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Okada Rider Allegedly Beheads 12-Year-Old Boy At Mafi Aflokofe in the Eastern, The ‘Prophetess’ Linked To The Beheading Of 12-Yr-Old Boy At Mafi Dove Arrested. Flora Ekpe, the supposed prophetess allegedly involved in the killing of a 12-year-old boy, Kofi Kuzagbe Tsidi at Mafi Dove in the Central Tongu District, of the Volta Region, has been arrested. She was picked up by the Sogakofe Divisional Police Command after the main suspect in the case, Emmanuel Tsidi Doe, 22, claimed he was sent by her to bring a human head for ritual purposes. Both suspects are currently at the Sogakofe Divisional Police Command, assisting with investigations into the incident. The deceased was allegedly beheaded by Dovi Tsidi, 26, who happens to be a relative to the deceased at Mafi Aflokofe. The incident happened on Sunday at 9:00 pm. The deceased, according to the Assembly Member for the Mafi Dove electoral area, Mr. Moses Awukuvi, was drowned to ensure that he became weak before he was killed. Speaking

What happened to US military equipment left behind in Afghanistan? The U.S. military likely abandoned tens of millions of dollars’ worth of aircraft, armored vehicles and sophisticated defensive systems in the rush to leave the airport in Kabul safely. Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command, said some of the equipment had been “de-militarized,” essentially rendered inoperable. Troops likely used thermate grenades, which burn at temperatures of 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit, to destroy key components of the equipment, according to a Defense department official who was not authorized to speak publicly. Some pieces of equipment were likely blown up. Another Defense official also not authorized to speak publicly, acknowledged that a blast heard last week at the airport was related to destroying equipment. McKenzie rattled off a quick list of the items Monday during the announcement of the end of the 20-year involvement in Afghanistan, America’s longest war: MRAPs As many

PEOPLE OF NSOATRE CALLS FOR TRAFFIC LIGHTS TO BE FIX IN THE TOWN.  Samuel Kusi Twum from Nsoatre in the SunyaninWest Municipal of the Bono Region has shared his experience at a time vehicles were knocking people and school children on the Sunyani-Berekum highway. History of Nsoatre Speed Ramps. It was a saturday morning somewhere in 2003, after I refused going to farm with my mum and found myself playing table tennis beside the famous odo rice joint in Nsoatre. Before my very eyes, a little girl of around 10yrs had attempted to cross the road and have been knocked down by a taxi moving with top speed from Berekum heading to Sunyani. That was the third time in the same week someone got knocked down by cars passing through the town. A guy at the time in his late 20s started blocking the road with stones, wood and any other thing he could find. The people had had enough and they wanted authorities to act to stop this rising incidence of accident. The police and MTTU had failed them so the

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KESSBEN FM MOVES TO ACCRA AS NEW RADIO STATION LAUNCHES TODAY. The CEO of Kessben Media, Mr. Stephen Boateng a.k.a Kwabena Kessie who owns Kessben 93.3 Fm, Kessben TV and Aseda TV in Kumasi has today 30th August, 2021 launched  another new radio station Kessben 92.9 Fm in Accra to complement the efforts of media industry in the country. Mr. Kwabena Kessie together with other dignitaries commissioning the new station thanked God Almighty for His awesome kindness towards his business, thanked Ministers of God who supported them with prayers including his own brother Rev. Osei Bonsu aka Rev. OB among others for being behind him in including his wife Mrs. Philomena Appiah Boateng. He continued to thank the workers of the organisation for their hard work to bring Kessben Media to this far and urged them to put much efforts with speed to take the lead ahead of others. He promised that, much is yet to come and in no time the Kessben Media will work to change the landscape of the media industr

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Highlights of New Academic Calendar for 2020/2021 Academic Year. The Ghana Education Service has released a new academic calendar for the 2020/2021 academic year.  The changes to the old academic calendar affects the 1st and 2nd Sessions of the 2nd semester for Green and Gold tracks students for SHS 1&2. Form One 1 Green students are on holidays and are preparing to return to school on:  1st September, 2021 to begin 2nd Semester and will stay in school until 28th January, 2022. Form One 1 Gold students are in school and will vacate on:   28th August, 2021. They will return to school on 10th October, 2021 to complete the 2nd Session of the 2nd Semester which ends on 28th January, 2022.  Form Two 2 Green Students are in school and will vacate on: 28th August, 2021. They will return to school on 30th October, 2021 to complete the 2nd Session of the 2nd semester which ends on 28th January, 2022. Form Two 2 Gold Students are on holidays and they will return to school on: 1st September 2

