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A pantryman of the St. Louis Senior High School (SHS) in the Ashanti Region has been suspended for three months without pay, for fondling a student’s breast and touching her buttocks. Kwesi Boampong, who is in his 30s, admitted to committing the act to Luv News’ Erastus Asare Donkor but said allegations that he had sex with the girl are ...

Inspector General of Police David Asante Appeatu has escaped a possible jail time or imposition of a fine, as the Attorney-General has appealed a court decision that found him guilty of contempt. Deputy Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, on Thursday succeeded in preventing an Accra High Court from sentencing the IGP. He has filed three applications all geared at ensuring that ...

An underground cleaner has died after a machine smashed his chest inside a mining pit in the latest tragedy to have befallen the Shaanxi Mining Company Limited in Talensi, a district in the Upper East region. The Upper East Regional Hospital’s Medical Superintendent, Dr Patrick Atobrah, told Starr News Baarn Loligbil-Tii died on arrival last Friday with his ribcage, lungs ...

The Western Regional Police Command has intercepted what it says is one of the biggest drug bust in the region. According to the Command, 92 bales of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp were intercepted in the region Tuesday. According to the regional Public Relations Officer of the Police Command, DSP Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, five occupants in a DAF ...

The Tema-Akosombo railway project has now been redirected to end at Mpakadan instead of Akosombo. This has come about because the original design, which had the rail line terminating at Akosombo, posed a threat to the more than 50-year-old Akosombo Dam. The old plan was to locate the rail tracks about 500 feet away from the dam. The Chief Executive ...

Students of the Casford Hall at the University of Cape Coast have called off their planned solidarity action in support of their colleague students of the Katanga Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in their standoff with the school authorities. The decision by the students was taken after they reportedly received threats from the authorities ...

The audited accounts of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has led to the retrieval of GH¢2.1 million out of GH¢2.5 million overpaid to caterers of the programme between July and August last year. GhIPSS reverses trend. The Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), the payment bureau for the GSFP, confirmed that between July and August there was about ...

Dr. Franklin Manu Amoah, Executive Director of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), the first prosecution witness in the criminal trial of ex-Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr. Stephen K. Opuni, on Monday left the courtroom in total shock, with a series of conflicting claims as his testimony was brought to an end. Under cross-examination, ...

The University Teachers Association (UTAG) says calls for the Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to be sacked or resign on his own volition following violent protests at the university is unfounded. National President of the Association, Dr Eric Opoku said Prof Kwasi Obiri-Danso cannot be blamed for the behaviour of the students, therefore, calls ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana Limited (ECG) has announced to its customers and the general public that there would be an interruption in power supply, Today, in some parts of Accra. The power outage according to them will begin from 9:00 in the morning through to 5:00 in the evening. In a statement issued by the company yesterday, the step ...