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Afenyo-Markin referred to Privileges Committee over security recruitment claims
Posted on with No CommentThe Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, is to face Parliament’s Committee on Privileges and Immunities after the Interior Minister formally challenged him to substantiate allegations that the ongoing recruitment into the security services is unlawful and exploitative. The development followed an … Read more →
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BoG says measures are slowing down cedi depreciation
Posted on | CommentHead of Financial Stability at the Bank of Ghana, Mr Benjamin Amoah has said there is a slowdown in the depreciation of the Cedi, after measures by the Bank of Ghana (BOG) to halt it. The BOG introduced measures at … Read more →
Electoral Commission increases Polling Stations
Posted on | CommentThe Electoral Commission (EC) has increased the number of polling stations from 26,000 to 35,000 as part of its preparations for the smooth conduct of district level elections this year. With the procurement of more biometric verification devices (BVDs), the … Read more →
No ‘dum so, dum so’ during Easter – VRA promises
Posted on | CommentThe Volta River Authority (VRA) has assured that there will be no interruptions in supply of power during the Easter period, all things being equal. Samuel Kwesi Fletcher, VRA’s Head of Corporate Communications, told TV3’s Sandra Amarquaye on Tuesday, April … Read more →
Regional Percentages: 5,720 sex workers living with HIV
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Aids Commission has disclosed that 5,720 representing 11% out of 52,000 female sex workers (FSW) in Ghana are living with HIV. Dr. Fred Nana Poku of the commission added that 17% of men who sleep with men (MSM) are … Read more →
Revealed: WASSCE SCANDAL – Students pay GHC70,000 as bribe
Posted on | CommentFinal-year students of Goka Senior High Technical School in the Jaman North District of the Brong Ahafo Region, numbering 677, have been made to pay GHC110 to influence invigilators supervising this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). It … Read more →
PHOTO: 25-year-old Man stabbed to death
Posted on | CommentThe Osu Police have launched a search for a 20-year-old man who allegedly stabbed his friend to death at Osu. The deceased, Joseph Adjei Adjetey, 25, was stabbed twice at the back and in the neck by suspect, Joseph Darko around … Read more →
Facebook rumoured to be planning electronic banking
Posted on | CommentIt’s the place to update friends about your day, share pictures and catch up on the gossip. But in the future, Facebook users could use the site to make electronic payments and save money too. The social network is rumoured … Read more →
PHOTO: Ghanaian business woman arrested at Kotoka for carrying heroin
Posted on | CommentA 36-year old Ghanaian business woman has been arrested for possessing 10 kilogrammes of a brownish substance suspected to be heroin. The suspect, Mercy Agyeman Prempeh, was arrested at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) by officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) on her arrival from Tanzania. With a street … Read more →
Abortion should not be promoted as family planning method
Posted on | CommentThe 47th session of the Commission on Population and Development at the United Nations Headquarters, New York has ended with the adoption of a consensus resolution that abortion should not be promoted as a method of family planning or in … Read more →
TV3 camera seized by Military in Takoradi
Posted on | CommentJournalists in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis have threatened to stay away from the activities of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) following the alleged heckling of cameramen and seizure of the camera of the Western Regional Correspondent of TV3 – an independent television station … Read more →
233times.net and Rolly Panda Music donate to Remar Orphanage
Posted on | 1 CommentAn online news portal, www.233times.net in collaboration with Rolly Panda Music donated to the Nsawam branch of Remar Orphanage last Saturday. The items made up of boxes of indomie, kalypo, candies, clothes, toiletries, accessories among others were presented to the … Read more →
Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ report: DVLA officials procure license for cripples, madmen, minors etc. for cash
Posted on | Comment“Make us cherish fearless honesty.” When this line of our National Anthem was thought out, little was suspected that it could be mischievously interpreted to extreme absurdity with unimaginable calamity; that it would be dramatized in a shamefully paradoxical manner … Read more →
PHOTO: President Obama prevents Michelle’s wardrobe malfunction
Posted on | CommentLadies, you know how it is. The weather breaks and you want to show a little leg in a nice full skirt that just so happens to hit you right above the knee. And that’s all fine and dandy until … Read more →
Full text: Speech by Nana Kwesi Coomson, CEO of 233times.net at Remar Orphanage
Posted on | CommentI have always had the perception that, donations were made by very wealthy people in society. I had that perception because anytime I heard about donations; they were made by Warren Buffet, Bill and Melinda Gates, Ken Agyapong or Lordina … Read more →
Mother arrested after discovery of seven dead newborns in garage (PHOTO)
Posted on | CommentA Utah woman is believed by police to have killed SEVEN of her own children over the past 10 years. Megan Huntsman, 39, of Pleasant Grove, secretly gave birth to the infants, killed them and then stuffed their tiny bodies … Read more →
PHOTO: Doctors implant lab-grown vagina
Posted on | CommentFour women have had new vaginas grown in the laboratory and implanted by doctors in the US. A tissue sample and a biodegradable scaffold were used to grow vaginas in the right size and shape for each woman as well … Read more →
Judges threaten strike
Posted on | CommentThere is growing disquiet within the Judiciary following threats by magistrates and lower court judges to go on strike if the issue of their pay cuts is not addressed. Lower court judges had suffered 50% pay cut on the order … Read more →
MV Benjamin cocaine saga: Limping man sentenced to 22 years imprisonment
Posted on | CommentAn Accra Fast Track High Court on Thursday jailed Christian Sheriff Asem Darkey, the kingpin behind the importation of 76 parcels of cocaine on board the MV Benjamin in 2006, for 22 years. Asem Darkey, aka Limping Man, was found … Read more →
25-year-old Pastor rapes Akwamuman SHS Student
Posted on | CommentPastor Isaac Asante, the 25-year-old man accused of having sex with a 19-year-old student of Akwamuman Senior High School, has appeared before an Accra Magistrate Court. Asante is said to have raped the victim after giving her some “anointing oil” to … Read more →
PHOTOS: Trainee Solicitor sentenced to 18 weeks in prison for starving dog to death
Posted on | CommentA trainee solicitor who locked her pet dog in a kitchen and left it without food and water to suffer a ‘prolonged and painful’ death has been jailed for 18 weeks today. Katy Gammon, 27, abandoned five-year-old boxer Roxy because … Read more →
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