A Close Circuit Television (CCTV) camera installed in a shop, betrayed a 29 year-old unemployed, who was stealing a carton of corned beef valued at GH¢54.00 . Abdul Malik has subsequently been slapped with 10 years jail by a Tarkwa circuit court for stealing. Malik who was recently convicted for committing a similar offence pleaded guilty when he appeared before the court presided over by Mr Samuel Obeng Diawuo. Prosecuting Police Chief Inspector Edward Paddy said on May 15, at about 0630 hours

The Ministry of Health has donated assorted medical items worth $22,000 to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra. The items include a pulse oxymeter, a hand-held doppler ultrasound, a laryngoscope, a truphatek set and a bookwaler retractor. Handing over the items to the management of the hospital, the Minister of Health, Mrs Sherry Ayitey, said the donation formed part of her ministry’s support to various health facilities to help them deliver quality health care.  “We are hopeful that these items

The Very Reverend Dr. Yaw Frimpong-Manso, immediate past Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, has underscored the need for God-fearing, selfless and dedicated political leaders, to help shape the economy of the nation. Political leaders, he said, must therefore look up to the Church for the wisdom to lead their people. “Politicians must come to the church to know the wisdom to govern.” Very Rev Dr Frimpong Manso made the call at the launch of his fourth book titled: “Tell The Nations,”

A draft policy that will ensure the sustainability of social protection programmes in the country is to be placed before the Cabinet this week. The comprehensive policy, when accepted, will be followed by the development of a social protection legal framework that will enjoin successive governments to implement social intervention programmes. The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, made this known at a press briefing organised by the ministry in Accra yesterday. The

The acting Registrar of the Architects Registration Council of Ghana, Mrs Stella  Arthiabah, has cautioned the public to beware of unauthorised persons illegally practising architecture in the country. She said in a statement that certain individuals and firms, though not being architects or architectural firms, presented themselves to unsuspecting clients and submitted proposals for consideration for architectural design and consultancy services. “Such practices do not only affect the proper

Two form two students of the Cambridge College in the Techiman Municipality, died instantly when a tipper truck run over them on the Techiman-Tuobodom Highway on Monday. The mutilated bodies of Janet Donkor, 20, and Vida Dawaalle 18, have since been deposited at the Holy Family Hospital in Techiman, while their colleague, Ambrose Dayeletre, is in a critical condition at the hospital. The tipper truck ran over two others, Issaku Abdulai 26, and Fuseini Soale 33, who were riding on an unregistered

The Agona Swedru Division of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service has arrested a 17 year–old form one student of the Nsaba Presbyterian Senior High School (SHS), for raping a 20-year old teacher-trainee at Agona Asafo. Chief Superintendent Peter Abillah, Agona Swedru Divisional Crime Officer, who disclosed this to the Press at Swedru, said the student, Henry Nyakoh, went to the house of the victim at Agona Asafo at about 13 hours on Tuesday,  May

The Judgement Debt Commission has decided to subpoena Mr Kwame Agati, counsel for Mr Peter Abbam, to answer questions relating to the payment of GHc364,644 compensation to his client. The Sole Commissioner, Mr Justice Yaw Apau, gave the directive for the subpoena letter to be issued to Mr Agati yesterday. His directive followed a statement by counsel for the commission, Mr Dometi Kofi Sorpkor, to the effect that Mr Agati had decided to appear before the commission with a different lawyer because

A 27-year-old self-styled doctor has been arrested for allegedly using  a computer software to diagnose and administer medication to people in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis. “Dr” Daniel Appiah Kyere Dankwa, who does not have any medical training, is said to have been ordering his “patients” to take the medication he prescribed and pay for the treatment immediately after consultation.  So far, 22 people are said to have fallen victim to the schemes of the suspect. The Western Regional

Kasapreko Company Limited (KCL), an indigenous beverage producer, has entered into a partnership deal with Caltech Ventures, owners of a 3,000-hectare cassava farm at Hodzo in the Volta Region. Under the deal, Kasapreko Company Limited is investing US$7.5 million in the cassava plantation and that investment is aimed at increasing cassava yields for the production of ethanol in the country. By that amount, KCL has consequently acquired 40 per cent shares in Caltech Ventures. Ghana currently imports

