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The mentally unstable man who is alleged to have killed one Ahmed Yakubu has also been found dead. His body was found at Dansoman market in Accra on Monday. It is not clear as to what or who killed him. However, he was found in the midst of stones, sticks, rubble and other items suggesting he might have been pummeled and stoned to death. The police were called in to convey the body to the morgue. The mentally challenged man was alleged to have butchered a 59-year-old Ahmed Yakubu in an uncompleted building at Dansoman Tunga in the Ablekuman West…

The Upper East Regional Minister, Ms Paulina Tangoba Abayage, has inspected ongoing developmental projects being undertaken by the government in some districts of the region to assess the progress of work. At the Tempane district, she inspected the project site for government’s ‘one village, one dam’ at Yabrango, where consultants told her the water level in the dam was high enough to stay through the dry season for farmers to use for irrigations. She said government will make sure all the dams under construction are completed in good time to serve their purpose. Ms Abayage inspected various projects at the…

Nana Egyir Ahor l[/caption] Nana Egyir Ahor l, the Gyaasehene of Gomoa Akramang in the Gomoa East District of Central region has been shot dead. The incident happened Monday morning when a group of young men attacked his house around 9:00am. Mr Samuel Essoun, a resident, confirmed the incident in an interview with 3news Central regional correspondent Kwame Kakraba. He claimed the Gyaasehene on Sunday shot an Ewe man who lives in the community on the shoulder. This, he said, angered his people who mounted a search for the chief without success on Sunday. According to Mr. Essoun, the group…

The Northern Regional Police command has arrested 11 ladies, allegedly involved in prostitution. The suspects were arrested at various joints they operate within the Tamale metropolis. They were arrested between 12 midnight and 3:00 am on September 8. A man who was also in possession of locally manufactured pistol was also arrested at a drinking bar. Northern Regional Crime Officer, Supt. Otuo Acheampong, told 3news.com the command supported by the counter terrorism unit of the Ghana Police Service embarked on the operation to clamp down on lawlessness and impunity in the metropolis. “The process led to the arrest of 11…

Ahmed Yakubu[/caption] A 59-year-old man known as Ahmed Yakubu has been killed in an uncompleted building at Dansoman Tunga in the Ablekuman West Municipality. According to family members, Yakubu was invited by his landlord on Sunday, September 8, 2019 to help him get rid of a mentally challenged man occupying his uncompleted building in the area. Yakubu did not however return since morning. His wife and children were later in the evening informed that his lifeless body has been found in the uncompleted building with parts of his body chopped off with an attempt to set the body on fire.…

The Unity Hall of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has with immediate effect stripped the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, and Vice Chancellor Kwasi Obiri Danso of their alumni status. The Hall’s alumni association has also blamed the high court judge who dismissed its injunction to make the conversion of the all-male hall into a mixed hall take effect for the crisis on campus. At an emergency meeting held on Sunday, September 8, alumni of the hall, popularly known as Continentals, said they will embark on a campaign to end the political career of Dr Opoku-Prempeh,…

Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) contestants for this year took a trip down memory lane on Sunday night to give a historical account of how their respective tribes came into being. Each of the 16 contestants took turns to educate the hundreds of audience about how their regions came about and gained their names, as well as the efforts of the many forebears who led them to their present day locations. With different dynamic stage acts, each of the contestants appeared on stage fully clad in clothes depicting how their folks used to dress in the past. Upper West region’s Yiri…

Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) contestants for this year took a trip down memory lane on Sunday night to give a historical account of how their respective tribes came into being. Each of the 16 contestants took turns to educate the hundreds of audience about how their regions came about and gained their names, as well as the efforts of the many forebears who led them to their present day locations. With different dynamic stage acts, each of the contestants appeared on stage fully clad in clothes depicting how their folks used to dress in the past. Upper West region’s Yiri…

Former presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana, Most Reverend Titus Awotwi Pratt, has stated the country’s security services are “full of puppets” of the ruling government who are not able to fight crime. Speaking at the one-year anniversary thanksgiving service of the Consolidated Bank of Ghana (CBG) in Accra, Most Rev. Titus observed that appointments into the security services are made more on the considerations of political cronyism rather than on merit. He said the products of this kind of appointments are unable to fight crime even if it is committed in the full glare of the public.…