The late Joseph Ninkab, former District Chief Executive of Nkwanta South, was laid to rest at his residence in the Nkwanta South area of the Oti Region, on Saturday, June 3.
The burial ceremony was attended by notable figures including John Gyapong Kodjo, the Oti Regional NDC chairman, Kofi Adams, the MP for Buem, party members, former MMDCEs, sympathisers from the NPP, and others.
Joseph Ninkab had been appointed as DCE in 2009 during the regime of former President Atta Mills.
Prior to his appointment, he had served as the longest-serving NDC constituency secretary.
His dedication and contributions to the development of the area were widely recognised and unmatched.
During the burial service, several executives present described him as a selfless leader and a dedicated person who had made significant sacrifices for the development of the area.
They emphasised that the impact of his leadership could not be measured, and the people in the area would forever remember him.
Mr Ninkab passed away on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. He was reportedly found dead in his room.
The Nkwanta South Constituency Secretary of the NDC, who confirmed the news to Ghana News Agency (GNA). He stated that the family had revealed that the former DCE had gone to bed the day before but did not wake up.
The Asokore Mampong District Court in the Ashanti Region witnessed heightened tensions on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, as police personnel took the necessary step of locking the courtroom to prevent the entry of late Maadwoa’s family members.
The deceased is suspected to have been shot and killed by her police boyfriend, Inspector Twumasi.
According to GhanaWeb’s Ashanti Regional Correspondence, the police prevented all family members, including Maadwoa’s biological parents, from entering the courtroom immediately after suspect, Inspector Twumasi, arrived.
The decision to lock the courtroom and keep the family members outside according to him was made without any reason given.
It was revealed that the agitated family members had attempted to physically assault the suspect forcing the police officers to take the said action by locking the courtroom.
Their intense emotions compelled security operatives to lock the court as a precautionary measure.
It was also suspected that some family members of the deceased might be armed, prompting the officers to conduct a thorough search at the court premises.
26-year-old Victoria Dapaahalso known as Maadwoa was allegedly killed by her boyfriend, Inspector Ahmed Twumasi on 20th April 2023 at Adum, a few meters away from her house.
During the first court hearing, the suspect confessed to committing the act but insisted that it was not his intention to kill “his lover.”
Meanwhile, the Asokore Mampong District Court, presided over by His Worship Samuel Buabeng Quansah has remanded Inspector Twumasi into prison custody.
The suspect who is currently being transferred from police to prison custody will be in remand and is expected to reappear before the court on 20th June 2023.
His Worship gave the judgement after ACP Kofi Blagodzi, Head of Legal and Prosecution at the Ashanti regional police command had read that the Attorney General’s advice which approved the prosecution of the suspect for murder.
According to the prosecutor, the attorney general’s advice has given the green light for the prosecution of the police officer as a suspected murderer, and others.
He subsequently pleaded with the court that despite the greenlight, prosecution may need a few days to ready its full dockets so that the case can be transferred to the high court.
His Worship Samuel Buabeng Quansah, however, ordered for the suspect to be remanded into prison custody.
Note: This essay includes discussions of self-harm and suicidal ideation.
My daughter, who is now a 28-year-old therapist leading a happy and productive life, almost didn’t make it to adulthood due to mental illness.
Faith was 9 years old the first time she threatened to hurt herself with a knife. It was the spring of 2004 and my husband and I were watching “The Sopranos” when Faith came downstairs after bedtime, grabbed a paring knife from the kitchen counter and stood between the paused TV and us. Tony Soprano was frozen on the screen behind her, a forkful of pasta halfway to his mouth. He looked as dumbfounded as I felt.
“I’m a terrible person,” Faith said as she squeezed the handle of the knife.
My whole body tensed.
Her teacher had called that afternoon to tell me that Faith and her friends played a mean trick on the new girl in their third grade class.
“You’re not a terrible person,” I said. “You did something that wasn’t kind or respectful, and it’s normal to feel bad about that. But you’re not a terrible person.”
She scratched the point of the blade across her palm ― not hard enough to do anything, but still.
“Faithy, why don’t you put down that knife,” my husband said.
“I like it,” she said.
“Give me the knife.” I held out my hand but did not get off the sofa. Faith was small, but strong and unpredictable.
She looked at me with eyes that were both fierce and desperate. She didn’t move. She was just a little girl. She wore tie-dyed pajamas with chicks on them. Her long brown hair was damp from the shower. Her chest rose up and down as she breathed, and I found myself matching her, breath for breath.’
Faith, age 14 in 2009, at a program in Hawaii called Pacific Quest. “Though located in paradise, it was anything but,” the author writes. “Here she is washing her clothes on a washboard.”
Courtesy of Brenda Ferber
“Faithy,” I said, softening my tone. “Do you want to maybe see a therapist?”
Her shoulders relaxed and she nodded. She took three steps toward us, handed me the knife, and fell into our arms.
Over the next eight years ― hampered by questions like “Is this just a phase?” “Are we helicoptering?” and “Can we afford this?” ― we took Faith to social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. She tried medications that didn’t help. She spent five days in an adolescent behavior wing of our local hospital, where she became aware of the problems caused by her aggressive communication. She attended a wilderness therapy program in Hawaii for two months and learned to nurture herself like her seedlings in the nursery there. She went to a therapeutic boarding school in Montana for three weeks. That place was such a disaster, the only thing Faith learned was that if she shouted loudly and clearly enough, we would always come to her rescue.
All along, even while Faith was sending out nude photos of her teenage body, harming herself to dull her emotional pain and fighting the urge to die, she excelled at school, sports and friendships. Her smile lit the room. Her enthusiasm and energy were contagious. She charmed every kid, adult and animal she met.
My husband and I were confused, stressed, often overwhelmed. We knew that the very traits that were making childhood and adolescence so difficult for our daughter — her intensity, sensitivity and passion — would someday make her an extraordinary adult. There’d be no stopping Faith… if we could get her to adulthood alive.
“Use your powers for good,” we told Faith again and again. Faith, age 17 in 2011. “Depression doesn’t always look sad,” the author writes. “Only a few months after this photo was taken, Faith was telling the author she wanted to end her life.”
Faith, age 17 in 2011. “Depression doesn’t always look sad,” the author writes. “Only a few months after this photo was taken, Faith was telling the author she wanted to end her life.”
Courtesy of Brenda Ferber
One day in 2012, when Faith was 17, she squeezed in next to me on the sofa in our living room. I was reading a book, our dog nestled at my feet. My daughter looked more depleted than ever. She’d recently been kicked out of her elite boarding school, considered too promiscuous and emotionally fragile to be part of their community. She was back at our local public school with kids who didn’t understand her and a softball team that didn’t want her. She’d blown the last semester, getting all D’s and a sympathy A from her math teacher.
The reality of her situation had set in, and she was depressed in a way I hadn’t seen before. There was no mania or anger fueling her depression, just a weary hopelessness, a soul-sucking resignation.
“Things will get better,” I said.
“No. Don’t say that. They won’t.”
For years, I’d been telling Faith this, reminding her she was strong and resilient. For years, I’d listened and comforted and sometimes yelled and screamed. All along, I had tried to shape my daughter into the person I thought she could be. The person I wanted her to be. The person I wished she could be. That person was not “mentally ill,” but rather a tough teen who would grow out of her issues with the right help. And yet, here we were. Clearly, my optimism and hope for my child, combined with the stigma and fear of mental illness, had kept me from accepting the truth for far too long.
Faith stroked our pup’s silky fur. She kept her head down and said, “You’re going to be OK, though. When I die. You’ll get over it.”
I took a breath. “Faith. I won’t.”
“Mom. Kids die all the time. If I had cancer and died, you’d get over it. You’d move on.”
“No. You don’t understand. I’d never get over it. And besides, you don’t have cancer. If you had cancer, I’d try every single thing to cure you. Western medicine. Eastern medicine. Everything in between.”
