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Monday 29 February 2016

Man 'Kills 14 Members Of His Family'

A 35-year-old Indian man killed 14 members of his own family, including seven children and his parents, before killing himself, police say. Reports suggest Hasnin Warekar laced his family's food with sedatives before slitting their throats.

Neighbours from the home in Thane, near Mumbai, were alerted to the attack by the screaming of the man's sister, who survived the attack.

An accident involving a military van and a Kia Rhino pickup on Sunday night at Firestone near Madina, resulted in the death of one person with three other persons being injured.

The dead has been identified as Miss Sarah Peprah, an occupant of the Military vehicle.

Her body has since been deposited at the Police Morgue for autopsy in Accra, whilst investigations continue.

Babysitter Decapitates Girl In Her Care, Then Walks Around Carrying Her Severed Head

A 39 year old woman is being held in Moscow by officers after she walked through streets carrying a child’s severed head. The video footage appeared to show the woman walking in the street, looking disorientated and carrying the child’s head before her arrest. Reports in Russia claim the woman shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as she was held.

Gyulchehra Bobokulova, from Uzbekistan, is said to have been wandering the streets with the head for an hour before police arrested her. The victim was a four year old girl identified as Nastya M. It is believed that the woman had waited until the parents left with the older child, and for unknown reasons committed murder of the child, set the apartment on fire and left the scene of the crime.

Adei Warns EC: Be Neutral, Or We’re Doomed

Professor Stephen Adei, former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has said failure on the part of the Electoral Commission to project neutrality in the conduct of its mandate, especially with regards to the 2016 general elections, can court trouble in the country.

"It is important that the actions or inactions of the EC should not project its lack of neutrality, as failure to implement measures to reduce greatly the possibility of the elections being rigged,” will bring “dire consequences in this country," he advised.

Ghana has prohibited some items from entry into its domain, following Nigeria’s foot steps that restricted 41 items from access to foreign exchange. Ghana however has placed a ban on some goods from being imported into the country. Ghanaian Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah stated yesterday that Ghana and Nigeria are said to account for some 68 per cent of the ECOWAS region’s Gross Domestic Product.

Constant stress — whether from a traffic-choked daily commute, unhappy marriage, or heavy workload — can have real physical effects on the body. It has been linked to a wide range of health issues, including mood, sleep, and appetite problems — and yes, even heart disease.

Former president Jerry John Rawlings has called on all stakeholders to maintain the “highest level of vigilance” to ensure a peaceful election 2016 in Ghana.

Speaking during a courtesy call on him by the new American Ambassador to Ghana, Robert Porter Jackson, he said the world’s super power must help the West African country to conduct peaceful polls come November 7.

Kumawood actor Kwaku Manu has cautioned Ghanaians to be prayerful and pray against spirits of death hovering around the country.

In a video posted on You Tube, the actor is heard saying that Ghana is not in a good state and without prayers, there will be bloodshed during this year’s election.

Some women at Papaase Number Two in Awutu Bawjiase, in the Awutu Senya West constituency in the Central region are thankful to New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate, George Andah for saving their marriages.

This was after the aspiring MP renovated the only borehole in the area which hitherto had broken down causing acute water shortage in the town.

A presidential staffer, James Agyenim Boateng, has opined that the violent nature and conduct of members of the opposition New Patriotic Party makes them more dangerous than the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees they have persistently scolded government for housing.

According to him, if there is anybody or group of persons in the country to criticize government for exposing the country to possible terrorist attacks because it accepted to shelter the two ex-Gitmo detainees, it is certainly not members of the biggest opposition party.

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, Charlotte Osei, has written to all directors and senior staff of the electoral body who are due for retirement to proceed on leave.

Her action forms part of plans to bring on board fresh minds to help in the day-to-day running of the Commission.

More than 400 teachers who have been identified by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to be teaching with fake certificates, have been handed over to the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI).

This is according to the Director General of GES, Jacob Kor.

A new study has shown the practice of carrying a smartphone in your trousers can have a drastic effect on fertility rates.

Scientists in Israel, who monitored over 100 men for a more than a year, found that 47 per cent of the men who kept their phones in their front trouser pocket had low sperm levels, compared to 11 per cent of the general population.

But it wasn’t just close proximity to the wedding tackle which affected the sperm count.

11 Tips for Lowering Cholesterol Levels

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Drink lots of water
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A Charlotte man is facing federal charges after investigators said he attempted to smuggle weapons and ammunition into West Africa.

Richmond Attah, 30, was charged with one count of violating the Arms Export Control Act, one count of illegal firearms dealing, two counts of smuggling goods from the United States and four counts of making false statements to a firearms dealer, according to federal authorities.

Multi-millionaire boxer Floyd Mayweather has been wooing the British 19 year old shop girl he met in the West Midlands with front row tickets to top basketball games and travelling from city to city in private jets.

