The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, has announced that the government will prosecute Wontumi Farms and its directors for allegedly defrauding Exim Bank, committing forgery, and causing a financial loss to the state exceeding GH₵24 million.
The Attorney-General, Dominic Ayine, has alleged that the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, submitted a forged receipt to the Ghana Export-Import (EXIM) Bank to secure a GH¢4 million loan for the purported purchase of farming equipment.
Six people, including a three-month-old baby, have died after a fire gutted an apartment at Abuakwa Manhyia in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti Region.
The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, has announced that the state will prosecute Wontumi Farms and its directors for alleged financial crimes involving the Ghana Export-Import Bank.
The Northern Regional Police Command has detained two nurses and a security guard to assist with investigations into the alleged theft of a newborn baby at One Heart Hospital in Lamashegu, Tamale.
The Kaneshie Divisional Police Command has arrested two persons for unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition following a patrol operation at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle.
The Ghana Police Service has arrested three people in connection with a viral video showing a two-year-old child being fed with an alcoholic beverage at Kade in the Eastern Region.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has confirmed that two pupils lost their lives and 28 others were injured following a bee attack at Anloga E.P. Basic School in the Volta Region.
Government will roll out an Electronic Visa policy in the first quarter of next year, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has announced.
The Upper East Regional Police Command has arrested four suspects and seized drugs and gaming machines during a targeted swoop in Paga aimed at dismantling criminal hideouts and curbing suspected drug peddling activities.
President John Dramani Mahama’s Special Envoy, Colonel Larry Gbevlo Lartey, has received a Nigerian aircraft and its crew, released by Burkinabe authorities after being detained for allegedly entering Burkina Faso’s airspace without clearance.
