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Thirty landlords in the Northern Regional capital, Tamale, who refused a directive to construct toilets in their homes, have been put before court for sanitation offences. They have all pleaded not guilty and were granted 2,000-cedi bail each. They will reappear on September 20. Prosecuting officer, Saani Mohammed, told the court the landlords who have no toilet facilities in their houses, were given two months ultimatum to construct one but they failed to do so. He explained that the Assembly through the environmental health department constantly engaged residents in the Tamale metropolis on issues of sanitation, including the need for household latrines. Mr Mohammed stated “The Assembly through its partners UNICEF and others have done a lot to get landlords to put up latrines but this has fallen on deaf ears” Environmental health officers of the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly in the course of their routine checks at Lamashegu, Kobilhimagu and Zogbeli communities found that ...

The police at Kwabeng in the Eastern Region on Sunday resorted to the use of a firearm to disable a mentally ill man who had charged on some police officers at the charge office with a machete. The mentally ill man is said to have threatened to kill the police officers who were on duty. The two officers are said to have fled the charge office and called for reinforcement from Akyem Kwabeng. The Eastern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr Ebenezer Tetteh explained that the mentally ill man was "very charged and poised for action." He said the police tried to overpower him and in the process, "the mentally deranged man charged on one of the policemen ostensibly to slash him with the cutlass, to kill him, and in the process the policeman discharged the firearm, he [mentally ill man] was hit and subsequently rushed to the Edwenase Government Hospital but died whilst at the hospital receiving treatment." He said ...

Customers of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) will see an 18.1 per cent increment on their bills from July 1, this year. This follows an 8.1 per cent increment in water tariff and the restoration of a 10 per cent levy to run the Teshie Water Desalination Plant. That levy was waived when the plant shut down its operations last year. The depreciation of the Ghana cedi and inflation have been cited as the factors that necessitated the tariff increment. In arriving at the new tariff, the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), the regulatory body that sets utility tariffs, restored the 10 per cent line item charged to run the Teshie Water Desalination Plant, before slapping the substantive increment necessitated by inflation and exchange rate losses. The upward adjustment in water tariffs on Monday comes barely four days after the PURC approved an 11.17 per cent increase in electricity tariffs. The Executive Secretary of the PURC, Mami Dufie Ofori, who announced th...

The work of ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has always been a dangerous one; his methodology has helped in blowing the cover of the 'bad' people in the society. Like his mantra ‘name, shame and jail’, Anas always goes to the extent of making sure that the bad guys are named and shamed in his documentaries and eventually jailed. Ghanaians always get to know the end product to his undercover investigations but what actually goes into the work, nobody knows. Speaking at the 3rd Africa Leadership Conference dubbed ‘Africa Rising 3’ Anas Aremeyaw Anas revealed that his manhood didn’t work for a while after his investigations “Inside Ghana’s Madhouse”. He reported that patient’s at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital are physically abused and neglected by the staff of the hospital. According to him when he went into the madhouse, he was sedated and he didn’t know the number of days he slept but he woke up very tired with body pains. “Things were just not work...

John Okafor, Nigerian comedian and actor Nollywood comic actor, John Okafor, widely known as Mr. Ibu, has narrated how he was brought back to life by God after he was killed by unknown men. Mr. Ibu said he would not have been alive to tell his story if not for God who gave him a second chance to live. Ibu was reported to be down with a stroke recently but the comic made a video to debunk the report, however, the story was not far from the truth. The 57-year-old said he was attacked and hypnotized while he was in Nnewi, Anambra State to grace an occasion organized by one of the big shots in the town in December last year. The actor narrated the incident for the first time in an interview with Vanguard as saying, “All the stories flying around; the issue of stroke among others are funny to me. This is because the original problem I had was on the 24th of December last year. “An Nnewi-based business mogul, Ebube Chukwu Uzo, had invited me to come and perform...