She met my eyes. “But then, if you tried it all and I was still sick, you’d let me die, right?” The author enjoying a snuggle on the sofa with Faith and their pup at home in Deerfield, Illinois. “This photo is from 2012, a few months after Faith’s energy healing,” the author writes.
The author enjoying a snuggle on the sofa with Faith and their pup at home in Deerfield, Illinois. “This photo is from 2012, a few months after Faith’s energy healing,” the author writes.
Courtesy of Brenda Ferber
She was right, I would. But this wasn’t cancer. Or was it? What was the difference, really? This depression was killing her, surely as a malignant tumor.
I thought back to one afternoon when Faith was six weeks old, and I was putting her down for a nap. She was crying uncontrollably, and I was a sleep-deprived new mom. Faith wasn’t wet or hungry, hot or cold. She was simply inconsolable. I stood there, rocking her in my arms, back and forth, back and forth, willing her to stop crying and go to sleep. Please, I prayed, I needed this nap.
She didn’t let up. My movements became bigger and stronger, swinging her really. And then, all of a sudden, I thought about whipping her to the floor. If I threw Faith to the ground, the crying would stop, right?
Right.
I didn’t throw her to the ground. Instead, I held her tighter as I fell into the rocking chair and sobbed. She snuggled into me, and the two of us cried together, connected in our misery.
That traumatic moment still haunted me. I was terrified by the power I had to hurt my child, frightened by how her strong emotions could provoke such desperation in me. But perhaps I was missing the point. I hadn’t hurt Faith when she was an infant. In fact, I’d done exactly what she needed: I cried with her. She had these big emotions that might not have made sense, but I was there with her. I held her until they passed. And I kept holding her.
I looked at my daughter snuggled next to me on the sofa, devoid of expression, beaten down to a shadow of herself. Maybe, all the years of trying to shape Faith into a person who didn’t struggle under the grip of mental illness had been a mistake. Maybe, telling a person that things will get better is not always what they need to hear. Maybe, what I should have been doing was what I’d done when Faith was six weeks old: be there with her in her pain.
Fear had prevented me from doing that ― fear of losing Faith to madness, to suicide. But I finally understood my fear was not stopping that from happening. All it did was keep me from empathizing when my daughter desperately needed it. I had to find courage. I had to validate what Faith was experiencing, even if that meant embracing the possibility of losing her.
So I did.
The author and Faith at a family wedding in 2021.
Courtesy of Brenda Ferber
I said, “OK, I hear you. If we try everything else, and you still feel this bad, you can end your life.”
Faith took a deep breath. With those words, she was no longer alone. I had metaphorically fallen into the rocking chair and cried with her. She knew I would hold her for as long as it took.
I don’t normally tell people about that conversation, because it’s so easily misunderstood. It sounds horrific ― something a mother should never and would never say. I would have done anything to save Faith’s life. I didn’t want her to die by suicide. And yet, those are the words that tumbled out of my mouth.
One of my close friends told me it wasn’t horrific at all ― it was a radical act of love. That’s how I like to think about it. Because what those words conveyed to Faith was that I understood the depth of her pain. That what she was feeling was real. That I was right there, by her side. That we would try everything under the sun to help her.
Suicide is horrifying. We don’t know how to talk about it, so we often shy away from the topic altogether. Or we tell our loved one not to think that way. What does that do, other than invalidate them in their loneliest, most hopeless moment? The truth is, withholding my permission would not have stopped Faith from dying by suicide if that’s what she were determined to do. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, someone dies by suicide every 11 minutes. I have to believe most of those people had loved ones who were urging them to hold on a bit longer, telling them things would get better.
If I could redo that conversation with Faith when she was 17, I’d say: I hear you. You’ve been in pain for years, and you deserve relief. I’m grateful for your courage to let me know what you’re feeling. I’m in awe of your resilience, and I see how exhausted you are, even though you’re so strong. I’d ask her if she had a plan. I’d ask her if she had what she needed to carry out the plan. I’d ask her if she had a time frame for when it would happen. I’d ask every scary question in a calm, nonjudgmental way, and I’d keep on listening and validating and loving.
Courtesy of Brenda Ferber
We like to think we have control over how our kids turn out. But our kids are who they are. We can model our values for them. But the job of parenting isn’t to shape our kids into the happy and competent adults we want them to be. It’s to discover who they are. To love and accept them fully, even if that means accepting their mental illness ― not as a phase, but as another aspect of their life. By discovering, accepting and loving, we give our kids the ability to shape themselves into happy and competent adults.
What happened after this conversation in 2012? My daughter felt heard and understood. She tried Western medicine. Eastern medicine. Everything in between. Energy healing and a new medication did the trick. Something shifted. Faith found a way to go on. She’s 28 now and she manages her mental health every day. She has her master’s degree in social work, and she works as a therapist. Things did get better for Faith ― not because I said they would, but because Faith made it so. And let me be clear, she still has a mental illness. But for now, it’s under control.
As for me, I became a crisis counselor for Crisis Text Line. I give strangers all over the world the empathy and validation they need to get through their darkest moments. My daughter taught me how.
Authorities in Ethiopia have indicated that the head of the Prosperity Party, which is in power in the country’s Amhara region, and members of his security detail have been shot and killed.
According to a statement released by the communications office of the region, Girma Yeshitla was ambushed approximately 250km (155 miles) north of Addis Ababa while he was on his way back from an official trip, the BBC reported.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed called the killing “shameful and horrible” and blamed it on unnamed “violent extremists” who he said chose to settle differences through guns rather than dialogue.
Several weeks following the announcement by the federal government regarding the dissolution of a paramilitary force, which had incited widespread protests and violence in Amhara, the killing occurred.
Mr Girma faced strong criticism from opponents of the force’s dissolution, who saw him as one of the faces behind the move.
The killing of senior politicians is not new in Amhara. In 2019, the regional leader and other top officials were killed in what was described as a failed regional coup attempt.
One person dead and several others injured after unknown man opened fire at the Wa East District of the Upper West Region.
According to reports, the residents effected an arrest of an unknown man, who was armed, in the area. But suddenly other armed men emerged from the bushes and opened fire on the gathered residents.
The incident is said to have occurred on Sunday, April 2.
The victims were all taken to the Wa Regional Hospital, where the survivors are responding to treatment.
Member of Parliament for Wa East Constituency Godfred Seidu Jasaw confirmed the incident but said information is “sketchy”.
Speaking on Midday News on 3FM on Wednesday, April 5, Mr Seidu Jasaw said relative calm has returned to the area, according to the Assembly member he talked to.
He said the matter has been reported to the Upper West Regional Police Command, which is now handling the case.
A manhunt to arrest the gunmen has been launched.
“The police in Wa municipality were alerted and they got on to the scene but the activities had taken place and the assailants had left.
“At the moment, my information is that the case has been reported to the regional police CID.”
There are suspicions that the case may be as a result of simmering chieftaincy and land disputes.
The MP also said some residents suspect the assailants may be galamseyers who are trying to assert their control of the area.
A private attorney, Albert Gyamfi, has stated that taking money from a deceased person’s bank account to pay for their funeral is illegal and punishable by law.
According to the lawyer, although this is a common practice in the Ghanaian sociocultural context, the act, by law, is characterised as intermeddling with the property of the deceased, an act that is punishable by law.
Mr Gyamfi further explained to the host of The Law, Samson Lardy Anyenini that the bank account of a deceased by law is immediately closed off when the person is declared dead.
Thus, no relative can access the bank account of the deceased until a letter of administration (LA) or probate has been granted to them to have access to the bank account, he said.
“Let me sound this warning, the general practice has been that when a person dies, people would want to go into his bank account for money for the organization of the funeral. That is intermeddling. Wherever the family will find a room to organize the funeral, they should do so. And when probate has been granted, then if there’s any property to liquidate that debt, they use his property to do so.”
