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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Suspected cable thief electrocuted while ‘stealing’ cables at Pokuase Interchange
A 40-year-old thief has been electrocuted under the Pokuase Interchange while stealing earth wires at the high-tension pylons. Branteng Kofi Appiah according to police information available to MyNewsGh.com, was found lying down with his whole body burnt even though he was not dead. Police officers who were at the scene …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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. …
Read More »UG Halls fracas: Vandals ‘charge’ at Legon Police Station after arrest of colleague
Some residents of the Commonwealth Hall at the University of Ghana, on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, amassed in front of the Legon Police Station after the authorities arrested a member from the hall for his involvement in the clash between residents Mensah Sarbah Hall Commonwealth Hall on Saturday, March 5, …
Read More »Bullion van robberies: Four more policemen arrested, five civilians on the run
The Ghana Police Service have announced the arrest of five suspects believed to be connected with bullion van robberies that happened between 2021 and 2022. Police had earlier announced the arrest of two officers suspected to be complicit in the robberies. Those two officers have been killed in the recent …
Read More »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. …
Read More »Ketu South: Headmaster allegedly commits suicide at Hatsukorpe
The headmaster of the Hatsukorpe No.1 Basic school in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region, Mr. Israel Mawuli Afetorgbor has been found dead. The body of the almost 60-year-old headmaster was found hanging on a rope tied to a mango tree on the compound of his residence at …
Read More »Bonkrom JHS students study under trees as school block collapses
Dozens of students at Bonkrom D/A Junior High School in Kwahu Afram Plains South District in the Eastern Region have been displaced after the collapse of a shed used as a classroom. The pavilion classroom was hit by a violent rainstorm on March 1, 2022, after school period leading to …
Read More »Video of school girl campaigning for E-levy during Independence march pops up
It does appear that government’s Electronic Transaction Levy message may gradually be getting to some sections of the public including some students who seem to be buying into it. From persistent media engagements to townhall meetings, the government has deployed all forms of communication tactics to have Ghanaians embrace what …
Read More »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 …
Read More »VIDEO: First elementary school in Ghana becomes death trap to students
Philip Quaque Boys’ Basic School in the Cape Coast metropolis in the Central region has now turned into a death trap for students. About 300 students make use of the school building which is on the verge of collapse. The school, also referred to as the first elementary school in …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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, …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Bogoso: Man arrested for allegedly inflicting machete wounds on father
A 38-year-old man Kwesi Nimako alias Kwesi Biiko, is in the grips of Bogoso Police, after allegedly inflicting some life-threatening machete wounds on his father at Pemeso, a farming community in the Prestea Huni – Valley Municipality of the Western Region. Egya Amoaning, in his eighties, who suffered several cuts …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Free SHS to cover first year public TVET institution students this year – Akufo-Addo
Government will from this year, expand the free Senior High School (SHS) programme to cover public Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institution first year students, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced. President Akufo-Addo who emphasised investments in the educational sector as being a key priority of his …
Read More »Serial thief escapes lynching at TTU as he hides in ladies washroom
A suspected thief who has gained notoriety for stealing mobile hand devices and other valuables from students of the Takoradi Technical University (TTU), was nearly lynched by angry students after he had attempted to sell back a stolen phone to a student on Tuesday. The suspected thief, whose name was …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Police gun down two robbers in gun battle at Bekwai, one arrested with 2 on the run
The Ashanti Regional Police Anti-Robbery Squad after a successful intelligence-led operation has shot dead two members of a notorious armed robbery gang. After a gun battle on the road from Abodom-Koniyaw, near Bekwai where the robbers had blocked the road with wooden logs to rob some market women, the Police …
Read More »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 …
Read More »VIP bus robbers who told passengers to pray for them shot dead
Two of the suspected armed robbers who asked travellers to pray for them after they robbed them on a VIP bus in the Western Region have been shot dead in a gun battle with Police. This was made known on the official Facebook page of the Ghana Police Service. According …
Read More »Gomoa Nyanyano: One man, 2 women arrested for burning TV repairer to death
Three persons are in the grips of the Central East Police Command for their alleged involvement in the burning to death of 34-year-old Francis Dawson, a TV repairer at Fiifi Pratt, a suburb of Gomoa Nyanyano in October 2021. Police say the three persons Kwame Baah Mensah 47, Vernice Kyeremeh, …
Read More »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 …
Read More »PHOTOS: Six pupils escape death as dilapidated school building collapses
Six pupils from Assin Dawomako D/A Basic School in the Assin South District of the Central Region escaped death after a nine-unit abandoned dilapidated school building collapsed. Information gathered revealed that the pupils were hiding in the building during heavy rainfall when the building collapsed and nearly killed them. The …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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. …
Read More »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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