Traders at five markets in Accra are selling food items of low quality to consumers. This was contained in the findings of a research conducted at the selected markets, which are very popular in Ghana. The markets are located at Agbogbloshie, Dome, Kaneshie, Makola and Okaishie, all of which are in Accra. The research revealed that food sold in these markets are generally of very poor nutritional quality, according to Dr Mavis Owureku-Asare, a food safety consultant. Dr Owureku-Asare examined tomatoes, oranges, pineapples, garden eggs, cocoyam leaves (Kontomire), as well as proteins such as shrimps and fish powder as sold at markets. According to a myjoyonline report, she added that markets have an impact on foods because of the effects of handling, storage and display of these foods. For instance with oranges, she said, the open display of the fruit in the sun and on the floor, considerably affects the Vitamin C content. “Vitamin C quickly breaks down in the heat and e...

The US Embassy in Ghana has warned that there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. According to a post on their official Facebook page, the embassy stated that about 82% of Ghana’s plastics waste could be recovered and recycled with existing technologies into value-added products valued at GHC2 billion per year, creating 5 million jobs within the economy. The embassy noted that less than 2% of 3,000 tonnes of plastic waste generated in Ghana every day are recycled. “More than 250,000 tonnes, or 23%, of all plastic waste generated in a year in Ghana are expected to flow into the Atlantic Ocean. By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by weight,” the post reads on. Ghana is experiencing a plastic menace, with almost everything, including food and non-food items, being packaged in plastic, without any elaborate plan in operation to deal with the waste generated after the products have been used. Various media reportage indicates that 10 per c...

Power Distribution Services (PDS), the main distributor of electricity in the Southern Zone of Ghana, has blamed the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) for the power outages observed in some parts of the country on Saturday, April 20, 2019. According to the power distributor in a statement, the outages were “due to unstable power supply from GRIDCo.” It says “customers should please note that immediately GRIDCo rectifies the situation, power supply will be restored to the affected areas.” PDS and GRIDCo have been blaming each other for the erratic power supply situation popularly known as dumsor in the local parlance. Source: Daily Guide

A total of eight married women are on death sentences at the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons, DGN Online can confirm. The Nsawam Medium Security Prisons Chaplain, Chief Superintendent of Prisons, Martin Padi, made the disclosure on Saturday when this portal visited the prisons. According to him, the women were behind bars for crimes they committed against their husbands. He did not state exactly the various crimes they committed but said most of the issues that led to the crimes being committed bordered on cheating. According to him, there were about 3,450 inmates at the Nsawam Prisons. He said there were some considered condemned, convict and those on remand. The Chaplain noted that the eight women were on condemned not for stealing or robbery but for harming the very men they “I do” with on the altar. Source: Daily Guide

Snakes have been found in Liberian President George Weah's office, forcing him to work from his private residence, the BBC has learnt. Press secretary Smith Toby told the BBC that on Wednesday two black snakes were found in the foreign affairs ministry building, his official place of work. All staff have been told to stay away until 22 April. "It's just to make sure that crawling and creeping things get fumigated from the building," Mr Toby said. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosts the office of the president, so it did an internal memo asking the staff to stay home while they do the fumigation," he said. The office of the president has been based in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since a fire in 2006 gutted the nearby presidential mansion. A FrontPage Africa news website video shows workers trying to attack the snakes when they appeared near the building's reception. "The snakes were never killed," Mr Toby said. "There...

Government has reminded Ghanaians to 'observe' Friday and Monday as 'statutory public holidays'. A statement signed by the Minister of Interior, Ambrose Dery stated: The general public is hereby reminded that Friday, 19th April 2019 and Monday, 22nd April 2019 which mark Good Friday and Easter Monday respectively are Statutory public holidays and should be observed as such throughout the country.

