ModernGhana News

Professor Kwadwo Adinkrah-Appiah, the Vice-Chancellor of the Sunyani Technical University (STU), on Monday inaugurated a cyber-security and forensic laboratory to enhance the delivery engineering skills and education at the university.

United Front Party (UFP) 39;s Nana Agyenim Boateng 39;s bid to challenge his disqualification and also stop the conduct of the December 7 election has been thrashed by an Accra High Court. Boateng was one of the prospective presidential candidates disqualified by the Electoral Commission (EC).

Mr Peter Osei Amoako, Director of Finance at COCOBOD, says the Board paid a total of $19. 25 million to Agricult Ghana Limited for procurement of fertilizer in the 2013/2014 crop season. He said the first payment, was made on August 13, 2014 by a letter of instruction to the Ghana International Bank for the transfer of $11 million from COCOBOD account to the beneficiary: Royal Bank/Agricult Ghana Limited.

A Circuit Court in Accra has sentenced a 38-year-old welder to 20 years imprisonment for defiling a five-year-old girl inside a car at Spintex, a suburb of Accra. John Appew is said to have taken the victim to the car under the pretext of teaching her how to drive but ended up having sex with her.

A robbery suspect had the shock of his life when his victim severed his manhood with her sharp teeth. Emmanuel Ankor, 23, was said to have asked the victim to lick his penis after raping her and taking some items and money from her room at gun point.

Government will absorb the shortfall in the lump sum payment by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to public sector workers who retire this year, President Akufo-Addo has announced.

The Senior Programmes Officer of the National Commission on Small and Light Weapons, Leonard Tettey, has said investigations ongoing into the illegal shipment of pistols and ammunition to the Tema Port will yield positive results.

The Supreme Court has asked the Attorney General rsquo;s Department to handle Kennedy Agyapong rsquo;s application pending against High Court Judge, Amos Wuntah Wuni. Mr. Agyapong rsquo;s lawyers on September 17, invoked the supervisory jurisdiction of the Apex court to stop Justice Wuni rsquo;s contempt trial involving the Assin Central Member of Parliament, and to quash all orders made by the Judge in that respect.

The Ministry of Interior has with immediate effect, deployed 200 police officers to serve as guards to Members of Parliament (MPs) till the end of the year 2020. The officers will operate under the Parliamentary Protection Unit.

Some Members of Parliament are hopeful of increased security following the killing of their colleague Mfantseman MP, Ekow Hayford. The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, is to make an in-camera statement on enhanced security for MPs later on Tuesday.

Cape Coast, 4th October, 2020, Popular lawyer, Maurice Ampaw has advised all men to treat women well if they want to prosper in life. Any man who doesn 39;t treat women well would find it very difficult to prosper .

President Akufo-Addo has joined hundreds of world leaders to wish the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his wife, Melania Trump, well after both tested positive for the coronavirus. President Akufo-Addo wished Trump speedy recovery in a tweet.

The police have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of chief at Kaneshie on October 2. The chief, Nana Ndoli Panin III, the Baamuhene of Enchi Kramokrom, was found dead in a pool of blood in a hotel room.

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it has rectified the issues preventing some frontline doctors of the Korle bu Teaching hospital from their receiving their extra allowance package. These frontline doctors have been lamenting that they have not received the package promised to them by the government despite the risks involved in their work.

Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo, a legal practitioner and member of the opposition National Democratic Congress is suggesting that the state opts for public treason trials as it deals with separatist violence in the Volta Region.

The Inspector General of Police(IGP), Mr James Oppong-Buanuh, has paid a working visit to the Western Regional Police command to assess their preparedness for the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in December.

A 45-year-old man Emmanuel Kwakye has committed suicide after allegedly murdering his girlfriend, Georgina Sayel. Deputy Superintendent of Police, (DOP) Irene Serwaah Oppong, the Regional Police Public Relations Officer, disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency.

Mr Justin Kodua Frimpong, the Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), has said head count and electronic validation conducted in 2017 revealed that 17,607 non-existing beneficiaries under the Agency were receiving monthly stipends during the previous Mahama administration.

Chris Tamakloe, one of the star performers on Citi TV 39;s Keyboard Idol talent competition, met his untimely death on Saturday, September 19, when a vehicle in which he and his father were travelling was involved in a road accident, at Asutsuare Junction.

Some members of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) at Keta Municipal Hospital continue to render services to pregnant women due for deliver despite the Association 39;s strike action.