Tag Archives: EAST

One person has died from the deadly Monkeypox infection in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East region. This was confirmed by the Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Emmanuel Kofi Dzotsi. According to him, the case was confirmed after investigations were conducted into three cases of suspected …

Police in Techiman have arrested five people for their alleged involvement in an attack at the NDC regional office in the Bono East region. The suspects, according to a statement by the Police, are Kojo Agyei alias Kojo Cocaine, Illiasu Sulemana aka Oboot, Andrew Kemire, Fatau Abdallah and Alhaji Nuhu. …

Mourners, including President Cyril Ramaphosa, have gathered in Scenery Park, East London for the mass funeral for 21 teenagers who died in the Enyobeni tavern tragedy on June 26. The tavern has since been shut down. At least 17 patrons — almost all underage — died in mysterious circumstances at …

Two brothers have died after fire gutted their house at East Legon while they were asleep, 3News has reported. The victims, identified as Nana Amo, 8 and Nana Boadi, 5, could not escape from the room when the fire broke out. The uncle of the deceased boys, narrating the incident …

Twenty-two people have been found dead at an East London nightclub. The horrific scene unfolded in the early hours of Sunday morning with frantic messages requesting police, metro and ambulance assistance at Enyobeni Tavern in Scenery Park. Daily Dispatch reporters are on the scene but the images are not fit …

One person has died, while another is battling for her life after a KIA Rhino truck lost control and ran into two people. Eyewitnesses say the KIA Rhino tanker had gone into an abandoned pit at Aprah in the Gomoa East District to fetch water, while the teenagers were also …

The call this week by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta for the urgent deployment of the regional East African Standby Force (EASF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo as violence escalated in the country’s troubled east signalled a sense of fatigue in solving the problem politically. But that deployment may face …

Numbers of Covid-19 cases are rising again in East Africa even as countries bank on vaccinations to prevent another round of restrictions. Over the past one month, Kenya’s positivity rate has risen from zero to more than five percent, the level which the World Health Organisation (WHO) often considers threatening. …

Former Upper East Regional Minister, Ms. Tangoba Abayage is revealed to have contributed immensely towards the rescue of an 11-year-old girl whose father attempted to use her for money rituals known in local parlance as Sakawa. Ms. Tangoba Abayage who has good relations with the herbalist, Nana Adu-Boafo Junior was …

The Ministry of National Security has warned other security agencies in Ghana of a strange movement of certain persons along the borders of Ghana in the North Eastern Region and the Upper East Region. In a statement addressed to the Chief of Defence State and the Inspector General of Police …