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Rapists are said to be taking advantage of the prevailing power crisis (dumsor) in the country to terrorise teachers and students of the Esiama Community Nursing Training College in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region. A report by the Weekend Finder said some students had become victims of rape and robbery attacks by the intruders. The school’s generator, according to the report, is not being put to use due to the lack of fuel, compounding the woes of the students. The students now move around in groups out of fear of being attacked. “There is no light on our toilet so you can’t visit the place alone at night; you either have to go in groups,” a student was quoted as saying. Source : yengh Posted by Statesman Dankwah

What was said to be a bloody clash between some Fulanis and Konkombas in the Afram Plains south district in the Eastern Region had more to it than heard; the seemingly reprisal attacks have left five persons dead. On Friday, June 17, 2016, a Konkomba man was killed when he had gone in to question the Fulani men who attended to a herd of cows that had strayed to his farm and destroyed his crops. The herdsmen became enraged and attacked him with cutlasses, inflicted wounds on him and left him to die. Four days later, June 21, four lifeless bodies which were later identified as that of Fulani herdsmen were found in a thicket. According to a Daily Graphic report, irate Konkombas in the area plunged into attack to avenge the death of their kinsman in an apparent reprisal attack. They allegedly gunned down one person and three others later whose bodies were identified as those of Fulani herdsmen in the bush at Sakabu Number One and Odumansua in the district. Windham...

Elections remain one of the seasons in Ghana’s political dispensation which sees politicians not only make profound statements and policies but also very exciting slogans. Here are five of such campaign slogans. 1. ”Forward ever, backwards never” This is part of the many other campaign slogans of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of the November 7 elections. Well, this slogan has attracted much controversy especially between the party and the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) as the latter argues the slogan is theirs. 2. ”Edey bee k3k3” The National Democratic Congress (NDC) through its 2012 presidential candidate, President John Dramani Mahama won the general elections not just because of the various policies of the party but also the entertaining campaign slogan couched from the advertisement of the telecommunications network MTN. 3. “Ghana must work again” Ghana must work again happens to be the campaign slog...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for New Edubiase constituency in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region Ernest Kofi Yankah has incurred the wrath of constituents over failed campaign promises. Benjamin Anhwere the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area was also not spared the spleen of angry residents who set vehicles of both of them ablaze in protest of unfulfilled litany of promises made to them The MP and the DCE had promised to hook some communities to the national grid but failed to do so after several years indicating that their inactions has affected businesses, education as well as health care delivery, thus making life unbearable for them. “We have been living in darkness for the past years and these MPs always come to our town to campaign and promise us but they end up deceiving us and not fulfilling their promises”. “We can longer wait and so we are not going to allow them to campaign in our various towns because as we are ...

Prez. John Mahama is reported missing after the Flagstaff House caught fire in the afternoon of Thursday during a heavy downpour which flooded the premises. Karma has visited the president after calls to check drainage and find permanent solutions to floods in Accra were received by deaf ears. The fire is said to have been caused by the heavy rains and poor wiring system at the premises. In a tweet, which was later deleted, NADMO confirmed the report and assured the NDC and the general public of their swift response to the incident. According to escapees, they believe anyone who is still inside the building is burnt. In June 3, 2015, a double (fire and flood) disaster hit Accra which claimed people’s homes and over 100 lives.issued reported missing after the Flagstaff House caught fire in the afternoon of Thursday during a heavy downpour which flooded the premises. Karma has visited the president after calls to check drainage and find permanent solutions to...

A deputy director in-charge of clinical care at the Upper East regional health directorate, Dr Abdul-Razak Dokurugu, has bemoaned the increasing rate of abortions and sexually transmitted diseases among youth in the region. According to him the Upper East region has the highest adolescent abortion rates according to the 2014 demographic and health survey for the region. In 2013, 23.8% of adolescents committed abortions, 24.1% in 2014 and 22.7% in 2015. Meanwhile, 15.5% of adolescent pregnancy was recorded in 2013, 15.0% in 2014 and 15.3% in 2015. He further revealed that a quarter of all unsafe abortions are performed on adolescent annually. He blame the increase numbers and tread on parents reluctancy to talk about sex and sexuality with their children. Speaking at an adolescent health club inauguration in Bolgatanga, Dr Abdul-Razak further blamed parents for the surge in the cases of abortion and STIs saying they don’t educate their wards on such issues...

The week ended with various developments making the headlines and shaping national discourse. Here are a few of such stories you may have missed in the course of the week. 1. Parliament replaces broken down GH₵21mil Chinese chairs With barely two years of Parliament using Chinese chairs at a cost of 21 million cedis reports show these have broken down forcing parliament to change them. Just after resumption from their Easter break on Tuesday May 17, 2016, all chairs were seen to have been replaced with new ones. Deputy Majority Whip Ahmed Ibrahim said the replacement of the chairs was done at no cost to the state due to a warranty clause in the contract with the Chinese company. 2. MP allegedly fingered in JB Danquah - Adu muder Alleged killer of JB Danquah , Daniel Asiedu in handcuffs. Daniel Asiedu, the young man who is being held for allegedly killing Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North in the Eastern Region...

