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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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Headmaster of Adisadel College gets 5 plush cars and GHC 75,000 as send off package?
Posted on | CommentThe headmaster of Adisadel College, an all boys Senior High School in Cape Coast is taking home a juicy retirement package that is dropping every jaw. The headmaster whose retirement is due this year has served the school for over … Read more →
2013 MTTD Stats: 2,096 lives were lost through motor accidents and 12,655 injured
Posted on | CommentThe Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service said 2,096 lives were lost through motor accidents and 12,655 persons were injured nationwide in 2013.Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Samuel Sasu-Mensah, Staff Officer to the Director General … Read more →
3 Pastors from ‘Jesus I Called Prayer Ministry’ arrested for kidnapping mad women
Posted on | CommentThree pastors from the Jesus I Called Prayer Ministry at Apedwa and Mankesim who claimed to be on a mission to heal mentally deranged persons in the Krobo area have found themselves at the wrong side of the law after … Read more →
Value Added Tax (VAT) rate is now 17.5%
Posted on | CommentThe new Value Added Tax (VAT) rate of 17.5 per cent has taken effect. This followed the presidential assent given the VAT Act 2013 (Act 870) on December 30, 2013, and its subsequent gazetting the following day. Under the regime, … Read more →
KNUST Lecturers barred from selling handouts to Students
Posted on | CommentLecturers at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have been barred from selling handouts to students. The measure is to curb the practice where lecturers give out “ill-prepared pamphlets and booklets” which in the end discourage students … Read more →
PHOTOS: Fire guts KNUST’s Crystal Rose Hostel
Posted on | CommentInformation reaching www.233times.net has it that, the plush Crystal Rose Hostel in Kentinkrono, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology is up in flames. The Informer who is a resident of the hostel said the inferno started around 5 pm. … Read more →
PHOTOS: Pastor instructs church members to eat grass
Posted on | CommentA popular South African pastor, Lesego Daniel of Rabboni Centre Ministries at Garankuwa TUT campus at Pretoria, asked his church members to eat grass recently (November 2013) while baptizing them. After baptizing them by making them eat grass, he marched them … Read more →
Sad Story: Student blinded after surgery to change her eye colour
Posted on | CommentA student from London was left temporarily blind after surgery to change the colour of her eyes. Shenise Farrell travelled to Panama, in Central America, for the unregulated procedure to change her eye colour from dark brown to light brown. … Read more →
Invitees to Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday party asked “to eat before you come”
Posted on | CommentGuests attending Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday party at the White House later this month can look forward to “a little Dougie” but definitely not dinner. Word is out that the lucky VIPs invited to fete with Mrs. Obama at a … Read more →
Nigerian Pastor, Dr. Sign Fireman arrested over alleged murder of a virgin
Posted on | CommentSign Fireman has been implicated in a ritual murder scandal involving a boy in his church who strangled a 12 year old girl while trying to obtain feces from her for ritual purposes. The disclosure of Pastor Fireman’s involvement in … Read more →
Increase salaries as you increase taxes – TUC
Posted on | CommentThe Trades Union Congress (TUC) has said that it would oppose any increment in salaries that does not match the many increases in taxes and utility tariffs. According to the Secretary General of the TUC Kofi Asamoah it will be hypocritical … Read more →
Father jailed 25 years for defiling his 8-year-old daughter
Posted on | CommentA father who confessed to defiling his eight-year-old biological daughter has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in hard labour by a Kumasi circuit court. Jude Kuunifaa, 30, suffers from epilepsy and had sought to blame the crime on a … Read more →
$60m cocaine gang jailed
Posted on | CommentTHE CAPTAIN of Atiyah Ex Alisam, a semi-submarine vessel, and one of the crew members who were arrested in connection with the importation of 414 slabs of cocaine with a street value of $60million from British Guyana, have been incarcerated for … Read more →
2,913 ghost names found in Ghana Education Service’s (GES) payroll
Posted on | CommentThe government has revealed over 2,913 ghost names had been detected and removed from the Ghana Education Service’s (GES) payroll.A Deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the names were detected when the Ministry conducted audit of its staff … Read more →
Revealed: Huge sums of monies wired from GCB into Private Accounts via Bank’s IT department
Posted on | CommentHuge sums of money have been fraudulently wired from the vaults of the Ghana Commercial Bank through certain accounts with the connivance of the Bank’s IT department, according to the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO). The anti-fraud agency has … Read more →
100 Senior High Schools (SHS) to be built by gov’t this year – Deputy Education Min.
Posted on | CommentThe Deputy Minister of Education, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has stated that government will build 100 Senior High Schools (SHS) in 2014. “I am happy to state that this year, we are confident that at least 100 high schools will … Read more →
Pastor Drowns Infront Of Congregation As He Tries To Walk On Water Like Jesus
Posted on | CommentAccording to All Christian News on Jan. 2, a pastor tried to walk on water like Jesus did. However, he drowned in front of his congregation. Pastor Franck Kabele, 35, on the West Coast of Africa assured his congregation that … Read more →
Christian Council appeals to churches – Aid in the fight against lesbianism n homosexuality in SHS
Posted on | CommentThe Christian Council of Ghana is advising churches to aid in the fight against lesbianism and homosexuality in Senior High Schools. This follows a recent report of increased acts of lesbianism at OLA Girls’ Senior High School, in the Asutifi North … Read more →
From today: Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital begins charging more fees
Posted on | CommentAuthorities at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital will from Monday begin charging more for the medical services they render to the general public.This follows the approval of the Fees and Charges (Amendment) Instrument 2013 by Parliament last year.Therefore, fees and charges … Read more →
Police kill man for resisting demolition of shops in Adenta
Posted on | CommentA man was shot and killed Monday morning by the police at Adenta in Accra for wrestling with the police who were supervising the demolition of unauthorized structures there. Three others, suspected to be land guards were arrested. They were … Read more →
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