uniforms for teachers in the country. Social media especially Facebook is replete with pictures of people posing as teachers wearing what appears as a new uniform for staff of the service. But speaking to …
Read More »2 poachers kill buffalo at Mole National Park, arrested by rangers
Two notorious poachers from the Larabanga Community of the West Gonja Municipality identified as Mumin Baharu and Osman Ibrahim alias Vuga have been arrested by gallant and hardworking rangers of the Mole National Park on 9th April, 2022. Bole-based Nkilgi Fm’s source say the rangers on a normal patrol in …
Read More »35-year-old in police grips for allegedly drugging, assaulting married woman
The Bawjiase Police have arrested a 35-year old man who allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted a married woman. Narrating her ordeal, the victim, who sells sausages said the suspect bought some sausages on credit for which reason she went to him for her money. She indicated that the suspect asked …
Read More »Robbers shot dead two persons at Mamadukoraa
Two persons have allegedly been shot to death by gunmen suspected to be armed robbers at Mamadukoraa, a farming community in the Chache Electoral area in the Bole District of the Savannah Region. The deceased are Mr. Yaw and madam Dibuone Akua age 60 and 40 respectively. The armed men …
Read More »More than 1000 KNUST students likely to defer courses due to inability to settle fees
More than a thousand students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology will likely have to defer their courses due to their inability to pay their tuition fees by the stipulated deadline. The deadline for the payment of fees was extended from March 24, 2022, to April 7, …
Read More »Suspect arrested with 6 foreign pistols in the Northern Region
The Northern Regional Police Command has arrested suspect Mohammed Iddi alias “Water” for unlawful possession of firearms. The suspect was arrested at the Pigu police barrier, on the Tamale-Bolgata Highway during routine police intelligence operations. The operation on Thursday, 7th April 2022 led to the retrieval of six (6) new …
Read More »School feeding caterers demand increment of grant as food prices soar
School feeding caterers in the Eastern region are demanding increment in the school feeding grants following skyrocketing prices of food items. According to the caterers, food prices have increased multiple times but the government still pays Ghc1 per plate of meal making it extremely difficult to improve the quality of …
Read More »Free SHS hasn’t lowered standard of education – Yaw Opoku Mensah
It seems the recent comments of the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana on educational matters, most especially the Free SHS, is becoming one too many recipes to satisfy his disenchantment with the program. Not only that, but he has also taken contentment in factoid submissions, even in the …
Read More »Our lives are in danger – Headmistress cries out
And also education is a backbone of any country that aims at achieving greater things in the future with its youths, by giving them proper educational background and the needed tools that will aid them in learning. But Kobeda No 1, a farming community under the Kintampo North Municipality is …
Read More »3 students, 1 teacher sustain injuries after school building collapse at Abbey Kopey Dawhenya
Three Junior High School (JHS) final year students and one teacher of Abbey Kopey DA Basic School in the Ningo-Prampram District of Greater Accra Region have sustained injuries as a result of a heavy rainfall that collapsed part of a poor structure school building on the students and the teacher …
Read More »Agona Odoben: Man’s eye nearly damaged after alleged assault by Policeman
A physically challenged man, 32, almost lost one of his eyes after a police officer named Frederick who’s stationed at Agona Odoben Police station in the Central Region beat him mercilessly. Information gathered indicates that the victim had a misunderstanding with a woman who sells drugs after which she reported …
Read More »53-year-old fisherman jailed 15 years for defiling 10-year-old
An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 53-year-old fisherman to 15 years imprisonment for defiling a 10-year-old girl at La. Samuel Odoi Yemofio, charged with defilement, pleaded not guilty. At the end of the trial presided over by Mrs Christina Cann, Yemofio was found guilty. The case as narrated by …
Read More »Debt collector turns rape victim: The story of a 22-year-old trader
The quest to collect her GH¢5.00 from a driver changed the life of married 22-year-old trader at Awutu Bawjiase in the Central Region. Maa Abena [pseudo name], a sausage and gizzard seller at Bawjiase lorry station, was drugged and raped by a 35-year-old driver. Sharing her ordeal on Adom FM’s morning show, Dwaso …
Read More »Stop buying hot food in plastics – Minister warns Ghanaians
The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Dr Kwaku Afriyie has called on Ghanaians to stop purchasing food wrapped in plastic in order to avoid the risk it poses to one’s health. The Minister also wants laws to be put in place banning the use of plastics for selling …
Read More »Ejisu Police arrest two for allegedly exhuming 12 dead bodies
The police in Ejisu have arrested two men for allegedly exhuming 12 corpses at Ejisu-Krapa No. 1 in the Ashanti Region. The suspects, Yaw Samuel, age 27 and Nana Kwame, age 29, are reported to have spent three weeks in the cemetery searching for the human remains. Speaking to this …
Read More »35-year-old ‘trotro’ driver rapes married woman over GH¢5
The Bawjiase Police Command in the Central Region have arrested a 35-year-old ‘trotro’ driver, identified as Kwabena Ebo for drugging and sexually assaulting a married woman. Kwabena Ebo allegedly drugged the married woman who had gone to him to demand payment of GH¢ 5 for sausage he bought from her, …
Read More »VIDEO: Thief lynched to death in front of his mother
In Takoradi, the capital of the Western Region, a thief was beaten to death in front of his own mother. Nana Kwadwo Duah, a thief, was beaten by his own neighbours in Fijai for stealing. Even the mother’s tears and appeals were insufficient to prevent the thief from receiving immediate …
Read More »Man arrested for drugging, sexually assaulting married woman at Bawjiase
A 35-year old man is in the custody of the Bawjiase Police Command in the Central Region for sexually assaulting a married woman. The suspect, Kwabena Ebo, popularly known as ‘One in town’, is alleged to have put some concoction in a drink for the married woman who had gone …
Read More »Private health facilities threaten strike over unpaid NHIS claims
The Private Health Facilities Association of Ghana has threatened an industrial action due to government’s failure to pay claims for National Health Insurance Scheme. According to the General Secretary of the association, Frank Torblu Richard, health care delivery is being compromised due to arrears dating as far back as nine …
Read More »2021 NSMQ’s Francisca Lamini to study at the Harvard Medical School
The star girl of the 2021 National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ), Francisca Lamini, is on her way to the Harvard Medical School. This was announced by the American Chamber of Commerce in Ghana through its LinkedIn page. Francisca Lamini caught the attention of the nation with her sterling performance …
Read More »2021 BECE: Private schools demand re-marking over alleged discrimination
The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNCOP), has called for an independent probe into the marking of scripts of Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates from private schools. Candidates in private schools often do much better than their counterparts in public schools, but the Council argued that private school …
Read More »Mining company security guard shot in the head while on duty
Gunshot wounds suffered by a security guard with Adamus Resources Limited, a mining company in the Western Region, have left a victim battling for his life in a hospital. Paul Gyetuah according to a report by Myjoyonline, suffered gunshot wounds in the head, eye and shoulder when he was shot …
Read More »Thief who dresses like Catholic priest lynched
A 24-year-old suspected thief has been beaten to death at Fijai in the Sekondi Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region. The deceased,who has been identified as Nana Kojo Dua and popularly known as Power, was found lying in a pool of blood in the early hours of Wednesday, April 6. …
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