A mobile currency exchange vendor who outwitted two suspected robbers by giving them a bag stuffed with rags instead of one with $60,000 received gunshots in his leg and the back of his head in the precincts of the Fiesta Royale Hotel at Dzorwulu in Accra last Friday. The victim (name withheld) was taken to the Police Hospital in Accra by some Good Samaritans. The Accra Regional Police Command has mounted a search for the suspected robbers who bolted on a motorbike after shooting the victim. What happened Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mrs Effia Tenge, said the victim told the police that he received a call on Thursday, April 11, 2019 from an unknown caller who requested $60,000 in exchange for Ghana cedis. The victim, who claimed he was suspicious of the caller because he knew all his clients and also because the amount involved was huge, said he ignored the call. ...

There is no doubt that Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale is one of the biggest musicians in Ghana and with a huge fanbase that is completely loyal and will do almost anything he says. However, Highlife musician Anthony Akablay, says Shatta Wale is having a negative impact on the youth. “With his large fan base I don’t expect Shatta Wale to use certain words and engage in indecent acts. I know he has the largest fan base in Ghana at the moment but what impact is he making on them? The youth are engaged in all sorts of bad activities because they see him as their role model and blindly copy what he does,” he told Showbiz in an interview on Saturday, April 13. To Akablay, because Shatta Wale has a lot of influence on the youth, he can push them to using their energies and time positively. “I expect a lot from him as the leader he claims to be because the youths are going wayward and I will blame it largely on him,” he said. Will he ever do a collaboration with Shatta Wale? Akab...

More than 297,000 prank calls were received by the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) between December 24 last year and January 2 this year. On the average, the Fire Service received prank calls from 4,000 different phone numbers and 29,700 different calls on a daily basis within the period. The Assistant Fire Master at the Fire Service Control Room, Divisional Officer Grade II (DOII) Mrs Joyce Ghansah, disclosed this to the Daily Graphic in an interview in Accra last Thursday. A prank call, also known as crank call, is a telephone call intended by the caller as a practical joke played on the answering person. It is a type of nuisance call. Within 10 minutes of the Daily Graphic reporter arriving at the Master Control Room, about 30 prank calls were received. Love proposals Mrs Ghansah said out of the almost 300,000 calls received during the period, only three were calls from people genuinely in distress. She said some of the prank callers demanded call recharge cards, ...

One of the strange stories you will read on the internet, is that of a UK-based Ghanaian woman who was born with two vaginas and two wombs. The lady identified as Elizabeth Amoah, who has lived with this condition for years, has now decided to let the world know about it. Elizabeth also known as ‘Special Lady’, spoke on 3FM, where she revealed she had to undergo seven medical surgeries after she was diagnosed with having sexual complications. “I discovered I had a double womb and a double vagina canal in 2015 after an MRI scan, so I had to undergo about 7 surgeries. The scan, according to her, also detected she had Endometriosis: a sexual disorder in which tissues linings of the uterus grows outside the uterus. She explained having a double vagina means “having one vagina outside and the other inside”. She added that the double womb usually does not come with any symptoms but rather exposes one to health challenges such as irregular periods, fibroids, irregular fainting a...

The Swiss government wants to put an end to its emergency stockpile of coffee after declaring that it is "not essential" for human survival. Switzerland began storing emergency reserves of coffee between World War One and World War Two in preparation for potential shortages. It continued in subsequent decades to combat shortages sparked by war, natural disasters or epidemics. It now hopes to end the practice by late 2022. But opposition is mounting. It currently has 15,300 tonnes saved up - that's enough to last the country three months. Why stop this? The government now says coffee is "not essential for life" so doesn't need to be included in the emergency reserves. "Coffee has almost no calories and subsequently does not contribute, from the physiological perspective, to safeguarding nutrition," the Federal Office for National Economic Supply said (in German). Source: BBC

The myth that using tight rubber band on one’s hand will drain their blood was actually told by elderly people to deter the young ones from damaging their nervous system as disclosed by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of New Life Homeopathic Clinic, Dr. Mark Agyei. He explained that tight rubber band on hands makes a person feels numbness, in spite of the fact that blood can still run through the veins, the tight rubber band is rather killing the nervous system, making it inactive in the hand. Speaking to Peacefmonline.com in an exclusive interview, the Nervous System specialist revealed that continuous using tight rubber band on the hand weakens the hand to be responsive to action taken against the hand. “When you use tight rubber band on your hand, we used to say it will drain your blood; it is not true but rather it damages your nerves as you feel numbness. The blood will run through your veins but the nerves which make your hand active, the tight rubber band is k...

