Author: Krobea

A 21-year-old Israeli student was attacked and killed in Melbourne, Australia while speaking to her sister on the phone, police say. The body of Aiia Maasarwe, 21, was found near La Trobe University in the city’s north. She had taken a tram home late on Wednesday after a comedy show. Her sister “heard the sound of the phone falling to the ground and heard some voices”, officer Andrew Stamper said. Police are searching for the killer. They have not ruled out the possibility that Ms Maasarwe was sexually assaulted, Melbourne’s Age newspaper says, with known sex offenders “an active line…

The Ghana Police Service has entreated the public to volunteer information to aid investigations into the murder of Ahmed Hussein-Suale. Ahmed, a member of the Tiger Eye PI, was shot to death on Wednesday night by unknown assailants while he was returning to his Madina home. A statement by the Service on Thursday said the Homicide Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has taken over investigations. Already, fingers have been pointed at Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency Kennedy Agyapong, who had instigated his supporters to attack the deceased in his reprisal documentary Who Watches The Watchman?. Popular…

Affected and disgruntled petty traders at the Odawna Pedestrian Shopping Mall in the Greater Accra Region have called on government to construct a befitting and modified market to replace the old one, which was razed down by fire on Wednesday night. The fire destroyed wares of the traders running into thousands of Cedis. The inferno started around 8:00pm and estimated at destroying about 90 shops and other properties. It took the Ghana National Fire Service more than four hours to bring the flames under control. The pedestrian mall was constructed in 2007 by former President John Agyekum Kufuor but has…

Firebrand politician Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has fingered ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his lawyer, Kissi Adjabeng, in the murder of Ahmed Hussein-Suale, a key member of the Tiger Eye Pi team. Ahmed was shot dead on Wednesday while returning home. Reports say he was killed in a drive-by shooting just a few meters away from his Madina home. He was one of the members of the Tiger Eye PI team whose mugshot was shown on national television by Mr Agyapong, the Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency. Anas Aremeyaw Anas took to his official Twitter page on…

The police in Kumasi have arrested two persons for allegedly manufacturing and selling fake DV plates.  The suspects, Halidu Issah, 23, and Osei Kwadwo, 47, were arrested in their hideout at Bekwai roundabout in Kumasi. According to the police, the two are part of a syndicate engaged in the sales of vehicle trade plates, also known as DV plates. A search team retrieved 24 fake DV plates and 24 logbooks from the hideout. Ashanti Regional Police PRO, ASP Godwin Ahianyo, called on the public to report illegal activities to the police to help combat crime. “The general public is being advised…

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has seen off a bid to remove her government from power, winning a no confidence vote by 325 to 306. Rebel Tory MPs and the DUP – who 24 hours ago rejected the PM’s Brexit plan – voted to keep her in Downing Street. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn argued that Mrs May’s “zombie” administration had lost the right to govern. Mrs May said she would start talks with other party leaders to find a Brexit compromise that MPs will back. Giving her reaction to the result, Mrs May told MPs she would “continue to work…

Kwame Bonsu has thanked Kumasi Asante Kotoko for offering him a path back into football after his 13-month incarceration in Sweden. The 24-year-old midfielder is back in Ghana after he served 13 months of a two-year sentence for raping his wife. And last Sunday, he made his competitive debut for the Porcupine Warriors with a powerful display in Kotoko’s 3-2 away win over Coton Sport in the CAF Confederation Cup. The win and the performance delighted Bonsu, who continues to claim he is innocent even after serving time and losing a career in Sweden that many had predicted was destined…

Two men said to be National Security operatives were on Saturday arrested at East Legon after robbing a man of GH¢5,650, money he had withdrawn from an Automated Teller Machine (ATM). According to a situational report sighted by 3news.com, a police officer was also arrested in the robbery-gone-wrong. The report narrates that one Emmanuel David had withdrawn money from the adb Bank ATM at Ring Road Central Branch. But on his way home, a red Toyota Corolla with registration number GE 340-18 crossed him and he was forced into the car by the occupants. They drove him to East Airport…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has replied the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over the latter’s accusation that the Menzgold saga was created by the Akufo-Addo-led government. At a press conference on Wednesday, NDC’s Communications Officer Sammy Gyamfi fingered the government for being complicit in the loss of millions of Cedis of customers of Menzgold Ghana Limited. Mr Gyamfi described as disgusting the posturing of government over the issue. Akufo-Addo gov’t caused Menzgold saga – NDC’s Sammy Gyamfi But in a reprisal press conference addressed by its Communications Director, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, the NPP said Ghanaians are more discerning now than…

The Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has accused the Akufo-Addo-led government of directly complicit in the conundrum customers of Menzgold Ghana Limited have been plunged into. The aggrieved customers have demonstrated across the country, asking government to ensure that the gold-dealership firm reimburses their cash values to them. Extra values on their gold deposits have ceased since the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ordered the immediate shutdown of the company. What had aggravated customers was the deafening silence of Menzgold’s Chief Executive Officer, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM1, since the issues got to…