Working with the support of MTN Ghana, the Ghana Police Service has arrested two culprits at Assin Daaman in the Central Region for involvement in Mobile Money scams. The suspects, Stephen Appiah and Eric Aboagye, were arrested, following a tip-off from MTN about suspicious activities of a group based in Assin Daaman. They are alleged … Read more
Crew on a Sri Lankan Airlines plane carrying 202 passengers have extinguished a mid-flight fire triggered by a mobile phone battery in an overhead locker, the carrier said Monday. The airline said a “major” incident was averted by the quick-thinking attendants on the flight Sunday from Kochi in India to Colombo. Smoke was detected shortly … Read more
Information reaching Today indicates that some police officers from the Asankragua District Police Command in the Wassa Amenfi West District of the Western Region on Monday, July 24, 2017 besieged an illegal gold mining site at Fureso community and took away the miners concentrated sand, mobile phones and an undisclosed amount of money. According to the … Read more
Customers of Capital Bank now have the opportunity to transfer cash from the bank’s ATM to any other bank in Ghana instantly. The service, the first of its kind to be rolled out by a bank in the country, is however, currently available on internet banking platforms through the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement System … Read more
Burglars stole an ‘eye watering’ £400,000 worth of designer bags and jewellery from former England captain John Terry’s mansion after he posted a picture of himself enjoying a ski trip on Instagram. The footballer, who now captains Championship side Aston Villa, posed for pictures on the slopes of the French Alps with his wife Toni, … Read more
More than 20% of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mining revenue is being lost due to corruption and mismanagement, a campaign group says. According to a Global Witness report, the money is being distributed through corrupt networks linked to President Joseph Kabila. At least $750m (£580m) has gone missing over the past three years, it … Read more
After spending two years on the sidelines, Google Glass internet-linked eyewear is back in the game, this time aimed at helping workers do their jobs. General Electric, Volkswagen, and Boeing are among more than 50 businesses taking part in testing a Glass Enterprise Edition in a limited program, project lead Jay Kothari said Tuesday in … Read more
Adel, 15, hasn’t seen his parents for the past nine months, but that was the price to pay to escape the brutal rule of Islamic State group jihadists in his northern Iraqi hometown. “I miss my family, nine months is too long,” said the teenager, among hundreds of youngsters separated from their parents because of … Read more
Players and officials of Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football Club suffered double agony Wednesday night when their properties were stolen by some heartless persons after their bus was involved in a gory accident at Nantia, about 300 meters to the main Nkawkaw bypass road. They were robbed off their belongings including laptops, mobile phones and undiclosed … Read more
People cover their noses at the stench of death in the Crystal Church of God in Owode Onirin, just outside Lagos, where bloody clothes, drums, bibles and hymn books still litter the bare floor. Three days earlier, four worshippers were killed as they prayed, in the latest murders blamed on a shadowy gang dubbed the … Read more
People cover their noses at the stench of death in the Crystal Church of God in Owode Onirin, just outside Lagos, where bloody clothes, drums, bibles and hymn books still litter the bare floor. Three days earlier, four worshippers were killed as they prayed, in the latest murders blamed on a shadowy gang dubbed the … Read more
GN Life and GN Bank, entities of Groupe Nduom (GN), have re-launched a “Mobi Bancasurrance partnership.” The partnership requires GN mobile bankers to market GN life products so as to provide both banking and insurance opportunities for their customers. The brief, but colourful ceremony was held yesterday in Accra at the plush Coconut Grove Regency … Read more
As part of efforts to encourage customers to utilize its latest mobile banking service, *901#, Access Bank Ghana is rewarding customers who transact and refer others to join the platform. The *901# service, which was launched a few weeks ago, enables customers to conduct basic transactions such as opening a new account, buying airtime, paying … Read more
Bank of Ghana (BoG) has given authorisation to GN Bank to introduce mobile money to the public. The BoG authorisation paves the way for the bank to introduce this unique service which combines mobile money with mobile banking. This was disclosed to Today in an exclusive interview by the General Manager (GM), Micro Enterprise, GN … Read more
An Arab-Israeli former lawmaker entered prison Sunday to begin a two-year sentence after he pleaded guilty to smuggling mobile phones to Palestinian detainees, a prisons spokeswoman said. Basel Ghattas of the Arab-dominated Joint List resigned his seat in the Israeli parliament as part of a plea bargain reached in March. The 61-year-old admitted handing phones … Read more
Authorities in a deeply conservative Indian state were accused Wednesday of reinforcing entrenched gender discrimination after describing veiled women as the “pride” of the region. The advertisement sponsored by the government of northern Haryana state featured the image of a woman, her face shrouded by a traditional scarf, with a tagline saying “the veil is … Read more
Hundreds of workers at RLG, a Ghanaian-owned technology company, are up in arms against management over a threat to dismiss them if they do not resign. Meanwhile, management has maintained a deafening silence on workers GHC500 monthly salary which has been in arrears for two years. The Agams Holding Limited, owners of RLG has been … Read more
Tanzania has threatened to arrest and deport those campaigning for gay rights and de-register organisations protecting homosexual interests, local media reported Monday. “I would like to remind and warn all organisations and institutions that campaign and pretend to protect homosexual interests … we are going to arrest whoever is involved and charge them in courts … Read more
The debris of the jihadist attack is still scattered for all to see: broken tea cups, charred mobile phones and upended chairs strew the once idyllic surrounds of this Malian ecolodge following last Sunday’s violence. More than 100 mourners, diplomats and local officials gathered Saturday at the vast Kangaba Campement resort outside Mali’s capital Bamako … Read more
The Ashanti regional police command has arrested six suspected members of a robbery syndicate notorious for attacking passengers on the Ejura-Mampong highway. The gang, led by robber, Ibrahim Mamudu alias Ali Jumah, has been on the police radar for sometime now. Their arrest followed a robbery attack on some passengers at Agona-Bepoah where victims were … Read more