Youth in Border Communities Urged to  Help Fight Child Trafficking-CWG. The Executive Director of  Citizens Watch Ghana, Simon Asore has urged the youth in the border communities within the  Bono Region to assist in fighting child trafficking within the Dormaa and Sampa borders including Berekum and it's environs.  The Executive Director, Simon Asore, made the call during a community forum on Awareness Creation and Sensitization on border Security Management in Berekum in the Bono region. The project dubbed; Enhancing Citizens Participation in Border Security Managementis sponsored by Center for Democratic Development Ghana ( CDD-ghana) with funding from the US Embassy in Ghana. Mr. Asore said, the location of  Berekum in the region is a fertile ground  for activities suck as child trafficking, drugs and terrorist activities the people in the community should get prepared to face future eventualities since the town is located in the centre of the region. He observed that foreigners

A fire incident at Berekum in the Bono Region has destroyed 16 rooms, four shops, and other property running into thousands of cedis. The incident, according to witnesses, occurred late afternoon on Friday, August 27, 2021, with the cause not immediately known. Speaking to Adom News, some of the victims said they saw smoke coming out of the building’s roof and called the Fire Service. But for the swift response of the firefighters, traders disclosed the fire could have wreaked more havoc than it did. A business owner, Perpetual Amponsah, amid tears, narrated she lost everything to the fire. Watch Video of how the fire destroyed some shops in Berekum.  Meanwhile, the Assistant Divisional Officer, Stephen Afosah said, they have begun investigations to ascertain the cause of the fire. He lamented the rooms were not spacious enough to allow proper ventilation.   Source:adomonline.com

Pastors Should Bless HIV/AIDS Positive Patients and they should not be deny Marriage Blessings. – Nat’l AIDS Control Programme. Stigmatization of people living in AIDs is prevalent on the continent of Africa, and with the fear of the risk of infections, religious leaders even are against marriages between a couple with one being HIV positive. Programme Manager for the National AIDS/STI Control Programme, Dr. Stephen Ayisi Addo has mentioned that “no pastor must deny any couple a marriage rite or relationship because of their HIV status.” According to him, there is no danger in serodiscordant couples (Couples with one person who is HIV-positive and one who is HIV-negative are sometimes called “serodiscordant” or “mixed serostatus”) so far as the HIV positive couple is religiously taking his/her medication. To him love is bigger than HIV and more people are dying from other health conditions outside HIV “so why deny marriage between a serodiscordant couple?” He believes if HIV is being u

TTI Student Escaped Suicide After Drinking Poisonous Chemical.  A 17 year old girl of the Takoradi Technical Institute (TTI) in the Western Region has been hospitalized after drinking a poisonous substance suspected to be ddt.  The girl was admitted at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital after her friends suspected her  of drinking some chemical believing to be poison. Faustina as she is called in the school was rushed to the hospital after she fainted at the campus. She therefore confessed later of drinking the ddt chemical to end her life over a trauma she is going through in her life even in the school. She claims life has been unbearable for her and decided to end it all thus why she took the poisonous substance.  She has since been responding to treatment after being save by her friends and the institute authorities for sending her to the hospital when she got fainted.  

Joe Biden to Kabul attackers: 'We will hunt you down and make you pay'. Joe Biden to Kabul attackers: 'We will hunt you down and make you pay' Biden, in his White House address following the Kabul attacks, asked for a moment of silence to honor the fallen service members, bowing his head, and ordered US flags to be half-staff across the country. US president Joe Biden reacts during a moment of silence for the dead as he delivers remarks about Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House in Washington, on August 26, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst / REUTERS) US President Joe Biden on Thursday (local time) promised to avenge the deaths of the 13 service members killed in the fatal suicide bombing attacks at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan earlier in the day. Speaking with emotion at the White House, Biden seemingly addressed the Islamic State (IS)-affiliated extremists responsible for the attack and said that the United States will neither forget nor forgive the act. “To thos