“But you cannot go into his bank account, withdraw money for purpose of a funeral. As soon as the person dies, doctors declare him dead, his bank account is closed until probate has been granted,” Mr Gyamfi cautioned while contributing to a discussion on The Law on Sunday. Withdrawing money from a deceased’s account to organise funeral is a criminal offence – Lawyer
Subsequently, he shared that in a situation where an individual gathers the properties of a deceased person to safe keep the assets but does not deprive the entitled persons of the use of the property, such an act was not categorised as intermeddling with the properties of the dead person.
“If you look at section 17, the law principally says, unlawfully deprive the entitled persons of the use. So, the law has a mens rea of you unlawfully depriving persons of the use. So, if I am only gathering them for safekeeping, I am not depriving people of the use,” Mr Gyamfi emphasised.
Hence, referencing a scenario whereby the deceased person was the owner of a vehicle that was being used as a commercial vehicle, the lawyer advised that a driver in such a case keeps the sales received safe until legitimate administrators are appointed to whom the driver can give an account of the money received.
However, he warned that the inability of the said driver to account for the money is categorised as intermeddling.
So, the lawyer stated that, “If you are unable to account and some monies are gone somewhere, then you can be said to have been depriving the beneficiaries of the use, and you will be guilty of intermeddling.
“So gathering properties in good faith for purposes of administration in mind does not amount to intermeddling,” Mr Gyamfi reiterated.
At his home in Maamekrobo, in the Kwahu Afram Plains South District of the Eastern Region, 54-year-old farmer Kwasi Ahoku is said to have been shot dead by police.
The incident occurred on Friday, February 3, 2023, around 6:30am.
It is alleged that the police are the cause of the death after firing several shots into the house of the deceased in an attempt to force him out for interrogation after a Fulani herdsman claimed that his cattle has been gunned down by a farmer suspected to be the deceased.
A resident who is the former Chairman of the Afram Plains Farmers Association, Mathew Afrani in an interview on Agoo FM Morning revealed that about fifteen bullets were fired at the deceased residence, leaving several gunshot marks on the wall of the house.
“After the gunshots, the police forced and broke into the room of the suspect and found him dead with gunshot wounds on his body in a pool of blood,” he said.
Speaking on the matter, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Kwahu Afram Plains South District Assembly, Evans Kyei Ntiri expressed his displeasure with the devastating incident which has occurred in his district.
He explained that he had a call from the District Police Commander who informed him of the incident.
He said, according to the Police, the deceased (Kwasi Ahoku) tried to face off with the policemen when the police got to his residence.
“He challenged the police that he is also in possession of a gun which escalated the tension and resulted in many warning shots released in the skies. As the police broke into the room, they saw the man dead lying beside his gun. We are still investigating the matter to know the actual root of the incident,” Mr Ntiri said.
Police say the matter is under investigation and will be receiving persons who are willing to help out with information on the said incident.
The police in the Ashanti Region on Thursday, October 13 arrested two armed robbers after a specialised intelligence operation.
One other robber attempted to fire at the police but he was overpowered by returned fire, leaving him dead upon arrival at the hospital.
According to a statement issued by the Director of Public Affairs at the Ghana Police Service, Grace Ansah-Akrofi, the deceased, whose name was given as Issaka Muniru, was wanted after jumping bail at the court.
He had led a gang to rob a pastor of his two gold watches and mobile phones on May 26, 2021.
“The deceased was granted bail by the court but he jumped the bail and a bench warrant was therefore issued for his arrest,” the police statement said.
“His accomplices are still attending trial at the court.”
In another robbery instance, he was arrested among four “but he managed to escape”.
The three suspects have since been remanded into prison custody.
The police commended the Ashanti Regional Police Command, especially personnel of the Regional Intelligence and Operations teams, for leading the operation.
“We would like to assure the public that we will continue to carry out our constitutional mandate of protecting life and property and maintaining law and order even at the peril of our lives.”
Former Big Brother Naija season 3 housemate, Patrick Fakoya, popularly Known as Rico Swavey, has been confirmed dead.
Colleagues who were housemates with him confirmed his death on various social media platforms on Thursday.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that the former BBN star was involved in an auto crash leading to his going into coma before his eventual death on Thursday morning.
Reacting, Tobi Bakare on his Instagram handle posted a picture adding a caption, “This is how I will remember us brother. Forever ” RIP”
While Alexandra Amuchechukwu Asogwa popularly known as Alex Unusual also took to her Twitter handle to express her grief. She wrote, “This was not what we agreed Rico, Rest in peace.”
The PUNCH had on Wednesday reported that Nigerian entertainers launched a fundraiser for the deceased housemate of Big Brother Naija season 3 after he was involved in a car crash.
Bakre made the announcement on his Twitter page on Wednesday, as he asked the public for donations. Bakre noted that the accident victim had been placed on life support.
“Please help save Rico. He had a really bad car accident. We have to keep him on life support and continue to pay the rising medical bills while we pray for God’s miracle.
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“(We) can’t do it alone. Please click on the link to donate at ricoswavey.com,” Bakre tweeted.
Reality TV star, Alex Asogwa aka Alex Unusual, who had shared the news about the accident on her Twitter page on Tuesday, also called for donations.
She wrote on her Instagram page on Wednesday, “I wish I didn’t have to post this but my friend is in a critical condition and we are in need of your financial assistance and prayers.
“I also wish I could give more information on his health but how can I when we are still waiting for the doctors and God to save this dear life or at least get a sign or response from Rico?
“Whatever you can do to support will be highly appreciated as he is on life support and fighting for his life. Please, @ricoswavey_official needs our help #ricoswavey #prayforricoswavey”
On Wednesday, Rico Swavey’s management announced that he was on life support in the hospital.
His management posted a video of the crashed car and asked for prayers and support from his fans, via his Twitter handle.
A former bodyguard of Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has recalled the days when he would accompany his boss to the beach in the dead of the night.
During those outings, Christian Blukoo said the former president would engage in some spiritual acts.
Always preoccupied with how to keep the president safe, the former bodyguard explained that he and other reliable guards at the Christiansborg Castle (Osu Castle) – the seat of government at the time- would be dutied to follow him.
“After I was successful, I was sent to Castle and then they confirmed me as a bodyguard to Nkrumah, and then they put me in protection because Nkrumah at times went out at night. When he was going, those who were smart at the Castle had to follow him because bodyguards will not be in the house at night,” he said.
Christian Blukoo explained further in an interview with JoyNews that although he could never speak about these things in the past due to the oath of secrecy, he feels safer now to talk about them. He described how on some of those days, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah would spend time on the beach behind the Independence Square, praying and engaging in other spiritual activities.
“They used it call it secrecy but now, I’m free to speak. At times, he used to go to the seaside at the Black Star Square to consult the spiritual (sic) and like we do here by praying, he also used to do that: he’ll go to the seaside and pray. There were certain other things that he would do,” he narrated.
The former bodyguard of the president also shared some deep details of some of the security operations he and others undertook for Kwame Nkrumah.
The corpse of Municipal Chief Executive for Krachi East in the Oti Region, Francis Kofi Okesu, has been found in a hotel room inside Kumasi.
Police found his lifeless body in a supine position in bed naked with his left arm hanging beside the bed on Sunday.
A careful examination of the body by health professionalsfound no marks of violence, but traces of spermatozoa on his thigh.
There were little drops of spermatozoa from the penis suggesting possible engagement in sexual act shortly before his death.
Luv News checks reveal the MCE had checked into the hotel room at the late hours of Friday, September 2 with his driver who later left to lodge in a different hotel.
The deceased was however not seen the day after checking into the hotel and efforts to reach him proved futile.
Investigations established that driver of the deceased, Sylvester Attah could also not reach him on the scheduled day of return to Dambai which was on September 4.
An official complaint was lodged with the police by the Manager of the said hotel in Kumasi. Subsequently, the police had to break into the room only to find the body of Mr Okesu.
The Regional Crime Scene team of the police proceeded to the crime scene for investigations to commence.
Police sources say they have conducted a search of the room but have found nothing incriminating so far.
Meanwhile the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah and Municipal Chief Executive of Oforikrom, Abraham Antwi and other security operatives have been to the scene.
