CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

17-year-old boy stabbed to death at Obuasi

A 17-year-old boy at Anyinam in Obuasi Municipal of the Ashanti Region, with the name Captain, had been mercilessly stabbed to death. Captain is a student of Obuasi Senior High Technical School (SEC_TECH). Information coming out indicates the victim was hanging out with friends at a night club during a …

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WAEC releases 2021 WASSCE results for private candidates

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of 52,974 candidates who sat for the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination(WASSCE) for private candidates. The results of 696 candidates alleged to be involved in various examination malpractice have been withheld pending the conclusion of investigations. “These malpractices …

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Four Police officers charged over Bullion van robberies

Four Police constables who were arraigned for their role in the Bullion Van attacks have been charged with counts. The charges are an attempt to commit a crime to wit; robbery and Abetment, with a civilian, said to be a scrap dealer. The plea of the four – Constable Yaro …

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Over 100 teachers have fled Bawku due to insecurity – GES

The Municipal Director of GES in Bawku, Azeriya Ayeriga, has indicated that his office has granted releases to over 100 basic school teachers. According to Ayeriga, the teachers sort to leave Bawku because of the current insecurity caused by the constant fight between factions in the municipality, graphic online.com reports. …

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Taxi driver stabbed to death

A Taxi driver in his early 40s has been stabbed in the neck area in what appeared to be a failed car snatching bid. The deceased, whose driver’s licence bore the name ‘Atta Yeboah Christopher’, was found lying in a pool of blood around 10pm on Saturday by two people. …

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Waakye is medicinal – Nutritionist

Madam Ophelia Dei Adubea, a nutritionist at the Nutrition Department, Ridge Hospital, has said “waakye”, a popular Ghanaian dish, is not only nutritious but medicinal. She said the meal was ‘health-giving’ when cooked with the sorghum bicolor leaves and packaged or served in the “katemfe” leaves also known as the …

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Youth found dead by hanging at Bantama

The lifeless body of a young man who looks to be in his late twenties has been found at Bantama hanging on a rope in what appears to be suicide. The body was discovered hanging in the makeshift kiosk on the Bekwai Roundabout – Komfo Anokye stretch close to the …

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UTAG returns to teach as impasse resolved

The grievances of the members of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) have been resolved and all will be returning to the lecture halls to continue teaching, a National Executive Committee (NEC) member has said. Dr Asare Asante-Annor, who is the National Secretary of UTAG, told Alfred Ocansey on TV3‘s News 360 on Friday, …

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Newmont Ghana employee commits suicide

The death of an employee with mining giant, Newmont Ghana has been reported after he was discovered hanged at his Ahenboboano home, at Yamfo in the Tano North District of the Ahafo Region. The police have confirmed that investigations have started into the circumstances surrounding Emmanuel Gyamfi’s death, when some …

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Man arrested with 656 ATM cards gets GH¢200,000 bail

A man charged with two counts of electronic trafficking and stealing, has been granted bail in the sum of GH¢200,000 with two sureties by the High Court in Accra. Bachir Musa Aminou has been in custody since September last year after he was arrested at the Kotoka International Airport in …

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Suspected armed robber lynched at Denkyira Abuakwa Nkwanta

A suspected notorious armed robber has been lynched by residents of Denkyira Abuakwa Nkwanta in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region. The incidents occurred Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 evening. He was beaten to death after being caught stealing phones from a store in the area. The deceased …

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Three arrested for setting man ablaze at Gomoa Nyanyano

The main suspects in the murder of 39years old Francis Dawson who was set ablaze at Fiifi Pratt, a suburb of Gomoa Nyanyano in the Gomoa East has been arrested by the police. The suspects including two women Rose Essel Cobbah, and Kyeremaah Vernice who had relocated to Fetentaa, a …

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Police nab ‘Pray for us’ Kumasi-bound bus armed robbers

The Ghana Police Service has announced that it has arrested the armed robbers involved in a robbery on a VIP Bus that was bound for Kumasi, from Takoradi, on Sunday, February 20, 2022. The police statement said that two of the robbers, who have all come to be known as the ‘pray …

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Nurses lament delay in February salary

Some nurses across the country are seething with rage over the government’s delay in the release of their February salary. According to the nurses, the situation has become unbearable for many health workers since salary for the month ending February has not been released. “Many a time, as government workers …

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Teachers cry over February salary delay

Some teacher unions, the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) are livid over the delay in the payment of their February 2022 salary. NAGRAT president Angel Carbonu confirmed to journalists at a press conference that they were yet to receive their February salary. …

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Father of teenage sisters foils fake abduction

The father of two teenage sisters, who allegedly plotted a fake abduction in order to demand a GHc20,000 ransom from their family at Morso, near Juaso, in the Asante Akyem South District, has expressed shock that his daughters could collude to do such a thing to them. The two, 16 …

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