An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced David Mensah a 20-year-old student to seven years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling an eight year-old girl. Mensah denied the offence but was found guilty after trial by the Court presided over by Mrs Jane Harriet Akweley Quaye. During trial, it came out that Mensah frequently showers on … Read more
A trader, Abdul Aziz, has been killed after he was hit by a falling telecommunication mast in Takoradi in the Western region. Aziz died at the Effia-Nkwanta regional Hospital where he was receiving medical attention. Aziz suffered severe scalp injuries when the mast erected on a four story building just around the crowded Takoradi Kojokrom … Read more
Doctors and medical staff at the Binde Health Center in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District of the Northern Region are calling for emergency rehabilitation of the facility to fix some structural defects and obsolete equipment. Authorities say the facility lacks some essential medical logistics something that is affecting healthcare delivery in the area. Three anesthetic machines at … Read more
Two persons — a woman and a soldier — have died after allegedly consuming an alcoholic drink popularly called ‘Mahogany Bitters’ at a drinking bar at the Myohaung Barracks at Apremdo in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis. Four others who took the drink, which is a special mixture of alcohol and herbal preparations, were rushed to a … Read more
After she lost the courage to trade in vegetables – her source of livelihood at the Aboabo market in Tamale – due to her fistula condition after her fifth birth, 40 years old Mma Fulera is now back to her business with higher aspirations. Today, Mma fulera has returned to her spot in the market where … Read more
Prosecution was unable to produce their next witness in the matter in which Bishop Daniel Obinim, the Founder of God’s Way International Church and two of his pastors are being tried for abusing two teenagers. According to prosecution they have not been able to summon the witness who is a medical officer to appear to … Read more
A 41-year-old caterer, who is accused of having anal sex with his 15-year-old nephew for the past two years at Adabraka, has been remanded in Police custody by an Accra Circuit Court. He is to reappear on May 30. Declining bail, the court presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin Doku held that the victim … Read more
An abandoned galamsey site at Peminase in the Ejisu-Juaben in the Ashanti Region, has claimed the life of a 21 year old boy, Yaw Boakye. A cousin of the deceased who is the Assembly Member for the area, Owusu Asante Ahmed, said the deceased and his colleagues were working at a construction firm close to … Read more
A 29-year-old fashion designer, Richard Isaac Dankyi, is standing trial for allegedly taking turns to have anal sex with three children, two males and a female. Dankyi, an uncle to the victims, aged between six and eight years, who appeared before an Accra Circuit Court, however pleaded not guilty to six counts of defilement. The … Read more
Trial of a 17-year old third year student of Achimota Senior High School who allegedly shot a female colleague with his father’s single barrel gun has begun at a Juvenile Court in Accra. A three member panel on Monday heard the evidence of a medical officer of the Tema Port Clinic in camera. The matter … Read more
A 29-year-old fashion designer, Richard Isaac Dankyi, is standing trial for allegedly taking turns to have anal sex with three children, two males and a female. Dankyi, an uncle to the victims, aged between six and eight years, who appeared before an Accra Circuit Court, however pleaded not guilty to six counts of defilement. The … Read more
A 29-year-old fashion designer, Richard Isaac Dankyi, is standing trial for allegedly taking turns to have anal sex with three children, two males and a female. Dankyi, an uncle to the victims, aged between six and eight years, who appeared before an Accra Circuit Court, however pleaded not guilty to six counts of defilement. The … Read more
Police officers who allegedly assaulted residents of Ekpu, a fishing community near Half Assini in the Jomoro constituency of the Western Region on Tuesday, were on a revenge mission, Member of Parliament for Jomoro Paul Essien has asserted. Onua 95.1Fm broke the story about the police’s invasion of Ekpu in the early hours of Tuesday … Read more
A landmark concussion lawsuit by a former National Rugby League player has rocked Australia’s sporting community and could have far-reaching consequences for how the condition is diagnosed and treated. While sport often dominates headlines in Australia, experts want more focus on head knocks — an “invisible injury” sometimes dismissed as a badge of honour in … Read more
Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng (Prof.) is a Ghanaian Cardiothoracic Surgeon who was a former Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. He established the National Cardiothoracic Centre teaching young surgeons. He is also the director of Ghana’s National Cardiothoracic Centre, and currently President of the Ghana Heart Foundation and the Ghana Red Cross Society. … Read more
KOFORIDUA Circuit Court ‘B’ presided over by Her Honour, Mrs. Janet Animah Marfoh, has sentenced a 30-year-old man into 7 years imprisonment for defiling a 12-year-old pupil in a drinking spot at Jumapo, a suburb in the Eastern Region. The fact of the case presented in court by prosecutor, Chief Inspector Bernard Annor, was that the … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo has appointed Dr Addai-Mensah Otchere as the Director of the Ghana Standards Authority mynewsgh.com can exclusively report. The former acting Dean, of the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) until his appointment was also the Head of … Read more
Koforidua Circuit Court ‘B’ Presided over by Her Honour Mrs Janet Animah Marfoh has sentenced a 30-year old man into 7 years imprisonment for defiling a 12- year old pupil in a drinking spot at Jumapo, a suburb in the Eastern region. The fact of the case presented in Court by Prosecutor, Chief Inspector Benard … Read more
The Akufo-Addo-led government should strive to complete the abandoned maternity block project for the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) which was started in 1974 by the Kutu Acheampong regime, Dr Victor Dedzo, a former medical officer of the hospital and ex-Deputy General Secretary of Ghana Medical Association, has said. According to him, successive governments over … Read more
Sydney Ageyomah Abilba, an employee of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), who was cited by a senior medical officer at the Upper East Regional Hospital as a “protégé and spy” for Dr. Kofi Issah, the Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, has refuted the claims made against him. The medical officer had stated in … Read more