A Police inspector on night guard duty at Akuapem Larteh junction in Akropong has been hailed for overpowering three armed robbers in a shootout Wednesday night. Inspector Albert Kuntu Blankson who was on night duty at Yokwa gas filling station at Larteh-junction came under attack by three suspected armed robbers …
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Young man narrowly escapes death in cable theft electrocution
The entire electricity Bulk Power Station (BPS) serving electricity to Denu, Agbozume, parts of Nogokpo, Aflao, Dzodze, parts of Keta, and parts of Akatsi, Dzodze, Adina, and Ave Towns went offline after a thief got electrocuted attempting to steel cables. The young thief who was later identified to be 32-year-old …
Read More »NLC orders CENTSAG to call off illegal strike
The National Labour Commission (NLC) has ordered the leadership of Colleges of Education Non-Teaching Staff Association of Ghana (CENTSAG) to call off their strike and return to engage with their employer, Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) on their concerns. The NLC ruled that CENTSAG did not follow due process before …
Read More »Cable thief electrocuted to death at Aflao
A 32-year-old man has been reported dead at Aflao, in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region, after he was electrocuted early Wednesday morning. Eric Kofi Quaye, now deceased, was found with severe burns covering almost every part of his body when he allegedly attempted to steal the incomer …
Read More »‘Horny’ Prestea man shoots prostitute for refusing to take GHC 10 for bonking
The magistrate court in Prestea in the Western region has remanded a 28-year-old man into police custody for allegedly shooting a Nigerian commercial sex worker for refusing to offer her service at a fee of GHC 10. The suspect, Hakeem Mumumi allegedly shot Promise, a Nigerian commercial sex worker in …
Read More »Lead NSMQ stars for Prempeh, PRESEC and Keta get admission into world’s top universities
The flag of Ghana has been raised high in the top educational echelons in the U.S. as the star performers of the three competing schools in the 2021 National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ), gear up for their next challenges. Eden Nana Obeng Kyei of team Prempeh College, Prince Debrah …
Read More »One-month-old baby abandoned in a porch at Akatsi
The police at Akatsi in the Volta Region have received a month-old baby girl who was abandoned in the porch of a building near the Mighty Destiny Glorified Ministry Church at Akatsi Tatorme. The baby was found at about 0530 hours Monday in the building believed to be a shop …
Read More »Two men jailed 65 years for robbing and attacking businesswoman
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 …
Read More »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, …
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