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At least three persons were hit by stray bullets when robbers attacked a forex bureau operator and robbed him of unspecified amount. The forex bureau operator, Samuel Ayitey Okine, was also shot thrice in the leg before the robbers overpowered him and took away his money at Bubiashie in Accra on Monday evening. Information available to 3news.com indicates that four heavily armed robbers clad in black attire ambushed Samuel Ayitey Okine, who lives along the Tawiah France Street. According to Afrifa, an eyewitness, “two of the robbers waited at the gate with motorbikes, while the other two followed the victim…

The police in Asokwa have been captured on video brutalising students from the KATANGA of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology after a Luv FM Old School’s reunion on Saturday. Some police officers were seen slapping and kicking the students at the Tech junction in Kumasi after an alleged clash between students of the University Hall popularly known as KATANGA and their colleagues from the Unity Hall. Though helpless, as these students looked, the police will take no plea from them and on lookers as they slapped and dragged the students into a waiting police van. Eight students who…

First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo has assured Chinese investors at a conference to promote trade relations between Ghana and China in Hunan in the Changsha Provence of China that their investments in Ghana will always be safe. Addressing the “2017 Ghana-Hunan Economic and Trade Conference” hosted by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), the First Lady touted Ghana’s credentials as a safe and profitable place for Chinese investors. She stated that Ghana is a “globally acknowledged democracy” which has changed governments successfully since 1992 “without causing any dislocations to the political, economic or social systems of…

The Member of Parliament for Upper West Akim Constituency in the Eastern Region has called on Ghanaians not to take it lightly, the answers given by President Akufo-Addo on the legalization of homosexuality in the country. Mr. Derek Darko Ohene Assifo Bekoe warned that the government can use its majority in Parliament to pass any bill on homosexuality into law. President Akufo-Addo was on Aljazeera’s Talk to Aljazeera on Sunday where he commented on a wide range of issues concerning Africa and Ghana in particular. Responding to a question by Aljazeera’s Jane Dutton on why homosexuality is illegal in Ghana,…

The spokesperson for the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Aremeyaw Shaibu, has described President Akufo-Addo’s comments on homosexuality as one that has given Ghanaians a cause to worry. Speaking on News hour on 3FM 92.7, Sheikh Aremeyaw Shaibu said although the president’s stance is not clearly cut out, it opens up a discourse for the Ghanaian populace. “I can only qualify his statement as that of ambivalence, he did not discuss the morality or ethics of the practice, and he only gave indications about a certain future with respect to what could lead to a change in legislation.” In an interview…

The Executive Director of the African Center for Security and Counter-terrorism is urging Ghanaians to take pictures of police officers caught in the act of taking bribe. Speaking on Newsweek on 3FM, Sunday, November 26, Emmanuel Kotin said that by this, the public will have empirical evidence to get corrupt police officers prosecuted. “If you see a policeman committing a crime or taking bribe, which is a crime, you can confront such a policeman. You can take pictures [of the scene] … we are in a technological world,” he said. Mr. Emmanuel Kotin said it is about time sanity prevailed…

The Cantonments Divisional Police Command has rounded up 22 suspected commercial sex workers operating within the Togo embassy roundabout enclave. Some of the suspects including a medical doctor and a teenage nursing mother have been engaged in the commercial sex activity for years. The 22 suspects are made up of 12 Nigerians, four Ghanaians, two Togolese, two Liberians, one Beninese and one Cameroonian. They are between 15 and 35 years and operate around the Togo Embassy, Cantonments Post Office, Italian Embassy, Akufo-Addo round about and other places within cantonment.. One of the Nigerians, who claimed to be a medical doctor,…

Moderate coffee drinking is safe, and three to four cups a day may have some health benefits, according to a large review of studies, in the BMJ. It found a lower risk of liver disease and some cancers in coffee drinkers, and a lower risk of dying from stroke – but researchers could not prove coffee was the cause. Too much coffee during pregnancy could be harmful, the review confirmed. Experts said people should not start drinking coffee for health reasons. The University of Southampton researchers collected data on the impact of coffee on all aspects of the human body,…

Mr. Ishmael Godwin Archton-Tettey, the Head of Department of Languages at Akatsi College of Education, has urged teachers to teach pupils how to pronounce words correctly for improved reading skills. Speaking, as a resource person, at the third spelling bee and reading festival of Compassion International for some 300 children from 14 communities within the Tongu area, Mr. Archton-Tettey said, “A wrong pronunciation and spelling of words negatively affects the child’s ability to read well. There is, therefore, the need for all of us, especially teachers, to help the child to learn to pronounce and to spell words correctly. ”…

The Director in-charge of Education, Research and Training at Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, DSP Alexander Obeng has vowed to ensure that motorists obey road regulations to the letter. He said the MTTD will with the support of the traffic enforcement taskforce team intensify vigilance on the road to ensure compliance, and sanction those who violate the laws. His comments come on the back of Sunday’s grisly accident where two huge rocks on top of a truck fell on a BMW, crushing two occupants on the spot. The truck was said to be negotiating…