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Crime/ SHOT AND PARALYSED: Pregnant woman survives shooting; police suspect her husband by Abigali(f) : 10:49 pm On Jan 30 |
In a private ward at a physiotherapy centre in Tema, Benita Dankwa scrolls through her photographs on a Samsung tablet. The 29-year old lady does so with a pang of nostalgia because the gloomy Benita Dankwa holding the tablet is a shocking impersonation of the breezy Benita Dankwa in those photographs. The lady looking at the photographs is not the same as the woman in those photographs.
No. They differ in many ways. “This is not how I was,” she says, showing more photographs of her former self to make a point. And she is right. This is not how she was. The woman in the photograph is full of life. She is a charming beauty. The woman in the photographs is smiling. She is standing. She is walking. She is posing. She is working. The woman in the photograph is enjoying life. That woman has a “loving” husband, 33-year old Effort Dankwa. And she looks forward to a beautiful family. “I had dreams of a sweet husband, having me alone as the wife. No other person… having our kids, just jumping around and all that. But it never happened that way,” Benita says. Indeed, there is a world of difference between the cheerful woman in the photographs and the low-spirited woman now looking at the images – her former self. However, they both bear the same name – Benita Dankwa. That is where their similarities end. The Benita Dankwa on the hospital bed is paralysed from her chest downwards. Dr. Francis Caiquo of the Tema General Hospital explains that, in a layperson’s language, it means that part of her body is “dead.” The only reason it is not rotten is because of blood circulation, he says. Apart from her hands and head, the Benita Dankwa on the hospital bed cannot move any part of her body. Those parts don’t belong to her any longer, or rather, they do but she has lost control over them. She cannot feel any sensation there. The Benita Dankwa on the hospital bed cannot pass out urine. She cannot empty her bowels. A urinary catheter is attached to her urinary tract. It is emptied periodically by her 54-year old mother, Mrs. Agnes Yirenkyi, or anyone who is present when it is full. Benita also wears diapers to contain the involuntary discharge of faecal matter. That’s not all the woes of the woman on the hospital bed. When Benita lifts the cloth covering the lower part of her body, huge plasters covering her bedsores are exposed. She has large bedsores on her buttocks and on her hips. The Benita Dankwa on the hospital bed has swollen feet. She is bedridden. And she needs someone to bathe her and turn her from time to time to enable the bedsores heal. The woman on the hospital bed is also anaemic. Doctors at the Tema General Hospital say her hemoglobin (blood) level is 6.1, half what it is supposed to be. The ideal level is 12. Hers dropped to 4 and has risen to 6.1 through medication. The low hemoglobin level hampers the healing of her sores. She also stands the risk of a heart attack because of her low blood level. “I miss many things because now I can’t do anything,” says Benita. “I miss walking. I miss working. If I could walk, I can do anything.” On a bed beside Benita’s hospital bed lies Nana Kwame, Benita’s four-month-old baby. Benita was supposed to be taking care of him and changing his diapers. But Mrs. Agnes Yirenkyi, Benita’s mother, now does all of that. She changes the diapers of her four-month old grandson and 29-year old daughter, the first seed of her womb. “This family is going through severe pain and suffering,” Agnes Yirenkyi speaks of the agony of the family since they received a dreadful call on the morning of Saturday, August 29, 2015, that Benita had been shot. THE SHOOTING OF BENITA Life for Benita Dankwa, a supervisor at Asky Airlines, was an auspicious one until the sun of her bright future set on Friday, August 28th 2015. She was seven months pregnant, the first pregnancy of her four years’ marriage. That evening Benita had closed from work and was watching television when her husband, Effort Dankwa, a teacher at Angels International School in Tema, arrived. “Everything was okay at home,” Benita recalls. Her husband took his bath and went to bed. She also went to bed later. When she woke up at about 5:30 am, she felt like a “balloon.” There was a “hole” on her chest and another one at her back. She had been shot. According to a report by the Tema Community 11 police, their investigation “revealed that the victim (Benita Dankwa) was shot from a close range at her chest and the bullet penetrated through her body and was rushed to the hospital for treatment, but no point of penetration or breakage into the couple’s room was detected.” The report continues: “A live ammunition believed to have been shot from a pistol at close range was found about 2 inches deep in the mattress [on] which the couple were lying. Blood stains believed to be human blood was also found on the bed sheet and the mattress of the couple.” Benita was in the room alone with her husband, Effort Dankwa. When she woke up, her husband was still sleeping. When she woke him up, “he was feeling as if he was confused, running up and down and all that,” Benita recounts. “He didn’t shout. He didn’t do anything. Because I was feeling like a balloon, I thought he could not carry me so I asked him to call… there were two boys on the compound… so I asked him to call them so that one could go for a taxi so that one could help carry me to the taxi,” Benita narrates what happened when she opened her eyes that morning. One of the young men who went to help Effort carry Benita to the hospital is John Asaah. John lives in the same compound. His room is about five metres away from the Dankwas. At about 3a.m. of Saturday, August 29, 2015, John said he heard a gunshot that was “too loud” and appeared close to the house. “It didn’t take hours and I heard my friend call me to come and help him to take his wife to the hospital.” That friend was Effort, Benita’s husband. According to John, Effort did not give him the impression that Benita had been shot.