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Close to 1,000 Ghanaians have signed an online petition to mount pressure on the police to find the three kidnapped Takoradi girls. After nine months Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, 15, Ruth Love Quayson, 18, and Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21 are yet to be found after they were reported kidnapped in the Takoradi metropolis. Nigerian Samuel Wills is standing trial as the ...

The bodyguard of the Tamale mayor Iddrisu Musah Superior had to fire a warning shot to prevent a mob from attacking his boss at a suburb called Viting. Mr. Superior was in the community upon an invitation by authorities of the Viting Senior High School, following a renewed land encroachment dispute between the school and some residents. Dozens of structures ...

Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, a Deputy Minister of Energy in charge of Petroleum, says a total of US$95 million dollars was spent between 2013 and 2016 for drilling oil wells but none resulted in the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantities. He said 13 petroleum contracts were signed between the previous government and oil investors with US$880 million set ...

Ghana has recorded its first open-heart surgery, outside tits premier public hospital, the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH). Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, the renowned Cardiothoracic Surgeon, over the weekend, led a medical team of 10, to replace the damaged mitral valve of a 61-year man with an artificial one at the Providence Specialist Hospital, in Accra. The move will lead the way ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) will today begin the mass registration of Ghanaians for the Ghana Card. The registration will be done on regional basis beginning from the Greater Accra region. It will be done between 8am and 5pm daily. The Card will replace many of the current proof of identity required by many state organisations and also be recognised ...

Starr FM’s Upper East regional correspondent Edward Adeti has been explaining why he recorded a telephone conversation he had with a Ghanaian minister of state, Rockson Bukari, over an attempt to bribe him to drop a story against a judge and a Chinese mining company. Below is the full write-up on his Facebook page: MY LAST WORD ON THE LEAKED ...

Nine men from Edrakpota a fishing community in Afram Plains, Eastern Region, are in the grips of the police for using children for fishing and hazardous work. Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Region Police, Francis Gomado, said police intelligence revealed that there were 11 suspected child traffickers and 24 children being kept for trafficking. He said some of ...

The Inspector General of Police David Asante-Apeatu on Friday April 26, 2019 ,joined the Church of Pentecost to cut sod for the Construction of an ultra modern District Police Headquarters for the Akropong Police Command in the Eastern Region. The Project is the first of three(3) others to be constructed for the Ghana Police Service by the Church under its ...

A joint police and Navy operation team has invaded Didja Island on Afram Plains North District to rescue 24 alleged trafficked children. The victims age between six to 12 were reportedly trafficked from Kasoa and Weija area in the Greater Accra region to the Island Community to engage in fishing. Nine suspects were on Saturday arrested by the “Operation Abrode” ...

Former president John Mahama has been accused of causing financial loss to the state to a tune of GHC23 million. This follows his call for the release of vehicles purchased in 2016 to the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU). The Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) has revealed that the purchase of the buses during Mahama’s tenure as president ...