A former NDC branch chairman for Amenfi East in the Western region Robert Agyei has committed suicide. ‘Koliko’, as he is popularly known, reportedly shot himself last night at Bawdie. It is unclear why he took the decision. Confirming the incident to StarrFMonline.com Thursday, the Amenfi East district Police Commander Chief Inspector Forster Berko said the deceased appeared troubled months before taking his life. “ He has been troubled for some time now. He had an accident that affected one of his hands some time back, and since then, he remained quite worried and isolated ,” he recounted. He said the Police does not suspect foul play. The body has been deposited at the Prestea Government Hospital morgue. POSTED BY: STATESMAN DANKWAH

Interior Ministry announce the sale of the Prisons Service forms on Facebook. The Interior Ministry in a post on Facebook said all interested applicants must purchase an e-voucher at any GCB bank branch across the country for GHC 100 only. The statement further noted that applicants will fill the forms online and must follow all the necessary instructions. Applicants who meet the initial requirements will be short-listed and invited to centres of their choice for further processes. The notice also opined, applicants are responsible for their own transportation, feeding, accommodation and other expenses throughout the recruitment exercise. “The Ghana Prisons Service is an equal opportunity employer, hence applicants must refuse offers from connection men.  Do not pay money to anyone, ” the notice warned. Posted by: Statesman Dankwah

A former cancer patient is the first man in the US to undergo a penis transplant in a breakthrough surgery that could affect many men with devastating genital injuries. ABC news reported on Monday that the transplant took place at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Surgeons reportedly performed the operation earlier this month during a 15-hour procedure in which the patient, Thomas Manning, of Halifax, had part of his penis removed after a cancer diagnosis. “Today I begin a new chapter of my life with personal hope and hope for others who have suffered genital injuries. In sharing this success with all of you, it’s my hope we can usher in a bright future for this type of transplantation,”Manning was quoted as having said. Doctors are “cautiously optimistic” about his recovery and will leave the hospital in about three to four days, the report said. While the penis transplant took 15 hours, the planning had taken years, the report added.

Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo says he went through a lot of agony upon losing two previous elections in 2008 and 2012 respectively. “It is painful enough to lose an election, I can testify to that; but the pain should not come with a suspicion of having been cheated. The winner should be warmly congratulated and support extended to enable our many problems to be tackled. The winner will then have the peace of mind for the serious business of governance,” Nana Addo said at a conference in Accra. Nana Akufo-Addo made this comments while addressing the 6th Edition of the E-Lection Bridge Africa Conference, organised by The Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Accra.

Parliamentarians will be resuming for work today, May 17 after going for break during the Easter celebration. Their resumption is expected to see 29 bills passed during sittings as deputy director of public affairs at parliament Kate Addo says: “The 2nd Meeting of the 4th Session of the 6th Parliament of the 4th Republic will open on Tuesday, 17th May, 2016. During this meeting, a number of activities are scheduled to take place. There are twenty nine (29) Bills which will be at table for presentation. ” Below is the summary of the agenda for Parliament. Ghana School of Law Bill, 2016 Legal Service Bill, 2016 Road safety Bill, 2016 Tax Administration Bill Electronic Communication(Amendment)Bill Presidential Transition(Amendment ) Bill, 2016 Prison Service Bill, 2016 Tertiary Education Research Fund Bill, 2016 Public Financial Management Bill, 2016 among others. There are nineteen (19) Bills at Committee which are still being worked on. They include; Companies Bi...

In the picture, Akufo-Addo is seen seated and busily playing the cards with an unidentified man. It’s not clear when and where it was taken but it has it elicited condemnation from some social media users. “Hmmm, instead of advising those lazy men to find some work doing, he joined them to play Chacha, all cos of power,” one Peter Agbovi said. “Playing cards with able young men when they were supposed to be working………what a wonderful leader.,” Joseph Ahorsu also said. Akufo-Addo pictured playing cards However, there were also words of support for Akufo-Addo, with some users commending him for, according to them, understanding the plight of ordinary Ghanaians. “That’s a good leader who [has] sympathy for young graduate youth who [don’t] have jobs to consolidate them and also listen what they think towards the 7 November elections,” Joseph Wonemi stated. “This the kind of friendship leaders must have wit...