The body has been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
The queen mother of Akyem Chia Nana Ntiamoah Boadiwaa Chia III says the traditional authority suspects foul play in the death of their Kontihene, who was found dead in a guest house in Koforidua.
Contrary to media reports that the traditional leader, Eric Osei Ansere, had taken a lady to the guest house to have sex with her, the queen-mother refuted that.
According to her, the scene did not depict any act of sex as reported by some media houses.
She told Kwabena Agyapong on Frontline on Rainbow Radio 87.5. Fm that the traditional authorities suspect he was murdered.
The traditional leader was found dead in a guest house in the Eastern Region.
The deceased is said to have arrived at the guest house with a young lady on Saturday, December 19, 2020.
His lifeless body was however found in one of the rooms the next day at about 12pm, while the lady, believed to be about 25 years, was nowhere to be found.
According to the Effiduase District police, the owner of the guest house, Mr William made the report to the police on Sunday after a cleaner found the man lying lifeless in the room.
Reacting to the report, the story does not add u and believes the police would investigate the matter to its logical conclusion.
She also disclosed the late chief who was sick went to Koforidua to seek medical treatment.
She said the chief had some medical condition which he was treated for but had been better.
The managing editor of the New Punch newspaper, Ebenezer Ato Sam, popularly known as Baby Ansaba is reported dead.
According to Daily Guide reports, he died around 11am today at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after battling a short illness.
He died at age 57 and hails from Ajumako Beseadze in the Central Region.
Baby Ansaba was based at Kasoa in the Central Region at the time of his death.
The astute journalist trained at the Ghana Institute of Journalism and graduated in the year 1991.
Meanwhile, Ato Sam begun his career with the Daily Graphic, Free Press, Daily Guide and until his death was the Managing Editor of the New Punch newspaper.
A journalist with Adabraka-based Citi FM/TV, Pius Amihere Eduku, has been reported dead.
The business reporter cum news anchor is reported to have been battling an undisclosed sickness until he passed.
On Monday morning, social media was flooded with news of his death with many of his colleagues, friends, and fans talking about their shock when they heard of his passing.
Others have been paying tribute to the fallen soldier.
We are disheartened by the death of one of our former editors, Pius Amihere Eduku @piusblay, a young hardworking man who worked his hearts out and challenged his colleagues to do the same. Our condolences to his family 💔 #UniversMournsPiuspic.twitter.com/JhyANjNQId
Devasted at the passing of Pius Amihere Eduku of Citi. This is terrible news. Pius was brilliant, dedicated to his work and highly cherished. My commiserations with his family, friends and all colleagues at @Citi973 @CitiTVGH
The family of the late Penciled Celebrities artist, Ray Styles will on Friday, October 9, observe his one week memorial.
In a flier circulating on social media, the event will come off at the Transitions Funeral House at Haatso in Accra.
It will take place between 3:00pm and 8:00pm.
Mr Styles died on Thursday, October 1, 2020, after months of battle with liver cancer.Â
Pictures of the talented artist looking sick and helpless had hit social media in August 2020, drawing attention to his urgent need for surgery.
According to sources, Emmanuel Apraku was in need of £40,000 to cater for both his surgery and treatment.
Through the collaborative effort of social media users and celebrities, his family was able to raise funds beyond the targeted £40,000 needed for the surgery.
But he allegedly died after being transferred to India for treatment three weeks ago.
Biography of Emmanuel Apraku
Born in 1989, the 31-year old was the youngest of four siblings. He was raised solely by his mother, after the death of his father, Mr. Paul Apraku when he was eight years old.
Spending his primary years at Accra New Town Experimental School, he attended Accra Academy between 2003 to 2006 where he earned the nickname Ray Styles.
He then proceeded to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Art, and graduated with a bachelor of art degree in communication design.
Being the son of a great craftsman, Ray attributes his natural flair to his late father who in his time created a lot of artworks for exhibition.
This influenced him to start drawing at a very young age and eventually landing commissions.
But it was not until his days as a Communications Student at KNUST that he realised his true potential as an artist and subsequently defined his own unique style in the form of caricature, pencil art, traditional drawing, and graphic design.
He has also worked with great celebrities such as Josh Ostrovsky (know as thefatjewish), Michael Blackson, Chris Bosh, Tolu Lope (known as dontjealousme), DeStorm Power (known as destorm), KingBach, Mrcocoyam, D Black, Edem, and Malin Björk just to mention a few.
He is also an avid keyboardist and footballer and loves to listen to good music.
Among other things, Ray Styles was known for actively supporting numerous social awareness campaigns through his art.
A Chinese has allegedly committed suicide Friday dawn at the Casino Galaxy, located behind the Shell Filling station at the Osu Oxford Street in Accra, owned by another Chinese.
The Ghana News Agency (GNA) gathered that the Chinese spent all his money on game at the casino without winning.
The GNA was told the deceased allegedly borrowed money from management of the Casino to play again in an attempt to redeem money lost but lost again.
An eyewitness said management of the Casino, therefore, allegedly locked him up in a room due to his inability to pay the borrowed money.
The GNA was told the Chinese allegedly later hanged himself in the room.
Police in Osu confirmed the incident but refused to give details, saying, investigations were ongoing.
A staff at the Casino Galaxy in an interview with the GNA also confirmed the case but failed to give details.
Ghanaian artiste, Emmanuel Apraku popularly known as Ray Styles is reportedly dead.
This was announced by television and radio personality, Giovanni Caleb today on his Twitter page.
The death of the artist follows months of battle with liver cancer.
Pictures of the talented artist looking sick and helpless had hit social media in August 2020, drawing attention to his urgent need for surgery.
According to sources, Emmanuel Apraku was in need of £40,000 to undergo urgent surgery.
While a gofundme account was set up on Wednesday, August 19 to raise $55,000 to support Emmanuel, a tweet via his handle said the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo had donated $20,000 to help cover the cost of the amount needed.Â
Chairman of Kampac Oil PLC, Charles Ampofo has reportedly passed away in Manila in the Philippines.
A close source to the family disclosed that the 60-year-old businessman died after a battle with illness for four years.
Before taking ill, Charles Ampofo was said to have been working towards building one of the largest energy cities in the world, which was to be located in Manila, Philippines.
He served as Chairman of Kampac Group whose flagship company is Kampac Oil PLC based in Dubai, UAE.
He was also in charge of Goodman AMC, a management consulting firm in Ghana.
Ampofo was adjudged to be one of Ghana’s wealthiest men with an estimated net worth of about US$1.46 billion in mid-2015.
One person has been shot dead after residents of Choggu Manayili in the Northern Regional capital, Tamale attacked police officers on Wednesday, August 5,2020.
The police had been called by the chief of the area to rescue a suspected thief who was about to be lynched by the residents.
The mob turned on the police and attempted to stop them from rescuing the suspect.
The Northern Regional Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent Otuo Acheampong who narrated the incident to MyNewsGh.com, said the residents had tied the suspect with robes and were about the kill him, after they caught him with a cattle that he allegedly stole from the community.
According to him, the mob was angry that the police had come to rescue the alleged thief.
“They had succeeded in rescuing the suspected thief into the police van. And then the irate mob which had wanted to lynch him before the arrival of the police started to even to snatch the suspect from the police, and people started…even they fired and missiles were thrown at the police, and even one of the officers was hit in the handâ€.
Superintendent Acheampong said, the victim was believed to have been hit by a stray bullet after the police fired warning shots in response to the attack by the mob.
“He was hit in the stomach and rushed to the Tamale Teaching hospital and later pronounced dead,” the Crime Officer continued.
The police officers were able to rescue the suspect and there has not been any further arrest.
A routine cleaning of a storage well within MV Africa Star, a fishing vessel belonging to the Africa Star Fisheries Limited, has allegedly led to the death of a 27-year-old man, Elvis Otoo, at the Tema Fishing Harbour.
The deceased, an employee of Jamens Limited, a vessel cleaning company, died when a supposed damaged pipe containing ammonia, a refrigerant for the tuna vessel, exploded and trapped him and a colleague, Enoch Teye, 32, in the process.
