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The police administration says it has dispatched personnel from the elite units of the Ghana Police Service to Bimbilla in the Northern region to help maintain law and order in the area. The re-enforcement team, according to a statement from the police on Friday, is made up of personnel from the action units of the Service, and Crime Scene Management Unit at the CID Headquarters, Accra. The re-enforcement has the mandate of consolidating the calm that has been restored to the area, and also investigating the disturbances that broke out, the statement said. About 10 people including two children were…

The Bimbilla township in the Northern region was deserted Friday after a previous day sporadic shootings claimed at least 10 lives. It was occasioned by the enskinment of a chief in a protracted chieftaincy dispute. Read also: Death toll in Bimbilla clashes reaches 10 Below are pictures of how the town looks like after the shooting incident. Source: 3news.com | Ghana]]>

The presidential taskforce set up to retrieve state assets from the out-gone government has embarked on a failed trip to a warehouse belonging to Apsonic Automobile Company limited at Nungua in Accra on Thursday. General Manager of the Company, Alhaji Rashid Adal in an exclusive interview with 3news said the taskforce said they were acting on orders from of the Chief of Staff. The general manager, who was on his way to the flagstaff house to claim his documents which were left at the presidency to help ascertain the ownership of the cars in question at the time of the…

The plant protection and regulatory services directorate of the Food and Agriculture Ministry has confirmed the invasion of fall armyworms on some farms in the country. Some maize farmers in the Ashanti region say they are already losing their investments as a result of the pest infestation. Affected farmers in Obuasi and Afari in the Ashanti region say they are recording huge loss as the application of diverse pesticides fails to control the menace. 38-year old Adam Issah has been in maize farming for the past 20 years. He finds the crop profitable as his major source of income. But…

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will deliver his first State of the Nation Address to Parliament on February 21, 2017. This was contained in a letter addressed to Parliament on February 9. The delivery of the address is in accordance with Article 67 the 1992 Constitution which states: “The President shall, at the beginning of each session of Parliament and before a dissolution of Parliament, deliver a message on the state of the nation”. Nana Akufo-Addo won power in the December 7 general elections with an overwhelming majority in Parliament, and was sworn in as the 5th president of Ghana…

The erstwhile National Democratic Congress government is challenging the government to provide details of the 208 vehicles it claimed are missing from the presidential pool. Former Deputy Chief Of Staff, Johnny Osei Kofi, in a statement said “claims of Eugene Arhin [Acting Director of Communications at the Presidency] are false, baseless without merit. They represent a continuation of the distortions and bad faith that have characterised the conduct of the NPP side of the Transition team.” He has therefore provided what he claimed is a “detailed inventory of all vehicles accounted for during the transition process”.  TOYOTA LAND CRUISER V8  …

At least 10 people have been killed in Thursday February 9, 2017 clashes between the Dasana and Nakpa Na factions in the Nanumba-North Chieftaincy dispute. Two people were reported dead on Thursday,but eight more bodies were found Friday morning by a joint security team. The dead comprise seven women including a ten-year-old girl, two men and a one three year old boy. However, the Nanumba-North District Police Commander ASP Ben Aniah suspects the death toll may rise as a search is ongoing in the bush where it is believed most residents fled to with gunshot wounds. About 17 people have…

The Northern Regional Police Command has mounted a search to ascertain whether more people were killed in the sporadic shooting at Bimbila on Thursday afternoon through to the night. Police account suggests that two women were killed while eight others sustained gunshot wounds and are currently receiving treatments at the various health centers in the Region. But unconfirmed report gathered by 3news.com from Bimbilla indicates that six women and a child have died so far. Seventeen people have been arrested, according to the police. Gunshots were heard on Thursday afternoon after one faction in the longstanding chieftaincy dispute enskinned a warrior king. The capital…

From the rocket ship to the ice cream cone, everyone has a favourite emoji.  We reach for them in our texts, WhatsApp messages and Instagram captions when words just simply aren’t enough.  But many of the seemingly innocent characters have X-rated double meanings. While some like the banana or aubergine might be well known, others like the mailbox or microphone have explicit meanings that are less obvious.  Here FEMAIL cracks the code behind some of the most popular emojis to help keep your next text free from any unwanted raunchiness.  Scroll down and read the captions to discover the explicit…

From the rocket ship to the ice cream cone, everyone has a favourite emoji.  We reach for them in our texts, WhatsApp messages and Instagram captions when words just simply aren’t enough.  But many of the seemingly innocent characters have X-rated double meanings. While some like the banana or aubergine might be well known, others like the mailbox or microphone have explicit meanings that are less obvious.  Here FEMAIL cracks the code behind some of the most popular emojis to help keep your next text free from any unwanted raunchiness.  Scroll down and read the captions to discover the explicit…