Eastern Regional Minister Eric Kwakye Darfour, has called on teachers and school children in the Kwahu Enclave, who reportedly abandoned their posts and left their communities after reprisal attacks between nomadic herdsmen believed to be of Fulani extraction and some farmers, led to the deaths of ten people, to return to their schools. Briefing the media after a stakeholders’ ...
A father has been arrested after he allegedly shot dead his son because he found out he was gay, police have said. Giovanni Melton, from Henderson, Nevada, was gunned down by his father Wendell Melton after an argument on Thursday afternoon about how he is gay and has a boyfriend, police told KSNV. ‘He hated ...
As part of activities marking its 13th Anniversary, Citi FM has inaugurated a borehole project for residents at Korleman in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. Korleman is one of the two farming communities that benefited from the station’s annual Help a Christmas Child initiative in 2016. The borehole was constructed after it ...
Two nomadic herdsmen believed to be of Fulani extraction narrowly escaped death on Tuesday after they were nearly lynched by an angry mob at Hweehwee, one of the villages in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region, where the herdsmen clashed with local farmers. This incident comes a day after the Eastern Regional Security Council ...
At least six children have been killed and 25 others injured in an explosion at a primary school in north-west Tanzania, witnesses say. Reports say the pupils were playing with an object which blew up. Three were pronounced dead at the time they arrived at hospital. The others succumbed to their wounds, Rulenge hospital’s doctor ...
Scammers have used WhatsApp to trick people into handing over personal information by tempting them with bogus supermarket vouchers. The messenger app was used to send fake vouchers to people, purporting to be from trusted chains such as Asda, Tesco and Aldi. The messages claimed to offer hundreds of pounds in savings so long as ...
Shaker and Ko-Jo Cue’s ‘Pen & Paper’ album is topping charts on iTunes music store. The 13-track album which was launched at the Alliance Française on Saturday, October 21, 2017 features Ru, Magnom, Kwabena Bahom, Cina Soul, Kwasi Arthur and KiDi. The album was ably produced by iPappi, Shaker, Vacsonit, King Jamal, Magnom, Bedi Drumkits, ...
Police Personnel deployed to protect residents who have been affected by clashes between nomadic herdsmen and indigenes in parts of the East Region, have appealed to government to provide them with water. The 85 personnel, who were dispatched from the Police Headquarters last week to calm tensions and protect lives and properties at Dwerebease and ...
Samsung Ghana is bringing back smiles to the faces of children across Ghana ahead of this year’s Christmas festivities. The electronics giant has partnered with Operation Smile, an international medical charity organization, to fund the cleft surgeries of more than 150 Ghanaian children. “Smile with Samsung” is the second project through which the electronics provider ...
On Monday (Nov. 6), Meek Mill was sentenced to two to four years in prison after violating his probation. The violations came in the form of an assault case he caught last winter and a reckless driving case he faced in New York City back in August. Although the Philadelphia rapper had the assault case ...
Four-time Olympic silver medallist Frankie Fredericks has been suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after being charged with money laundering and corruption. Fredericks, 50, was charged by the French authorities last week. He was accused of accepting a bribe of $299,300 (£230,000) from the son of ex-IAAF president Lamine Diack when Rio won the ...
The Principal of Ntotoroso College of Nursing , Alhaji Abdul Karim Boakye–Yiadom, has stated that the health of the present generation of Ghanaians will adversely be affected by the ‘galamsey’ menace if it not dealt with. He said the type of diseases that would emerge in the next 10 to 20 years, especially in the galamsey (illegal ...
Twitter’s expansion to 280 characters is rolling out publicly today to all users in supported languages, including English. The company had first announced the controversial plan to move beyond its traditional 140 characters back in September, noting at the time how a longer character count allowed users to express more of their thoughts without running out of ...
Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu, has promised a massive crackdown on the sale of government lands to politicians and other private individuals. To this end, he says the Ministry is putting a land acquisition policy in place to check the practice where state lands are sold to the aforementioned category of people. The ...
Twitter plans to increase the number of characters in tweets from 140 to 280 for the majority of users. The new limit will not apply to tweets written in Japanese, Chinese and Korean which can convey more information in a single character. The move follows a trial among a small group of users which started ...
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has sacked two public officials after scolding one of them on live TV. He had asked the two municipal directors what their budget was for road construction in their districts. Neither could recall on the spot, and a few hours later both officials were sacked. No reason was given. President Magufuli’s ...
Some aggrieved members of the Ada East District Assembly in the Greater-Accra Region have petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo not to swear in Sarah Dugbakie Pobee as the District’s new Chief Executive. The group described last Friday’s Assembly elections by the Electoral Commission (EC) as fraudulent, citing irregularities before, during and after the election. They accused ...
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia received his New Smart Drivers’ License on Tuesday, as he launched a new drivers’ license and vehicle registration smart cards. The new license will contain a contactless chip loaded with the owner’s bio-data and the driver’s personal information for secure identification. It will also make use of state-of-the-art-technology; for secure ID printing that ...
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has initiated processes to evaluate all properties within its jurisdiction. The move is part of efforts to mobilise resources for the development of the city of Accra. A statement from the AMA copied to citifmonline.com, said the exercise which would be conducted by the Land Valuation Division of the Land Commission, will ...
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