Dozens of traders at the Kumasi Central Business District have been arrested by the Police in a bid to identify those who took part in the stripping of a woman they suspected to be a thief. A screening exercise is expected to be conducted today in that regard. In a video circulating on social media, […]
Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister Otiko Djaba has condemned the mob action and sexual assault of an alleged female thief in the Ashanti Region, charging the police to bring the perpetrators to book. “I know the police will crack this case if they need to, this is pure CID action,” Ms Djaba said on
Three persons are in the grips of the Assin North district police in the central region for allegedly stealing telecommunication appliances. The 3 (names withheld) aged between 25 and 35 are alleged to be vandalizing cell sites of Telecommunication companies, stealing backup batteries and other valuable items including fire extinguishers and earthing cables in the
Five police officers have been injured in Kumawu Bodomase in the Ashanti region following renewed chieftaincy clashes. The Ashanti regional police command has deployed a joint police and military force to the troubled area to restore law and order. The melee is between factions of Berimah Sarfo Tweneboah Kodua II – a self-acclaimed paramount chief
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has stated that the Akufo-Addo led government will not use the Heritage Fund to bankroll the free Senior High School policy. “We are financing the Free SHS education without looking at the Heritage Fund. We are not touching the Heritage Fund,” Mr. Ofori Atta told journalists Thursday after the Achimota Speak
Hospitals in the Ashanti region are calling for a review of the capitation system of payment under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The region began the payment system in 2012 when NHIS card holders were asked to choose a primary health care provider for an upfront payment of predetermined amount of claims. But the
The annual springboard road show is set to come off on Saturday in the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi with a power packed leadership hunt. The 2017 edition has already gone to Wa in the Upper West region, Bolgatanga in the Upper East region and the Northern regional capital Tamale. Speaking to Ivan Heathcote Fumador, the
A former Ashanti Regional Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Joseph Yamin has described controversy around some missing vehicles at the presidency as a deliberate ploy by the Nana Akufo- Addo administration to divert attention from the current hardships in the country. He was commenting on the claims by the director of communications at
In the light of discussions involving an Elder of The Church of Pentecost (COP) on sex and condom usage among teenagers and the youth, we wish to offer the following comments: Sexuality has been abused over the years by man due to the fall. God in His own wisdom has restricted sex to married couples.
Pastor and Controversial Counselor, George Lutterodt says his ready to meet Nana Aba Anamoah, journalist and television host and her colleague Jocelyn Dumas in court should both decide to sue him over alleged defamatory comments he recently made about them. The maverick counselor is reported to have stated categorically that the two cannot marry indicating