Otoo was said to have had high exposure to the substance which he inhaled. He also had cuts on the body.
According to an eyewitness, attempts by his colleagues to rescue him were unsuccessful.
Teye, who managed to escape, sustained injuries and was rushed to the Narh-Bita Hospital in Tema where he is said to be receiving treatment while the body of the deceased has been deposited at the International Hospital Mortuary awaiting autopsy.
Incident
The Head of the Marine Police Unit at the Tema Port, Supt Joseph Antwi-Ababio, told the Daily Graphic yesterday that the incident occurred on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at about 12:30 p.m.
The vessel, he said, had returned from a voyage on Sunday, July 26, 2020 and began the processes to offload the tuna from the hatches (holding compartments) the following day.
He said Otoo and Teye were tasked to commence the cleaning works in the hatch which had all of its tuna contents emptied, while other workers of African Star offloaded the rest of the tuna from other hatches of the vessel.
Supt. Antwi-Ababio explained that the cleaning of the vessel was to enable it to go on another voyage when the entire contents were fully emptied.
He said during the cleaning the gas leaked into the environment, creating an uncomfortable working environment within the fishing harbour.
“According to an eyewitness account, Otoo could not escape the scene as the substance, apart from causing eye sensation, also came with a pungent smellâ€, Supt Antwi-Ababio stated.
Evidence Tampering
While some workers of the company had alleged that the Chinese owners of the vessel attempted to tamper with evidence of the damaged pipes, the Commander said a technical team from the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA) who visited the scene of the incident had tasked the owners to check whether there were any further leakages of the ammonia into other areas of the vessel.
“A proposal was also made for them to attempt to evacuate the ammonia from the other areas to its original holding base to prevent further leakage into the fishing harbour environment,†he said.
Supt Antwi-Ababio stated that the police had no evidence to the claims by the eyewitnesses since it was only the GMA officials who had the technical expertise to determine whether the vessel owners attempted to carry out any repair works on the damaged pipes.
The Deputy Director in charge of Ship Inspections and Maritime Security at the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA), Captain Emmanuel Kofi Ankamah, who also confirmed the incident, said investigations were ongoing and that the Authority could only comment when they were able to establish the cause of the accident.
Malik Abdul Basit, a rapper, singer and founding member of The Roots, has died, according to a statement posted on the group’s verified Twitter account. He was 47.
“We regretfully inform you of the passing of our beloved brother and long time Roots member Malik Abdul Basit,” the statement read. “May he be remembered for his devotion to Islam and innovation as one of the most gifted MCs of all time. We ask that you please respect his family in our time of mourning.”
A publicist for the group confirmed the news.
No cause of death was released.
Basit, who performed under the name Malik B., was part of the Philadelphia-based group from its early beginnings to about 1999, when he departed amid group tensions detailed in the song “Water” from The Roots album “Phrenology.” Written by Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, the track speaks to Basit’s struggles with addiction.
Basit went on to produce solo material and, several years after his departure, also appeared on several tracks on Roots albums.
In the quiet darkness of an early morning last November, Clive Mensah stepped outside his Toronto-area home for the last time.
Before long, police cruisers descended on the area. Officers rushed into Mensah’s backyard, taking him down with a stun gun.
About an hour later, the 30-year-old was dead.
What happened between the moment Mensah left his home and the moment he died is unclear.
For the last eight months, Stephen Boakye has been privately reliving the nightmare of his nephew’s final moments.
He and his family have watched with a knowing horror as the stories of Black and Indigenous people and people of colour killed in encounters with police in Canada and the U.S. have made headlines.
“What happened in America, George Floyd… Look at that, it’s the same thing. It’s like Clive’s memory came back and I was experiencing it,” Boakye said.
All the while, his nephew’s story has remained untold — until now.
Mensah’s uncles Stephen Boakye, left, and William Owusu, right, were the only family members he had in Canada. (Jonathan Castell/CBC)
On a recent sunny afternoon, just steps away from what was Mensah’s home, Boakye broke his silence, along with another of Mensah’s uncles, William Owusu — the only family members Mensah had in Canada.
Since Mensah’s death on Nov. 20, 2019, his uncles say they’ve heard almost nothing from investigators, and are desperate for answers about why their nephew, a young, unarmed Black man with a history of mental illness, was fatally Tasered in his own backyard — and why no one, to date, has been held accountable.
Desperate for answers
Born in Scarborough in 1989, Mensah spent much of his childhood in Ghana. Described by his family as a gentle giant, he took his Christianity seriously and loved basketball as well as music.
At 18, he returned to Canada with his mother. Soon after, she moved back to the West African country. Mensah ended up living alone, but by all accounts he was faring well.
Tragedy would soon follow. In 2015, Mensah’s father died in Ghana. The following year, his mother died, too.
“That had an effect on him,” said Owusu.
It was around that time that Mensah’s family believes his life began to unravel. In September 2015, he was charged in a robbery and pleaded guilty to theft and assault.
Mensah’s parents, pictured here, died in fairly quick succession in 2015 and 2016. His family believes it is around this time that his life took a turn for the worse. (Jonathan Castell/CBC)
A medical report from the same year indicates Mensah’s mental state began deteriorating in mid-2014. He was taken to the hospital several times under the Mental Health Act, often unable to remember his own name and was “frequently observed speaking loudly to himself.”
The psychiatrist’s conclusion: Mensah was suffering from an “unspecified psychotic disorder,” possibly schizophrenia.
But on the surface, there were few signs of trouble. Mensah had found work, through part-time jobs at grocery stores. Most recently, he was driving a forklift at a warehouse.
“We knew nothing about his being ill mentally until I think he was taken to hospital for diagnosis, and then we found out. But when he was taking his medication, he was doing marvellously well,” Owusu said.
Police called for noise complaint
Whether Mensah was suffering a mental health episode on the night of his death is unclear.
Here’s what is known: Peel Regional Police were called to Runningbrook Drive in Mississauga around 3:15 a.m. on Nov. 20 for reports of a “suspicious male causing a disturbance.”
One resident told CBC News at the time that shortly before police arrived, there was a commotion and yelling coming from a nearby parkette.
About an hour later, another resident called police after seeing “a fellow running up and down the street, screaming and hollering.”
“I thought he was going to break in,” resident Jim Tingley told CBC News at the time.
Mensah’s family believes he was jogging the night of his death, singing to himself as he loved to do. But whether it was Mensah who Tingley saw is unclear.
Ontario’s police watchdog said officers found a man in a backyard in the area and “a struggle ensued.”
“Several use-of-force options were used, including the deployment of a conducted energy weapon,” said Special Investigations Unit spokesperson Monica Hudon.
Mensah was taken to hospital by paramedics, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 4 a.m.
Tasered 6 times, paramedics delayed
Boakye was asleep at his home in Etobicoke when he was awoken by a phone call from the hospital, telling him to come quickly.
When he arrived, he says, a nurse and doctor took him to a room where Mensah was attached to tubes.
“It was then that they told me he’s dead,” Boakye said.
Hospital records from that night indicate Mensah was “Tased approximately six times” and was found by paramedics lying on the ground, handcuffed.
The report also notes a “delay” in reaching Mensah, adding “police cruisers blocked roadway to scene,” with paramedics having to park some 15 to 18 metres away.
As Mensah lay dead on the stretcher in front of him, Boakye recalls a nurse telling him, “Your nephew was a big guy.”
“In my mind I was asking myself, ‘Is it because he’s a big guy you have to Tase him just like that?’” Boakye said.
Since that night, just one of the three officers involved in Mensah’s death has spoken with investigators, the SIU has told CBC News. The other two have so far refused.
Under Ontario’s Police Services Act, “subject officers cannot be legally compelled to present themselves for an interview with the SIU and they do not have to submit their notes,” said Hudon.
Growing anger over racism in policing
For now, the investigation into Mensah’s death continues, with the SIU awaiting his post-mortem and toxicology reports.
