The Police in Kumasi say they have arrested seven people over the mysterious disappearance of a baby from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) shortly after birth. The seven, whose identity the police would not disclose, have been charged provisionally with stealing and conspiracy to steal and face prosecution if the Attorney General’s Department OK it.Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Tanko told Citi FM that the suspects were first arrested to assist in investigations

A taxi driver has been arrested by the Kaneshie Police for allegedly attempting to smuggle six slabs of compressed dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp to Nigeria. The suspect, Fatau Nurudeen, 32, packed the slabs into three boxes of powdered soap with the brand name “Strong”. He tried to smuggle them as parcels to one Alhaji in Nigeria through commercial public transport operating at the Lagos Station at the Neoplan Station in Accra.   Suspect deliver boxes  The Kaneshie District Police

The legal tussle over the ownership of $391,250 which has been paid into the coffers of the Judicial Service by UT Bank is getting more fascinating. This is because three parties are laying claim to the same amount. They are Kayode Alade, Auxesia Energy Limited, from whose account the money was released and the latest to claim the money is MR ERRol, a vessel operating company. Demands for the money The first party to demand the release of the money was Leke Alade, who instituted an original writ

The Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a couple to six months’ imprisonment each with no labour for cutting  the finger tips of their 10-year old son as punishment for stealing coins and meat in their  soup. They were found guilty for causing harm and abetment of crime respectively. The maximum sentence prescribed by the law is 10 years’ imprisonment.   However, in delivering her judgement, the court took into account  factors, including the nature of the crime, the circumstances of the accused

The Ghana Girl Guides Association (GGGA) has launched a project under which young women and girls would be taught cake making and other vocations at Amuana-Praso in the Birem North District of the Eastern Region. The project is to help girls and young women, especially school dropouts, to develop entrepreneurial skills that would enable them to be self-employed and earn incomes.  It forms part of the ‘Fit for work - fit for life’ programme initiated by the World Association of Girl Guides and

A 22-year-old unemployed man who allegedly tricked commercial motorbike (Okada) riders and bolted with their motorbikes has been arrested by the police.  Augustine Abam was arrested at Omanjor in Accra on February 17, 2012 when he attempted to snatch a commercial motorbike. The Odorkor District Police Commander, Superintendent Abraham Acquaye, told the Daily Graphic that the police suspected that from last year to date Abam had snatched six motorbikes from their owners using the same trick. He

The Queenmother of Asafo Number One and Two in Awutu Beraku, Naakye Pobide, has advised women to strive to acquire entrepreneurial skills to engage in profitable businesses that will enable them to support their respective families. According to her, women need to play supportive roles in their various families and they can do that when they are gainfully employed. She said the era where women solely relied on their husbands for their basic needs was over, adding that it was about time women engaged

The Crop Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has come up with three new improved cocoyam varieties which are disease resistant and high yielding. They are “Gye me di” (a purple variety which matures in eight months), “Akyedie” (a purple variety which matures in seven months) and “Mayeyie” (a white variety which matures in six months). Farmers who recently cultivated the new varieties recorded increased yields after harvest. Now that yield

To minimise the impact of the planned shutdown of the Kpong Water Treatment Plant, the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has put together a number of measures to provide water to affected communities during the four-day exercise. In the main, water will be transferred from the Weija Treatment Plant to the Accra Terminal Reservoir and booster stations to be supplied to the areas that would be affected during the period. The Kpong Water Treatment Plant will be shut down from today to Sunday, March

More than 500 traders lost their sources of livelihood when an inferno engulfed sections of the Kumasi Central Market early Wednesday. The fire, which began about 1:30 a.m., razed down about 300 shops and stalls, destroying food items, cosmetics, cloths, jewellery and wigs, among other items. The affected traders, who could not control their emotions, broke down in tears. Many of them wondered where they would be able to secure funds to either restart their businesses or pay the loans they had obtained

A 22-year-old footballer who allegedly offered his mother for rituals has been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. The suspect, Enoch Adjei, who plays for Soccer Rex, a Jasikan-based Volta Regional Division One team, had wanted to kill his 50-year-old sick mother (name withheld) at Jasikan in the Volta Region to make it easier for him to transport the human parts needed for the rituals to Accra. But the buyer, who was acting on police instruction,

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has described the President’s State of the Nation Address as comprehensive and commended him for acknowledging the challenges facing the structure of the economy. It also commended the President for announcing measures to deal with the challenges. In a statement signed by its Secretary General, Kofi Asamoah, the TUC said, “We particularly commend the President for announcing a plan for the progressive introduction of free secondary education in Ghana.”   “As

The Vice Chancellor of the Valley View University (VVU), Professor Daniel Buor, has urged the government to assist security agencies to acquire more modern technologies to enable them to effectively detect and combat crime. He said current criminals were smart in coming up with new technologies to outwit existing technologies, hence the need for the police to be always ahead technologically. He was speaking at the closing ceremony of a computer training programme for selected police officers in

An Accra circuit court, presided over by Mr Francis Obiri, on Wednesday remanded three security officials and an unemployed man in prison custody for unlawfully possessing narcotic drugs and cannabis. The three security men include two policemen — Corporal Isaac Okine and Lance Corporal Dennis Maakogor Pwamang — and Felix Bani, a Bureau of National investigations (BNI) officer stationed at Bole. The other accused person is Eddisah Yakubu, unemployed. The two policemen and the BNI official pleaded

A medical officer Wednesday told the M M Koforidua Circuit Court how two accused persons, armed with a gun and a machete, locked him up in a toilet and went on to “molest” his two female guests in one of the rooms at his residence. Dr Fidelis Gligui said although he had heard the women screaming, he could not do anything to rescue them, since he had been “imprisoned” by the two armed men who were among a gang of eight suspected armed robbers who had attacked residents of the Koforidua Medical

Misapplication of agro chemicals in the cultivation of crops by some farmers at Chuchuliga and other farming communities in the Builsa District of the Upper East Region is a major source of worry to the Adeng-Sichaab Co-operative Farmers Society Limited. The society, with support from the Business Sector Advocacy Challenge Fund (BUSAC Fund), has since December 2012 set in motion a number of interventions aimed at reducing to the barest minimum the challenges facing farmers regarding the wrong use