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A woman whose identity is not yet known died in a commercial vehicle she boarded with her two-year-old daughter, Thursday. The Yamoransa police who confirmed the story said the deceased was traveling from Fosu in the Central Region to Takoradi in the Western Region when the unfortunate incident happened. Police Inspector Liberty Kobla told Adom FM’s Kafui Justice that other passengers in the car said they were waiting at the Fosu station for the vehicle to get full to start their journey when the deceased left her child to use the bathroom. Upon her return from the bathroom, she called a pure water seller to buy water, but before the seller could get to her, she fainted and died on the spot. The Inspector said the deceased was not carrying any form of identification or a cell phone for the driver or passengers to contact anyone. They, therefore, reported the incident to the police. The deceased is reported to be between the ages of 35-40 years, dar...

Ghanaian lawyer Maurice Ampaw has blamed the increasing incidents of rape and defilement to the proliferation of pornographic materials in the Ghanaian society. According to him,   those obscene materials had been common over the years yet authorities were not worried about it. “There is sexual impunity and indecency going on in this country [and] it is a community factor. There is nudity all over, pornographic materials are all over the internet, social media, radio, television. We are exposed to sexual impunity,” he said when commenting on the arrest of some 3 teenagers in connection with a rape incident of an 18-year-old last Friday. To him, it was the time the society frowned at those indecencies and parents held responsible for when their kids are exposed to such materials. Asking for the Chief Justice to step in and seek justice for the victim, Mr Ampaw questioned the responsibilities of parents and teachers in stopping this menace. To this end, he pushed fo...

The Ashanti Region police has picked up three young men suspected to have been part of the gang-rape leading to the sexual assault of a teenager at Bantama in the Kumasi metropolis. The three young men who are in police custody now are suspected to have taken part in the alleged affirmation gang rape of a teenage girl, a video of which has gone viral on social media. Many Ghanaians are outraged over the viral video in which five young men were seen forcibly having sex with the teenager. The video has been circulating on social media for close to 24 hours with the young men taking turns to rape the teenager in their room. According to source, the young men who where try sleep withe teenager were 7 but the Ashanti regional Police has managed to nabbed 3, investigations are still ongoing in the region....... The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ashanti Regional Police Command has invited the 18-year old victim to assist in investigations. The...

Rosina Sam Woman, 32, is in the grip of the Kwabenya Police for allegedly beating her 11-year-old son to death last Saturday. The suspect, Rosina Sam, who owns a confectionery shop at Kwabenya, is said to have got angry with her son for misplacing GHc120 on an erand. The victim, Andrew Sam, a Primary Four pupil of the C&J Montessori at Kotobabi in Accra, was sent by his mother to buy mobile phone recharge cards worth GHc120 for her shop but he returned to report to her that the money had got missing. This cause the suspect to be very furious, hence, beat him to death. Background of the Missing money According to the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Accra Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Effia Tenge, Rosina, who became angry with her son, allegedly dragged him to her room, which was close to the shop, locked him up there and beat him mercilessly. After beating Andrew, the eldest of her three children, Rosina left for her shop to ...

The Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), and the Finance Officer (FO), have been found guilty of procurement and other financial malfeasance by the High Court at Winneba. As a result, the  Vice Chancellor  Professor Mawutor Avoke, and Dr. Theophilus Senyo Ackorlie, Finance Officer have been automatically relieved of their positions at the university. A cost of Ghc8, 000 has also been awarded against the university. All payments made to Paa Nii Lamptey of Paa Badu Construction Ltd; a construction company by the accused persons must be refunded to the university and a forensic audit conducted on all aspects of the North Campus Road, since according to the court was a create, loot and share affair, disguised as a contract. Background A private citizen, Kofi Kwayera, last month sued the University of Education Winneba (UEW), and the Education Ministry for what he said was the unlawful extension of the school’s Governing Council’s te...

CHILDREN IN PROSTITUTION The Director of Social Welfare in the Cape Coast Metropolis of the Central Region, Mr. Daniel Wallace has disclosed that the high ascendancy rate of poverty in the fishing communities has led to a situation where children are engaging in prostitution. Mr. Daniel Wallace's comment throw more light on the arouse of child prostitution in the region which has got the nation talking. It is reported that girls in the metropolis offer sex for as low as GHC1 to satisfy their wants. “With high poverty levels, vulnerable households within the coastal fishing areas have resorted to illegalities such as fishing with chemical and light, as well as trafficking as a means of survival”, Mr Wallace said. “They are hungry and are ready to do anything to survive” he added in an interview with The Mirror following a Press conference to mark World Day against Child Labour. According to him, the Children are forced into prostitution because of parental neglect, w...