Meanwhile, questions plague his family.
“Had it been that he was a white boy, singing on the road, jogging, would they kill him? Would they Tase him?” asked Owusu, who believes racism directly contributed to his nephew’s death.
Owusu has joined a growing chorus of voices demanding answers for what they say is a disturbing pattern of deaths at the hands of Peel Regional Police involving people of colour.
Asked about the possibility that racism played a role in Mensah’s death or about racism in the force more generally, Peel Police spokesperson Heather Cannon said in a statement the investigation is ongoing, and once complete will undergo an “administrative review.”
“We expect every one of our officers to conduct themselves in a professional and ethical manner at all times,” she said, adding members of the public with complaints about police interactions can submit them to the Office of the Independent Police Review Director.
If no charges are laid against any of the officers involved, Toronto lawyer Emily Lam intends to call on the coroner to consider systemic racism as a factor in Mensah’s death, a move she believes is “very rare.”
“Our client would like to understand the factors that resulted in their nephew Mr. Mensah’s death,” said Lam, who is representing the family.
“I think it’s also important for the public to understand the shortcomings of a system and the factors that may have contributed to the deaths of other civilians… And to hopefully prevent these tragedies from happening again.”
Calls for coroner to consider racism in death
In a statement to CBC News, the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario said a coroner “can only determine the cause and manner of death from a medical standpoint.”
If, however, through interviews the coroner believes racism played a role in a death, that information would be provided to police. Racism has previously been included in the scope of coroners’ inquests, which can produce non-binding recommendations meant to prevent further deaths.
But the coroner’s office conceded “it is impossible to say when, how often, how long” coroners have been reporting on race or racism.
Toronto lawyer Asha James believes that in the current context, an inquest probing prejudice in policing would be particularly valuable, especially given how often police have to deal with people experiencing a mental-health crisis.
“Systemic racism in policing in our society, and how that affects officers’ perceptions and beliefs about individuals that they’re interacting with, is definitely important in understanding things such as the ability to de-escalate situations,” James said. “Hopefully it’s something that we can lead police services to try to start to change.”
Standing in front of the home where his nephew took his last breath, Boakye’s mind travels back to the moment he came to collect Mensah’s belongings.
“I feel very sad that he left us,” he said. “I hope we receive justice for what has happened to my nephew.”
“They have no right whatsoever to take his life,” added Owusu. “You are there to serve  and protect. Not to serve and to kill.”
It is very sad to hear how final year students who have been asked by the government to return to school for their final year examination are passing away without mercy.
Today, two students from the Anloga Senior High School popularly known as ANSECO have died and what actually factored the death of the students is yet to be revealed.
The said students are of the opposite sex each, a boy and a girl. Reports have it that, the girl when writing examination today, collapse and had to be moved to the hospital immediately for attention but upon reaching the hospital, she gave up on life.
The story of the boy on the other hand indicates that he was sick and took permission to go home. He then requested that a friend of his take him to a relative in the Anloga township. They got there and no one was present at the moment which means he had to wait. His friend left him there and before his relative returned to the house, the boy lost his life.
The two have their names withheld at the moment and investigations are being carried out to know if the course of their demise is a covid-19 related.
A judge of the Court of Appeal, Justice Paul K. Gyaesayor has died.
According to Joy News sources, he passed on Tuesday morning after complaining of not being well.
Sources at the Judicial Service say the experienced judge reported for work on Tuesday, but went back home after complaining that he was unwell.
Justice Paul K. Gyaesayor died shortly after he got home.
The late Justice was affirmed as Court of Appeal Judges in March 2008 together with eight others by former president John Agyekum Kufuor.
Other judges he was sworn in alongside were Justice Francis G. Korbieh, Justice Emmanuel Kwami Ayebi, Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenugah and Justice Kwasi Nkrumah Aduma Osei.
Others were Justice Irismay Brown, Justice Wisdom Herbert K Addoh, Justice Victor D. Ofoe and Justice Kobena Adoe Acquaye
Ghpage News a few moments ago reported about the tragic death of Ghanaian rapper identified as Jay Gunz in the United States.
The rapper was gunned at his home in Bronx, New York on Sunday 5th July 2020.
According to the report in the USA media, Jay Gunz and one other person died in some sort of gun battle. And another suffered severe injuries and still hospitalized.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) who responded to the call rushed the victims to the St Barnabas Hospital where the two passed away.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) breaking the news wrote;
“On Sunday, July 5th, Police Officers from the 44 Precinct responded to a 911 call for a male shot at 306 East 171 street. Upon arrival they discovered three males with gunshot wounds. Two of the victims, later died from their injuries, while one remains hospitalizedâ€.
Well, Ghpage has caught sight of the CCTV footage of how the incident happened that led to the death of the Ghanaian rapper.
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On Sunday, July 5th, Police Officers from the 44 Precinct responded to a 911 call for a male shot at 306 East 171 street. Upon arrival they discovered three males with gunshot wounds. Two of the victims, later died from their injuries, while one remains hospitalized. pic.twitter.com/EyKg6eduYj
— Chief Rodney Harrison (@NYPDDetectives) July 6, 2020
News reaching Ghpage has confirmed the sad death of Ghanaian rapper in the United States of Ghana.
Jay Gunz as the dead Ghanaian rapper is called was gunned at his home in Bronx, New York on Sunday 5th July 2020.
According to the report in the USA media, Jay Gunz and one other person died in some sort of gun battle. And another suffered severe injuries and still hospitalized.
The New York Police Department who responded to the call rushed the victims to the St Barnabas Hospital where the two passed away.
Announcing, the NYPD said:
ON SUNDAY, JULY 5TH, POLICE OFFICERS FROM THE 44 PRECINCT RESPONDED TO A 911 CALL FOR A MALE SHOT AT 306 EAST 171 STREET. UPON ARRIVAL, THEY DISCOVERED THREE MALES WITH GUNSHOT WOUNDS. TWO OF THE VICTIMS, LATER DIED FROM THEIR INJURIES, WHILE ONE REMAIN HOSPITALIZED.
One of the victims was Jay Gunz, the young rapper from Ghana. May his soul Rest In Peace
An electrician’s apprentice was electrocuted to death on a high voltage pole in Sakumono, Tema West last Saturday.
The 22-year-old man was later identified as Kofi Owusu by some onlookers who thronged the Chapel Square area of the community.
He wore blue overalls with no hand gloves on and his corpse dangled for over four hours with a few of his tools lying beneath the pole.
The onlookers, mostly from Sakumono Village where the deceased lived with his family, wailed uncontrollably as they waited for the Police.
His body was later brought down with the help of police personnel and officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) after they cut power to the area.
Some residents who were spotted earlier said he had been invited to fix an electrical fault a few hours after the rains subsided Saturday afternoon.
It is, however, unclear he was a certified electrician and authorized by the ECG to climb such electrical poles.
Corroborating the incident, Chief Inspector Collins Antwi Kweku Amankwah, Station Officer, Sakumono Police Station, said the deceased was an electrician apprentice who inadvertently slipped whiles working on a faulty line and in the process held onto a live wire leading to his death.
The body of the deceased, he added, had been deposited at the Police Hospital morgue.
Ghanaian actress, Beatrice Naa Abia Chinery-Crabbe, well known as Miliky MiCool, will be laid to rest on Saturday, July 11, 2020.
Zionfeliex.net has gathered that the burial and memorial service of the late veteran actress will be held at the Chinery family house located at North Kaneshie near Big traffic light in Accra.
The thanksgiving service will take place on Sunday, July 12, 2020.
Sympathizers are expected to wear black clothes as they join the family to mourn their beloved daughter.
As we reported earlier, Miliky MiCool passed on some few weeks ago after certain health complications.
She died at the age of 54 years and left behind two children.
Miliky Micool started her acting career in 1993—and has acted in many movies and TV series which include YOLO.
Check below the arrangements made towards her final funeral rites.
Sheriph Mohammed who was once the Sports Head of West End Radio in Ellembelle District of the Western Region is reported dead.
