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Ghanaian Teacher Faces Lifetime Classroom Ban for Allegedly Trafficking Minor to UK
Ernestina Quainoo, a Ghanaian teacher in the United Kingdom, has been banned from the classroom for life after it emerged that she assisted to smuggle a 14-year-old African child into Britain to act as her ‘slave’. According to a report…
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Three Arrested, Others Wanted Over Violent Clashes at Apam DRIP Event
The Ghana Police Service has arrested three individuals in connection with violent clashes that left one person injured during a commissioning ceremony for the District Roads Improvement Programme (DRIP) at Apam in the Central Region on September 16, 2024. The…
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Court Orders Prosecution to Produce Hospital Report in O’Reilly SHS Murder Case
The District Court at La has instructed the police prosecution team to present a hospital report indicating the age of the final-year O’Reilly Senior High School student accused of murdering a classmate, Edward Borketey Sackey. The report is expected to…
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Four Ghanaian Students Arrested in the US for Allegedly Forging University Transcripts
Four Ghanaian students have been arrested in the United States for allegedly forging high school transcripts to gain admission to Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. The accused, identified as Otis Opoku, Evans Oppong, Cyrilstan Nomobon Sowah-Nai, and Henry Dabuo, have been…
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Second-Year KNUST Student Dies in Motor Accident on His Birthday
Sekyi Nhyira, a second-year Communication Design student at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has tragically died in a road accident at Taifa, Greater Accra Region. The accident occurred on Thursday, September 12, 2024, while Charles was returning…
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Forestry Commission Raids Galamsey Camp And Arrests 4 In Subri Forest Reserve
The Forestry Commission’s Rapid Response team has raided an illegal mining aka galamsey camp in the Subri Forest Reserve near Benso in the Western Region, arresting four armed miners. The suspects, all Ghanaians, were found mining in a Globally Significant…
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Suicide Among Security Personnel a Growing Concern, Says Mental Health Experts
The Head of Therapy and Wellness at the 37 Military Hospital, Dr. Erica D. Dickson, has expressed concern over the rising cases of suicide among police officers in Ghana. Citing a study conducted between 2015 and 2021, she revealed that…
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Early Morning Fire Destroys Home in Kumasi Alabar
A devastating fire broke out early Friday morning in Kumasi Alabar, reducing a wooden structure to ashes. Eyewitnesses say the blaze destroyed the building before firefighters arrived at the scene. Frustrated residents accused the Ghana National Fire Service of arriving…
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Calls for ban on small-scale mining unnecessary; my governtment is against it – Mireku Duker to miners
Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker, has rejected calls for a complete ban on small-scale mining operations, calling such proposals misdirected. While condemning illegal mining’s environmental destruction, Duker emphasized that responsible mining should be promoted rather…
