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Voting in the UK general election is under way at more than 40,000 polling stations across the country. Polls opened at 07:00 BST on Thursday, with counting starting once voting ends at 22:00 BST. A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with about 46.9 million people registered to vote. That is up from the last general election, in 2015, when there were 46.4 million registered voters. Some votes have already been cast, through postal voting, which accounted for 16.4% of the total electorate at the 2015 general election. People with an undelivered postal vote can still deliver it…

It is said that evil triumph only because good people sit and do nothing. A week after the gruesome murder of the late Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, some Ghanaians, if not all, were looking out for the occasion of June 4th Anniversary celebration to address the questions associated with the breakdown of laws and morality in our society, but our expectations were home to the unexpected. Listening to former President Rawlings speak over the weekend as part of 38 years of what was meant to be a revolution to set Ghana on the path towards a civilized and a developed…

Bald men in Mozambique could be targets of ritual attacks, police have warned, after the recent killing of five men for their body parts. Two suspects have been arrested in the central district of Milange, where the killings occurred. “The belief is that the head of a bald man contains gold,” said Afonso Dias, a police commander in Mozambique’s central Zambezia province. Albino people have also been killed in the region for ritual purposes. Three men have been killed in the past week alone. The BBC’s Jose Tembe in the capital, Maputo, says police think the notion of a bald…

Bald men in Mozambique could be targets of ritual attacks, police have warned, after the recent killing of five men for their body parts. Two suspects have been arrested in the central district of Milange, where the killings occurred. “The belief is that the head of a bald man contains gold,” said Afonso Dias, a police commander in Mozambique’s central Zambezia province. Albino people have also been killed in the region for ritual purposes. Three men have been killed in the past week alone. The BBC’s Jose Tembe in the capital, Maputo, says police think the notion of a bald…

Three additional suspects were on Wednesday remanded by the Accra Central District Court in over the murder of the late military officer, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama. The three, Kwame Tuffour, Evans Asare and Richmond Bio who were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and murder pleaded not guilty to the charges, before the court presided over by Mr Ebenezer Kweku Ansah. Prosecuting Detective Inspector Simon Apiosornu, prayed the court to remand them into police custody to allow the police continue investigations and reconcile their docket to that of the 34 people earlier brought before it on Monday. The case has…

About 500 poor and vulnerable individuals from 157 households from the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region have began receiving allowances from the government under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty programme (LEAP). The disbursement, which started on Wednesday at the Ndasemam pay point, saw the beneficiaries receiving between GHC64 and GHC74 depending on the number of people in each household. Gender and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Afisa Djaba, noted there are a total of10,000 beneficiaries in Central Region alone under the LEAP programme. Ms Djaba said GHC16 million has been earmarked for the disbursement across the country 213,048 households under…

Some victims of the Ghana Household Utilities Manufacturing Company Limited (GHUMCO) gas explosion in Takoradi have appealed to the government to intervene to get them compensation from the company. Six of the victims who are currently receiving treatment at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra claim they have been abandoned by the Chinese-operated company as there have not been any discussions between them and the company a month after the explosion. Twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Ampah, Albert Ocran, 47; Patrick Amuzu, 25, Kofi Mensah, 34 and two others are the six out of the 50 people who were injured in the May…

Human Rights lawyer, Francis Xavier-Sosu, has appealed against the three-year ban handed him by the General Legal Council, arguing the Council (GLC) lacked jurisdiction to have convicted him of criminal offence. The renowned lawyer who is seeking to set aside the entire decision of the GLC at the Court of Appeal described the sentence imposed on him as “harsh and excessive”. READ: Lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu gets 3yr ban for advertising himself The GLC convicted Mr Xavier-Sosu on his own plea for advertising and touting himself contrary to Rule 2(4) of the legal profession (professional conduct and etiquette) Rules, 1969 L.I.…

Former Ghana goalkeeper Richard Kingson is thrilled to be back in the national team fold as goalkeeping coach, and has urged patience as the country continues the search for his long-term successor. Kingson’s last game for Ghana came in 2011, and he has since watched on as Adam Kwarasey, Fatau Dauda and Razak Braimah have tried and failed to make the position their own. While he believes there is still enough talent around to solve the problem, Kingson is adamant there will need to be a certain level of patience for that to happen. “You see the desire for them…