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The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, has called for stronger commitment from stakeholders to ensure the effective implementation of the Free Primary Health Care (FPHC) programme.
One person has died, and several others are in critical condition following a road crash involving three vehicles at Kusa Junction on the Fomena–Adansi Asokwa road in the Ashanti Region. The accident involved a tipper truck, a Toyota Hiace bus and a Volkswagen vehicle. The injured victims have been rushed to the Adansi...
Banks and private security companies must strengthen their security systems and improve intelligence-sharing with the police to prevent armed robberies, criminologist and KNUST lecturer Dr Jones Opoku-Ware has said. His comments follow the police interception of an alleged robbery operation in Labone, Accra, where two...
Kurtis Rourke’s strong preseason showing for the San Francisco 49ers ended abruptly Thursday night.
An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 32-year-old driver, Emmanuel Akpatsa, to 15 years in prison for unlawfully entering his former employer’s residence and attempting to rob him. Akpatsa was convicted after the court found him guilty of unlawful entry and attempting to commit robbery following a trial in which the p...
An Accra Circuit Court has granted a retired Fire Officer GH¢350,000 bail over an alleged GH¢303,200 enlistment scam involving 60 applicants. Thomas Dorkenu, 60, is alleged to have collected the money from the applicants on the pretext of securing their enlistment into the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) through pro...
A 19-year-old, Ahmed Mustapha, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labour after being found guilty of robbery and causing harm at Asabi, a community within the Asokore Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region. Facts presented in court indicated that Mustapha attacked a victim with a cutlass during a ro...
Malik Nabers checked off another milestone in his recovery from his devastating knee injury, and earlier than expected too. The New York Giants' No. 1 wide receiver participated in team drills in a red no-contact jersey during their final practice before their first preseason game Saturday against ...
The Accra Academy Old Boys Association will, on Saturday, August 15, hold a special Float and homecoming to mark the school’s 95th anniversary and honour its four founders.
Ghana must strengthen police and community intelligence networks to detect and disrupt armed robbery plans before criminals execute them, criminologist and KNUST lecturer Dr Jones Opoku-Ware has said. His comments follow the police interception of an alleged robbery operation in Labone, Accra, during which two suspecte...
A broken-down tricycle, popularly known as an ‘aboboyaa’, may have triggered the chain of events that led to the deadly multiple-vehicle crash at Ofankor Barrier on the Accra-Nsawam Highway, the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has said. Senior Planning Manager at the NRSA, Felix Owusu, said preliminary informatio...
Ghana is witnessing an increasingly complex and violent form of organised crime, with armed robbery networks relying on financing, intelligence, logistics and possible cross-border connections, criminologist and KNUST lecturer Dr Jones Opoku-Ware has warned. He said the alleged attempt to simultaneously target three ba...
