Midday News

At least 3,000 people in Keta municipality have been rendered homeless after tidal waves swept through their homes on Sunday dawn. Communities such as Abutiakope, Kedzikope and Keta Central are largely affected as affected homeless residents are left with nothing to salvage.

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, is said to have written to the Police administration to inform them that Madina Member of Parliament (MP), Francis Xavier- Sosu, is out of the country on Parliamentary business. The embattled MP was to show up in court on Monday morning but failed to show up. Police Prosecutor ASP Sylvestre Asare informed the Kaneshie District Court that a letter had been received from the Speaker indicating that the MP was out of the jurisdiction. The case was consequently adjourned to November 16.

Joy FM Afternoon News Bulletin

Joy FM Afternoon News Bulletin

Two children, a boy and a girl under age five were reportedly drowned in an abandoned water tank at Anwomaso-Domeabra in the Ejisu Municipality of the Ashanti Region. Bodies of the boy, aged 4, and the girl, aged 2, were seen floating on water in a two feet block tank at a building site in the area.

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Angry residents of Pankrono in Kumasi smashed the windscreen of a tipper truck after a commercial vehicle crashed into the stationary vehicle killing two people. The truck full of sand, according to witnesses, developed a fault and was abandoned on the busy Tafo-pankrono road leading to the accident.

Six passengers are reported to have burned to death when a bus travelling from Lawra in the Upper West region caught fire after being involved in an accident at a Police checkpoint in Akomadan. According to the Police, 22 others are receiving treatment after they sustained various degrees of injury.

The Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, says Parliament cannot direct the General Legal Council on its admission processes by resolution. Parliament last week unanimously voted, directing the General Legal Council to immediately admit the 499 students who passed but have been denied admission to the Ghana School of Law. Parliament further directed the Attorney General to ensure that this resolution of Parliament is respected. But in a letter addressed to the Speaker of Parliament, Godfred Yeboah Dame argued that Parliament cannot use a resolution to make such directions.

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