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The ARB APEX Bank has cautioned against the spread of malicious information on social media about Rural and Community Banks. According to Deputy Managing Director of ARB Apex Bank, Alex Kwasi Awuah such false information are injurious to the banking sector as it stirs up fear in customers to engage in panic withdrawals or stop savings which could have dire ...

An Educationist and Senior Economics lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Katakyie Dr. Eric Oteng-Abayie has faulted the Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Osei Yaw-Adutwum on his pronouncement of no cut-off point for this years’ Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates, describing it as wrong and a bad call. Dr. Oteng Abayie who has on ...

A Nigerian has been arrested for attempting to kidnap a boy around the Maamobi polyclinic in Accra. The suspect, yet to be named, was arrested after an eyewitness raised an alarm while he was luring the 4-year-old boy into a waiting vehicle with three other suspects in it, Starrfm.com.gh’s Winegah Perry Edwin reported Sunday morning. The suspect reportedly run into ...

Embattled National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has turned to God for redemption insisting his hands are clean from all allegations. Mr. Ampofo has been in the news in recent months after he was fingered in the recent spate of kidnappings in the country. “My hands are clean and my heart is clean. The battle ...

The founder and leader of a notorious money ritual group known as ‘Sakawa’, Kofi Amoateng popularly called Abusua has revealed the secrets behind their activities calling on the security agencies and Ghanaians to blame the recent spate of kidnappings, accidents, fires on ‘Sakawa’ boys. According to him, these blood money groups which have emerged in the country are behind the ...

The police have retrieved a bomb and 36 live pistol ammunition at the crime scene were the two kidnapped Canadian nationals were kept. Lauren Tilley and Bailey Chitty were rescued by personnel of the national security and the police on Wednesday after being held hostage for a week in Kumasi. Other offensive weapons including two pairs of scissors, knives with ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwesimintsim, Joseph Mensah, whose image was printed on the 35-year-old man who attempted to commit suicide in Ghana’s Parliament, Thursday afternoon, has broken his silence. According to him, though he is bothered about the man’s conduct, he is not worried because he has not wronged him in anyway. He said there are so many constituents ...

The media in Afghanistan are attacking Ghana’s former Electoral Commission chairperson, Charlotte Osei, over infractions which led to her dismissal in the West African country. Mrs. Osei is currently on UN payroll as an International Elections Commissioner to Afghanistan. Prior to her appointment, the first woman chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, had been sacked on grounds of financial malfeasance, an ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Thursday urged the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service (CID) to concentrate on purging the governing New Patriotic Party and the government of criminals shielding kidnappers. The NDC’s call come on the wake of the arrest of some eight individuals in connection to the kidnapping of two Canadian nationals in Kumasi, the ...

It has emerged that an explosive weapon was found among the arsenal of the kidnappers of the two Canadian ladies rescued on Wednesday. Pro-government newspaper, Daily Guide, reports on Friday, June 14 that besides the grenade, the kidnappers had an assortment of firearms “which were kept for defensive and offensive purposes.” Already, Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, said during a ...