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Family contracts pastor to break news of Amissah-Arthur’s death to his 92-year-old mum

The mother of the late Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur is yet to be informed about the death of her son. According to reports, Amissah-Arthur’s mother is a 92-year-old woman and the family fears something bad might happen to her if the news is disclosed to her. The family, MyNewsGH reported, has thus decided to let Cape Coast-based Methodist pastor do the duty of informing the old woman. The pastor is said to be someone who often prays and worships with the 92-yesr-old old and will be expected to deliver the information in a way that will not affect the woman’s health. It has become difficult to break the news to her owing to how close she was with her adult son, who rose to become Vice President in her lifetime. Mr Amissah-Arthur, as earlier reported died at the 37 Military in the early hours of Friday, June 29. He had been rushed to the hospital after collapsing at the Airforce gym while training. The sixth vice president of Ghana’s Fourth Rep...

I dreamt Amissah-Arthur’s death – Abronye DC

A former member of ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has revealed he dreamt about the death of former vice president, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur. According to Kwame Baffoe popularly known as Abronye, around 3:am Friday dawn, he had a premonition that something wrong will happened to the former Veep. The former Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organizer disclosed this on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Friday’s hours after the death of Mr. Amissah-Arthur. The immediate past Reports indicate Mr Amissah Arthur collapsed at the Airforce Gym on Friday morning during a workout session and was rushed to the 37 Military Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Controversial prophet, Isaac Owusu Bempah has been attacked for claiming he saw the impending death of Amissah-Arthur. He claimed he prophesied about the death but the late vice president did not take concrete steps to avert it. But members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have launched blistering at...

The 6 procurement breaches that led to Charlotte Osei’s removal

The immediate past Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei, blatantly breached procurement laws in the award of several contracts in her three-year period at the helm of affairs, prior to the 2016 elections. The report of the committee set up by the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo recommended her removal from office, after investigating separate complaints brought against her. She was investigated over six separate allegations of various procurement breaches, for which a prima facie case was established against her. The Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid, outlined the breaches at a Press Conference on Friday morning. He also said the government will forward the adverse findings made against Charlotte Osei and her two former deputies to the Attorney General for possible prosecution . The breakdown of the procurement breaches are as followed. Engagement of Lawyers Charlotte Osei was said to have engaged the services of lawyers, Sory...

Killer dressing by Christian women killing us – Pastor reveals

A man of God has lamented how the spirit of God is gradually leaving the church due to the provocative dressing of some women. Rev Daniel Boateng said most of the women who opt to sit at the front roll in church wear  very short cloths just to disrupt pastors when preaching. The man of God who is the Head Pastor of Sure way Assembly of God at Kasoa in the Central region made this revelation in an interview on Adom News. He noted that, these women who deliberately dress provocatively come dancing in front of the congregation exposing their nakedness to the pastor and elders of the church. Rev Boateng explained how most pastors weak in the spirit are affected psychologically by the evil conduct of these women especially when delivering the serm on If he had his way, the man of God said he will banish such ‘daughters of Jezebel’ who breach his dress code from the church. Rev Boateng maintained that such provocative dressing hampering the work of God thus ...

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Countryman Songo announces return in new video

Multimedia journalist, Patrick Osei Agyemang, popularly known in media circles as Countryman Songo, is due for a comeback next Monday, adomonline.com can confirm. Songo who has been off air for some time now has been preparing for his return in the last few days and he has exclusively confirmed that he will be back on our television screens on Monday. The award-winning journalist who hosts Ghana’s most-watched mid-day television show, “Fire 4 Fire” on Adom TV has been off air for what Management says is for “strategic reasons”. Songo, a known critic of sports, particularly football, was off air when the recent scandal hit Ghana football. Viewers have therefore been yearning for his views on the happenings, especially as he has, in the past, insisted that there is rot in the game that needs the state’s attention. At a recent Presidential Press Meet at the Jubilee House, the tough-talking journalist was on record to have asked the president about hi...

Kofi Boakye tasked to clear GFA rot

The Ghana Football Association has tasked tough-talking Police commissioner Kofi Boakye to deal with a bribery scandal involving more than 70 referees and several officials. In a statement signed by the Association’s General Secretary Isaac Addo assured the public, COP Kofi Boakye who is Chairman of the Ethics Committee will have a free hand to deal with rot that has sunk the GFA to its lowest ebb in history. The GFA said it will “embrace any decision” the Ethics Committee will take during its investigations. The FA also announced it has dissolved the Referees Appointment Committee even as the government also takes steps to dissolve the entire association. The FA whose president Kwesi Nyantakyi resigned last Friday has also set up a five-member team to meet the government for “reform” talks. The 8-point statement becomes the first step the shocked FA is taking to respond to a reputation crisis which has turned the nation against organisers of a ...

