Criminal charges are reportedly weeks away for a former Health Minister over a vaccine deal that cost Ghana millions and never delivered a single dose.
Sputnik V vaccine procurement scandal
Felix Kwakye Ofosu announced looming charges against Kwaku Agyemang Manu.
Prosecution prep over the Sputnik V deal is well advanced.
Agyemang Manu cut a deal through a UAE intermediary.
Ghana paid roughly $19 per dose, almost double the price.
How the deal fell apart
About $2.85 million was paid, but no vaccines arrived.
Parliament's ad hoc committee flagged missing procurement approvals.
Public Procurement Authority authorization was never obtained.
Ghana's government scrapped the deal in July 2021.
Frontiers Healthcare Services controversy...
A head-on crash on the Kintampo Highway killed two people and left survivors trapped in mangled wreckage until firefighters cut them free.
Fatal collision near Tuobodom
An Opel Astra and a commercial minibus collided head-on.
Two people died in the Friday afternoon wreck.
Techiman Fire Station got the distress call around 16:42.
Rescue crews extracted passengers from badly damaged vehicles.
Aftermath and emergency response
Survivors were rushed to Holy Family Hospital for treatment.
Firefighters handed the two bodies over to the police.
Authorities launched a probe into the crash's cause.
Bono East officials urged caution on the highway.
A senior police officer turned up dead on his kitchen floor, and investigators are now piecing together what happened from cryptic messages and a service weapon found nearby.
Discovery of DSP Rockson Gyasi's body
Rockson Gyasi was found dead at his Akweteyman home.
His wife, Mavis Boateng, discovered him around 5 a.m.
Gyasi lay in a pool of blood with facial injuries.
His service pistol sat on a nearby kitchen stool.
Background and timeline leading up to it
Gyasi was a Deputy Superintendent stationed at Tsito.
He had traveled to Accra on Tuesday to visit family.
Tesano Divisional Police got the alert at 5:46 a.m.
Officers responded and confirmed the scene on Friday.
Where the investigation stands
Digital messages from Gyasi to his...
A graduation ceremony just pushed 120 new tech grads into the workforce, with every speaker hammering home that problem-solving beats credentials every time.
OpenLabs Ghana's 2026 graduation ceremony
OpenLabs Ghana graduated 120 students in Accra.
Diplomas covered network and software engineering fields.
Certificates spanned cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
Saturday's theme centered on tech-driven productivity skills.
Leadership's message to the new grads
Pankaj Maheshwari highlighted two decades of hands-on training.
Thousands of past grads already work across West Africa.
Sucheta Thakare pushed graduates toward lifelong curiosity.
Kingsley Adjenku-Hayford called integrity a marketplace must-have.
Standout students and...
A fresh book on immigration strategy just got its big launch, with a Supreme Court Justice framing migration as an economic engine worth hundreds of billions.
Justice Kulendi on migration's economic weight
Yonny Kulendi called migration a driver of global growth.
Ageing societies lean on migrants to fill labor gaps.
Remittances globally clocked around $905 billion in 2024.
Skills transfer and workforce boosts hit both sides.
Wonder Victor Kutor's immigration guide
Kutor penned The Immigration Formulae for prospective migrants.
His book tackles the info gap around visa applications.
Getting a visa alone does not guarantee actual entry.
Immigration officers at borders make the final call.
Key warnings and practical tools inside...
A five-year prison sentence just landed on a manager who swapped his boss's real cash with stacks of counterfeit bills.
Shubham Sharma's counterfeit swap scheme
Sharma pocketed genuine money, replacing it with fakes.
Fake GH¢200 notes totaled nearly GH¢2 million.
Bogus US$100 bills hit around US$191,900.
His employer manufactures air fresheners in Accra.
How the scheme went down
Sharma broke into the company safe mid-trip.
Real dollars got switched out for counterfeit ones.
Large sums of Ghana cedis were similarly replaced.
The Bank of Ghana verified that every seized note was fake.
Sentencing and what comes next
An Accra Circuit Court handed down concurrent terms.
Sharma already sat in custody for over nine months.
Destruction of...
A Kickstarter-backed all-in-one recording gadget from HISONG just hit the market with a mic, audio interface, and wireless earbuds crammed into one unit.
What the AirStudio S1 actually packs
A USB-C audio interface lives inside the mic.
Wireless IEM earbuds stash inside the mic body.
HISONG's proprietary tech delivers 24ms latency.
Recording, podcasting, streaming, and vlogging are all covered.
Mic and earbud specs worth noting
Dual-pattern condenser and dynamic modes are switchable.
A built-in pop filter handles plosive cleanup.
Earbuds rock 13mm, dynamic-diaphragm speakers.
Eight hours of battery life covers both components.
Controls and connectivity options
Physical knobs handle gain, mute, and monitoring level.
Deeper tweaks...
UVI's Mosaiq 26 update just landed with four fresh sound collections and a brand-new Keys category built for hands-on playing.
Four new sound collections
Ethereal, Y2K, Broken Beats, and French Club arrived.
Each collection ships with its own chord banks.
Over 800 exclusive presets came with this drop.
More than 500 additional sound sources got added.
The Keys category is the big addition
Dedicated keyboard-focused presets exist in every collection.
Expressive playing and improvisation are the target here.
Pattern-free workflows finally have a proper home.
Compatibility rundown for Mosaiq 26
UVI Workstation 4.0.4+ and Falcon 26.0.3+ are required.
Windows 10+ and macOS 10.14+ are both supported.
VST, VST3, AU, and AAX formats all...
A free firmware update just dropped for IK Multimedia's ARC On-Ear, packing in a dozen fresh headphone profiles and workflow tweaks.
New headphone profiles in v1.3
Apple AirPods Max made the calibration cut.
Audeze S20 and HEDD Audio HEDDphone D1 joined.
Hundreds of models are supported after this addition.
IK Multimedia measured every single pair in-house.
Workflow got a serious speed bump
Navigation arrows let users flip between virtual speakers.
Smart search landed in the headphone browser.
Headphone names stay visible at all times.
Presets can be copied, moved, or factory-reset.
Virtual monitoring engine upgrades
A revamped ambience algorithm promises more spatial realism.
Frequency-response graphs sport toggleable curves...
