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The National Insurance Commission (NIC) Taskforce has arrested the heads of two companies in the Greater Accra Metropolis for failing to insure their commercial property. The companies are the General Auto Zone Company and Ghana Heavy Duty Truck and Spare Parts and were detained at the Police Headquarters for the necessary action. They were among 70 companies which were cautioned two weeks ago by the NIC to insure their property or face the full rigours of the law. The Taskforce, made up of officials from the NIC, Ghana Police Service and the Ghana National Fire Service, inspected the companies to…

President Akufo-Addo’s nominee for the position of metropolitan chief executive, Mohammed Adjei Sowah has received massive endorsement from assembly members of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly. He obtained 109 votes representing 100 percent of the total votes cast on Thursday. Although 126 assembly members and government appointees were expected to cast their ballot for the exercise, some did not turn up. According to TV3’s Michael Addo, who covered the election, the usual chaos that characterizes such events was absent as assembly members comported themselves throughout the exercise. Mohammed Adjei Sowah is a former Greater Accra Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic…

The University of Cape Coast in the Central Region is considering a ban of beauty pageants and health walks among other events which have become a part of hall week celebrations. Public Relations officer of the University, Major Baa Bentum (retired) who disclosed this to TV3 said the University is streamlining hall week celebrations on campus with the view to eliminate all aspects that have the potential to spark violence. “…We are streamlining the hall week itself with certain things being expunged from the whole programme. Things that have the tendency and potential to result in violence. Health walks, beauty…

A 14-year-old junior high school student who was accused of theft and flogged by her mother has,  for the second time, tried to kill herself at Tepa in the Ashanti Region. Sarah Agyeiwaa, a form one student of the Tepa Maaban Presby JHS who felt slighted by her mother’s action, allegedly tried to take a toilet disinfectant but was saved by a narrow margin. She was said to have procured the disinfectant from a public KVIP toilet closer to her house and tried to drink the poisonous substance, her mother, Ms. Comfort Agyeiwaa told Onua FM Wednesday. Sarah is claimed to…

The University for Development Studies (UDS) is indebted to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in excess of GHC200, 000 covering over two-year unsettled bills. Disclosing this on Onua FM morning show ‘Yen Nsem Pa’, the Northern Regional Public Relations Officer of GWCL, Nii Abbey said all attempts to reach a common ground with the authorities of UDS have been unsuccessful. According to Nii Abbey, GWCL has had several meetings with the authorities of the school to device a payment plan but all those meetings have not yielded any positive results.  Although the PRO said they have no immediate plan…

A recent court case in Nigeria has highlighted concerns that locally made soft drinks may be considered unsafe for human consumption elsewhere, as Ijeoma Ndukwe explains. There has been uproar in Nigeria after it emerged that the company that manufactures Fanta and Sprite, the Nigeria Bottling Company (NBC), has been ordered by a court to place warning labels on its products, stating that they are unsafe when consumed alongside vitamin C. The drinks are said by critics to contain high levels of the preservative benzoic acid and the colouring sunset yellow. NBC is challenging the ruling. The case has caused…

Seven arrests have been made in raids following the Westminster attack that left four dead, police have said. Acting Deputy Commissioner and Head of Counter Terrorism Mark Rowley said hundreds of detectives have worked through the night, carrying out searches at six addresses. Those who died were a woman in her 40s, a man in his 50s, PC Keith Palmer and the attacker, he said. Seven of the injured are still in hospital in a critical condition. A further 29 had been treated in hospital, Mr Rowley added. In the attack on Wednesday, a man drove a car along a…

Authorities of the Wenchi Methodist Senior High School are raising a total of GHC32,000 to sponsor an emergency spinal surgery for one of its teachers and one student who were among the several others injured in last Sunday’s Kintampo Waterfalls disaster. The geography teacher is in critical condition at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi where he is receiving treatment. He is likely to paralysed if not operated upon immediately. Teachers of the school have managed to raise GHC5,000 as seed capital for the surgery. The teacher needs GHC29,000 while the student requires GHC3,000 to undergo a bone surgery…

Ghana’s First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has saved a seven-year old girl who was suffering from a hole in heart from dying. Parents and family of the girl, Harriet San-Koffie, from the Ngleshie-Amanfrom had been grappling with finances to pay for the surgery of the girl until Mrs Akufo-Addo came in contact with them and offered to pay for the full cost. Mrs Akufo-Addo who met Harriet last year during a visit to Amanfrom, paid the cost of the heart surgery and the little girl has successfully completed surgery. A grateful Harriet and her family together with their Church pastor and…