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Friday, 30 July 2010 11:36 |
A Kumasi High Court 2 presided over by Justice Jacob Boon has sentenced a 23-year-old native of Bolgatanga in the Upper East region to death by hanging.
The court slammed the punitive sentence on Yaaba Zah, after the seven-member jury instituted for the trial unanimously found the convict guilty of murder.
After attentively hearing the submissions of the jurors, the presiding judge pronounced the death sentence by hanging on the convict who stood trial for murder.
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 10:56 |
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United States President, barrack Obama , yesterday assured Ghana of more support from his government to help the country combat common diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS. “Ghana and the entire Africa have our support in the fight against preventable diseases,” president Obama said in a message delivered to President Mills here by John Carson, Under Secretary of State in charge of Africa affairs. Mr. Carson, leader of the US delegation to the ongoing AU summit in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, told President Mills when he called on him to deliver the message, that President Obama considered the challenge of fighting diseases as a global one, which the U.S. was committed to helping to address. |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:56 |
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, a leading contender for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential race, has accused the Mills administration of lying to win power following a litany of broken promises.
“Professor Mills and John Mahama’s NDC told Ghanaians mountains of lies to vote for them and today here we are: the hardship on Ghanaians is untold and every good policy the NPP, led by Kufuor, laid down for Ghana to grow has been shattered by the NDC,” Nana said.
Nana Addo was addressing a large crowd of Tema East NPP delegates in Tema to solicit for their votes in the party’s presidential primary slated for August 7, 2010.
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 09:27 |
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Poisonous moonshine has killed at least 17 people and blinded a dozen more in Kenya's largest slum.
Police said the home-distilled drink may have contained traces of methanol.
Many of those who died were found in their homes in the Nairobi slum of Kibera. Some were taken to hospital but died after arriving there.
Alcohol-related deaths are common in Kenya, with hundreds of people dying every year from poisoned liquor often sold in the brewer's home. |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:43 |
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A Kumasi-based pastor Monday afternoon shot himself dead in the darkness of his room.
Rev Opoku Agyemang, Head Pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Kwadaso-Nzema in Kumasi, locked himself up in the room before committing the act at about 4pm.
The pastor was said to be recovering from a short illness and had gone to hospital a day before his untimely death.
It is unclear why the pastor took his own life. The body has since been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital mortuary in Kumasi for autopsy. |
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