Convicted kidnapper ‘rejected’ by prison authorities on health grounds

Prison authorities in Kumasi say they cannot accommodate a convicted criminal because he has a health condition they suspect could be contagious. Twenty-six-year-old, Collins James Kodah, has been jailed 10 years for unlawfully taking possession of two children of KNUST Basic School last month. Police escorted him to Kumasi Central Prisons to begin the jail term only for authorities to turn him away, sparking off widespread discontent among the police. A collaboration between police and telecom operator, MTN, led to the arrest of Mr Kodah and the kidnapped children at is hide-out in Asante Akim Agogo, last month. He was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court on May 18, 2018. Mr Kodah was, however, refused entry to Kumasi Central Prison because officials suspect his strange skin condition could be leprosy. He has since been taken back to police custody. The Nurse-in-Charge of the Kumasi Central Prison Infirmary, Superintendent Ceph...

Soldiers beat 17-year-old student, father and mother

A 17-year-old Student of Kwahu Ridge Senior High School together with his parents have been allegedly beaten by some military men at Ekye in the Afram Plains South District of Eastern Region. The incident occurred on Friday 1st June 2018 around 4-5pm close to the River Afram. According to the family, the military men, ten in number did not hesitate to attack the 43yr old father (who had gone to protect his son) after two military men had vigorously beaten the 17yr old Student (Emma) for wearing short uniform. Narrating their ordeal to Agoo Fm News, Emma told Ebenezer Kojo Nyavor (K-Lover) that, two soldiers in uniform questioned him for wearing short uniform when he had gone out with the uncle to wash car. Emma said “I told them my school father gave me the uniform since I did not have one. Although I pleaded with them to allow me to go, they went ahead to beat me up using sticks. They were two but one of them engaged in such manner”. According to him, he has been experienc...

Man gets 20 years for impregnating daughter

The 40-year-old man, who had sex with his two daughters and impregnated one of them, has been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by a Sekondi Gender-based court. Joshua Mensah was convicted after he pleaded guilty to the charges of incest and defilement. The Western Regional Police Command arrested Mensah for allegedly impregnating his 13-year-old daughter at Daboase in the Western Region. The convict, according to sources, repeatedly had sex with his two daughters aged 13 and 10. DAILY GUIDE learnt that the abominable act by the father was initially reported to the Daboase Police by the mother. This was after Yaa Foriwaa, 31, who plies her trade in Accra, had visited the children at Daboase. She realised that the husband had defiled the girls. According to reports, Mensah started having sexual intercourse with the girls about a year ago and that he usually beat the girls whenever they resisted. The 31-year-old mother could not hold back her tears when she spoke to j...

10-yr-old girl allegedly commits suicide in Kumasi

Residents of Kotei, a suburb of Kumasi have been thrown into shock after a ten-year old girl allegedly committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. Edith Amponsah’s body was found hanging in her home late afternoon, Friday on a sponge attached to a drying line. The Primary four pupil had returned from school just at the time her grandma got home after Friday Muslim congregational prayer to prepare food for her. The house is situated close to hostels built high up where inmates could see activities in Janet Dawud’s house At a point, grandma needed the deceased to run errands for her but she was nowhere to be found. Devastated and shattered grandmother, Janet Dawud, was preparing some food for her and other children in the house. One of the students had spotted Edith hanging loosely with a sponge tied around her neck on a drying line at the back of the house. He then rushed to the house to inform Janet Dawud; grandmother of the deceased, who was the only person in th...

Why Ghanaians Are So Slow To Bury Their Dead - BBC

In our series of letters from African journalists, writer Elizabeth Ohene considers why bodies are not buried for months, sometimes years, in Ghana. This past week there was another one of those typically Ghanaian funeral stories in the news. The body of a chief who had died six years ago was still in the morgue as the family bickered over who should be designated as the "chief mourner". I was, as is usual with me, outraged. But the story did not attract much attention because we regularly leave dead bodies in the morgue for long periods to sort out the disputes that erupt after every death in this country. Our elaborate, expensive funerals and over-the-top dramatically carved caskets are well documented. In spite of the keen interest I have taken in trying to work out how funerals came to have such a hold on our society, there are some things that I still cannot understand after all these years. Fantasy coffins I have to keep on trying to find explanations....

Boy, 19 sells his 6year old brother to ritualist to pay bride price

A 19-year-old man has been arrested by the Niger state police command for allegedly selling his 6-year-old brother to a ritual killer for N20,000. Aliyu Basala Yakutchi confessed to having sold his younger brother, Yamusa Ibrahim Yakutchi, to 30-year-old Legbo in order to raise money to pay his wife’s bride price, New Telegraph reports. Legbo is currently at large, according to police. Aliyu, who claimed to be the third of his mother’s six children, said that he sold his brother on credit. Unaware of the gravity of his offense, he pleaded with the police to release him unconditionally so that he could go and tend to his farm. He said: I decided to sell my younger brother for N20,000 on credit so that I can raise money to pay for the bride price of my 14-year-old lover. I took my younger brother, Yamusa, to Malam Legbo for money rituals because he promised to pay me N20,000 if he succeeded in using him for money rituals. I wanted to use the money to finance my marria...