In their quest to change the pigment of their black colour to that of white, Ghanaian women now resort to using cement to bleach their skin.

This was revealed by Director, Chief Physician and Consultant Dermatologist of Rabito Clinic, Professor Edmund Delle, in an interview with Today.

According to him, people mix all kinds of chemicals with cement and pepsodent to whiten their skin.

Bathing with hot water although considered by most people to be a luxury, is perceived as a necessity in some parts of Ghana.

One common scene to observe in some suburbs in Kumasi lately is the queue of people buying hot water for bathing. Commercialisation of hot bathing water is a common practice in suburbs like Aboabo, Dagomba line and Asuase in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.

Authorities of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have appealed to members of the public to help identify a survivor of the Kintampo road accident.

It’s this world — a chaotic mix of nude photos, cyber-bullying and dysfunctional relationships — that author Nancy Jo Sales ventured into when researching her new book, “America Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers” .

Sales has been studying the lives of American teenagers since the 1990s. During her 2 1/2 years of research for “American Girls,” she was alarmed, though not shocked, by what she found. (Most adult readers will be shocked by, as Sales points out, how wildly the adult experience of social media differs from that of a teen. An adult might be on Facebook and Twitter, but they probably haven’t even heard of most of the apps that teens use, let alone how they use them.)

Mahama deserves a second term – Prof Alabi

A former Greater Accra regional minister under the Rawlings regime, Prof. Joshua Alabi, has called on Ghanaians to give President John Dramani Mahama a second chance come November 7, 2016.

Ghana goes to the polls in November to elect a new president and parliamentarians as Mahama squares off with his main contender Nana Akufo-Addo for the second time.

The Founder of the International Central Gospel Church, Pastor Mensa Otabil, has urged Ghanaians not to be content with the provision of basic goods and services such as roads, water and electricity by the state.

“We can’t just be happy because a road has been tarred. We can’t just be happy that we didn’t have electricity now we have electricity. We can’t be happy with minimals”, he said, adding: “…citizens must have an appetite for better.”

Let’s play a word-association game. If I say the word marriage, what comes to mind? Hot, steamy sex and earth-shattering orgasms? No, I thought not. When I asked some of my besties, they said things like “kids”, “old” and “trapped”. That’s because the prevailing cultural narrative for women my age – I’m 27 – is that our teens and 20s are for sexual adventures: the try-before-you-buy approach.

Our early 30s are for being just as flirty, perhaps a wee bit pickier, and for forging ahead with our careers. Eventually, when we get bored with playing the field and crawling home at 4am with a hangover that lasts three days, we settle down, have babies and start listening to Radio 4.

Iraq is searching for "highly dangerous" radioactive material stolen last year, according to an environment ministry document and seven security, environmental and provincial officials who fear it could be used as a weapon if acquired by Islamic State.

The material, stored in a protective case the size of a laptop computer, went missing in November from a storage facility near the southern city of Basra belonging to U.S. oilfield services company Weatherford WFT.N, the document seen by Reuters showed and officials confirmed.

A spokesman for Iraq's environment ministry said he could not discuss the issue, citing national security concerns.

Forty two passengers on a Kumasi bound Metro Mass bus are confirmed dead in a fatal accident in Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region Wednesday evening.

Consequently, there has been a heavy traffic on the Tamale-Kumasi corridor road, as vehicles queue for the accident scene to clear.

Two students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology are on admission at the university’s hospital in Kumasi after they were stabbed in a clash between residents of the Katanga and Continental halls of the university.

Twenty others also sustained varied degrees of injuries in the Sunday show of power feud on campus.

It is unclear what sparked the dispute between the two perpetual student-enemies as school are tight-lipped on the matter.

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Scores of people are injured as a trailer rammed into over 20 vehicles on the George Walker Bush Motorway popularly known as the N1 on Tuesday evening.

An eyewitness who was in a state of shock, told Starrfmonline.com the trailer, which was running at top speed, had a brake failure and in an attempt to veer off the busy motorway for safe parking smashed into moving vehicles which led to spontaneous crashes.

The group spearheading the campaign for the breakaway of some parts of the Volta, Upper East and Northern regions from Ghana is planning to sue government.

The Homeland Study group is accusing successive governments of reneging on a promise to develop the former Western Togoland after they joined Ghana in the 195O’s.

Two hundred and four bags of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp have been found in several houses at Apeisika, a farming community in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region.

According to the Nkawkaw Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Joseph Osafo Peprah, when the Police got to the community at dawn last Friday, “we found 204 bags of the substances after just about two hours of searching through community.”

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is demanding the immediate prosecution of all persons indicted in the Smarttys bus branding scandal.

NPP’s Director of Communication, Nana Akomea at a news conference held on Tuesday, said attempts by government to shield persons indicted in the Attorney General’s report is a clear indication that the Mahama administration is not serious to fight corruption.

