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A farmer in his late 40s has been arrested by the Ahanta West District Police Command in the Western Region for shooting his biological son at Ahuntumanu. Confirming the incident, Assembly member for the area Stephen Ackah told Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson, the host of Connect FM’s Omanbapa morning, how the suspect by name Uncle Awortwe, went berserk and...

More than 40 students of Krobea Asante Technical and Vocational School at Asokore in the Ashanti Region have been arrested for causing damage to school property. The students went on a rampage Sunday, January 22, protesting the poor results of their predecessors in their final examination. The school has since been shutdown temporarily following the rampage. The...

A 27-year-old Nigerian electrician who defiled an 8-year-old girl and abandoned her in a pool of blood has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The country’s Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court convicted and sentenced Olamide Ayodele on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. The presiding judge, Justice Abiola Soladoye said that the prosecution team satisfied the court sufficiently...

The way and manner the sale of Vodafone Ghana to Telecel Group has been handled require further interrogation to be done on the deal, Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament, Samuel Nartey George has said. Speaking on the Ghana Tonight show with Alfred Ocansey on TV3 Tuesday, January 17, the Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament said...

A young mother has committed suicide at Ajoa, a community in the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western Region. Before committing suicide, she hanged her son. It is currently unknown what caused her to take her life and that of her son but eyewitnesses who interacted with the host of Connect FM’s Omanbapa morning show, Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson,...

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced plans by government to distribute free electronic tablets to all Senior High School (SHS) students across the country. Dr. Bawumia says the move forms part of government’s digitization agenda.The Vice President was speaking at this year’s New Year School at the University of Ghana, Legon. The tablet,...

The Minority in Parliament says the ongoing debt exchange programme will not augur well for the banks in the country. Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, the opposition NDC members’ spokesperson on Finance said a minimum of five commercial banks will collapse over the exercise if care is not taken. According to him, a chunk of the...

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare is heading for Kumasi following the fire incident that has taken the life of a police officer and his family to commiserate with the bereaved family. The IGP is going to the region after a fire gutted the residence of a police officer and burnt him, his...

An officer with the Anti-Robbery Unit of the Ashanti Regional Police Command has been killed after fire gutted his residence at Apromase in the Ashanti Region. Sergeant Owusu Asante Baafi, together with his wife, Yaa Achiaa, and their three-month old baby were burnt to death in the disaster said to have occurred Sunday night. It is unclear...

The Metropolitan Archbishop of the Anglican Church for the province of West Africa, Rev. Dr Cyril Kobina Ben-Smith has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to complete the National Cathedral before he leaves office. He said the President’s resolve to complete the controversial project shows his commitment to God. Speaking at the Second Presidential New...