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Two siblings have mysteriously gone missing from their home in Takoradi in the Western Region where a wave of kidnappings since late last year has caused fear and panic among residents. Mother of the 15-year-old Grace Arthur and 13-year-old Benjamin Arthur discovered her children were missing Saturday morning and have since reported a missing case to the Police in the city. Ms Patience Mensah told Connect FM correspondent Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson on Tuesday that she last saw her children Friday night just before they went to bed. “On that very day, they were with us in the house in…

The overlord of Kusaug traditional area, Naba Asigri Abugrago Azoka II has presented assorted food items and toiletries worth 1000 cedis to some 283 refugees at Widnaba in the Bawku West district of the Upper East region. The refugees, made up of 38 men, 83 female and 162 children arrived in Ghana last month following a chieftaincy dispute in the Zoaga community in Burkina Faso. A dispute between two royal gates in the area sparked the renewed the chieftaincy crisis at a shrine resulting to the death of people, which caused others to flee to Ghana. They have since their…

Sam George[/caption] The Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam Nartey George has traced the root of vigilantism to activities of land guards, and is therefore convinced that streamlining land acquisition in the country would solve incidents of political vigilantism. Ruthless militias with affiliation to the two main political parties in Ghana – NPP and NDC – under the pretense of vigilante groups have visited mayhem, some deadly, on innocent citizens. Well-meaning Ghanaians have for years condemned their activities and had time without number called for their disbandment with no success. Just last week, President Akufo-Addo had cause to order…

A Ghanaian male-born-turned-female says it is not unusual of her to be a woman with male genital, indicating that though she gets sexual urges, her penis does not function. Veso Golden Oke, who is currently on hormone pills ahead of a transgender surgery “in few months”, said the pills “reduces the size and the function” of her penis”. She said this on TV3 Tuesday when she opened up about her life before and after her decision to transition from male to female and the consequences thereafter, but was reluctant in letting the public in on her private life. “I was…

A Ghanaian male-born-turned-female says it is not unusual of her to be a woman with male genital, indicating that though she gets sexual urges, her penis does not function. Veso Golden Oke, who is currently on hormone pills ahead of a transgender surgery “in few months”, said the pills “reduces the size and the function” of her penis”. She said this on TV3 Tuesday when she opened up about her life before and after her decision to transition from male to female and the consequences thereafter, but was reluctant in letting the public in on her private life. “I was…

President of the Ghana Olympics Committee, Ben Nunoo Mensah has lauded the level of sports development at Tema-based Delhi Public School (DPS) International.   Mr Nunoo Mensah was a guest of honour at DPS International’s Sports Day event held on Saturday, February 23, 2019.   The event took place on the school’s sports grounds and upon seeing the state-of-the-art sports facilities at the school, Mr Nunoo Mensah became impressed and hoped for partnership between DPS International and the Olympics Committee in the near future.   According to him, DPS International has all the facilities of a sports institution needs to…

One person, an eight-year-old boy, has been confirmed dead in the late afternoon downpour in Koforidua that left parts of the town flooded Monday. Jude Ampofo Gyamfi and two others had alighted from their school bus at their junction and were heading home at the time that it was raining when his lunchbox fell into the flooding water, and in an attempt to save it, he was swept away. 2-hr downpour floods parts of Koforidua; properties destroyed According to the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Jude’s elder brother who was among the two other kids, tried to rescue him but…

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Tuesday, engaged in a heated debate on what could be described as the State of the Nation Sanitation. Sanitation appears to be one of the biggest problems in the country governments have had to deal with and politicians will use the least opportunity to argue which party is doing better than the other, but the reality of the situation is most often different on the ground. However, the former NDC Deputy Communications officer, Fred Agbenyo and the Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku Constituency and Board Chairman…

A new Nokia smartphone fuses together shots taken simultaneously by five rear cameras to offer owners what it says is “the richest image capture possible”. This lets it preserve details in the highlights and shadows that would otherwise be lost as well as giving more control over depth-of-focus edits than rival devices, it claims. It can also produce photos with up to 240-megapixel resolution. Experts, however, warn that it may be a challenging device to market. “Most store sales people are not that well trained when it comes to explaining the differences between one smartphone camera system and another,” explained…

File photo[/caption] The Ugandan army says it has arrested two soldiers who are seen assaulting a female traffic officer in a video that went viral. The short video, filmed by an onlooker, shows one of them grabbing Police Sergeant Esther Namaganda’s arm as she tries to fight him off. She had stopped their vehicle over a traffic offence. They are bodyguards for Major General Matayo Kyaligonza, who is seen dressed in a white shirt, walking around the scene with a cane. He doesn’t try to stop the soldiers from grabbing the traffic officer or from attacking onlookers. In a photo…