May 2018

A Koforidua High Court has sentenced a farmer to death by hanging for gruesomely murdering his wife in 2003 at Adakuma, a farming community in the Birim South District of the Eastern region. The convict, Yaw Nkrumah, now 43-years-old was…
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The police in Kasoa have arrested 35 women suspected to be commercial sex workers. The women aged between 20 and 45 were mostly foreigners and some Ghanaians. The District Police Commander of Kasoa, Superintendent of Police, Mr…
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A US man died when a vape pen blew up and projected fragments into his skull, a post-mortem examination has found. Tallmadge D'Elia also suffered burns over 80% of his body in a fire on 5 May caused by the exploding e-cigarette, according…
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Three employees of a cement factory owned by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote have been killed by gunmen in Ethiopia's Oromia region. Indian national Deep Kamara, who managed the plant, died alongside two Ethiopian employees. They…
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The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly hard to control. Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a case in Mbandaka, a city of a million people…
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Ray Wilson, the left back in all six of England’s games in its World Cup-winning campaign in 1966, has died. He was 83. Huddersfield announced Wilson’s death on Wednesday. The northern English team said Wilson, who played for the club…
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Cynthia Jane Naa Korshie Lamptey, the Deputy Special Prosecutor nominee has called on policy makers to implement a law that will regulate the number of time a case is adjourned. According to the Deputy SP nominee, law administrators…
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The Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko has slammed the Chief Executive Officer of Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Issac Osei for challenging plans to convert TOR into a tank farm. The Energy Minister disclosed in January that government in…
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Three passengers died on the spot in the early hours of Wednesday when the Yutong bus they were traveling on collided with a tipper truck at Assorko-Essaman, a farming community near Shama. According to the Western Regional Motor…
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Ghana now has the most advanced electronic payments system on the African continent, following the launch last week of the Mobile Money Payment Interoperability System, and this will allow for greater financial inclusion, the Vice…
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