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured fisherfolk across the coastal areas of the country of better times and improved conditions of work under an Akufo-Addo-led NPP government, when he wins this year’s presidential election.

Addressing fisherfolk at Apeosika, in the Evalue Gwira Constituency in the Western Region, on Tuesday, February 16, Nana Akufo-Addo noted that with Ghana’s fishing population accounting for 10% of the country’s total population, it is that important measures are put in place to stimulate growth in the sector.

Mr Emmanuel Nii Okai Laryea, MP for Amasaman (Left) and Mr George Loh, MP for North Dayi. Picture credit(Graphiconline)

Armed robbers have allegedly attacked two Members of Parliament (MPs) and a high court judge in separate robbery incidents at their residences in Accra.

They are the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Amasaman, Mr Emmanuel Nii Okai Laryea; the NDC MP for North Dayi, Mr George Loh, and the High Court Judge, Mr Richard Adjei Frimpong.

Ken Agyapong ‘hot’ for threatening Joy FM’s Ato-Kwamena

Plain-speaking New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for the Assin North Constituency in the Central Region, Kennedy Agyapong, may soon find himself at the wrong side of the law, for allegedly threatening a journalist.

The Journalist, Ato-Kwamena Dadzie, a senior News Editor with Accra-based Joy FM, in a Facebook post on Tuesday February 16, confirmed filing a complaint against the MP, who also owns Accra-based Oman FM, and a number of businesses.

The issue of Fulani herdsmen might not end anytime soon after an operation has been launched in the Eastern region to ‘shoot and kill stubborn’ cows.

The operation was propelled after police gathered information that the Fulanis are heading to the Eastern Region from Agogo in the Ashanti Region.

Dubbed operation “Cow Leg” the Eastern Regional Police Commander, DCOP Awuntubuge Awuni noted that the operation is meant to drive out Fulanis who are suspected to be causing mayhem in the region.

The alleged killer of New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, has been officially charged with “intentionally” and “unlawfully” causing the death of the MP.

The suspect, whose name has been given as Daniel Asiedu, was charged when he made his first appearance in court, Tuesday.

5 injured in Airport building collapse

A storey building under construction near the Airport residential area has caved in on Saturday.

Five persons, according to eyewitnesses, have sustained injuries.

Mum stabs her 3 daughters to death after her husband filed for divorce

A mum has been jailed for life for the murder of her three young daughters.
Carol Ann Coronado's three girls were discovered laid out on her bed with their throats slit.
The youngsters were also stabbed through their hearts in what was described as an interrupted plot to “take out her family" .

THE DEPUTY Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Mrs. Dzifa Gomashie is calling for the arrest of actors in the entertainment industry who expose themselves indiscriminately.

While blaming bad parenting for the nudity in the industry, she urged the law enforcers to act appropriately.

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A woman from Denmark named Anja Ringgren Lovén has spent three years in Nigeria saving children from the worst cases of abuse. She is taking care of kids abandoned by their own very families for being witches.

A documentary on her work is coming up and she has been raising funds from people in her country to assist the kids. See what this woman is doing, it can’t be compared to some Nigerian NGO’s that are just eating UN’s Money.

God Doesn't Make A Mistake - NPP Communicator Tells Samia & Co

Lawyer John Kumah, member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications team, has congratulated Ivor Greenstreet for being elected as Flagbearer of the Convention People's Party.

Ivor Greenstreet polled 1,288 votes, representing 64.2% of valid votes cast, routing Samia Nkrumah who polled 579 votes.

Brother to Samia Nkrumah, Dr Sekou Nkrumah, is of the belief that his sister does not really understand the dynamics of Ghanaian politics.

According to him, Ms Nkrumah’s agenda is “more of self-seeking”, and “trying to fit into her own personal ambition.”

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Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Edmund Delle has advised Samia Nkrumah to apologise to the party’s newly elected presidential candidate Ivor Greenstreet for accusing him of bribery.

Samia, after losing the Saturday presidential primaries accused Greenstreet of bribing each delegate with GHC200.00, an allegation the flagbearer-elect has denied.

Transport fares in Ghana have been increased by 15%, effective February 1, 2016, stakeholders in the transport sector have announced.

The acting General Secretary of the Ghana Road Transport Coordinating Council (GRTCC), Andrews Kwesi Kwakye said the Unions were moderate in fixing the new fares.

A graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Jones Kyei Nyarko, who was said to have threatened to shoot on sight the newly posted United States Ambassador to Ghana, Robert Jackson has been arraigned.

Nyarko was said to have been put before an Accra Circuit Court presided over by Mrs Patricia Quansah, Monday’s edition of the Daily Guide newspaper reported.

Five Chinese Nationals have been arrested for invading portions of the Apamprama forest reserve in the Bekwai district of Ashanti region.

Three Ghanaians were also arrested alongside the Chinese.

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