Confirming the sad news to this journalist, Daniel Kaku, the current head of sports of West End Radio, Samuel Enyan Riquelme said, “yes it is true Sheriph Mohammed has passed on.”
Late Sheriph Mohammed who was named the Sports Magician met his untimely demise on Esiama-Azulenuanu-Elubo highway where he was knocked down by a car around 3am.
He was then rushed to Eikwe Saint Martin de Pores Hospital in the district for treatment but was pronounced dead Sunday, June 28, 2020.
Late Sheriph Mohammed started his sports Journalism as a Commentator and sports presenter with Ankobra FM in Axim in 2007, he later moved to Pure FM at Tarkwa-Nsuaem in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality.
From Pure FM, he moved to West End Radio in 2013 and later somewhere in 2018 left West End Radio to join a Mining Company called BCM until his departure.
The sad news has shocked his colleague sports Journalists and other people in the Western Region.
The driver of the car is in the hands of the police assisting them with an investigation.
A 58-year-old man, Kudjo Dadudzi has been murdered at Djankwakye No 1, a suburb of Adukrom in the Eastern Region over land litigation.
Martey Joshua, son of the deceased accompanied by Stephen Narh who reported the incident to the Somaya District police, explained that he had a call from his younger brother that, their father had been killed on his farm.
He said he rushed to the scene and saw his father lying on his farm at Akorley Foah in a pool of blood with cutlass wounds all over his body.
According to the police, the complainant said his 13-year-old younger brother, Desmond and one Mamuli said they were in the farm with the deceased when one Nartey who was litigating with the deceased over a piece of land came with two others, attacked and hit the deceased, who fell to the ground.
They continued hitting the deceased on the ground with sticks and later use cutlass to inflict wounds on him.
The eye witnesses informed the complainant that when Nartey and his accomplices saw the two boys, they chased them with a cutlass but they managed to escape.
According to the police on receiving the complaint, the police proceeded to the scene and picked the body to the Atua Government Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
According to the Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Command of the Police Service, the body of the deceased had been deposited at the Atua Government Hospital morgue for preservation and autopsy.
The police said efforts were being made to arrest the suspects to assist in investigations into the case.
A 4-year-old boy who had been missing for about one week was found dead inside a parked vehicle in front of the Atafoa Palace in the Suame Municipality in the Ashanti region.
After an extensive search for him, the deceased, Agyemang, was found unconscious and rotten in a car parked in front of the Atafoa Palace yesterday between the hours of 2pm
The Assembly Member for the Atafoa Electoral Area, Akwasi Acheampong disclosed this to Kingdom News today.
He said, according to the family, Agyemang left the house to buy Indomie about a week ago which he never return back home until his lifeless body was found.
According to the Assembly Member of the area, two suspects were arrested by the Suame Police Command earlier but have been discharged.
He further disclosed that, the Suame Police Command has commenced investigations into the death of the four-year-old boy who was found dead in a parked vehicle at Atafoa Palace premises yesterday.
News reaching MyNewsGh.com indicates that a female Police Chief Inspector stationed at Prampram in the Greater Accra Region has collapsed and died.
It is gathered that Chief Inspector Patience Ayivor aged 54 who is the Prampram Station Officer complained of ill health at home and was rushed to Prampram Polyclinic but collapsed and died on arrival.
Her body has since been conveyed and deposited at the Police Hospital morgue for preservation awaiting autopsy.
Two construction workers have died after a wall collapsed on them at Small Dome, Ashongman Estates a suburb of Accra.
One other worker has been hospitalised and is in a critical condition.
Citi News gathers that the incident occurred a little after 7 am on Friday when the workers, constructing drainage in the area, had reported to the site for work.
Due to rains a day earlier, it is believed that the wall they were working close to was weak and collapsed on them trapping them underneath.
According to an eyewitness, residents came together to rescue the victims but realised that one had died on the spot.
Confirming the development to Citi News, the Accra Regional Police PRO, DSP Effia Tenge said one of the victims, who is still alive is receiving treatment t the 37 Military Hospital.
“This morning around 8 am, the police had a distress call to the effect that a wall had collapsed on some workers at a road construction site at Ashongman Estate. The police proceeded there and found that the wall had collapsed on three of the workers who were working at the site. Two of them were taken to the hospital but one died immediately upon arrival at the Ashongman Estate community hospital. One of them who was also in critical condition was also referred to the 37 Military Hospital. However one also died on the site,†she said.
Three construction workers have reportedly died after a wall collapsed on them at Ashorman estate in Accra Friday morning.
The victims, according to an eyewitness, Jerry, are workers of a construction firm working on streets around the Small Dome market area of Ashorman second lotto kiosk.
One of the victims died on the scene while the two others who were reportedly rushed to the Ashorman Community Hospital also passed on minutes after arrival at the facility.
The media industry and followers of the Despite Media Group have been thrown into a state of shock following the demise of media personnel Kwadwo Annor Wiafe.
Confirming the news of his death on Instagram, the Despite Media Group wrote, “We are sorry to announce to you the passing on of our dear brother and valued colleague, Kwadwo Annor Wiafe well known as @favourite_mcs_mc.”
Wiafe who doubled as an MC died this morning at Nyaho Medical Centre in Accra after a short illness.
He was the host on the Neat FM late afternoon show ‘Ye Ko Fie’ and a stand-in for Abeiku Santana show on Okay FM.
He appeared on several TV adverts and was one time the producer for the late afternoon show on Peace FM hosted by Micky Darling then.
Meanwhile, his fans, media personalities and celebrities have taken to their social media page to commiserate his death.
General Manager of Dormaa Presby Hospital, Rev. Dr. Isaac Appiah, has denied reports that his outfit is to be blamed for a missing corpse at the hospital’s mortuary.
On Wednesday, June 3, 2020, Rainbowradioonline.com, reported that a family at Dormaa Ahenkro was after the Dormaa mortuary over the disappearance of their deceased relative.
The body, together with one other, were deposited at the morgue by the Dormaa Police after a car accident. However, days after the bodies were deposited in the hospital, the family of one of the deceased claimed the body released to them was not that of their late relative, Wofa Atta.
Speaking to GhanaWeb about the issue, Rev Appiah explained that the case is between two families and the Police as the intermediary.
He explained, his outfit was only mandated to allow family members have access to the bodies for identification with escorts from the Police.
He added that the hospital only had the mandate to release the dead bodies to the families after both families have fully identified their relatives
“The two bodies were brought to the hospital on Sunday (May 24, 2020). Because Monday was a holiday, one of the families came to the morgue on Tuesday(May 26) to identify their body with police officers.
Two members from the family of Wofa Atta also came later to view the remaining body and they confirmed that was their body. And for that matter, the morgue people also registered them, gave that body the mortuary tag…”
He said the mishap happened because representatives of the two families failed to identify their own body when they reported to the morgue for viewing and identification.
“So last week Friday morning, the first family came back for their body after inspection…Then yesterday, they were coming for the body, when the body was removed for them, the other family members said it wasn’t theirs. But meanwhile, it is the body that Friday, they came to identify. The records are there. So what happened is that those who came to identify their body couldn’t identify their own body. And those who came earlier was may be given a body which does not belong to them. But for us as a hospital, we don’t even come into the case. Because they are dealing with the Police.”
He reiterated that the case was handed over to the Police to settle since they brought the accident bodies to the morgue.
“When they came yesterday, we called the Police and handed everything to the Police. Because we made them understand that it is between them and the Police and not us. Because the body was brought by the Police, so we advised them to go the Police… So that if anything at all, the Police can issue directive so that some of the Police officers can go to where they buried the first body to cross-check.”, he told GhanaWeb in the exclusive interview.
Meanwhile, the Police have met the two families to resolve the issue.
A 28-year-old has been electrocuted at Abeka Lapaz New Market after he allegedly tried to break into a container shop.
Speaking to Adom News, an eyewitness said Samuel, who is an errand boy of the shop owner got stuck between two shops when he attempted to steal from one.
