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Joseph Esso’s goal gave Ghana a win over Gambia in the ongoing WAFU Cup of Nations at Stade Lat Dior in Thies, Senegal. Maxwell Konadu’s side were strong in the first 10 minutes as the team came close to the opening goal after Joseph Esso unleashed a long-range thunderbolt. That effort, however, went narrowly wide. The Ghanaian goal came in the 66th minute when a low pin-point cross was converted home from six yards out by the Esso. In the 80th minute, the Scorpions were gifted a chance to draw level but the penalty awarded by the referee was missed…

The Acting Inspector General of Police, James Oppong-Boanuh, has directed the immediate interdiction of two police officers spotted in a viral video torturing a man in their custody. General Sergeant Patrick Amoako and General Lance Corporal Isaac Marfo were seen using belts to beat a man accused by his employer of stealing GH¢1,600. The video, said to have been shot by the complainant, has stirred public outrage regarding the maltreatment of the suspect by the police officers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm1XGfYpcEA But before the furore gets out of hand, the top hierarchy of the police has invoked its punitive powers by interdicting the…

A 28-year-old man, Alegbe Dodzi, was physically assaulted by two police officers stationed at the Railway Police Station near Agartha Market in the New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region. The suspect is alleged to have stolen GH¢1,600 belonging to his boss despite him denying it. After being physically assaulted at the charge office, he confessed taking GH¢350 and not the amount his boss is alleging. The incident occurred last week after the police had detained the suspect for over 48 hours. But video of the torture of the suspect went viral with many questioning the audacity of the…

Golden Movie Awards Supporting Actress for 2019 Jasmine Baroudi will be spending the next few weeks following a routine of getting chained up and staying in a single spot for hours. The actress will spend an entire film shoot going through varying levels of torture while immobilized. This is what new movie ‘The Cell’ is about. ‘The Cell’ takes place primarily in a claustrophobic cell structure. An almost unrecognizable Baroudi stars as a medical doctor caught up at the end of a revenge scheme. The story focuses on how easily it is to tip from sanity to insanity as a…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched the Ghana National Plastics Action Partnership, which seeks to stop the growth of global plastic pollution, and also ensure, amongst others, that plastics do not find their way into the country’s marine bodies. Speaking at the launch of the initiative on Tuesday, October 1, at the Labadi Beach Hotel, President Akufo-Addo noted that the menace of plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing challenges facing mankind today. With the menace affecting the day-to-day activities of the human race, the President indicated that confronting this challenge demands the active partnership and co-operation…

Vision Soccer Academy are champions of the Emirate Challenge Season III after an incredible display of football knowledge. Abu Samuel, who got 24.5 points, defeated Rami Kofi Okyere Adusie, who had  19 points,  to emerge the overall winner in a three-round quiz section of intriguing questions. Abu Samuel took home the ultimate prize of two economy class tickets to the UK and two football match tickets for any fixture of his choice at the Emirates Stadium. The football trivia competition organised by Emirates features Glow Lamp Academy, Cheater FC and Charity Stars. The Emirates campaign provides young football athletes and…

Award-winning investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas is out with yet another exposé. The yet-to-be-screened documentary film is titled Aba-yee: Secrets of the corrupt secret guards, ostensibly targetting guards of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA). According to Anas Aremeyaw Anas, the presence of these city guards looks like order but they have a secret. Their operations, he indicates, have resulted in lives lost and businesses closed while dreams are shattered. Click here to watch trailer Source: 3news.com|Ghana

Former President of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) Dr Tony Oteng-Gyasi has lauded government’s flagship industrialization policy, One-District One-Factory Programme. The economist-cum-lawyer maintains that the concept “makes a lot of sense”. Speaking on TV3’s Time With The Captains on Monday, September 30, the Chief Executive Officer of Tropical Cable and Conductor Limited said he is for any government that makes industrialization a part and parcel of policy making. He said he had started a similar concept way before the government launched the programme in 2017. For him, he said policies like that offer employment to many young people. “If…

There is freedom of speech and there is freedom of the press or press freedom but which pre-dates the other or which is pre-existent to the other and how different is one from the other?  Before we answer this question, it is imperative to indicate that freedom of the press is a form of freedom of the media hence we will use press freedom and freedom of the media interchangeably in this piece. Now, let us attempt an answer to the question above. Freedom of speech cannot be said to be the same as press freedom or freedom of the…

A 35-year-old Takoradi based taxi driver was nearly lynched after he was hired by four persons to go and rescue one of the kidnapped Takoradi girls – later confirmed dead by DNA – in a mission that turned futile. Together with the mother of the driver, Comfort Awoyie, who is the wife of the driver, walked in to the studios of Connect FM on Monday morning to narrate the incident to the station’s OMANBAPA morning show host, Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson According to the driver’s wife, one Hon Seidu Adam, an Assembly member from Effiakuma, and three other persons claimed…