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Benin’s Wadagni wins presidency in landslide with over 94% of votes
Posted on with No CommentBenin’s Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni secured a landslide victory in the West African nation’s April 12 presidential election, garnering over 94% of ?the votes, provisional results from the electoral commission showed on Monday. Sacca Lafia, head ?of the country’s ?independent … Read more →
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Agona Asafo: 17-year-old Student arrested for raping Teacher
Posted on | CommentThe Agona Swedru Division of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, has arrested a 17 year–old form one student of the Nsaba Presbyterian Senior High School (SHS), for raping a 20-year old teacher-trainee … Read more →
Unregistered gun owners likely to face life imprisonment
Posted on | CommentSuspects found guilty of owning an unregistered gun or a light weapon could soon be handed life sentences. That’s according to the National Commission on small arms and light weapons. The commission is currently undertaking consultations to review the existing … Read more →
Le Baron Hotel owner, one other arrested in London for drug trafficking
Posted on | CommentTwo Ghanaians including the owner of Le Baron Hotel at East Legon in Accra, David Kwadwo Anim, have been busted at the Heathrow Airport in London for alleged drug trafficking and money laundering. The other suspect is Kofi Antwi Nkansah, … Read more →
Couple’s first kiss turns bloody
Posted on | 1 CommentA 50-year-old farmer, Emmanuel Akli’s first attempt to kiss his wife ended with him biting her lips, wounding her severely. Akli who had watched a woman being kissed on the television at Nsawam a few weeks ago, decided to practice … Read more →
PHOTO: Ghanaian Student accepted into 24 universities
Posted on | CommentA Greensboro high school senior originally from Ghana has been accepted into 24 universities all over the country. Akosua Beoke is one of 45 graduates from the Early College at Guilford — the first graduation of 30 for Guilford County … Read more →
St. John’s Grammar SHS spends Gh¢12,400 per month on electricity
Posted on | CommentThe unpopular decision by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to place the entire St. John’s Grammar SHS on one prepaid meter is depleting the school’s coffers, as it spends Gh¢400 on power for just 12 hours everyday. The school … Read more →
Metro Mass appeals for GH¢ 58m gov’t bailout to avoid collapse
Posted on | CommentThe Metro Mass Transit Company has appealed to government to write-off its debts which have accrued as a result of the deferment of import duties on buses brought into the country. Managing Director of MMT, John Awuku Dzuazah, warned any … Read more →
Upper West: Petrol sold in bottles
Posted on | CommentThe Upper West Region is renowned for the quality of its pito– a local alcoholic beverage brewed from fermented guinea corn. All the same, there is another liquid that has also become very popular though in bizarre circumstances. The latest … Read more →
RIP: President Mahama’s Special Adviser, P.V. Obeng is dead
Posted on | Commentwww.233times.net can confirm that Paul Victor Obeng, chairman of the National Development Planning Commission is dead. He died Saturday at a hospital after he reportedly collapsed at the Agape Filling Station at Spintex Road in Accra. He was rushed to the Lekma … Read more →
86 suspects arrested in a Police swoop
Posted on | CommentThe Manhyia Divisional Police Command in the Ashanti Region on Wednesday arrested 86 suspected criminals from their hideouts in a special operation carried out in some communities within the jurisdiction of the Command in the Kumasi Metropolis. The Police suspected … Read more →
Taxi driver jailed 5 years for stabbing twin sister
Posted on | CommentA 28-year-old taxi driver, Kwesi Aidoo, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment in hard labour by a Cape Coast Circuit Court for stabbing his twin-sister, Esi Aidoo with a pair of scissors at Akotokyire in Cape Coast. Kwesi pleaded … Read more →
Mahama warns – Guinea-Bissau elections must be peaceful
Posted on | CommentPresident John Mahama has pledged his support to the people of Guinea-Bissau as they prepare to participate in the second round of elections to choose their next President. The President, who doubles as the Chairman of the Economic Community of … Read more →
Apple and Google settle patent row
Posted on | CommentMobile phone industry giants Apple and Google have agreed to dismiss lawsuits they had brought against each other over technology patents. In a joint statement, the companies said they would work together in “some areas of patent reform”. But the … Read more →
PHOTO: Pastor beaten close to death for having affair with member’s wife
Posted on | CommentBULAWAYO Pentecostal preacher Pastor Nyathi of Healing Ministries has been beaten to within an inch of death by a member of his congregation after he was caught having an affair with the parishioners’ wife. Detained for two days and repeatedly beaten by church member Isaac Dube, Pastor Nyathi is … Read more →
PHOTOS: Friends find $40,000 hidden in secondhand couch
Posted on | CommentThe last time you dug into your couch cushions, what’d you find? Some lint, a pen, maybe a couple loose coins? Whatever you came up with, it likely paled in comparison to the $40,000 three friends found in their couch, a … Read more →
NDC blows over GH38, 000 on 1 bore hole
Posted on | CommentThe increasing raid on the nation’s resources by the people who have been given the mandate to manage the destinies of the about 27 million Ghanaians continues to manifest in all facets of the administration of the Mahama-led National Democratic … Read more →
3 killed, dozens injured in twin bomb blasts in Kenyan capital Nairobi
Posted on | CommentAt least three people were killed and dozens more wounded when bombs exploded in two buses on a busy highway in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Two privates buses were ripped apart by what is believed to be improvised explosive devices. … Read more →
For the blind: World’s first customisable Braille phone launched
Posted on | CommentSighted people take using phones and touchscreens for granted, but for blind people it is a luxury. London-based OwnFone has created the world’s first customisable Braille handset to give visually impaired people more independence and confidence with mobile devices. The … Read more →
PHOTO: Police arrest robber who raped pastor’s daughter
Posted on | CommentPolice intelligence has led to the arrest of an 18-year-old employed man who raped the daughter of a Kumasi-based pastor at gun point during a robbery incident. Jeff Appiah who has admitted committing the crime, with the support of an … Read more →
Sudanese court sentences woman to death for marrying Christian man
Posted on | CommentA Sudanese court has sentenced a woman to hang for apostasy – the abandonment of her religious faith – after she married a Christian man. Amnesty International condemned the sentence, handed down by a judge in Khartoum, as “appalling and … Read more →
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