Legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw has promised to press a new contempt charge against media personality, Valentina Nana Agyeiwaa alias Afia Schwarzenegger. According to him, he has evidence to prove that Afia has among other things violated a bond of good behaviour despite being the subject of a charge of contempt by a court. …
Read More »Police charge horse with criminal trespassing and resisting arrest’ after two-hour pursuit
Police in Alabama have charged a horse for ‘resisting arrest’ after two-hour pursuit, release mugshot of the animal The authorities also released body cam footage of officers attempting to capture the escaped pony for two hours. The Tuscaloosa Police had received a report that the pony was …
Read More »GACL wants GH¢5 service charge for domestic flights increased
The traveling public should be prepared to pay more for domestic air travel in the future, if proposals by the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) for a review of the current GH¢5 per passenger Airport Passenger Service Charge (APSC) on all domestic flights is accepted by Parliament. The GACL, a state-owned …
Read More »‘I charge US$200,000 for shows, not anyone can afford – Shatta Wale on ‘sideline’ tag
Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale, has labeled as impossible claims that he is often sidelined by some event organizers in the country. The dancehall artiste said he usually charges US$200, 000 and above for shows and because some people cannot afford that, he (Shatta Wale) willingly decides …
Read More »‘Who is in charge of security, why have we not been able to stop galamsey?’ – Asantehene
Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has questioned why Ghana as a country has failed to stop the menace of illegal small-scale mining (‘galamsey’). In an Opemsuo Radion interview monitored by GhanaWeb, Asantehene also questioned why the security apparatus in these ‘galamsey’ areas and the taskforce set up by the government have failed to …
Read More »VIDEO: Krobo ‘dumsor’: Odumase residents charge phones in mortuary
It has emerged that some residents of Odumase in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality now charge their phones in the mortuary due to the power cut in the area. According to the head of the department, Mr Amotey, residents from far and near troop to the mortuary every day to charge their phones. …
Read More »Nigerian kidney theft: Third charge over organ-harvesting plot
A man has been charged over an alleged plot with a Nigerian politician to harvest a man’s kidney. Obinna Obeta, 50, from Southwark, south London, is accused under the Modern Slavery Act of arranging a man’s travel with a view to him being exploited. Mr Obeta is suspected of conspiring …
Read More »Popular rapper arrested over drug trafficking charge
Kodak Black is reportedly in trouble with the law again. According to TMZ, the Pompano Beach native was arrested on Friday (July 15) as he was cruising Ft. Lauderdale in a Dodge Durango, which police believed had a little too much tint. Once Kodak was pulled over, officers claimed his …
Read More »NSS personnel, senior students ‘take charge’ as teachers strike bites hard
A visit to selected basic and second cycle schools in the Ashanti region by GBCNews showed a mixed reaction of the interested parties to the strike action declared by labour unions at the pre-tertiary educational level. While a greater majority of teachers were complying with the industrial action with only …
Read More »Man electrocuted in Damongo while plugging phone to charge during downpour
A man believed to be in his late 30’s has been electrocuted by striking thunder at Damongo in the West Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region when he tried plugging his phone to charge. The sad incident which has thrown the town into a state of shock and mourning occurred …
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