Mr. Richard Karikari The CEO of Oli Best Road Safety and National Road Safety Advocate, Mr. Richard Karikari who is affectionately called K.K has suggested to the government to make policies that will austere the duty of commercial drivers especially "trotro" drivers in the country. The national road safety advocate has intimated that the job of commercial drivers is raked important after the duty of  doctors as far as servicing human is concern. According to him, the sever injuries sustained by accident victims are all as a result of the ignorant attitude of some commercial drivers who turn deaf ears to the road traffic Act LI 2180. He has said some common mistakes like illicit addition of passenger seats to the registered number approved by DVLA, protection of wind glasses with aluminum bars and decoration of wind glasses with tinted sheet are all threats to passenger's safety. "The more passengers are distressed or feel uncomfortable in vehicles, ...

Naturopath and International Nutrition Consultant, Dr Emmanuel Kwame Asenso has blamed the spate of numerous diseases in the country in recent times on the neglect of our socio-cultural values and long-held customs as a people. According to him, the average Ghanaian in their quest to appear and sound westernized have adopted alien social practices and lifestyles which in the long run rob them of their very roots and identity, causing the importation of ailments which hitherto were unknown to the African continent. The CEO of the Health Talk Ltd, Dr Asenso was speaking with Kwame Tanko on Angel In The Morning today when he said the mode of introduction of foods to students in schools affect their psyche, indicating the outbreak of meningitis in KUMACA and other schools could be avoided if the students had been fed with suitable cultural diets. Dr Asenso said until the Natural and Physical Laws of Health were applied in the day to day activities of an individual, ...

DECEMBER 12TH, 2017    08:00 AM A Student of University of  Education Winneba, Kumasi Campus (UEW- K),  was involved in an incident that resulted in his fingers being cut off. The Victim, Sampson Osei, a Level 100 student at UEW-K had four of his fingers gruesomely cut off in an attempt to escape the threat of three alleged robbers who visited their campus yesterday, December 11th 2017, around 10:00pm. According to the victim, he was reporting to his hall (Autonomy Hall) to have some rest after he had burned the evening candle on campus yesterday. He then met these alleged robbers who attacked him and attempted to stab him. Struggling with them, he kept on shouting for help when suddenly some students rushed in to his rescue. The robbers, upon noticing the upcoming danger fled away. Unfortunately, Sampson suffered the cut as he was holding the sharper edge of the knife during the struggle with them and more so when the robber pulled it and fled upon seei...

Some cocoa farmers at Jacobu in the Amansie Central district of the Ashanti Region have expressed worry about the current infestation of Cocoa Swollen Shoot and Yellow Mosaic diseases affecting their production due to insufficient agro-chemicals to fight the disease, making them lose a lot of money. According to them, the diseases kill their cocoa seedlings at the tender stages and efforts to combat it have proven futile. The Farmers bemoaned that they are suffering under many challenges as farmers in the area but cocoa swollen shoot and cocoa yellow mosaic has given them severe headache through the killing of many cocoa trees at the area causing them to forfeit a lot of money. The farmers told Angel News reporter Albert Baidoo when he visited the area that, help from the district assembly and the directorate of agriculture has not been forthcoming, leaving them in a state of hopelessness. INFECTED COCOA BY "AKATE" They lamented that the dilapidated motorab...

  The President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), Bice Osei Kufour, aka Obour has disclosed that executive members of MUSIGA are set to release a new song in honor of the late veteran broadcast journalist, Kwadwo Asare Baffour Acheampong who was affectionately known as KABA. The MUSIGA President reiterated that, KABA was “a great contributor and player in the media landscape”, therefore he deserve to be honored, It is really sad that a brother, great contributor and player of democracy in the media landscape will pass away at this moment. He was fair and unbiased in the journalism portfolio”, Obour hinted this to adomonline.com shortly after signing the book of condolence.   Obour added that there have been numerous calls within union members that “he is a brother we should compose a song to honor his memory”. KABA was the host of Asempa FM political talk show and dynamic presenter in the multimedia group.  He was rushed to the Kor...