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A failed ‘spiritual exercise’ by a fetish priest to identify a laptop thief has left the palm of a 16-year-old boy burnt at Akyem Sekyere in the Eastern Region. The boy, Yaw Prince, was accused of stealing a laptop and was sent to the 22-year-old fetish priest, Kwasi Afari, to use spiritual means to establish if it was the Prince ...

The Supreme Court has overturned an earlier ruling by the Appeals court that compelled NIB to pay over 120 million dollars in Judgment debt. According to the court, ruling by the high and Appeals court has to be set aside; the identity of issuers of the promissory cannot be identitied, raising issues with the capacity of investors. More to come….. ...

The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) has dismissed government’s claim that the council is in support of its decision to facilitate Christian pilgrimage to Israel and the Vatican. In an interview Wednesday on Morning Starr the deputy Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs Paul Essien hinted of the Christian Council’s support of the move. He told Morning Starr host Francis ...

A document from the Nigerian Police Intelligence Response Team has revealed that the Accra Passport office issued a passport to the arrested billionaire kidnapper with a fake name- Asare Nelson. Even though his real name is Chikwudubem Onwuamadike, officers of the Accra Office contrived to issue the passport to the billonaire kidnapper under the name Asare Nelson on 10 January ...

The Minority in Parliament is accusing government of robbing cocoa farmers in the sale of fertilisers. Addressing a news conference in parliament Wednesday, Minority spokesperson on Agriculture, Eric Opoku said government must revert to the free fertilizer distribution policy implemented by the Mahama administration. “In October 2014, the NDC government under President John Dramani Mahama, established the cocoa stabilization fund ...

The taskforce empowered to search and retrieve missing government vehicles – Asset Retrieval Taskforce – has discovered over 60 vehicles suspected to be part of the missing State vehicles at Nsawam in the Eastern region. The taskforce in an operation Wednesday found the vehicles parked at a yard belonging to one William Baah, who identified himself as an auctioneer. Five ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has been challenged to name opportunists responsible for the National Democratic Congress’ humiliating defeat at the 2016 polls. A former vice-chairman of the opposition NDC Alhaji Sani Mohammed said Rawlings’ “monkey dey work and baboon dey chop” comment is too vague. Former President Rawlings addressing party supporters June 11 at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra ...

A 23yr old man, Yaw Danso has fallen from an uncompleted building whiles he was searching for network for a call in Manso Kumpese in the Ashanti Region. Residents of the area have challenged over the years with the unavailability of mobile network to place calls to their dear ones. This, according to our source who gave his name as ...

The Volta Region is the hub of child trafficking in the country due to the number of children illegally sent on a daily basis to work at the lake, the US Ambassador to Ghana Robert P. Jackson has said. According to him, his 3 days visit to the Volta Region made him realise the ordeal trafficked children go through just ...

A ranking member for the Youth, Sport and Culture committee of Parliament, Hon. Kwabena Mensah Woyome has said government’s initiative to facilitate some pilgrims embark on a trip to Israel and the Vatican City should be based on equity. “If the ministry would want to embark on this exercise, then there is the need [for] equity,” Hon. Woyome told Morning ...