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Okwawu United have been praised for their efforts in helping victims during Wednesday night’s accident involving Asante Kotoko’s team bus. The bus carrying the entire technical and playing body rammed into a parked truck near Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region. One person, the Deputy Equipment Officer, lost his life. The injured were rushed to the Holy Family Hospital while those in critical condition were later transferred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). In its statement of support in Kotoko’s grieving moment, the Premier League Board (PLB) commended Division One side Okwawu United for making “their bus available to transport…

POLICE FLASH MESSAGE pic.twitter.com/vw4CF8LmuD— Ghana Police Service (@GhPoliceService) July 14, 2017 Police have warned motorists plying the Accra-Mankessim to be wary of a parked Benz truck at Gomoa Adam near Apam junction in the Central Region. The blue and white truck with registration number AS 7270 E appears to have developed a fault. “Drivers plying the said highway; from Mankessim to Accra, and Accra to Mankessim should exercise caution to avoid accident,” a flash message from Richmond Mensah of the Public Affairs Director said. This comes in the wake of a deadly accident Wednesday night involving the team bus of…

Ghana’s Most Beautiful’s audition train made a pit stop at the Stevens Hotel in Ho on Thursday ready to make a final stop in Accra on Saturday and Sunday. The train started its journey from Tamale’s Radach Hotel on July 7, and then moved to the Golden Tulip Hotel in Kumasi before making a stop at the Stevens Hotel in Ho on Thursday. Fifty ladies between the ages of 18 and 30 appeared for the auditioning in a bid to be selected for the ultimate competition, which promises to be very exciting. The theme for this year’s competition ‘Straight Outta…

The Police have placed a 10,000-cedi bounty on the head of two assailants who gunned down a police officer in broad day light at Lapaz on the N1 Highway in Accra Thursday. Police have already launched a manhunt for the two and investigations are underway to establish who the two are and what their motives were. The two, believed to be armed robbers, shot the unarmed community police officer, Daniel Owusu, multiple times, killing him instantly while a second officer, Dzibril Alhassan, was shot in the hand and leg. Alhassan was rushed to the Police Hospital and the Police say…

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has admitted he is not in position to assure NHIS service providers when arrears owed them would be paid by government. He however maintained that nine months arrears have already been cleared and claimed by the providers. The Health Minister made this disclosure on the floor of Parliament on Thursday when the MP for Wa West Yireh Chireh asked him when the National Health Insurance Authority will settle all arrears owed service providers. The Minister indicated that as at the end of June, government owed providers to the tune of 844 million Ghana cedis. “I…

Business programmes on TV3 have been recognized for providing engaging educational content for young people to be inspired and updated with current affairs in business and entrepreneurship. The honour was conferred on TV3 at the 2017 Premium Bank Ghana Startup Awards Thursday night. The awards commended TV3’s business desk for coming up with innovative business news programmes such as Business Focus and Time With The Captains. Head the Business Desk for TV3 Nana Akua Mensah-Aborampah noted that the team will continue to serve its many cherished listeners and viewers with compelling content. The Ghana Startup Awards is organised by The…

A coconut seller in Sokode Bagble in the Ho Municipality, Joshua Ababaio,  has been arrested for allegedly murdering his wife for and dumping the body in a pond. Madam Mercy Nfodjoh, mother of the deceased, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that, the deceased, Esther Amoasi, 25, lived with her in Sokode Bagble with her three children aged between two and six. She said on the evening of Friday, July 7, 2017, Esther went for a wake keeping in the community and did not return. Madam Nfodjoh said at about 4:00 am the next day, she went to Joshua’s house…

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Dennis Amfo-Sefa, says any attempt by former President John Mahama to return to the Presidency in 2020 would be mark his political demise. “We know that the former President and his team have begun meeting people, especially NDC constituency executives, to woo them and get their loyalty. “They will secretly call you for a meeting and when you meet him, he will apologize to you for leading the NDC into defeat in the 2016 elections and then inform you that he wants to go (for President) again (in 2020),” Mr…

Lecturers of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) have withdrawn all their services moments after a Winneba High Court ordered the Vice Chancellor and the Chief Finance Officer to hand over to the Pro-Vice Chancellor. The UEW branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) says per the court order on Friday, they cannot continue to offer their services. The High Court asked the two principal officers to cease holding themselves as such as per a suit filed by Supi Kofi Kwayera. The suit was seeking a dissolution of the University’s Governing Council and, relatedly, rendering the positions of…

Newmont Ghana Limited has commissioned an independent investigation into claims by the Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM) that it has spilled cyanide in and around Kenyase in the Brong Ahafo Region. WACAM this week alleged cyanide spillage by Newmont, which it claimed has caused water pollution in communities such as Ntᴐtorᴐso, Yamfo, and Gyedu among others. A Goaso-based journalist told 3FM Thursday that some residents he spoke to claimed they are unable to consume their farm produce and are also battling skin diseases. “I contacted some residents and they said they can’t consume cassava, kontomire and cannot…