Two more people have died in the two road accidents that occurred in the Ashanti region last Friday, bringing the death toll to 15. The new deaths, one each from the Dominase and Mfensi accidents, occurred last Friday night at hospitals where the victims were rushed to for medical attention.Other injured persons remained on admission at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, the Bekwai Government Hospital and the Dominase SDA hospital.Police sources said investigations into both accidents were on-going.Last Friday two fatal accidents claimed the lives of 13 people, while many others were critically injured.In the biggest of the accidents, an articulator truck collided with a Mercedes Sprinter passenger bus at Dominase killing nine people on the spot.The Kumasi-Assin Fosu passenger bus burst a tyre and swayed from its lane to collide with the oncoming articulator truck.In the second accident, four people were killed when a KIA Prado Mini passenger bus from Kenyasi in the Brong Ahafo region to Kumasi crashed into a tree at Mfensi.

Ghana's former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings on Saturday joined thousands of mourners including Vice-President Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur to mourn former National Democratic Congress Council of Elders member, Kwabena Kyere at Berekum in the Brong Ahafo region. Accompanied by NDC Vice Chairman Alhaji Huudu Yahaya, NDC Deputy General Secretary Kofi Adams and past Brong Ahafo Chairman of NDC, Alhaji Abdallah Ahmed Abdallah aka Alhaji PMC, President Rawlings paid his final respects to the late Kyere who died on October 6, 2013 at the age of 77.President Rawlings and his delegation also visited the home of Mr. Kwabena Kyere to console the widow, Veronica Adwoa Agyeiwaa Kyere. He also signed a book of condolence.The former President told Mrs. Kyere that her husband was a good man and will be sorely missed.The late Kwabena Kyere played several roles during President Rawlings' tenure as President and Head of State, first being appointed as District Secretary for Berekum, before rising to the position of Deputy Minister of Education and later Deputy General Secretary of the NDC. Until his passing he was a member of the NDC Council of Elders and Chairman of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC). View photos in our galleries.

President John Dramani Mahama has appointed a former Minister for Interior, William K. Aboah, as his National Security Adviser. Mr. Aboah is a retired Commissioner of Police who was once the Head of the Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID). He has also served as the Director General of the Ghana Immigration Service.The former police chief is taking over from Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah who is now Head of the Human Security Department of the National Security Council Secretariat. Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} Born on June 4 1939, Mr. Aboah is a barrister and hails from Adukrom, Akuapem in the Eastern Region. He attended the Larteh Presby Boarding School from 1951 to 1954; the Workers College, Accra from 1965 to 1970; University of Ghana, Legon from 1978 to 1981 (LLB); the Ghana Law School, Accra 1981 to 1983 (BL); and the University College, London, UK from 1984 to 1986 (LLM). He was once a lecturer at the Police College where he taught Criminal Law and Criminal Investigations, and also served as Staff Officer/Secretary to the Inspector General Of Police (IGP) in 1982. Mr Aboah was in 1983 posted to the Ghana High Commission in London as Counsellor in charge of Passports and Immigration Section.

  The management of the School for the Deaf at Savelugu in the Northern Region has  appealed  to public-spirited organisations to support the school in the area of infrastructure and feeding of the students. The school, which was established in 1978,currently has a total of 283 students. The headmistress of the school,Madam Gertrude Dasah, made the appeal when  Zoomlion Ghana Limited donated food items and an unspecified amount to the school as part of their annual thanksgiving service. According to the headmistress, it was regrettable that criminals have been hovering around the school compound because there was no fence to prevent encroachment on the school premises. She further pointed out that it had become almost impossible for the authorities to control the students due to the lack of a fence. Madam Dasah observed that sometimes the students ran away from school and are usually found along the road, which poses  danger to their safety, as speeding vehicles on the Tamale-Bolgatanga highway could knock them down. She explained that in a particular instance, one of the inmates ran away and after days of search, he was found in the Karaga District. She pledged on behalf of the management of the school to make the students derive maximum benefits from the items donated to the school. The Regional Manager of Zoomlion, Mr Emmanuel Volsuuri, said the gesture was to express the company's love for the children. He stated that his outfit was aware that management of the school had been going through a lot of challenges to ensure that the students were catered for. "We care about the school and the children and that is why we have brought here six maxi-bags of rice,a gallon of Frytol cooking oil,and some money," he added. Touching on sanitation,the manager announced plans to establish a recycling plant in Tamale under the Universal Plastic Product Recycling Company. "This year we are saying thank you to our Creator because we have been able to admit the first batch of students to the African Institute of Sanitation and Waste Management,"he stated. Mr Volsuuri noted that there were several challenges facing  Zoomlion, which included bad media reports, human attitudes such as indiscriminate dumping of refuse,negative attitude towards workers of Zoomlion, lack of enforcement of metropolitan,municipal and district assembly bye-laws and open defaecation.