A special thanksgiving service for the reunification of the Akuapem Paramountcy has been held at Akropong Akuapem in the Eastern Region. The service, which had the theme “Behold: The Lord makes all things new and beautiful”, attracted a large number of people, including the Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Julius Debrah and all the five divisions that constitute the Akuapem Paramountcy. They are the Nifa, Benkum, Adonten, Gyase and Kronti. It was organised by the Presbyterian Church of Ghana in

Two masons are in police grips in connection with the death of their neighbour at American House, in Accra. The suspects are Paul  Akpakode and Micheal Akoto. They are alleged to have hit their neighbour, identified as Alex Ntim, with a piece of wood leading to his death. Police arrested them on May 12, 2014 following a complaint by an eye witness, Issaka Malaba,  a farmer living near American House. Fight with wife  The Legon Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police ( DSP),  Mr Emmanuel

The association of female staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), the Power Queens, has organised an outreach programme for market women at the Asafo Market in Kumasi. The programme formed part of the association’s activities to educate the women on the need to adopt safety measures to avoid market fires and also to conserve energy.  They also educated them to always endeavour to employ the services of qualified electricians who would use the right materials in order to avoid fire outbreaks. Education

The Northern Region Small Towns Water and Sanitation Project (NORST), a Canadian support programme, has presented vehicles and equipment, including laptops and accessories, to facilitate the work of its partner organisations in the region. The facilities would enable the organisations to support and monitor water supply, sanitation planning and management in some deprived communities in beneficiary districts in the region.  The beneficiary organisations are the Community Water Supply and Sanitation

There was deafening silence around the Ablekuma Nsumfa area, which is usually agog with live praise music accompanied by instruments from churches in the area on Sunday morning. This was the situation except for some muted congregational responses and sporadic clapping.  Other churches within the Ga Traditional Area held services on Sunday without musical instruments, all as a result of a ban on drumming and noise-making imposed by the Ga Traditional Council, which even affects clapping of hands

The Class of 1998 of the University of Ghana Medical School (UGMS) yesterday presented a cheque for GH¢5,000 to the National Cardiothoracic Centre, Korle-Bu in Accra. The money is to help the centre carry out an operation on the over two-and-a-half-year-old Priscilla Madjitey suffering from a hole-in-heart. Presenting the cheque on behalf of the class, Dr Andrews Kwabena-Adade, an anaesthetist consultant at the hospital, said the move was to help give back to society what it had contributed towards

The President of the Living for El-Shaddai Ministries, Rev. Dr Dora Bortey, has stressed the need for parents to protect their children from being exposed to sexual materials. According to her, some children are left on their own to watch films and listen to music whose content are sexually suggestive. “It is our desire that parents will make their children a high priority and do their best to protect them from being unduly exposed to sexually explicit materials,” she said. Rev. Dr Bortey was

One hundred casual workers of the Accra Compost & Recycling Plant have been laid off following the shutdown of the waste management plant. The closure follows a notice served by the management of the plant to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to fulfil its part of the contract signed between the two organisations. In the said contract, the ministry was to bear the cost of tipping the waste that was received and processed at the plant. However, in the past two years, the  management

Government has begun an intensive hunt for persons who deliberately insert ‘ghost names’ into the national payroll system for severe sanctions. President John Dramani Mahama re-echoed a May Day warning at the just-ended National Economic Forum at Senchi in Eastern Region that, “We are about to embark on a vigorous exercise to discover and remove ghost names and to severely sanction persons responsible for the insertion of such names.” The non-partisan forum provided an opportunity for high

The Footwear Division of the Defence Industrial Holding Company (DIHOC) has handed over 4,000 various types of safety boots to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS). The presentation, which took place at the head office of the GIS in Accra yesterday, was in line with the government’s directive to the security agencies to stop the importation of footwear and depend on locally made shoes from the Footwear Division of DIHOC, also known as the Kumasi Shoe Factory. The boots are made up of 1,500 Oxford-style