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Some ministers as well as high profile government appointees under the Akufo-Addo-led government have been listed as beneficiaries of GETFund scholarships, which are mainly meant for needy but brilliant students. A performance audit report conducted by the Auditor General on scholarships awarded by the GETFund has revealed that Education Minister Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, Procurement Minister and Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Sarah Adwoa Safo as well as the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), Prince Hamidu Armah among several other appointees benefitted from the scholarship scheme. The Education Minister is listed as studying national and international…

A man described by the Police as a notorious armed robber has been gunned down in Ntoaso near Adoagyiri in the Eastern Region. Identified only as Sheriff, he was said to have engaged in a shootout with a team of personnel from the Police Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) in the early hours of Friday. The team was said to have responded to a distress call at about 3:30am regarding the activity of the suspect who has been on the police wanted list for some time now at Ntoaso. A group of armed men numbering about eight, were said to have…

The Principal of Jackson College of Education, Mrs. Theodosia Jackson has called for strict enforcement of road safety regulations to address the needless deaths on our roads. She said the carnage on the roads could only be attributed to wanton indiscipline and weak application of regulations. She charged institutions mandated to check the menace to step up their games. In an interview with the media, she said there is too much indiscipline relative to observance of road traffic regulations by drivers resulting in preventable accidents that claim thousands of lives annually. Mrs. Jackson believes indiscipline and human error account for…

Renowned music producer, Appietus, popularly known for his distinctive verses on hit songs such as 5Five’s ‘Muje Baya’ and ‘Azonto Fiesta’, has revealed how he created the ‘language’. While many may not understand the meaning of the words, the music producer, speaking in an interview on Showbiz 927 on 3FM with MzGee, says the language – Tus language – is unique to him. Appietus, born Appiah Dankwah, revealed that he has been using that unique language since childhood but he only used it commercially for the first time in 2013. He narrated that music group 5Five, during the production of…

A cross country fraud syndicate operating in various countries using the Ghanaian presidency and the name of the form Libyan leader, Muammar al-Gaddafi, has been busted in Accra. The syndicate made up of Syrians and Yemenis were arrested in the process of collecting the last trunk of a 450,000 dollar being proceeds from fraudulent deal with an expatriate at the Kotoka International Airport. The suspected criminals, identified as Sanousi Khalifa Mohammed and Cousin Amel, claiming to be Libyans, were picked after years of surveillance. They were finally rounded up by the Tesano Police at a restaurant at the Kotoka International…

The Member of Parliament for the Yunyo Constituency in the Northern Region, Joseph Bipoba Naabu has refuted claims that even though the minority walked out of Parliament when the President was about to give his address on the state of the nation, they ate the lunch that was served after the address. “No it is not true, nobody gave us food. No food was given to us,” he told 3FM’s Sunrise Morning Show on Friday. Available information indicates that a meal was prepared for all 275 MPs based on the list provided but it is not clear if all the…

President of the Institute for Security, Disaster and Emergency Studies Dr Ishmael Norman says a lot of Ghanaian police officers do not deserve to be in the Ghana Police Service, claiming many of them are overweight. Most of the police officers, he said, have been confined to “air-conditioned offices” for which reason “Many of them are so overweight that they don’t deserve to be in the police force; they don’t!” Speaking on general security in the country in a pre SONA discussion on TV3 Thursday, the ex-soldier painted a serious picture about the situation, indicating the overweight phenomenon among the…

The Supreme Court has by a unanimous decision upheld the jurisdiction of the High Court in ordering the release of the body of the late Nigerian businessman and philanthropist, Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs, to his family for burial. Mrs Seinye Lulu-Briggs, widow of the late High Chief Lulu-Briggs, had challenged the jurisdiction of the High Court presided over by Court of Appeal judge, Justice Eric Kyei-Baffour, sitting with additional responsibility as a High Court Judge, to make orders he had hoped would bring the protracted litigation surrounding the controversial death of the old man, to an end. The five-member panel of…

Former Finance Minister Seth Terkper has admonished government to take seriously, the thought of a possible impact of the novel coronavirus on Ghana’s economy, should the virus continue to spread. He cited the growing trade relations between Ghana and China, and the dependence of assistance from China as areas which could be impacted negatively. The coronavirus could cost the global economy more than $1trillion in lost output if it turns into a pandemic, according to a leading economic forecaster. Oxford Economics has warned that the spread of the virus to regions outside Asia would knock 1.3 percent off global growth…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has condemned the police’s “barbaric and brutal” treatment meted out to persons who protested against the new voter’s register on Thursday near the Parliament house. “The cruel and barbaric manner in which the police used unjustifiable force in an attempt to suppress the constitutional rights of Ghanaians to protest peacefully, was totally disproportionate and unwarranted,” General Secretary of NDC, Asiedu Nketiah said in a statement on Friday. “This callous application of force resulted in physical injuries to some of the protesters including our Deputy General Secretary in charge of Operations, Mr. Peter Boamah Otokunor”. He…