Esther Ankomah, the mother of a 15-year old girl has revealed how her daughter’s menstruation saved her from being kidnapped for ritual purposes in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western Region. Narrating her daughter’s ordeal, Esther said that her daughter after being kidnapped by unknown assailants was taken to an unknown place and in the process of undressing her for the said rituals, the fetish priest discovered she was menstruating and ordered her unfit for the for the ritual. Esther added that the assailants then  left her daughter who had been kidnapped on last Monday, May 9, at around 1700 hours when she was attending choir meeting back home blind-folded at a nearby school  in the vicinity. ASP Isaac Kumnipa, the District Police Commander, corroborated the story and disclosed that the victim was reported missing but found the next day, May 10. ASP Kumnipa, however, advised Ghanaians to be vigilant, especially when approached by strangers for ass...

OccupyGhana says it is heading back to court to challenge the Attorney-General's refusal to release a document on the ₵3.6m controversial bus branding deal. A leading member of the pressure group, Ace Ankomah says this document contains the A-G’s recommendation that some key officials involved in the deal be prosecuted. After initially declining disclosure, the A-G’s department caved in to pressure from legal actions demanding the release of all documents relating to the branding of 116 public buses. All the documents, except one, have been released. Already, the documents released by the A-G revealed that the decision to hand Smarttys, a contract to brand 116 buses for ₵3.6m was an “extremely corrupt transaction”. Even before the 15 th July 2015 letter from the Transport Ministry inviting Smarttys to submit quotations for branding the buses, the buses had already been branded by the same company. The Transport ministry was only doing the paperw...

A sign of the end time was manifested by a 62-year-old pastor in Ibadan, Pastor Isaiah Ojo, when he allegedly took the seven-year-old daughter of his friend and fellow pastor, Bidemi (not real name), laid her on the altar of his church and had carnal knowledge of her. Though the incident occurred on Monday, May 9, 2016, the little girl had yet to stop bleeding as at Friday, May 13, when Crime Reports stumbled on the story. It was learnt that the randy pastor was arrested on Thursday, May 12 by Egbeda Division of the Oyo State Police Command after initial disappearance, but it was unclear what his motive was in committing the act on a church altar. Information gathered by Crime Reports revealed that Ojo who is the founder and pastor Dayspring Family Chapel, Egbeda area, Ibadan, committed the act when the seven-year-old girl went to the church premises with her younger brother to play, as they were wont to do. The girl’s vagina was reportedly badly torn by forced penetration tha...

Armed robbers on Friday killed an assistant driver to an articulated truck on the Bolgatanga-Navrongo highway. Reports say that the attack happened when the articulated truck which the victims were in got fired by stray bullets while was on its way to Burkina Faso around 3:00 am at midnight. Meanwhile the main driver who sustained severe injuries surrendered over Gh¢5,000 to the armed robbers and is currently receiving treatment at the Upper East regional hospital. Meanwhile the truck has been tolled off the street as the police begin investigations into the robbery.

A group calling itself ‘Volunteers for Nana Addo’, made up of Abossey Okine spare parts dealers in Accra, has donated GH¢200,000 towards  the NPP flagbearer’s campaign. ome spare parts dealers at the Abossey Okine in Accra The group made the donation when Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo visited Abossey Okai to campaign for the NPP to be returned to power, according to a report by citifmonline.com. Addressing hundreds of supporters at the business hub, Akufo-Addo urged them to supporters to vote massively for the party in the November 7 polls, the report said. Earlier in January, a group of head porters, locally referred to as ‘Kayayei’, in the Kumasi Metropolis, donated an amount of Gh¢5,000 to the NPP, at a fund raising event held at the Babayara Sports Stadium.

A tomato seller in her early 30’s has been crushed to death by a heavy metal at a construction site at Makola in Accra. The deceased, whose name was given as Akweley, according to reports, was sitting near the site for the new Makola mall. Some eyewitnesses who spoke to Adom News said, when the rains started early Thursday morning, a heavy mental from the roof top of the new building fell and landed on the innocent woman. The aggrieved women blamed the construction workers who failed to warn them of the danger for the sudden demise of their friend. They indicated that, the owners of the mall have refused to relocate them to a new place having taken their current trading spot. The market women therefore pleaded with the city authorities to ensure construction at the site is done in the evening to prevent such an unfortunate incident from recurring. Meanwhile, the late Akweley was a single mother of three with one being just eight months old.

Three supporters of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region have been confirmed dead in a gory accident upon travelling from Drobonso to Kumawu in the Ashanti Region to meet an EC official over their eligibility to register in the just ended limited voters’ registration exercise when the incident occurred. “The three were challenged during the registration so the parliamentary candidate there gave his car to convey them to the place where EC was going to meet them and on the road the car somersaulted and the three of them died and the driver also sustained severe injuries,”he stated. Meanwhile police in the Ashanti Region have began investigations into the unfortunate incident as the bodies of the deceased get deposited at the morgue.