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The Ghana Police Service has arrested three persons for engaging in a fight and causing a temporary disruption of the ongoing limited voter registration exercise at the Tepa Electoral Commission office in the Ashanti Region. The three suspects, Abass Abukari, George Vinor and Abdul Karim, were arrested on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, and are currently in Police custody assisting with the investigation. In a brief statement from the Police, it noted calm has since been restored as the registration exercise continues. The 2024 limited voter registration commenced on Tuesday, May 7 and is expected to last for 21 days. The Commission is hoping to register about 623,000 new registrants. Despite a few technical challenges on Tuesday, the EC said it has resolved all challenges and the process is running smoothly across all 268 district offices of the EC.

Mr Kyerremeh, who was contributing to the debate in Parliament on the 2016 budget estimates, assured Ghanaians that Government was commuted to providing quality education. He said Government would really make senior high school education progressively free, and that the 27 percent allotment of the budget to the education sector was one of the best in the West Africa sub-region. …..Mr Kyeremeh said the Government is determined to improve access, quality, and equity to education and is adapting strategies to reduce teacher absenteeism, which is one area of concern to the Ministry.

The Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal in Abuja has ordered that its interim order, restraining MultiChoice Nigeria Limited from increasing the DSTV tariff, be pasted at the firm’s “corporate headquarters or any known address of the branches of MultiChoice Nigeria Limited across Nigeria.”

Two persons who onboard a motorbike in Wassa Amenfi East have died in a motor accident around 4:30pm on Sunday. The accident which occured at Wassa Ntwentwena, a section of Dunkwa to Bogoso highways was as a results of wrong overtaking. The deceased in their 40's are identified as Kofi Mensah and Kwame Ogange. The two heading from Wassa Domeabra towards Wassa Nkonya involved in head-on collision with a motorbike after the overtaking foiled. As a results, Kofi Mensah and Kwame Ogange fell in the middle of the road and got smashed in the head by incoming passenger vehicle. The other passengers on the motorbike which also involved in the accident sustained injuries. The corpse has since been deposited in a hospital for autopsy and preservation. Call: Hon Emmanuel Akwesi Oduro = Assemblyman for wassa saa electoral area Source - Rivers Fm 

The current Assembly Member for the Teberebe Electoral Area, Manasseh Addison Sackey, widely known as Teacher Obour, along with another individual, tragically drowned when the canoe they were traveling in capsized in a river at Mile 10 and half, connecting to Aklika. They were on their way to campaign when the unfortunate incident occurred. Source : Space Fm Tarkwa.

Professor of Economics and Governance Studies at the State university of New York, Stony Brook, Professor Emmanuel Kwasi Prempeh has advised government to re-direct Teacher And Nursing Trainees Allowance to improving infrastructure in the Colleges of Education. According to Professor Prempeh, the policy of paying Allowance to Teacher and Nursing Trainees so as to attract more students to the teaching profession is no longer tenable. He is therefore calling on the Education Ministry, Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, GTEC and other state agencies to re-focus and re-direct financial allocations towards providing infrastructure to the Colleges of Education. Professor Emmanuel Kwasi Prempeh was contributing to a media discussion on the delay in releasing funds for the payment of allowances to Teachers and Nursing Trainees. Meanwhile, Teacher And Nursing Trainees Allowance has been in arrears for six months now with some trainees speculating cancelation of same, altogether.

  Information gathered from a reliable source indicate that the lookalike of Pastor Adom Kyei Duah is dead. The cause of his death is not known now.  Details soon if the story is not a prank.