Malaysia's anti-corruption squad grabbed Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin and businessman Albert Tei, and both got hit with six-day detention orders from a Putrajaya court. The case centers on alleged bribes worth hundreds of thousands of ringgit that Tei supposedly handed over to Shamsul so he could help get back money that went to Sabah politicians earlier.
Authorities also picked up Sofia Rini Buyong during the sweep, and she caught a four-day remand that started earlier. Shamsul already quit his job as the prime minister's senior political secretary before the arrests went down.
Sabah's election pulled in about a third of eligible voters by mid-morning, with the Election Commission reporting 545,391 people out of 1.78 million had shown up to cast ballots. The state's 882 voting spots started shutting down in waves after lunch and wrapped up completely by late afternoon.
Officials said they expect preliminary numbers to start dropping around 10 pm unless bad weather messes up ballot box transport. The EC wants to have full results posted by midnight if everything goes smoothly.
Papa Shee called out some shady stuff happening at a Kumasi High Court hearing about who gets to do the widowhood rites for the late Daddy Lumba. The evangelist said he spotted lawyers from one side walking out of the judge's private room, and he thinks that whole situation looks sketchy as hell. The court ended up saying both Akosua Serwaa Fosuh and Priscilla Ofori Atta could perform the ceremonies because neither woman proved the other one should get blocked.
Akosua Serwaa tried arguing she was the only legit wife, but the ruling shut that down after hearing claims about foreign civil marriages and customary arrangements. Her legal team already said they're taking the case to a different court because this fight is nowhere near...
Ghana's Controller and Accountant-General's Department blamed a technical glitch for missing teacher allowance payments, and the explanation got ripped apart for being vague nonsense that dodged accountability. The department told educators to wait until mid-December for their professional development and data payments without explaining what broke, how it happened, or what fixes are coming.
Teacher unions GNAT, NAGRAT, and PRETAG put out a response that got called out for being weak and toothless when members needed aggressive representation. Critics said the joint letter lacked deadlines, consequences, or real demands, and the groups basically sent a polite note when they should have been threatening strikes or mobilizing members...
Two cops got hit with a combined 30 years behind bars after a court in Gbetsile found them guilty of running drugs. ASP Nasiru Amadu and Corporal Emmanuel Mintah were busted back in 2023 when district police in Afienya pulled over their Nissan Navara during a checkpoint operation. Officers found eight bags stuffed with 541 blocks of narcotics that the pair was hauling from Ho to Accra.
The prosecutor laid out how Mintah got recruited by his relative Oluman, who deals out of Ashaiman Tulaku, and then Mintah brought Amadu into the scheme. The two used an official police vehicle to pick up the drugs from a Benz bus near Peki Tsibu in the Volta Region, and investigators confirmed this was actually their second run.
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The University of Cape Coast Governing Council officially ended Johnson Nyarko Boampong's time as Vice Chancellor after deciding his two-year extension violated constitutional rules about mandatory retirement at age sixty. The council met and looked at a court case that got dropped, plus guidelines from the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, before concluding Boampong had to step down when he hit the retirement age cutoff.
His second term wrapped up on his sixtieth birthday, and the council said their revised decision cancels any previous paperwork that mentioned extending his appointment beyond that point. The whole situation came down to making sure university leadership follows both campus regulations and national constitutional...
Firefighters knocked down a blaze that ripped through a two-story building in Ashaiman after getting called out to Nii Amui Street. The crew from Ashaiman Fire Station showed up first, but the flames were bad enough that backup teams from Tema Motorway and Tema Metro had to jump in.
By the time they got everything under control, three rooms were toast, and two more got wrecked partially, but the squads managed to keep eleven rooms and five storage areas from burning. Nobody got hurt, and investigators are still trying to figure out what started the whole thing at House Number 51.
The Knights of St. John International and their Ladies' Auxiliary are backing the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference and Christian Council after those groups defended mission schools keeping their religious character. The organization said schools need to stay Christian because young people require proper values and discipline to become functional adults who help the country move forward.
Their statement came after Democracy Hub got permission from the Supreme Court to jump into the Wesley Girls' case as a friend of the court. The lawsuit claims Wesley Girls' blocks Muslim students from wearing hijabs, fasting during Ramadan, and doing other Islamic practices at the school.
Bono Regional Minister Joseph Addae Akwaboa just set up a six-member sports committee to get athletic programs moving in the area. Takyi Arhin, a football administrator, got tapped to run the group that has to follow rules from the 2016 Sports Act and handle talent scouting while coordinating between different organizations.
Akwabok told the committee they need to dig up athletes who can actually compete and pay attention to sports that nobody cares about yet. Kwame Baa Mensah from the National Sports Authority thanked the Regional Coordinating Council for backing the whole project, and the group is supposed to make sure national sports policies get enforced properly across Bono.
