“When there’s a fire and our response time is delayed, people start blaming us. But they rarely consider where we’re coming from” he made this known in an interview on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen Show.

According to him, areas such as Dome-Kwabenya, Taifa, and Ashonmang Estate lack dedicated fire stations, which significantly affect response times.

“Achimota, Darkuman, Lapaz, Odorkor, Kaneshie, and East Legon also have no fire stations,” he added.

He explained that stations should ideally be situated within each constituency for better proximity.

Another major issue, he noted, is the widespread practice of unplanned construction.

“People build indiscriminately, which not only affects our access but also delays our response,” he said.

ADO1 Nartey explained that in cases where firefighters need to replenish water, they often have to travel long distances to find hydrants.

“Sometimes, we have to go very far to get water, and this impacts our efficiency during fires” he said.

According to the PRO, the lack of support from local assemblies compounds these issues.

He believes that assemblies are not providing sufficient fire stations or safeguarding fire hydrants.

“Assemblies are granting building permits without thorough inspection, and they don’t prioritize protecting hydrants,” he noted.

ADO1 Nartey also mentioned that illegal mining, or galamsey, further complicates their operations.

“The galamsey menace affects us as it impacts the availability of hydrants for firefighting,” he said.

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The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) says it is on high alert to prevent attacks on its troops protecting the country’s borders.

This comes on the back of the murder of an officer, Michael Ekow Otu at Kokoligu, a village between Nandom and Hamile in the Upper West Region.

The GIS Public Relations Officer, Chief Superintendent Michael Amoako-Atta disclosed this in an interview with Joy News.

A joint investigation committee made up of police, immigration and defence intelligence he explained is yet to submit its report on the incident.

This was during the final funeral rites of Mr Otu at Atico near Kaneshie in Accra on Saturday, April 23, 2022.

“Immediately the information got to national headquarters, a meeting of the national immigration management committee was conveyed with the commanders at the various operational levels and a strategy was adopted looking at the circumstances of the incident, exhibits strategies have been put in place to ensure such occurrence does not happen again,” he stated.

The deceased was an Operation Conquest Fist officer who guards vantage points at the border.

He was shot six times by unknown assailants with the body hidden under a nearby bridge and his weapon taken away.

Nana Welewa, who said he is a boss in the spiritual realm, received a call on-air, only to disclose later to the show host that it came from a client seeking an update on the ‘for girls’ move he was working on.

In spite of the fact that he and his cohorts have the powers to spiritually hypnotize women to follow men they may be undesirous of, most members of his association are single.

He, however attributed their ‘single’ status to the fact that ladies fear to be with them.

When asked about why he could not use his ‘for girls’ on ladies who turned him down, he said their powers do not work for them since they are the source.

“Of course not, don’t we have feelings,” he remarked after the host Mic Gizo, suggested that he stays celibate and devote his time to his deity.

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“We do for girls but we cannot do some for ourselves because it won’t work. Every man loves a woman, including us but because of the spiritual calling, we are shunned by girls.

“Just imagine that for six years, I have been single. Am I not handsome? I recently asked a girl out, showered her with gifts and money yet she left me”.

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A Fire officer, ADO1 Abdul Wasiru Hudu, who was part of the rescue mission to find survivors at the scene of the Dompoase accident has given a first-hand account of the mission.

Mr Nuhu said he and his colleagues arrived at the accident scene only to realise that the situation was more than they estimated thereby warranting a reinforcement.

The officer who gave his account on Adom FM’s morning show, Dwaso Nsem, said they realised their equipment on site wasn’t commensurate with the extent of damages to both vehicles and passengers so improvisation became necessary.

He narrated how their rescue mission became almost impossible but for another vehicle which supported the separation of the entangled buses.

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Mr Hudu explained that a major challenge was rescuing the driver of one of the buses which frontage had crashed into him.

Explaining the severity of the driver’s situation, he disclosed the team did all the cutting they could but could not have access to the driver, leaving them with no option than detach the fore from the rear.

He said the rescue team, after an eight-hour extensive effort, was able to remove everyone on board even though 24 passengers had died already.

54 more passengers, according to him were injured and transported to the hospital while a few of others were went uncathed.

Giving an account of the accident, Abdul Wasiru Hudu explained it was obvious there was some level of speeding between the two vehicles and described the extent of the damages as unimaginable.

Gold dealership firm, Menzgold Ghana Limited, has explained why the defunct firm has started validating its customers as a part of efforts to pay their locked-up investments.