Menzgold Chief Executive Nana Appiah Mensah has expressed his gratitude to God hours after he was acquitted and discharge in Dubai over his case in court. He wrote on Instagram Tuesday, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever”. Charged with fraud over the gold deal worth $23million with a UAE company based in Dubai, Mr Mensah was acquitted and discharged on Tuesday. According to Starrfm.com.gh sources, the court presiding over the case further ordered the company Mr Mensah had issues with to pay him all outstanding debts. The news of Mr Mensah’s victory has put the government under pressure to get him brought back to Ghana within days to in order to refunds customers of his troubled gold trading firm. Speaking to journalists Tuesday, a deputy Attorney General and Minister of Justice Joseph Kpemka confirmed the acquittal and discharge of Mr Mensah. But, he stated that the complainant in the case has a 30-day period within which to appeal against the decision...

Regional Director of the Greater Accra National Disaster Management Organization [NADMO], Mr Evans Anakwa says persons living in flood prone areas must with immediate effect relocate. He explained that, the country will be expecting thunderstorms and heavy rains as the raining season approaches. His warning comes after a heavy downpour Sunday night in some parts of the country killing at least two and destroying properties. Mr Evans Anakwa described the death as “unfortunate” in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’. “Be at a safer place when it’s raining and relocate if you live in a flooding area,” he advised.

The 2019 edition of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) begins today. Final year Senior High School (SHS) students are expected to take part in the exams in various centers across the country. The examination is commencing with Basketry 3 project work. Per the timetable, the first core paper which is the English Language paper 3 (orals) exam will, however, be written on April 23, 2019. The 2019 WASSCE will end on June 7, with the Elective Information and Communication Technology. WAEC to verify 2019 WASSCE candidates biometrically to check impersonation The exam body – West African Examinations Council (WAEC) will, for the first time, capture the fingerprints of candidates who would be writing the papers as part of measures to curb impersonation. “In order to nip in the bud the growing trend of impersonation, the registration exercise for the 2019 examination for school candidates, for the first time, will capture fingerprints of candidates. Ev...

Advertisements on many herbal and orthodox medicines, as well as herbal-based alcoholic beverages, have become common these days, with messages in the advertisements promising aphrodisiac powers for men and slimming effects for women. All these are so because society now defines a real man by his sexual performance and, therefore, medical doctors say the youth are abusing these herbal medications without considering their side effects. However, a Consultant Physician and Kidney Specialist at the Department of Medicine at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr Winfred Baah, has cautioned the public against the use of such drugs, alcoholic beverages and abuse of all forms of medications. According to Dr Baah, the abuse of medication, particularly herbal preparations and some pain killers, was resulting in a high prevalence of kidney diseases, particularly among the youth. He explained that most of the herbal medications on the market had no scientific basis in terms of their prepar...

A dying nurse has begged God for forgiveness while confessing that she swapped thousands of babies while she was working as a nurse in UTH. Elizabeth Mwewa, a nurse who worked at University Teaching Hospital, formerly called Lusaka Hospital, in Lusaka, Zambia, confessed on her sick bed that she exchanged the babies of thousands of new mothers while she worked at the maternity ward of UTH. Elizabeth Bwalya Mwewa now suffers from cancer and, as she lay on her sickbed, she confessed to all her crimes. She said on Monday: "May God Forgive me for my sins." She added: "I used to swap babies at UTH for fun." She continued: "I have terminal cancer and I know I will be dying soon. I wish to confess my sins before God and before all the affected people especially those who were giving birth at UTH during my service. I have found God. I'm now born again. I have nothing to hide, In the 12 years I worked in the maternity ward at UTH, I swapped close to 5000 babi...

