The Majority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh has told Parliament that the legislature and the Ghana Police Service cannot at the same time investigate the alleged police brutalities meted out to some students of the Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi on Monday, June 13, 2022. He says such concurrent investigations by two public institutions is never done anywhere in the world. At best, he said Parliament could wait for the Police to conclude its investigations and if their findings are not convincing enough, they could then launch their own inquiries into the matter. “Mr. Speaker, the IGP has issued some...
Reg’l Education Dir. expresses shock over police shooting at Islamic SHS
Over thirty students of the Islamic Senior High School have been rushed to the hospital after the police allegedly fired tear gas and live bullets to disperse students who were demonstrating over incessant vehicular knockdown. Worried parents stormed the school to demand for the release of their wards on Monday June 13. The affected students were conveyed to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and other hospitals in Kumasi. “I should be worried but some of them have been resituated . we will follow to the hospital and see how they are doing,” Madam Mary Owusu Afriyie, the Regional Education Director told...
One shot dead, another injured at Kutula over stray goat
One person has been shot dead while another has been injured in northern Gonja of Savannah Region in a scuffle between traditional warriors and an owner of a stray goat. One person has been shot dead while another has been injured in northern Gonja of Savannah Region in a scuffle between traditional warriors and an owner of a stray goat. The goat owner, who was shot dead, and the warrior are all in the Damongo Government Hospital for autopsy and treatment respectively. The scuffle ensued when two chiefs, one from Daboya in the Savannah Region and the other from Janga...
LGBTQI: UK’s invitation to MPs requested by C’ttee Chair – Suhuyini claims
The Member of Parliament for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, says the invitation by the UK Parliament to Ghana’s Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs was at the beheads of the Chairman of the Ghanaian Parliamentary Committee. Speaking to Naa Dedei Tettey on Morning Starr Monday, Mr. Suhuyini challenged the Chairman for the Committee, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi to refute the claim. “This invitation was actually as a result of request made by Chairman of the Committee to the UK Parliament and other Parliaments especially in Europe. I just wonder why the Chairman of the Committee who claim he does not have funds, he...
Dozens of wedding guests abducted in Nigeria
Gunmen have abducted at least 29 people in the north-western Nigerian state of Zamfara, police say. The victims were travelling back home from a wedding ceremony when the armed men ambushed a convoy of their vehicles. The victims were mostly mobile phone dealers from a popular market in Gusau, the Zamfara state capital – who had attended the wedding of one of their colleagues in neighbouring Sokoto state. One man who survived the attack told the BBC the gunmen had mounted three roadblocks on Saturday evening, trapping vehicles and opening fire on them. A number of travellers managed to escape...
C/R: Decomposing body of woman, 39, found hanging in locked kitchen
A 39-year-old woman, known as Maame Efua has been discovered hanging in a locked kitchen at Abeadze Kyeakor in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region. The decomposed body of the woman was discovered almost five days after the incident. It is, however, not known if she committed suicide or was murdered since the kitchen door was locked from the outside. Reports also indicate that the owner of the kitchen had travelled and had no idea the woman had committed suicide in her kitchen. Reports gathered by Kasapa FM’s Yaw Boagyan revealed that the Victim was sick and seeking healing...
The youth of Adenta New legon and their elders took part in the Green Ghana program.
On Friday 10th June, 2022, over 200 tree seedlings were planted to commemorate this year’s initiative in the area. The annual nationwide exercise which is targeted at planting some twenty million trees forms part of the effort by the government to preserve and protect the country’s forest cover and the environment at large. Mohammed Sani, organizer of Adenta Municipal council of Zongo chiefs, Sheikh Mitawakil Abubakar, Chief imam of new legon, Sarki Dauda Ali, Zongo Chief of New Legon, Abdul Ganiyu Mahmoud Secretary of new legon Zongo Chiefs and Suleman Alhassan, Zongo chief of Rozaroza were all present at the...
Gov’t Will Recoup Money Pumped Into National Cathedral – Ofori-Atta
A 17-year old junior high school student of Kasoa Opeikuma on Saturday drowned in a quarry pit near Liberia Camp, in the Central Region. He and his schoolmates had gone there to swim after weekend class. The body of the JHS 3 student was retrieved from the stagnant water around midday on Sunday.The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori- Atta says money being pumped into the building of National Cathedral is potential investment which will pay off. According to him, government is mindful of taxpayers’ money being used to support the building of the National Cathedral and is strategizing to ensure that...
Parliamentary Committee in London to discuss anti-gay bill
A four-member delegation of the Committee of Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs of Parliament will today begin discussions with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) on the anti-gay bill currently before Parliament. The delegation, led by the Chairman on the committee, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, left Accra yesterday for London for the talks. The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 has generated national conversations. The anti-gay bill seeks to criminalise LGBTQ+ sexual relationships and associations. It also seeks to criminalise a wide range of non-heterosexual conduct and habits and any advocacy for or in support of LGBTQ+...
Over 30 students of Islamic SHS hospitalised after police allegedly fired tear gas at them during protest
At least 30 students of the Islamic Senior High School at Abrepo in the Ashanti Region have been rushed to the hospital after police allegedly opened tear gas on them while they were demonstrating over frequent road accidents in front of the school. The students of the school are said to have blocked the road in front of their school in the course of their protest over frequent knockdowns. They lamented that frequent calls for speed ramps have fallen on deaf ears. Citi News’ Ashanti Regional correspondent, Hafiz Tijani reported that the police were called in to clear the road block...