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The Marwako Restaurant manager who is being tried for thrusting the face of a caterer into blended pepper, on Wednesday declined to open his defence on grounds of the language to be used. Although had listen to the prosecution’s case and evidence by the prosecution witnesses in English, Lawyers for the man, Jihad Chaaban, told the court their client is only fluent in Arabic language, hence would prefer an interpreter before he could mount the witness box to state his side of the case. According to the lawyers, the accused has also noticed some inconsistencies in his statement given to the Police,…

A 48-year-old farmer has been arrested for hacking his grandson for attempting to steal at Nyamebekyere, a farming community near Enchi in the Western Region. The accused, Asubire Azure, also known as Baba Alhassan, a Mossi, was said to have returned home from town and accused the boy, Michael Atanga, 13, of trying to go through his ceiling to steal some undisclosed items in his room. Police source told Skyy Power FM that Baba Alhassan allegedly beat the victim mercilessly and inflicted deep cutlass wounds on his right leg. He then locked him up in the room for about a week…

A 45-year-old woman who has been abusing her three-year nephew for the past four months, is to be put before court on charges of causing harm and physical abuse. According to the Police, Aku Korshie brought the boy from Kajadornya near Ada to stay with her at Agbogbloshie in Accra and she has since been “abusing him mercilessly without any cause”. ” Neighbours have confronted her on several occasions to desist from that act but she would not listen and would rather quarrel with them,” Supt. Phyllis Osei, Regional Coordinator of DOVVSU told journalists Wednesday. On May 1, one of the…

After three years of meritorious service as the Chairman of the Greater Accra branch of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches (GPCC), Apostle Emmanuel Achim Gyimah has stepped down. Aps. Achim Gyimah who is the Kaneshie Area Head of The Church of Pentecost decided to relinquish the chairmanship position ahead of his official retirement from active service in August this year by the church that seconded him to the GPCC. He has served as a reverend minister in The Church of Pentecost for 33 years. At the regional delegates’ conference in Accra Thursday, April 27 at the Assemblies of God…

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) Ghana is demanding full scale investigations into the proliferation of black market trade in the petroleum downstream sector that allegedly caused the country to lose GHC850 million in revenue in 2016. It claimed the National Petroleum Authority and other revenue agencies are aware of the phenomenon where some operators evade taxes in the name of exporting petroleum products to neighbouring countries but eventually outwit the system to sell the products in the country. A statement issued by COPEC Wednesday wondered why the such phenomenon is pervasive at the Tema and Takoradi ports where security…

The Alhaji Dr Adamu Iddrisu Foundation (AAIF) in partnership with The Royal Bank has provided boreholes to the Adu Kofi and Bepoase communities in the Ayensuanu district of the Eastern Region.  Other communities that recently benefited from the benevolence of the Foundation are Nyawer Kplandey near Somanya in the Eastern Region and Kwegyir Aggrey SHS in the Central Region. This brings to 102, the total number of boreholes that have been constructed and handed over to needy communities across the country since the inauguration of the Foundation in August 2014. Residents of these communities faced with persistent water shortages can…

A Catholic priest has initiated what he termed ‘operation touch heaven with prayers to help end galamsey’ as crusade against illegal mining reaches crescendo. Rev. Fr. David Obeng Paintsil, Priest in–Charge of Jukwa Krobo Grotto, opined that concerted efforts to end galamsey in the country may not get the desired result if intensive prayers are not said to God to intervene. At a press conference in the Central Region Tuesday, the Reverend Father decried how the environment and water bodies are encountering the “worst form of pollution” in recent times. He noted that the increasing number of people mining illegally…

Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Martin Amidu has rebuked some members of Ghana’s parliament for their “shameful insults” on the British High Commissioner in Accra for citing four MPs in a visa fraud. He also condemned the Speaker of Parliament, Mike Ocquaye and the entire current parliament for the manner it has handled the visa fraud matter, claiming but for the fact that the whistle was blown, parliament would “have been covered up or window dressed” the matter. Read below the full statement issued by Mr Amidu on the matter I have read and followed the publications on…

Some members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Shama District of the western region have vowed to vote out the NPP come 2020 should the president retain the District Chief Executive (DCE) nominee for Shama, Joseph Amoah. The aggrieved members who embarked on a demonstration against the nominee claimed they have lost confidence and trust in the leadership of the party, believing that they misled the president to choose the nominee knowing very well the fortunes and destiny of the party cannot be trusted into the care of the nominee. The demonstrators clad in red bands amidst chanting…