“At dawn, the lights were off, so he had the opportunity to carry out his act, however, the light came back midway and electrocuting him to death,†he narrated.
With the help of eyewitnesses, the Assemblyman for the area, together with the shop owner removed the dead body.
The police have conveyed the body to the police hospital mortuary.
Six people have died and around 30 others hospitalised in Tunisia since Sunday after drinking tainted homemade alcohol.
The alcohol was consumed across several towns and cities in the province of Kairouan.
The cases first came to light on Sunday – the day of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
State news agency TAP reports that a man and a woman were arrested in the town of Hajeb Al Ayoun on suspicion of selling the tainted brew and 87 litres seized by police.
Toxic levels of methanol that is sometimes contained in homemade alcohol can be fatal or lead to visual impairment.
There have been several cases of methanol poisoning in Tunisia over the years. Consumption of illegally sold brew is common because it is cheaper and more accessible to the majority, particularly in poorer areas.
The country has eased coronavirus containment measures but some restrictions still remain: large public events are banned, a permit is required for travel between regions and shopping malls, bars and restaurants remain closed.
One person is feared dead in a gunfire exchange between Park Rangers of the Kalakpa Wildlife Resource Reserve and syndicated poachers from the Dzakpo community in the Adaklu District.
Mr Samuel Darko Akonor, the Park Manager, who narrated the incident to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said the poachers engaged the Park Rangers on night duty patrols at the Abutia area of the Reserve, some 20 kilometres from Dzakpo, in the early hours of Tuesday.
He said the Rangers, who had heard a gunshot in the Reserve attempted to ward-off the poachers but were met with sporadic shootings, compelling the team to return fire at about 0100 hours on Wednesday.
The Park Manager said a team from the Reserve reported the incident to the Ho Municipal Police Command and requested for reinforcement to enable the team visit the spot of the shooting incident, after the poachers said one of them was missing.
Mr Akonor said the search party including the Rangers, Police and Dzakpo community members were unsuccessful in locating the missing person.
He, however told the GNA that unconfirmed information suggested the missing person was shot dead with the body allegedly in possession of some persons in the community.
Mr Akonor said the Police SWAT team after the search, moved in swiftly to the rescue of some Rangers, who were taken captive by the incensed youth of Dzakpo in a revenge attack.
The Park Manager said one of their camps near the Dzakpo community was subsequently vandalised by the people allegedly.
Superintendent of Police, Mr Anthony Danso, Ho Municipal Police Commander, confirmed the incident to the GNA and said the father of the victim reported an incident of a missing person to Police on Monday.
He said Police intelligence however gathered that the father knew where the deceased’s body was and said the Police was going into the matter.
The body of a 98-year-old man is reported to have been burnt in a fire outbreak.
The incident occurred at Oframase, a community near Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region.
Officials of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) who visited the scene claim the nonagenarian who stayed alone died 12:00pm the previous day before the fire outbreak which occurred 3:30 am.
It is suspected that the fire outbreak was caused by an electrical fault.
The local Police have been informed about the incident while efforts are underway to trace relatives of the deceased at Kwahu Bepong to inform them.
Residents of Amaglo Kope, a small village in Akpatoe in the Ketu North Municipal Assembly of Volta Region are gripped with fear as a lifeless body of a man believed to be in his early 30s has been found in a farm.
The deceased man was found hanging on a tree branch in a farm, far away from the community by tractor operators who went to the farm to clear weeds.
Residents believed the body of the deceased had been on the tree for more than a month as it had almost wholly decomposed and barely emitted any odour.
However, no villager was able to identify the lifeless body. Many said it may be that the man came from afar to hang himself or was killed and hanged on the tree so it could be believed that he committed suicide by hanging himself.
The police transported the body to the morgue on April 30, 2020, and have begun their investigations.
A mother and son residing at Timber Market, a suburb of James Town in Accra were killed after they were electrocuted in their room during a downpour on Sunday.
The Police have identified the deceased persons as Augustina Adoku (22 years), the mother, and her three-year-old son, Sampson Adjei Owuraku.
On the spot investigation by the officers showed that, during the downpour, the wooden structure which served as the living room for the deceased persons got flooded and interrupted electricity power to the structure which got the two electrocuted.
Further inspection of the scene revealed that their personal belongings including clothing have been partly burnt.
“On April 26, 2020, at about 10: 30 am, police received information that two people were electrocuted in their room at Timber Market, a suburb of Jamestown, Accra. Police proceeded to the scene in a wooden structure at Timber Market. The bodies were inspected and no visible marks of assault were found on themâ€, the police said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the bodies have been conveyed and deposited at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital morgue for preservation and autopsy.
There were thunderstorms and rains in the coastal belt and middle parts in the country from morning to late afternoon on Sunday, April 26, 2020.
This was after a warning from the Ghana Meteorological Agency.
The storm was accompanied by moderate to strong winds with general cloudiness.
Places that were affected by the thunderstorms and rain included Aflao, Akatsi, Ho, Kpetoe, Juapong, Dzodze, Somanya, Ada, Prampram, Tema, Aburi, Madina, Accra, Kasoa, Winneba, Nsawam and Suhum.
The rest were Koforidua, Begoro, Nkawkaw, Kpong, Kade , Swedru, Cape Coast, Saltpond, Takoradi and Axim.
The Ghana Police Service has announced that Vincent Adjei, the alleged ring leader in the murder of Mr Mawutor Adzahli, the Assembly Member for the Sogakope South Electoral Area has been remanded into prison custody by the Dabala District Court.
Adjei, 34, is to reappear in Court on May 26, 2020.
“Four other persons, namely: Bright Awuya 33, Franklin Tetteh 22; Ansong Steven 26; and Amos Agbaklah 25, were also remanded by the Court on the same facts,” a Police statement said.
“The suspects were arrested from different locations across the country”.
It would be recalled that on March 1, 2020, Mr Mawutor Adzahli was murdered in his house by unknown assailants.
The Savannah Regional Chairman of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), Mr Mahama Alidu has passed on.
Mr Alidu passed away on Monday, 20 April 2020 in Accra.
He is expected to be buried on Tuesday in his hometown of Daboya in the North Gonja District of the Savannah Region, according to a statement signed by the Savannah Regional Organiser of the party Mr Mohammed Saani.
Mr Alidu was elected in October last year to lead the party in the region.
In his victory speech, he promised to collapse the two major political parties, the NDC and the NPP, in the region and further change the mindset of the youth in the region.
The late Chairman is survived by a wife and 3 children.
A decomposing body of a man has been retrieved from the Trudu Waterfalls located near Begoro in the Fanteakwa North Municipality of the Eastern Region.
The decomposing body was retrieved Saturday by a joint team from the Ghana Police Service and the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO).
According to the bereaved parents, the deceased young man went missing two days ago.
Due to the state of the body, he was buried immediately.
Meanwhile, the local Police have commenced investigations into the incident.
Trudu Waterfalls is one of the nicest waterfalls in the Eastern Region but not well marketed. Locals, however, mostly patronize it to have fun.
This is not the first time a drowning incident has been recorded in the Waterfalls. In 2018, a 17-year-old boy drowned. His body was subsequently retrieved and buried after autopsy.’
Top Nigerian actors have reacted with sadness the passing of one of their own, Abu Rasheed.
There are reports that the Yoruba actor has passed on.
Details of his death are currently unavailable to the public as his colleague identified as Sunny Alli failed to throw light on the circumstances that led to his death.
He simply wrote, Innalillahi waina ilaehi rojiun… RIP Abu Rasheed…☹ï¸
Colleagues and friends have since been pouring in their condolences.
“This morning around 8 am, the police had a distress call to the effect that a wall had collapsed on some workers at a road construction site at Ashongman Estate. The police proceeded there and found that the wall had collapsed on three of the workers who were working at the site. Two of them were taken to the hospital but one died immediately upon arrival at the Ashongman Estate community hospital. One of them who was also in critical condition was also referred to the 37 Military Hospital. However one also died on the site,†she said.