Director of Communications of Menzgold, Nii Armah Amarteifio, said the validation had become necessary in order to bring finality to the issue.

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He said the one-month-long validation process will involve the authentication of clients’ documents.

According to Mr Amarteifio, the customers are expected to submit photocopies of their Gold Trading Agreement, receipt of gold traded/purchased, their gold trading commission receipt, a copy of a valid national identity and evidence of gold re-trade (s) as well as receipts or agreements for the validation process.

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“We realised that so many people keep saying that they have their cash locked up in the firm and so the validation will help us to determine that indeed such a person is a Menzgold customer. There are other documents we will need and validation will help us,” he told Accra based Okay FM, monitored by Adomonline.com.

The embattled company has not been able to pay its thousands of clients’ extra values and principals since August 2018 after the Securities and Exchange Commission shut it down over regulatory infractions.

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The company said the validation of documents would begin from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each working day and end on November 28, 2019.

Below is the list of outlets for the validation exercise:

GREATER ACCRA REGION

a) Osu – Opposite Osu Police Station, behind Glory Oil Filling Station.

b) Dansoman – After Dansoman Roundabout, Bechem Bus stop.

c) Odorkor – Opposite Anointed Electricals Company.

d) Mile 7 – Adjacent ECOBANK.

e) Madina – Madina-Tamale Lorry Station.

f) Awoshie – Opposite Victory Bible Church.

CENTRAL REGION

a) Kasoa – Opposite Walantu Junction, after Justap Clinic.

ASHANTI REGION

a) Adum – Adjacent Melcom.

b) Bremang – Behind Bremang Park, adjacent Church of Christ.

WESTERN REGION

a) Bogoso – Adjacent Multi Credit.

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Source: Adomonline.com|Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is blaming parents and Cafe attendants for the confusion that has marred the 2019 Senior High School (SHS) placements in Ghana.

According to the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of GES, Cassandra Twum-Ampofo, the Computerised School Selection Placement System was to help pupils choose schools at their own convenience and with ease.

“Parents, guardians and café attendants are to blame because they are not helping the process; café attendants who are in a hurry to make money and attend to other people don’t take their time for the pupils to check the schools available online,” she noted.

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Madam Twum-Ampofo disclosed this in an interview with Joy News when dozens of parents and their children trooped in to the Black Stars Square on Monday with issues related to the placement system.

“Some people are here for genuine reasons regarding their placements but others are here because they either want us to change their schools or programmes they chose themselves but that is not possible for us to do,” she said.

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Madam Twum-Ampofo added: “We educated them well enough about the placement; we were in the schools and the districts and if they have been placed in any of the schools they chose and they want us to change, it is not possible because they were to choose schools within their catchment area and with convenience.”

She urged pupils, who did their self-placement between Monday, September 9, 2019 and Wednesday September 11, 2019, to log into the portal and place themselves again.

Source: Adomonline.com

The Public Relations Officer of the embattled gold dealership firm, Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nii Armah Amartefio has described the ruling of a Dubai court in the case involving Menzgold CEO, Nana Appiah Mensah and his Arabian debtors, Royal Horizon, as a good one.

An Appeal court in Dubai has affirmed a May ruling in which partners of the Menzgold CEO, Royal Horizon, had been ordered to pay him an amount of $39 million debt owed him.

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A Dubai-based businessman reported Mr Mensah for fraud in May 2018. Unaware that he was on the Dubai police’s wanted list, Mr Mensah went to the Emirates with the hope of receiving money due him as a result of transactions with the Emirati, only to be arrested when he presented his passport to undergo immigration formalities.

Over $23 million is alleged to be involved in the deal.

Following the ruling, however, the Menzgold PRO said the Menzgold boss was unable to go to court enforce judgement because of the Interpol red alert notice on him.

He explained that his boss will return once Horizon paid his money.

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“We are very happy about the ruling. In fact, it was a good ruling for us and we hope that the Interpol Red Alert placed on him by the will be removed.

He said after the final ruling, the Arabian debtors, Royal Horizon may have up to a month to pay the debt owed Menzgold.

“Let’s give ourselves a month and after the full ruling, I am very sure that the company will pay the debt owed us and everything will be fine,” he told Okay FM monitored by Adomonline.com.

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Mr Amartefio said he is currently at the Interpol police custody as a result of the red alert notice on.

