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A  self-professed phone trader, Mustapha Hamidu, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly selling packed broken tiles as phones.He has been charged with two counts of attempting to commit crime and defrauding by false pretence.Hamidu, who is also known as Abulley, appeared before the court presided over by Kwabena Kodua Obiri-Yeboah yesterday (January 16).His plea was however not taken by the court and is set to reappear on January 18 this year for his plea to be taken.FactsThe facts of the case as read in court by the prosecutor, Chief Inspector Samuel Ahiabor, were that Abulley who lives at…

Former Railways Development Minister, Joe Ghartey has blamed the New Patriotic Party government’s inability to redeem its promise of building sky trains in Accra on external forces with an emphasis on budget constraints. The Essikado-Ketan lawmaker said the project which was expected to reduce traffic congestion in Accra stalled when the terms of the contract and the total contract sum were laid bare. Speaking about the project on Eyewitness News, Mr. Ghartey said the Railway Ministry’s budget limits for the 2018 fiscal year were a little below what the contract was projected to cost. “We were approached by South Africans…

A 99-year-old Kenyan man, Johana Maritim Butuk, has finally tied the nuptial knot with his girlfriend, Alice Jemeli, after 20 years of dating. Butuk and his 40-year-old lover got married in a colourful wedding ceremony in Soy, Uasin Gishu County, on Saturday, January 14, 2023. The couple exchanged their marriage vows at the nearby St. Mark’s Soybean Catholic Church, and locals who attended the ceremony described it as very colorful. According to reports, Jemeli was only 20 years old when they first met in 2003, and Butuk was 69. Despite their age differences, their love blossomed, and they are now…

A Nigerian woman has received heavy backlash on social media after she said she can’t wait for child content creator, Chinedu Akwudike popularly known as Special Nedu, to “ripe”. The woman had taken to Twitter to share her inner musings while congratulating the popular kid content creator for winning the award for “Best Comedy Kid” at the Humour Awards 2022 held on Monday, January 16. She posted a photo of the youngster clinching his award and said she’s patiently waiting for him to “ripe”. She wrote, “The way I’m waiting for this boy to ripe ehn@iamdikehh na me first startWell…

Straight-talking boss explains why young Aussies don’t want to work as Anthony Albanese considers raising Centrelink payments AGAIN: ‘They’re paying you $450 to stay at home’Business owner Joe Galasso has been unable to find new staff20 hours of minimum wage is just $20 more than JobSeekerYoungsters won’t work part-time for small amount as a resultHe now fears for the future of his business if JobSeeker risesBy Kevin Airs For Daily Mail Australia Published: 20:37 EST, 17 January 2023 | Updated: 02:44 EST, 18 January 2023 A business boss says work-shy youngsters would rather sit at home than find a job…

Hong Kong CNN  —  Taiwan’s military on Tuesday rolled out plans to allow women to volunteer for reserve force training for the first time, as China continues to ramp up military pressure on the democratic self-ruled island. The Taiwanese Defense Ministry said it will allow 220 discharged female soldiers to enroll in the training starting from the second quarter of this year. Maj. Gen. Yu Wen-cheng, from the ministry’s All-Out Defense Mobilization Agency, said the move would be on a trial basis for this year. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has previously said it only trained male reservists because it did not…

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has announced an upward review of electricity and water tariffs for the first quarter of this year.The new tariffs, which take effect on February 1, 2023, will push electricity up by 29.96 per cent across the board for all customers, while water will increase by 8.3 per cent.The commission, however, approved varying rate adjustments including some reductions for selected industrial and commercial consumers as part of the ongoing restructuring of the existing water rate structure.A statement issued yesterday and signed by the Executive Secretary of the PURC, Dr Ishmael Ackah, said the new tariff…

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament is urging the Auditor General to pursue pensioners who have embezzled state funds and retrieve the monies. This comes after officials of the Fisheries Commission who appeared before the committee failed to render accounts of an amount of US$20,000 paid to former employees of the commission for their foreign travels and GH¢30,000 to some seven others to undertake related activities in the 2020 Auditor General’s report. The officials of the Fisheries Commission said their inability to recover the monies was due to the poor condition of the retired workers. But speaking at the…

Former Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has given details about his relationship with late Ghanaian musician Castro. Gyan and Castro were close friends and even released a song together in 2010 titled African Girls. Castro and a lady named Janet Bandu reportedly drowned after a jet ski they were riding crash in the Ada Estuary in 2014. The legendary Ghana striker told Dan Kwaku Yeboah in an interview that he sometimes feels the presence of Castro. Below is the video of the interview on Dan Kwaku Yeboah TV on YouTube. Source link

Nigerian activist and radio personality, Ahmed Isah, has sparked a debate online over his stance on men kneeling to propose to a woman. Speaking in a video making rounds online, Ahmed Isah said it’s not African for a man to kneel before a woman in the name of proposing to her, and any man who does that is a “finished” man. He added that kneeling to ask for a woman’s hand in marriage shows who will be in charge of the relationship and marriage. Watch him speak below, Isah’s statement has since sparked varying reactions on social media, with many…