Five suspects including four policemen who have been arrested in connection with the bullion van robberies in Accra will be arraigned before a court on Wednesday March 9, 2022. According to a statement issued by the Ghana Police Service on Tuesday March 8, four policemen have been arrested in connection with an on-going intelligence-led police investigation into some bullion van robberies that recently occurred in the country.
The Ghana Police Service has revealed that a total of 4 policemen have been arrested in connection with an “on-going intelligence-led police investigation” into some bullion van robberies that recently occurred in the country. Another suspect believed to be a civilian was also arrested by the police while some other 5 civilian suspects have gone into hiding according to the police.
A tricycle (pragya) driver is in critical condition after a collision with a trailer on the Nkwanta road. The trailer, with a foreign registration number, 6759 AM, is said to be conveying a container from Accra to the Northern part of Ghana, when the crash occurred.
Mr Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, the Deputy Minister in charge of Political and Economic, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, says government has released US$2 million for evacuation of Ghanaian students from war-stricken Ukraine. The amount, he said, was the first tranche of money released to the Ministry for the evacuation exercise.
Government has announced the suspension of the expansion of the School Feeding Programme to allow debts owed caterers to be cleared. This was disclosed by the Minister responsible for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cecilia Abena Dapaah on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday.
A Cape Coast High Court presided over by Justice Kwasi Boakye singled out a bank cleaner in a robbery of ¢600,000 and gave him a hefty sentence of 25 years. Michael Fosu, alias ‘Bursar’ who was a cleaner working at the Ghana Commercial Bank branch at Asikuma in the Central Region, was among four persons who conspired to rob a bank customer of ¢600,000.
Seventeen Ghanaian students who fled the ongoing war in Ukraine yesterday arrived back home to reunite with their families. Arriving in separate flights by Qatar and Turkish Airlines at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra, they are part of about 527 Ghanaians who have so far safely crossed the Ukrainian border to neighbouring Poland, Moldova, Hungary and Czech Republic.
Efforts are currently underway to retrieve a Toyota Land Cruiser from the river at Odawna in Circle. Residents in the area woke up on Monday morning to the vehicle laying in the river, which passes through the busy business district in Accra.
Ghanaian students in Ukraine are appealing to the government of Ghana through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to evacuate them from the war-hit nations since they are afraid for their lives.
An accident at No.1, a suburb of Yeji in the Bono East Region, has left 11 passengers injured. The Sanyong mini-bus, heading to Kumasi, was concerned in the accident barely half-hour after setting off from the Yeji station, witnesses instructed Adom News.