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It is turning out that the two ‘killer’ fetish priests — Christian Lawoe Gameli, aka Power One, 36, and his accomplice, Famous Adukonu, aka Scorpion, 37, who have been detained for the alleged callous murder of at least two people at their shrine — were chased out of Suhum in the Eastern Region, where they were formerly practising, for a ...

A woman believed to be in her 50s is struggling for her life after a robbery attack Wednesday at Afram Plains in the Eastern Region. The woman who has been suffering from stroke reportedly also lost her son and was returning from the burial service in the Volta Region. According to the former assemblyman for Donkorkrom Electoral Area Yaw Vidjei, ...

Award-winning freelance investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni has stated that if Bernard Allotey Jacobs’ suspension by opposition National Democratic Congress ( NDC) is due to his unfavourable commentary about the NDC, then the founder of the party, former President JJ Rawlings, deserves to be suspended as well for having said “worse things”. Yesterday, Mr Allotey Jacobs was suspended for his ...

The blood transfusion unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital is in a dire state as blood stocks is at its lowest in the only tertiary referral facility in the middle belt of Ghana. The unit is unable to pool blood from schools, religious institutions and other organized bodies as these institutions which form its regular sources are shut because ...

The occupant of the golden stool Otumfuo Osei Tutu II turns 70-years-old today May 6, 2020 The most revered Monarch of the Asante Kingdom ascended the throne on April 26, 1999 succeeding the late Otumfuo Opoku Ware II. Nana Barima Kwaku Duah as known in private life, is the youngest of five children of the late Queen Mother Nana Afia ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the 2020 budget which was presented to Parliament by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta in November 2019 out of gear. Speaking at the Jubilee House on Wednesday, May 6, 2020, President Akufo-Addo said: “I think it is important that everyone in the country knows that the government is one of the ...

The National Communication Bureau of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has notified all its communicators, media monitors, and officials that the biggest opposition party has boycotted Peace (104.3) FM’s morning show (Kokrokoo) effective today, Wednesday, 6 May 2020. A statement issued and signed by the party’s national communication officer, Mr Sammy Gyamfi, said: “This decision has been occasioned by the ...

A founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Amoako Tuffour has predicted the defeat of the party in the 2020 polls if it goes ahead with the option of handpicking candidates for Parliamentary positions. The General Secretary of the NPP , John Boadu had suggested in an interview said: “assuming this pandemic gets worse such that it becomes ...

Confirmed cases of the deadly COVID-19 in the Western North region of Ghana have jumped to 49 from 4. According to a situational report by the Ghana Health Service in the region, all the confirmed 45 cases are contacts of the first case. The report added that contact tracing for the new 45 cases are ongoing. Ghana has officially recorded ...

The Effiduase Magistrate Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced a 27-year-old fetish priest at Effiduase two years imprisonment for attempting to exhume the body of one Francis Kwabena Agyapong, who was buried recently. The court, presided over by Michael Derrick Ocloo, sentenced Yaw Michael after pleading guilty to the charge of causing unlawful damage, contrary to section 172 of ...