The reputation of an economical guru that Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia had built for himself whilst in opposition has completely evaporated since the NPP came into power and he actually had to run the economy. The cedi has completely exposed Bawumia, forcing him to hold a briefing on Wednesday in which he tried to convince Ghanaians that the depreciating cedi does not show that the fundamentals of the economy is weak as he himself told us. That mental gymnastics that he tried to do has been widely mocked by Ghanaians, and rightly so. This practice where politicians say one thing whilst in opposition and say exactly the opposite once they get into power and expect Ghanaians to believe them must be mocked every time it occurs. Mzbel, a staunch NDC supporter, is one of those mocking Bawumia over his speech. In a post on Facebook, the singer born Belinda Nana Ekua Amoah shared a portion of Bawumia’s speech and said he needs to ask God for forgiveness for lying to Ghanaians. ...

A 36-year-old unemployed man who got frustrated over washing the panties of his wife was arrested Sunday by the police at Agona Nkwanta for attempting to spiritually harm the woman he claimed has neglected him. The man, Emmanuel Obeng, who married the successful businesswoman last December, claimed his wife [name withheld], was being promiscuous and has failed to take care of him since losing his job. He thus approached a fetish priest to cause the wife’s breast and vagina to rot, and also to swap the woman’s wealth for him. Obeng then presented a photo and six panties of his wife to the fetish priest in the area, Nana Nzema, for the performance of the ritual. But the priest, who charged the man 1,600 cedis to perform the ritual, said he realised the woman is beautiful, hence reported Obeng to the Police leading to his arrest last Sunday.  He spent one night in police cell before being released upon intervention by his pastors and others. “I charged him 1,600 cedis and ...

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                                        Some of the ‘prostitutes’ at the Kaneshie police station Some 19 women, including five Nigerians suspected to be sex workers, have been arrested by the Kaneshie Police in Accra. Most of the suspects aged between 18 and 55 were picked up in a brothel near Avenor, in Accra while others were soliciting sex from customers on the streets. A man who claimed to be 32-years-old was also caught having sexual intercourse in the brothel with one of the supposed sex workers. Regina Dankwa, 55, who was arrested by the police, told DAILY GUIDE that she has been in the ‘business’ for the past decade. According to her, she engages prostitution only at night and uses the funds to take care of her grandchildren. “I have sacrificed to do this business to take care of my grandchild, since this is not a good business that I will allow my only daughter to e...

The chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the Winamda Polling Station in the Sekyere Afram Plains Constituency lost the wife and two daughters in the recent ghastly accident that occurred on the Amomoa-Nkwanta stretch of the Techiman-Kintampo Highway last Friday. Donkor Fuseini, a former District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sekyere Afram Plains during the previous NDC administration, made the disclosure. The deaths of about 60 people in the accident have sparked another round of heated debate over road safety in the country due to the high number of casualties involved. DAILY GUIDE gathered that the NDC Chairman’s wife and children were part of those who got burnt beyond recognition, which compelled the authorities to organize a mass burial for them. He told DAILY GUIDE that the NDC in the Winamda Polling Station and Sekyere Afram Plains in general have been devastated by the development. Mr Fuseini disclosed that the chairman’s wife travelled to th...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah is appealing to the Ministry of Works and Housing to help desilt the Odaw River in order to help prevent flooding within the Accra metropolis when the rains start. According to him, the assembly does not have the capacity to dredge the Odaw River, which receives most of the waste water within the metropolis and channel them to the sea. Mr Sowah who was speaking on Accra-based Star FM, said his outfit has reached out to the Ministry of Works and Housing on the issue but he is yet to receive any feedback from the ministry. "If it rains heavily tomorrow, there is going to be a challenge around the Odaw areas," he observed, noting that "the Odaw River is chocked and will become a big challenge to the AMA in saving lives in case the heavy down pours begin.” Mr Sowah, however, explained that government has secured an initial funding of US$150, 000,000 from the World Bank to...