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Police on Friday referred the case of singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young to the prosecution, recommending he be indicted on charges of secretly filming sex videos and sharing them in online chat groups. Jung, 30, who was arrested on suspicion of violating the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes, was moved from the detention room of the Jongno Police Station in downtown Seoul to the custody of prosecutors shortly before 8 a.m. Handcuffed and wearing a black suit, he did not answer to a barrage of questions from reporters about whether he attempted to destroy evidence or…

Police on Friday referred the case of singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young to the prosecution, recommending he be indicted on charges of secretly filming sex videos and sharing them in online chat groups. Jung, 30, who was arrested on suspicion of violating the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes, was moved from the detention room of the Jongno Police Station in downtown Seoul to the custody of prosecutors shortly before 8 a.m. Handcuffed and wearing a black suit, he did not answer to a barrage of questions from reporters about whether he attempted to destroy evidence or…

Health officials at the Holy Child Catholic Hospital at Fijai say there is no cause for alarm in the case of food poisoning recorded at the Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School in Takoradi Friday morning. About 60 students of the school were reportedly rushed to the Hospital Friday at about 4:00am after they started vomiting and experiencing diarrhoea said to have been caused by food poisoning from vegetables they bought from a vendor on campus. News of the events triggered fear among some parents, but the school authorities and the health officials at the Holy Child Catholic Hospital say…

Managing Director of Ghana Post, James Kwofie, who doubles as the Chairman of the West African Postal Conference (WAPCO) Council Administration, has identified a major setback impeding the growth and development of the postal and e-commerce services in West Africa. Mr. Kwofie was speaking at a two-day workshop held in Cote d’Ivoire. It was organised by the ECOWAS Commission and WAPCO on the ‘Contribution of the Post to the Development of E-Commerce in West Africa’. Cote d’Ivoire would again assemble stakeholders of the postal and e-commerce sector as it hosts the 27th Universal Postal Congress next year in Abidjan. The…

About 800 seats at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium have been broken with one student hospitalised following students violence at the 2019 Ashanti Region Super Zonal Athletic competition. The confusion between rioting students of Obuasi Sectech and Al Azhariya Senior High School overshadowed the beauty of Thursday’s competition, leaving many students with various degrees of injuries. According to eyewitnesses, the trouble began by a student who is alleged to have slapped a female student of Azhariya, leading to a retaliation from some rampaging male students from Azhariya. more soon Source: 3news.com | Ghana]]>

Former minister for gender, children and social protection, Nana Oye Lithur, has raised questions about the capacity of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, at managing the country’s economy. The Finance Minister had told Parliament Thursday that the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ordered the formation of a bi-partisan committee to probe the continuous depreciation of the value of the cedi. “The president has directed that I investigate the structural causes for the depreciation of the cedi and to propose measures to address the situation, the government and I will put a bi-partisan committee together to proceed immediately”, Mr. Ofori-Atta told Parliament…

Former minister for gender, children and social protection, Nana Oye Lithur, has raised questions about the capacity of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, at managing the country’s economy. The Finance Minister had told Parliament Thursday that the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ordered the formation of a bi-partisan committee to probe the continuous depreciation of the value of the cedi. “The president has directed that I investigate the structural causes for the depreciation of the cedi and to propose measures to address the situation, the government and I will put a bi-partisan committee together to proceed immediately”, Mr. Ofori-Atta told Parliament…

Scene at the venue of the competition where the young man collapsed[/caption] A young man has died after collapsing during a locally distilled gin (akpeteshie) drinking competition at Ntankoful in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis Friday morning. The incident happened around 11: 15am. The deceased, Patrick Obeng Hamza, 25, was said to have consumed four  ‘quarters’  of the hard liquor, approximately two bottles of 300ml Fanta. Hamza who is unemployed collapsed in the process of taking another ‘quarter’. His challenger who was said to be unconscious was revived, having been made to drink mashed kenkey by colleagues who were around, an eyewitnesses…

The commercial (trotro) driver and his conductor accused of assaulting a police officer have been granted bail by the Weija Circuit Court  Friday, March 29. The two are being processed to leave the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) cells. They were earlier charged with four counts of assaulting a police officer and causing road obstruction, as well as  conspiracy to commit crime and causing unlawful damage. Communications manager of Amnesty International Ghana, Samuel Agbotsey, told TV3 the two were granted bail partly due to ill-health and will reappear in court on Monday, April 1. Background Francis Buabeng and Albert Ansah,…

File photo[/caption] Former Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, COP Bright Oduro (retd), has challenged the government to take the first bold step to denounce vigilante groups aligned with the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). The former CID boss said this will put fear into other political parties, such as the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that have similar vigilante groups to also follow suit. COP Oduro threw the challenge in an interview with Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Friday revisiting a proposal by President Akufo-Addo ordering the two parties to disband their vigilante groups in…