Scuffle over national service voluntary forms

There was a scuffle on the precincts of Greater Accra Regional Office of National Service Secretariat (NSS) over the purchase of National Service Voluntary Forms. The sale of the forms began on Thursday morning with about 300 Service…

Soldier jailed 18 years for attempted robbery

A 27-year-old soldier who attempted to rob a student of 280 Ghana Cedis at Nima in Accra was on Thursday sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for attempted robbery. The court found Lance Corporal Imoro Ibrahim…

Woman fined GH¢180 for littering road

Community Centre Court ‘B’ in Accra on Thursday imposed a fined of GH¢180.00 on Joyce Osei, trader, for littering the road near the Tema Lorry Station, Accra, with ice water sachet. The convict, who would go to jail for six months in hard…

CEPS official steals vehicle

Emmanuel Opoku, a Junior Collector of the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), was on Thursday remanded in police custody by the Koforidua Circuit Court after failing to report when granted police enquiry bail. The accused whose…

UK’s economy revised upwards

Britain's economy  grew 1.2% in the second quarter of the year, a faster pace than first thought and at a rate not seen for nine years, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics upgraded its estimate for growth of…

India hopeful of BlackBerry solution

India is hopeful Research In Motion, makers of BlackBerry smartphones, will come up with a solution to enable security agencies access its encrypted data, junior telecoms minister Sachin Pilot said on Friday. "Discussions are ongoing. We…

US economy to get bleaker

The government is about to confirm what many people have felt for some time: The economy barely has a pulse. The Commerce Department on Friday will revise its estimate for economic growth in the April-to-June period and Wall Street…