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Police grip teacher who impregnated one and defiled 9 pupils

By AlatiphA - December 30, 2015

Police in the Northern Regional capital,Tamale are holding a 28-year-old teacher for impregnating his 14-year-old pupil. The girl was also forced by the teacher to abort her pregnancy. David Ananga who is a former teacher of the EP Primary School in Tamale is said to have defiled nine other girls during school hours. The teacher reportedly went into hiding after the incident was reported in October. But the police discovered and smoked him out of his hideout with his accomplices last week. He faces two charges of defilement and unlawful abortion while his accomplice Fredrick Akoto has been charged with permitting defilement on his premises. Northern Regional Coordinator of DOVVSU, ASP Emmanuel Holortu told Joy News the school authority and the doctor who administered the abortion are also being investigated.

Men arrested with guns in Northern Region transferred to Accra

By AlatiphA - December 27, 2015

Seven people who were arrested at Jantong Daboase near Salaga in the Northern Region for possessing arms including AK 47 have been sent to Accra for further interrogation and prosecution. Police in the region arrested them on Friday and retrieved the weapons after the residents there suspected they were carrying something dangerous. Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ebenezer Tetteh told Joy News they may be put before court on Tuesday. He says the Police are also yet to apprehend one other prime suspect but “we are still pursuing him and we will intensify our search for him.” ASP Tetteh however refused to comment on a story circulating on some media that the AK 47-weilding suspects had Taliban videos on them. " I would not like to go into that," the police had said.

7 arrested for possessing AK47 riffles and Taliban training videos

By AlatiphA - December 26, 2015

Seven persons have been arrested in Danton Daboase in the Northern Region in connection with two AK47 riffles and other undisclosed weapons retrieved from them. A laptop, which had what Police suspect to be terrorism-training videos of Taliban, was also retrieved from the suspects whose strange movement in the town aroused the suspicion of the residents. Northern Regional Police Public Relations officer, ASP Ebenezer Tetteh, told TV3 that the residents reported the suspicious movement of two of the seven people to the Palace where they were invited. They then led the two - Mahama Salifu Mustao and Issah Suale - to their residence and the two riffles plus other weapons were retrieved from them. Our Northern Regional Correspondent, Zubaida Ismail, reports that a 60-year-old Idrisu Ibrahim Wumpuni, a resident of Lamashegu in Tamale, who went to the palace to plead for the release of the two, was also arrested. Four others persons who also showed up at the Palace without any...

Tamale drivers demonstrate against tricycle "taxis"

By AlatiphA - December 01, 2015

President John Mahama in a tricycle Some commercial drivers in the Tamale metropolis Tuesday took to the streets to protest against the use of tricycles popularly known as ‘Mahama Camboo’ as commercial transport in the area. The drivers, especially taxi operators who wore red bands prevented other taxi drivers who were not taking part in the demonstration from working. They blocked roads with vehicle tyres while others forced passengers out of taxis that were working. In a petition presented to the Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna, the drivers urged the minister to stop all activities of the tricycles in the region. Their spokesperson, Sherriff McCarthy Frimpong said they were specifically against the use of tricycles as commercial transport in the Northern Region. According to them, the use of the tricycle for commercial activities contravened the country’s motor traffic regulations. They questioned why the tricycles had been left unch...

Tamale court sentence two to death by hanging

By AlatiphA - November 26, 2015

A Tamale High Court presided over by Justice Noble Nkrumah has sentenced two young men to death by hanging for the murder of a businessman at Bondiri near Bole in the Northern Region. The convicts, Yakubu Aliu and Ernest Kona both 19 years were found guilty by the court for the murder of Dauda Adams, 23 after they had pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiracy to commit crime of murder. Facts Aliu and Kona who are both illegal miners (Galamsey) in 2013 met the deceased person at an illegal mining site at Bole where the deceased had gone to buy gold. The deceased at the site was approached by the convicts who told him that they had gold in their possession which they wanted to sell so they asked the deceased to follow them. They took the deceased into the bush and one of them went for a gun and shot the deceased at close range killing him instantly. The convicts then buried the deceased in the bush and took a bag that he (deceased) was holding which contained gold ...

Sacred snake known as “Mr Bisco” Killed at Nyohani?

By AlatiphA - November 24, 2015

Residents of the Nyohini Binabaani in the Tamale Metropolis are in a state of panic. A python suspected to be a sacred snake is reported to have been killed. It is feared that “Mr Bisco” as students of the Business Senior High School affectionately calls it, is a deity. Killing it is likely to bring a repercussion to the area. To appease the gods, a hen was sacrificed. Mr. Bisco has been with the school and its environs for several years now. The snake though very big has never hurt a student or a resident of the area. It recently appeared in the school. The video attached shows the last time the snake appeared. Credit : Northstar Online

UDS to introduce Arabic Studies

By AlatiphA - November 20, 2015

The University for Development Studies, UDS, says it will soon introduce Arabic Studies as a course. This is to equip Arabic teachers with the requisite knowledge and skills to enable them to teach the subject well in schools. The Dean of the Faculty of Education of the University, Professor Agnes Apusigah who stated this at a public lecture at Wa in the Upper West Region said the introduction of the subject at the University will improve the quality of teaching of Arabic at basic and Senior High schools. Credit : GBC