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Gang-raping 12-yr old to death; police begins manhunt for suspects

By AlatiphA - February 23, 2017

The Tamale Metropolitan Police Command is on a manhunt for some alleged gang rapists whose assault caused the death of a 12-year old girl on Wednesday, February 22. The 12-year old deceased was a class five pupil of the Tamale Bishops Roman Catholic Primary School located at Choggu. The sad incident occurred at the deceased’s Wurishe residence near the Tamale Technical University. Her remains have been deposited at the Tamale Teaching Hospital morgue, while police investigations are underway. Her traumatized family relations have remained tight-lipped on the incident. Some students of Al-Wahada Islamic Primary School have called for rapid justice. They bemoaned her death, which according to them has caused fear and panic among female pupils in the area. They thus admonished the police to fast-track their investigations and bring the perpetrators to book. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show earlier, the out...

Fire guts NORRIP warehouse

By AlatiphA - February 23, 2017

A warehouse belonging to the Northern Regional Rural Integrated Programme (NORRIP) in Tamale was yesterday destroyed by fire. The cause of the fire, which was said to have begun at about 1:45 p.m. yesterday, is yet to be established. Items However, items destroyed at the facility included vulcanising machines, wielding machines, car spare parts, refrigerators, mattresses, beds, furniture, pumping machines, air filters, and four 20-footer containers containing varied household items. In an interview with the Daily Graphic, the acting Programme Manager of NORRIP, Mr Henry Ankrah, said his attention was drawn to the fire at about 2 p.m. by some staff members at the United Nations (UN) offices, which was close to the warehouse. He said when he heard about the fire incident, he quickly called personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS). However, he said, it took the personnel from the fire service between 30 to 40 minutes to arrive at the scene. Mr Ankrah said the...

Five NPP supporters arrested with AK-47 rifle

By AlatiphA - February 23, 2017

The Police in the Northern region have arrested five persons suspected to be supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for allegedly seizing a revenue collection point on the Savelugu-Kpalung road. Seizure of public properties including toll booths became rampant immediately after the change of government. President Akufo-Addo condemned the act in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament on Wednesday. A police source told the state-owned Daily Graphic the ring leader of the group known as Abdulai Alhassan Gariba, 32, is currently behind bars with four others. The source revealed an AK-47 assault rifle was found hidden in the engine compartment of a taxi he was driving at the time of arrest. In addition two magazines loaded with 32 rounds of ammunitions were also found concealed under the driver’s seat; a machete was found in the boot of the car. Investigations are still ongoing into the case. Source: starrfmonline.com

N/R: NHIS in limbo as major provider withdraws services

By AlatiphA - November 02, 2016

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA)’s major service provider in the Northern Region, Peekay Gombi Pharmaceuticals, has withdrawn its services with effect from November 1, 2016. This is because of the NHIA’s failure to pay claims submitted for 13 months of service delivery to NHIS subscribers in the Northern Region. Hundreds of NHIS subscribers in Tamale Metropolis who as usual queued at the Peekay Gombi Pharmaceuticals were on Monday November 1 turned away. The Chief Executive Officer of Peekay Gombi pharmaceutical, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdul Rauf Peekay Gombila, told Citi News the NHIA owed him Ghc2 million. “The total value is around two billion old currency and I cannot continue to service the NHIS subscribers.” “The NHIA owes me three months in 2015, and 10 months in 2016, and so I thought it wise that if I don’t stop the NHIS subscribers and continue to supply the drugs, I will have problem with the suppliers because there is no money to pay them.” ...

Secondary education in North nearing crisis level – NGO

By AlatiphA - October 31, 2016

Mr Issifu Salifu Kanton, Executive Director of Community Development Alliance (CDA), has said Senior High School (SHS) education in Northern Ghana is nearing a crisis level. He said the academic calendar had been so badly affected that a three-year period of education had now been reduced to practically two years, making it difficult for effective teaching and learning. Mr Issifu Salifu Kanton, who made this known at a press conference in Wa, attributed the situation to the consistent delay in the release of feeding grants by successive governments to cover the feeding expenses of SHS students in the Northern, Upper East and the Upper West Regions. He said it was regrettable to note that since 1992 till date, payment of feeding grants to SHSs in the three regions has remained a challenge and posed one of the biggest threats to the delivery of quality education to the people from the affected regions”. “As we speak, government has not released funds for the feeding of SHS st...

UDS cuts duration of medical programme to six six years

By AlatiphA - October 24, 2016

Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye, Vice Chancellor of UDS Vice Chancellor of University for Development Studies (UDS), Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye, has announced that the duration of the University’s Medical Programme has been reduced from seven to six years. He said the new tenure, which takes effect this academic year, was a decision by the Academic Board of UDS to enable the School of Medicine and Health Sciences run a conventional medical programme as was done in other Medical Schools in other countries. The Vice Chancellor announced this at the 24th Matriculation at UDS Nyankpala Campus in the Northern Region. In a speech read on his behalf, Professor Ayum Teye said the development had reduced the number of students admitted for this year academic to the number, which could just to join their colleagues in the Second Year of the Medical Programme. However, this automatically increases the total number of students, he said. He stated that the University had also admi...

'Abaalaravuu’, the Dagaaba-Frafra peace message the world must learn

By AlatiphA - October 24, 2016

When the broth of a dog’s head has ushered and established generational peace between the Dagaabas and Frafras in the Upper West and Upper East regions of Ghana, then there is much for Ghanaians to learn from it as the country heads for the polls in December this year. It won’t be a surprise for questioners to ask if any valuable thing could come out of a story surrounding dog meat and its connection with these two major ethnic groups. Even the awesome attributes and origin of the savior Jesus Christ, whom Christians deem the most important divine gift to the world, stirred skeptics to question whether something good could ever come from Nazareth, his birthplace. But the latter’s strides in human history offers a reason to always discard stereotyped views and re-examine unclear subjects, or issues by according them attention in order to realize their essence and best offerings to society. People of the Dagaaba and Frafra stocks are playmates who do not compromise on their re...