“He is still in police custody and was represented by his lawyers as a result of the alert on him so we plead with the government to lift the alert on him,” he stated.

Source: Adomonline.com|Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy

Vincent Ekow Assifuah is being investigated for posting on his Facebook timeline on Wednesday, June 12, that one of the suspects identified as only as Seidu, is a close associate of a businessman, Ibrahim Mahama.

Police invited him Thursday, following an official complaint lodged by Mr Mahama, who is also the brother of former president John Dramani Mahama.

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Although the post is no longer on Mr Assifuah’s timeline, the businessman is believed to be hurt by the comment and wants him dealt with by law.

Bailen Chitty (left) and Lauren Patricia Catherine went missing since June 4, 2019, after four men bundled them into a red Toyota Corolla car at the entrance of their private hostel at Nhyiaeso in Kumasi.

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Their captors held them under unhygienic conditions in a two-bedroom apartment located at a settlement at Kenyasi-Achiase in the Ashanti Region capital, Kumasi.

The semi-completed building is outgrown with weeds and appears to have been unoccupied long before the kidnapped ladies were taken there.

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Close Circuit Television (CCTV) footage of the scene is said to have led to arrest of ten people in separate operations at Sawaba in Asokore Mampong Municipality and Kenyasi-Achiase, leading to the rescue of the women.

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Striking health professionals at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) have refused to have affirmed their resolve not to return to work if the pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth groups who chased out the Chief Executive Officer, Dr David Zaawumya Kolbila are not arrested and punished.

Public Relations Officer of the facility, Kennedy Osei Mensah has told Adom FM’s Morning show, Dwaso Nsem Thursday that although their CEO has returned to work through the effort of REGSEC, nurses, and midwives of the hospital no longer feel safe working in the hospital.

“I feel the pain of the health professionals; these boys need to be arrested and brought to book before any serious work can commence,” he said.

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The attackers accused the hospital’s CEO, Dr David Akolbila, of corruption and mismanagement but provided no evidence to back the allegation.

They subsequently walked into the offices of the CEO, walked him and his staff out and locked the offices.

In protest, the health workers of the hospital also declared a strike, saying they no longer feel safe in the hospital after the incident.

The attackers are believed to be members of a vigilante group affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).

And, Dr Osei Mensah said health professionals have vowed never to rescind their decision until the perpetrators are brought to book.

He said there is the need for the Police to establish a permanent police post at the hospital premises.

The workers are also demanding an apology from the perpetrators of the act to the Chief Executive Officer, Dr Kolbila as a precondition for their return.

Meanwhile, Adom News’ Illiasu Abdul Rauf reported on the same show that residents around Tamale and its environs seeking health care are stranded as health workers as a result of the health workers’ action.

He said those who were at the facility Thursday morning, seeking medical care had to sit and wait for hours without anyone attending to them.

The Ghana Ambulance Service needs over 500 ambulances to be effective, Public Relations Officer of the service,  Ahmed Zakaria has said.

Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen Wednesday, Ahmed Zakaria indicated that the service has 150 ambulances nationwide with only 55 currently in effective operation.

“For now we need over 500 ambulances in the country so we can attend to people quickly”, he said.

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His revelation follows the death of former Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur at the 37 Military Hospital where he was said to have been rushed to in the back of a pick-up vehicle after collapsing at the Airforce Gym on Friday, June 29, 2018, during a routine workout.

After the death of the former Vice President, there has been a public outcry over lack of ambulances at the GAS.

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Mr Zakaria says Ghanaians are not safe as far as the current situation is concerned, considering the 27 million and over people in the country.

While admitting that the current stock is woefully inadequate, he revealed that the ones available are also not in the best of conditions.

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“We have about 216 districts in this country. Ideally, we need to have at least two ambulances in each district. If we want to serve Ghanaians very well, we will need at least 500 to 600 ambulances. We are looking forward to acquiring 200 to 400 ambulances and with that, we will be able to execute our mandate as an emergency institution,” he said.

He takes over from renowned journalist and communications expert Alfred Ogbamey, who has been at the post since the inception of the company in 2011.

Confirming the news to StarrFMonline.com Wednesday, the outspoken politician said his appointment takes effect immediately.

“It is true, I have been appointed Ghana Gas communications director. Once the President has given me my letter, it takes effect immediately,” an elated Owusu Bempah said.

Ghana Gas Company is a state agency that has the mandate to operate the infrastructure required for the gathering, processing, transporting and marketing of natural gas resources in Ghana