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453 WASSCE results cancelled; 185 schools under investigation

By AlatiphA - August 08, 2015

453 students who took part in this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) have had their entire results cancelled, according to the West African Examination Council. 1,859 students also had their subject results cancelled while eight candidates, who had their entire results cancelled, have been barred from taking any of WAEC’s exams for two years. The entire results of candidates from 185 schools have been withheld pending the conclusion of investigations. This was revealed Friday at a press conference to announce the release of the results written in May/June this year. WAEC added that the malpractices recorded were exposed by the innovative measures introduced. The provisional results of the 2015 WASSCE can, however, be accessed by candidates online while the hard copies have been dispatched to the various schools. A total of 268,812 students from 810 schools sat the examinations. But 1,015 of them were absent.

Tamale Radio Presenter Jailed Four Years for Gay Scam

By AlatiphA - July 30, 2015

A Circuit Court in Tamale has jailed one of the region’s most popular radio presenters Nuhu Abu Hassan, also known as DJ Maestro, to 4 years imprisonment. Ruling was today handed in the case in which he duped a member of the Federal Council of Germany, Hans Dieter Heirrich, through the internet. Heirrich, who wasn’t in court fell to Maestro’s scams over a period of time after he expressed interest in investing in Northern Ghana. A well-known presenter who was recently nominated for Best Hiplife DJ in the region, he was arrested and later granted bail after a complaint was lodged that he had defrauded his victim to the tune of $17,000, claiming it was meant for building a house at Sagnarigu, a suburb in Tamale. Stephen Zoure, the Northern Regional Correspondent of private newspaper Daily Guide who has been following the case from day one, gives the facts of the case as: The accused and his victim met through the internet nine months ago and struck an acquaintance. ...

Northern Regional Minister downplays Andanis threat

By AlatiphA - July 30, 2015

The Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna has downplayed a purported statement from the Andani family in Dagbon kicking against government’s resolve to find lasting solution to the Dagbon chieftaincy crisis. Government in an attempt to solve the age long chieftaincy crisis between the Abudu and Andani royals in Dagbon hinted of performing the final funeral rituals of the late two overlords of Dagbon, Yaa-Naa Mahamadu Abdulai and Yaa-Naa Yakubu Andani II. However, a statement issued by Abdulai Yakubu Andani in his capacity as representative of the late Yaa-Naa Yakubu Andani II family cautioned government against the move. He disassociated the Andani family from government’s agenda and concluded that the family will resist any attempt to perform the funerals of any late Yaa-Naa in Dagbon. According to him, their opposition to the move was non-negotiable. In addressing the media in Tamale, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna described the statement as baseless. ...

Full Statement: Andani family denounces plans for funeral rites of late Dagbon kings

By AlatiphA - July 29, 2015

PRESS STATEMENT BY THE FAMILY OF THE LATE YAA-NAA YAKUBU ANDANI II ON THE PURPORTED FUNERAL RITES OF LATE YAA-NAAS AS ANNOUNCED BY THE HON. NORTHERN REGIONAL MINISTER, ALHAJI MOHAMMED MUNIRU LIMUNA: MONDAY 27 JULY 2015. The attention of the family of the late Yaa-Naa Yakubu Andani II has been drawn to statements published on Ghanaweb General News of Monday, 20 July 2015 and attributed to the Hon. Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna on the purported funeral rites of late Yaa-Naas supposedly set for November. First of all we would like to express outrage at the blatant disregard for Dagbon tradition and customs by the Hon. Regional Minister who in making these statements has blatantly usurped the role of the Kuga Naa, the most senior member of the elders of Dagbon and Head of the Judicial Council of Dagbon, who is the only person who has the traditional authority and customary responsibility of making such announcements. The Hon. Minister’s comments bring ba...

I wanted to kill Mahama – Gunman confesses

By AlatiphA - July 28, 2015

The suspect, Charles Antwi who was arrested at the Ringway Assemblies of God church for carrying a loaded gun has confessed that he went there to kill President John Dramani Mahama. He said this in court on Tuesday. He told the court presided over by Justice Francis Obiri that he “wanted to kill the President Mahama to take over his position.” Charles Antwi further told the court that he “had to be sworn in as president when president John Evans Atta Mills died.” He said, that was his fourth time going to the church adding that he has no document to the weapon. He said in all the four times, he went with a gun three times adding that the president was in church the first time he went without any weapon. Charles Antwi insisted that trying to kill the president was a way of fighting for the nation explaining that the nation’s current electoral system is not helping to improve its democracy. He narrated that a military personnel directed him to the pres...

Andanis reject funeral time table for Yaa-Naas

By AlatiphA - July 27, 2015

Government’s agenda towards performing the final funeral rites of the late two overlords of Dagbon might hit another snag because the family of the late Yaa-Naa Yakubu Andani is kicking against the move. Government in a move to resolve the age-long Dagbon chieftaincy crisis has set November 2015 to begin performing the funeral rituals of the late two overlords of Dagbon. The construction of adjoining palaces to the old Gbewaa palace in Yendi where the funerals are expected to be performed is almost complete. The Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna earlier told Citi News plans were underway to perform the final funeral rituals of the late Yaa-Naa Mahama Abdulai and that of the late Yakubu Andani II. Alhaji Limuna cautioned persons suspected to be chieftaincy contractors in Dagbon against any attempt to thwart government’s efforts. Click hear to listen to the Minister . But the family of the late Yaa-Naa Yakubu Andani II has downplayed the move descr...

Ghana 1-100 India: The famous 'match' that never was

By AlatiphA - July 24, 2015

There is a local football tale almost as old as the Ghanaian game itself. Now, whoever spun this story must have had quite a fertile imagination, for virtually every boy who grew up in Ghana in a certain era (this writer included, and probably yourself as well, if you are not too embarrassed to admit it) gobbled it up with wide-eyed boyish curiosity - every surreal bit of it. It is the tale narrating the fictional football match between Ghana and India. The one that ended 100-1 to the latter yet saw the former run out as 'winners'. Depending on which account one is more familiar with, there are quite a few variations. The core of the story, though, remains fairly consistent. So, then, here goes this intriguing fable as most of us heard as toddlers. Ghana played India at an unknown venue and on a similarly obscure date - I am as oblivious to those details as you most likely are - and, somehow, the latter ended up scoring a hundred goals in 90 minutes; again, please don't...