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Police rescued seven people from different African countries who had been tricked and held against their will. Officers found them locked up at a house near Assin Fosu on Sunday after getting a tip. The victims came from Mali, Togo, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. Someone promised them jobs with...

Two men received three-month jail sentences from an Accra court for stealing a television. Isaac Bortey, age 28, works at a factory and broke into someone's home to take the TV. David Abu Bonnah, age 52, runs a business and took the stolen television from Bortey. Both men said they were guilty...

Ghana Immigration Service warns citizens about fake job scams on GOLERNERSHUB.COM website. Criminals claim the government opened special hiring programs through their false portal. Immigration officials deny any connection to the fraudulent recruitment scheme. The service never hired outside...

Kennedy Agyapong's office warns people about fake Google forms using his name online. Scammers created false registration documents that pretend to come from Team Ken and PHD groups. The former Assin Central MP never approved these forms or asked people to fill them out. His team says criminals...

A Hohoe court fined painter Fia Foli Philip 1,200 cedis for calling his neighbor a witch. The 31-year-old man must also pay 5,000 cedis to the woman he insulted. Magistrate Joseph Y. Kunsong banned Philip from using witch accusations again. Chief Inspector Charles Aziati asked for harsh...

NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman Bernard Antwi-Boasiako left EOCO custody Monday night after paying 50 million Ghana cedis bail. People call him Chairman Wontumi and he walked free around 8 pm June 2. His lawyer Andy Appiah-Kubi told Neat FM radio that officials helped finish the paperwork late...

MP Thomas Worlanyo Tsekpo defends Youth Employment Agency head Malik Basintale against education attacks. People question whether Basintale really graduated from university after fake papers spread online. The University of Ghana called the documents forgeries and told citizens to ignore them...

Accra Metropolitan Assembly plans climate events to mark the 10th anniversary of the June 3rd disaster. Mayor Michael Kpakpo Allotey announced a summit and citywide cleanup campaign. The Assembly partners with youth environmental groups for these activities. Officials want to highlight urgent...

Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng wants former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta arrested. Agyebeng told reporters that Ofori-Atta keeps dodging legal meetings and lying about being sick. The prosecutor asked why this man thinks he can skip court dates. He compared Ofori-Atta to a former president...

Larry Dogbe from the Herald Newspaper criticized Frank Davies hard on Monday. Davies works as a lawyer for Ken Ofori-Atta, who used to be Ghana's Finance Minister. The Office of the Special Prosecutor wants Ofori-Atta to show up because they think he ran away. Davies said his client feels sick...

Frank Davies defends Ken Ofori-Atta against corruption charges. The lawyer says his client stays sick and cannot travel to Ghana. Davies criticizes Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng for calling Ofori-Atta a fugitive. He argues the former Finance Minister deserves fair treatment under the law...

Youth activist Oliver Barker-Vormawor wants Ghana's Special Prosecutor to take stronger action against Ken Ofori-Atta. The former Finance Minister missed his June 2 deadline to appear before the office. Officials have declared him wanted and labeled him a fugitive from justice. The Special...

People angry at Okahandja town leaders want them to cancel a big party. Community leader Gerub Gaseb says families feel scared because killers still walk free. Young women died and police cannot find who did it. Nobody has been arrested for the murders. Parents keep children inside their homes...

South African star Pearl Thusi skipped a Rundu party and left organizers angry. The Weekend in the East event was supposed to happen on May 31 at AM Ludgerus Boutique Estate. Event planners want their money back after spending thousands on preparations. They claim Thusi broke her contract and...

Deputy Prime Minister Natangwe Ithete told African leaders to stop depending on major world powers. He spoke at a disaster meeting in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday. Namibia leads the Africa Regional Platform for disaster reduction efforts. Ithete wants African countries to build stronger...

Namibia has less water stored behind dams across the country. NamWater released numbers showing total storage fell to 1370 million cubic meters. The amount equals 88 percent of what all dams can hold when full. Water levels dropped from 1372 million cubic meters recorded at the end of May...

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah joined soldiers at Grootfontein Military Base on Monday for a special party. The Namibian Defence Force turned 35 years old. Sam Nujoma started the military group on June 2, 1990. Enemy fighters from two different armies came together to make one team. Fighting...

Hardap governor Riaan McNab told education minister Sanet Steenkamp about serious problems facing young people. Many teens cannot find jobs after school. Students struggle to enter colleges and universities. The region lacks enough training centers for skills development. McNab wants national...

Namibia should copy Norway's approach to oil money management. Clemens von Doderer from the Hanns Seidel Foundation says Norway shows how countries can share oil profits with all citizens. The third Namibia Oil and Gas Conference happens August 12-15 in Windhoek. Officials want Namibia to become...

Police caught two men running a huge marijuana farm near a refugee camp. Officers arrested Armand Schultz and David van der Linden after finding drugs worth 52 million dollars. The men grew cannabis on land bigger than a football field and built a small factory to package it. Their arrest left...