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Armed robbers, police in shootout at Kwashieman

The Police are on a manhunt for two suspected armed robbers, who engaged the police in a shootout at Kwashieman, Accra, on Sunday. The suspects, who suffered gunshot wounds during the shootout reportedly snatched a Toyota Yaris taxi cab with registration number GW8215-20 from its owner, at Lapaz, in Accra. …

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We’ll not stop burning excavators – Defence Minister

  Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul has reiterated that all machines seized in the ongoing exercise to clamp down on illegal mining would be destroyed. Concerns have been raised over the decision by the task force to burn excavators and machines seized. A private legal practitioner, Mr Bobby Banson has said it will …

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29-year-old baby thief arrested by police

Eunice Adomako, a 29-year-old resident of Oduman near Ablekuma in Accra, has been arrested for allegedly stealing a six-month-old baby. According to reports, Eunice failed to inform her two boyfriends after she lost her baby at birth at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital last December 2020. Her two boyfriends, one …

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Herbert Mensah Suspended As Ghana Rugby Chairman

 Herbert Mensah The Board Chairman and President of Ghana Rugby, Herbert Mensah has been suspended indefinitely by the board of Ghana Rugby for abuse of office.  The decision comes on the back of a petition from the Ghana Rugby Union Players Association to the Rugby Board accusing Mr. Mensah of …

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Kasoa murder: Runaway fetish priest arrested in fresh case

  The on-the-run Fetish priest in Kasoa Murder, whose name was given as Wazinga, has been arrested in another case of attempted ritual killing. Wazinga was arrested after attempting to perform money rituals for another person. It will be recalled that two teenagers, aged 16 and 17 respectively, on Saturday, …

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3 illegal miners jailed 15 years

  Three illegal miners have been jailed five years each by a Circuit Court in Koforidua for engaging in illegal mining at Tentenku No.8 near Kofi Pare in the Kraboa Coaltar district of the Eastern Region. The convicts, Alhassan Abass, 28, Ibrahim Mohammed, 45, and Munkaila Djebo, 38, were apprehended …

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Liberian President Oppong Weah’s Son Jailed

The son of Liberia’s ex-footballer president, George Weah, has been handed a six-month suspended jail sentence by a French court for “Ibiza-style” parties at his home in an upmarket Paris suburb. George Weah Junior, 33, was also ordered to pay 20,000 euros (24,000 dollars) to his neighbours after more than …

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Presidential bodyguard returns after 50-year absence

Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images Milton Obote, Uganda’s first elected president, was exiled in Tanzania along with his head of securityImage caption: Milton Obote, Uganda’s first elected president, was exiled in Tanzania along with his head of security A former head of security for late Ugandan President Milton Obote, who was …

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VIDEO: Police gun down suspected robber, 3 arrested

A suspected armed robber has been gunned down by police officers of the Jacobu District Police Command on Tuesday May 11. date rush The Police also arrested three other suspects on the Obuasi-Anwiankwanta stretch of road in the Ashanti Region. Jacobu District Police commander, Superintendent Abdulai Iddrisu speaking on Akoma …

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Kan Dapaah installed Assistant Grand Master of Freemasons in Ghana

National Security Minister, Albert Kan Dapaah, has been appointed and installed as Assistant Grand Master of Freemasons in Ghana. This was at a ceremony held in Accra on Saturday, May 8, 2021, by the Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Ghana. Mr Dapaah was installed together with other prominent …

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Kwabena Agyepong re-instated as NPP member

 Kwabena Agyepong The New Patriotic Party’s(NPP’s) National Executive Council (NEC) has re-instated the membership of Kwabena Agyei Agyepong. This was after the former General Secretary of the party wrote to it to reconsider its decision on suspending him from the party. In his letter to the NEC, Mr. Agyapong pleaded …

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Customs driver jailed for selling official vehicle

  Wonder Ahiadzro, a driver of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Customs Division, who stole and sold a Toyota LandCruiser at the cost of GHC20,000, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by the Kaneshie District Court. The original price of the vehicle, property of GRA, Customs Division, is stated at …

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National Development Bank set take off in July – Finance Minister

  The National Development Bank (NDB) will begin its operations by end of July this year, the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has said. The Bank, according to him, would provide long term wholesale financing to the private sector through Commercial banks. The Minister said this at a press briefing on Sunday to …

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Fire guts over 30 wooden structures at Krofrom

Fire has gutted over thirty wooden structures at a Krofrom, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. A report by CitiNews indicates that the fire started around 2:00am, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Personnel from the Ghana Fire Service have begun investigations into the fire with the cause yet to …

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Nine dead in shooting at Russian school

IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGESimage captionSchool No 175 in Kazan where the attack happened At least nine people, eight of them children, have been killed by gunfire at a school in the Russian city of Kazan, reports say. A teacher also died in the incident 820km (510 miles) east of Moscow. Two …

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