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Officers of the Border Patrols Unit of the Ghana Immigration Service at the Chache border in the Bole District of the Savannah region have intercepted 93 bags of cashew seeds being smuggled into Ghana from neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire. The goods were onboard a Kia Rhino truck intercepted at one of the unapproved routes at the Chache border. According to the Chache border patrols Commander, DSI Stephen Adigbo, the arrest was made on Monday May, 4, 2020 around 10:15 am. “Even though the officers on a motorbike developed a flat tyre, they managed to trace and intercept the vehicle carrying the…

Assembly members and some opinion leaders in Aflao in the Volta Region have joined forces to push local authorities at Ketu South Municipality to remove an illegally created refuse dumping site within the township. Dumping of refuse by the people on the walled private property was said to have started in 1976 and has since built up to become a big dumping site in the Dekeme residential area, like the height of a four-storey building. The Assembly members and opinion leaders in the area say the dumping site now poses serious health hazard to residents hence the need for local…

A police report detailing the circumstances that led to the death of a senior staff of the Volta River Authority (VRA) at Akuse in the Eastern region, who was involved in a road accident, showed that the deceased sustained a wound suspected to be from a gunshot. Eric Dogbe, 47, an engineer with the VRA was on Saturday, May 2 pronounced dead on arrival  at the  Akuse Government hospital after he was involved in a car accident with one other who was admitted. According to the coroner’s report on the death of Mr. Dogbe, the deceased was driving an unregistered…

Four Burkina Faso nationals have been arrested by Immigration officials at the Babile inland check point in the Upper West Region of Ghana The four, all men,  arrested on Tuesday morning are between the ages of 22 and 39. According to the Upper West Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Immigration Service, Mr Ibn Yussif Duranah Abdul-Mumin Seidu, the Burkinabe were seen onboard a Hyundai Grace H300 mini bus with with registration number AS 3289-11 . They were travelling through Wa and to Kumasi. Preliminary investigations by Ghana Immigration Service suggest the four came to Ghana for “economic purposes”…

A massive fumigation exercise against bed bugs and other dangerous insects has commenced in public senior high and technical schools as well as special needs schools in the Central Region. Dormitories of 103 schools in the region are being sprayed with a WHO-approved pesticide to eradicate bed bugs and other insects which have become nuisance to students and school authorities. Also, all the selected schools are being disinfected against the deadly coronavirus outbreak which has infected more than 2,719 people in the country and killed 18 of them with 294 recoveries as at May 5. Areas disinfected against covid-19 included…

Ghana Rugby (http://ghanarugby.org/) and the South Africa Rugby Union (SARU) signed a historical agreement whereby SARU approved the use of material from its BokSmart (www.BokSmart.com) player safety and welfare programme by Ghana Rugby as part of its own version of the programme, EagleWise. According to the President of Ghana Rugby, Mr Herbert Mensah, the agreement is historical in the sense that Ghana will only be the second rugby union on the African continent that has separated player safety and welfare into a separately branded unit. “The issue of player safety and welfare has in recent years become a major strategic…

The management of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital says the facility is ready to treat more persons infected with COVID-19. This comes after the nation’s premier teaching hospital recorded a 100 percent recovery of patients on admission at the facility due to coronavirus. The patients, seven in all, “were discharged after a series of confirmatory tests returned negative,” a statement issued by the Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital, Daniel Asare, on Monday said. The patients, discharged on Sunday, include a nurse, a doctor, an orderly and a security officer, who were all infected after coming into contact with infected…

Kingmakers who were arrested for enstooling a Paramount Chief, Oseedeayo Kwasi Akuffo II at Akropong, leading to the violation of the ban on public gathering in the wake of the COVID-19 will be dealt with in accordance with law, the Eastern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ebenezer Tetteh has assured. DSP Tetteh told Alfred Ocansey on the 3FM’s Sunrise show on Monday May 4 that their action was in clear violation of the ban placed on all public gatherings. The ceremony which was held on Friday May 1 was overwhelmed by the crowd that thronged the forecourt of the…

Coronavirus test kits used in Tanzania were dismissed as faulty by President John Magufuli on Sunday, because he said they had returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw. Magufuli, whose government has already drawn criticism for being secretive about the coronavirus outbreak and has previously asked Tanzanians to pray the coronavirus away, said the kits had “technical errors”. The COVID-19 testing kits had been imported from abroad, Magufuli said during an event in Chato in the north west of Tanzania, although he did not give further details. The president said he had instructed Tanzanian security…

Mr Herbert Mensah, President and Board Chairperson of Ghana Rugby, has issued letters congratulating  the re-elected Chairperson of World Rugby, Sir Bill Beaumont, as well as the African EXCO Members Mr Khaled Babbou (President of Rugby Africa) and Mr Mark Alexander (President of South African Rugby Union). World Rugby unexpectedly announced the result of the just-ended election of a new World Rugby Executive Committee. The new Executive Committee will comprise Sir Bill Beaumont (Chairman), Bernard Laporte (Vice-Chairman), Brett Gosper (Chief Executive), Angela Ruggiero (Independent), Lord Mervyn Davies (Independent); Mark Alexander (South African Rugby Union), Khaled Babbou (Rugby Africa), Bart Campbell…