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Armed robbers in Hong Kong made off with hundreds of toilet rolls worth more than HKD1,000 ($130; £98). Toilet rolls are currently in short supply in Hong Kong due to shortages caused by panic-buying during the coronavirus outbreak. Knife wielding men robbed a delivery man outside a supermarket in the Mong Kok district, police said. Police have arrested two men and recovered some of the stolen loo rolls, local media reports said. The armed robbery took place in Mong Kok, a district of Hong Kong with a history of “triad” crime gangs, early on Monday. According to local reports, the…

The youth of Upper East Region have warned they may be compelled to prevent President Nana Akufo-Addo from stepping foot in the region if his government does not start the second phase of the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital. According to the Deputy Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress, Sunday Casper Kampoli, the project, though was almost completed by the John Mahama-led administration, has not been equipped since Nana Akufo-Addo assumed office. He said the situation “is brewing tension” in the region which could potentially degenerate to a point where the youth will not allow any political campaigns in the region, including stopping…

More promiscuous people are more likely to get cancer in old age, according to a study. Researchers found that having 10 or more sexual partners over a lifetime almost doubled the risk of a woman developing cancer, and raised it by two thirds for men. A link between sexually-transmitted infections and cancers – HPV, for example, is known to raise the risk of diseases in the cervix and penis – could be to blame. And people who had sex with more partners also tended to drink more alcohol and smoke more cigarettes, the scientists said – but they also did…

Executives of the New Patriotic Party at the Manhyia North constituency have deserted their offices in what is being viewed as a ploy to prevent the Member of Parliament for the area to file his nomination forms. The MP, Collins Owusu Amankwaa, is said to be in the bad books of the executives due to a longstanding issue between him and the constituency executives which has created division within the party. The disagreement which has been raging since 2016 and led to the slapping of the MP by the NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman Antwi Boasiako in May 1, 2016, is…

COCOBOD in 2018 bought fertilizer from Omnifert Limited even though there was no evidence at COCOBOD or CRIG that the product had ever been tested on matured cocoa farms or on seedlings, the Accra High Court has been told. When the transaction took place, Dr. Adu-Ampomah, third prosecution witness, was the Deputy Chief Executive of COCOBOD in charge of Agronomy and Quality Control, but he told the court that he never saw any CRIG report that should have primarily indicated whether the product had been duly tested. A letter dated 5th March 2018 showed that COCOBOD sought permission from the…

The Ghana Police Service says it has not begun any recruitment exercise, stating recruitment adverts making the rounds on social media are fake. An artwork purportedly sanctioned by the Police Administration claimed some 1,100 Ghanaians with WASSCE qualification are being recruited into the Police Service and requested interested persons to call some numbers provided in the flyer. But the Police say they have not issue such flyer announcing recruitment into the Service. “We are not calling for applications for recruitment!” the Police statement said. It thus warned the public to “beware of fake recruitment adverts” and disregard any information calling…

The Students Network for Nana Akufo-Addo (STUNNAD) has urged the leadership of the New Patriotic Party to consider decentralizing the upcoming parliamentary primaries. The group argues that holding the primaries at the electoral centres instead of everyone converging at one centre in a constituency will save cost. “It will be cost effective to hire two EC officers at every electoral area for just about an hour than to converge, transport and hire PA system, security, etc to hold the exercise at one centre in the constituency,” STUNNAD said in a statement signed by its National President, Chris Arthur backed by…

Coronavirus cases are not rising dramatically outside China despite a spike in Hubei province, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. The only exception was on a cruise liner docked in Japan, where 44 new cases were reported, bringing the total there to 218. There was also no major shift in the coronavirus’s pattern of mortality or severity, according to the WHO. The latest figures show 121 new deaths in China, bringing the total to 1,380. The total infections jumped by 5,090 to 63,851 cases on 13 February, the National Health Commission said on Friday. Health officials said six health workers…

As part of its preparedness and response plan to the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic, the West African Health Organization (WAHO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Mali, is convening on February 14, 2020 in Bamako, Mali, a high-level regional coordination meeting to adopt a common preparedness approach for ECOWAS Member States. On 30 January 2020, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 epidemic to be a public health emergency of international concern. The WHO also reports that the risk is very high in China and high at the regional and global levels, including…

The Referees Appointment Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has released officials for match week ten of the Ghana Premier League. The matchday ten fixtures would kick start on Friday, with the rest fixed for Saturday and Sunday at nine various match centers with a total of 36 referees and nine matches officials appointed for the games. Below are the officials: Match: ACCRA HEARTS OF OAK Vs BECHEM UNITED Refeee: Bernard Dumfeh Assistant One: Tijani Mohammed, Assistant Two: Alex Osam Fourth Referee: Gabriel Opoku Arhin Match Commissioner: Abaidoo Mensah Match: BREKUM CHELSEA Vs INTER ALLIES Refeee: Frederick Samena Assistant…