Early morning news bulletin in Akan

An illegal mining pit trapped and killed five persons at Nangurumah in the Mamprugu Moaduri District of the North East Region. The unfortunate incident occurred after the five illegal miners went to mine at a Chinese abandoned pit in the area.

President Akufo-Addo says the Attorney General has his full backing to prosecute persons found to be engaging in illegal mining According to him, such persons, including Aisha Huang and all others engaged in the menace, will face the full rigours of the law.

Busunya Dromankese Road: Concerned Citizens of Dromankese to protest over deplorable nature.

The Minority in Parliament has described as unfortunate and irresponsible, a decision by the government to use Senior High School (SHS) graduates for Community Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds at a time trained nurses, doctors and other health workers have not been employed.

The Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum says textbooks for Ghanaian schools would be ready by the beginning of the new term. Following the introduction of the new curriculum, basic schools in the country have been without textbooks for three years of the new curriculum.

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has responded to reports about the possession of a Ghana card by Aisha Huang, a Chinese national tagged as a “galamsey queen or kinpin” by Ghanaians. NIA in a statement explained that it does not have the name Aisha Huang captured in its database.

Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah, Founder and Leader of the Glorious Word and Power Ministry, has threatened to speak out about how President Akufo-Addo became President, shaming the President during a live sermon session in which he called Akufo-Addo a hypocrite. The President reportedly called Rev Owusu Bempah to wish him well on his birthday, which he celebrated in the Ashanti Region last week.

The Krachi East Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) and Dean of MMDCEs in the Oti Region, Francis Kofi Okesu, has been found dead in a hotel in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. The lifeless body of the MCE was found in a room he had booked, according to police sources. Police have begun investigations into the death.

The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has assured students of the University of Ghana (UG) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) that their interests will be protected in the ongoing saga of unaccredited programmes. The assurance follows the release of the 2021 Auditor-General's Report, which indicated that over 600 programmes run by the two leading universities were without accreditation.