“He was coming as if nothing had happened. ‘Oh Johny, wifee no dey feel fine oo. Go bring me taxi,’” John quotes Effort asking him (John) for help in casual pidgin English. “You won’t even know that something like that had happened,” John tells myjoyonline.com. John says if he had known that it was a shooting incident, he would not have entered the room to help. Effort, he says, did not mention any shooting even as they sat in the taxi and headed for the hospital. “The husband didn’t tell us anything. All that I knew was that the wife was pregnant so I thought she was about to deliver.” John says when the taxi driver asked what was wrong with Benita, he (John) said it was her first pregnancy. Benita’s husband, who was also in the taxi, did not mention that his wife had been shot. John says Benita was first taken to the maternity ward of the Tema General Hospital. He says the first time he realized Benita had been shot was when a nurse at the maternity ward interrogated the husband and he said it was a gunshot. “The nurse asked the husband to show her where the gunshot was and he opened the dress on the chest and I saw a hole on her chest and some small blood,” John says. The nurse told them gunshots were not treated at the maternity ward and so referred them to the accident centre. At the accident centre, doctors at the Tema General Hospital realized Benita had a spinal injury so they referred her to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. THE PRIME SUSPECT According to Benita’s father, Mr. S.O.S Yirenkyi, Effort refused to report the shooting of his wife to the police. “We did all we could but he would not go to the police,” says Mr. Yirenkyi. “He said this was a domestic issue involving a husband and wife so there was no need to report it.” Later in the day, Bright Ofori, Benita’s 25-year old brother went to the police station to report the incident. “If you are with your wife in the room and you wake up to find out that she has been shot, should you not be the first to report to the police?” Mr. S.O.S Yirenkyi, Benita’s 68-year-old father asked. John says when he returned from the hospital that day, he went round the house and tried to locate any form of penetration or break in but there was none. “We even took chairs and climbed onto the roof to see if there was anything from the roof, but there was nothing to show that maybe the thing was coming from armed robbers,” he says. When this reporter visited the house, he found that the windows and the doors had mosquito nets and wire mesh. They were covered with curtains so if anybody wanted to shoot from outside, they would have had to cut through the mosquito net and wire mesh, shift the curtains aside before they could locate their target. But all the mosquito nets at the doors and windows were intact. “Me, I can say that the thing (shooting) happened in the room,” John emphasises. “If you want to know the truth, then it will be [between] Benita and her husband who know what happened.” “There were two people in the room. One person was shot. Police investigation revealed that the shot was not from outside. So who fired the shot?” asked, Mr. S.O.S. Yirenkyi, Benita’s father. “I suspect Benita’s husband shot her,” he alleged. Benita also shares the same view. She believes her husband, Effort, shot her. On September 15, 2015, more than two weeks after the shooting incident, the police arrested Effort Dankwa for investigation. He has denied shooting his wife. On September 16th and 30th 2015, the police also arrested one Ernestina Dede Lagbeneku, who confirmed being in a relationship with Effort Dankwa for the past five months. The two of them were cautioned and bailed “pending further investigations.” “For now, fingers are pointing to a certain direction, but because investigations are still ongoing we cannot confirm. But then, questions are coming up and answers are coming up,” Tema Region Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Juliana Obeng told Myjoyonline.com. “The question now is: who did it?” ASP Juliana Obeng asked. “Let me give you an example: If I were with you alone in the house and I wake up to have some injuries on my body and I find some other things in the room that have to do with blood stains and there are no other persons in the room, and nobody came to the room, then your guess is as good as mine.” The police PRO, however, says they cannot draw a conclusion now. Criminologist and Dean of the Central University College Faculty of Law, Professor Ken Agyemang Attafuah agrees with the police that based on the facts surrounding the case, Effort Dankwa “is a legitimate person for the police to consider as the prime suspect.” THE BLOODSTAINED TOWEL Mr. Yirenkyi said in the panic and the desire to save Benita, the family took certain pieces of evidence for granted because it never occurred to them that the one who shot her could be someone in the room with her. One of such pieces of evidence was a bloodstained towel that Effort allegedly asked Benita’s cousin to throw away. Priscilla Asare, 25, was sent by her mother (Benita’s aunt) to fetch a stove at the crime scene (Benita and Effort’s home) to be taken to the hospital. This was on Wednesday September 2, 2015, four days after Benita was shot. “When I got there, Benita’s husband said I should tidy up the room. In the process, I found a towel stained with blood, the blood had dried up. When I told him (Effort) about the towel, he said I should throw it away,” Priscilla explains. When Priscilla took the towel home and told her mother about it, she asked her not to throw the towel away. “My mother said I should wash it for her so I did.” Priscilla said she was also the one who washed the bloodstained bed sheet on which Benita and Effort lay when the shooting happened. Benita says when she opened her eyes that morning, there was not much blood on her body. John has confirmed this. He said Benita wore a white night gown as they took her to the hospital and if there was any blood on her, he would have seen it before they got to the hospital. Benita says when she opened her eyes, she did not see her husband wipe any blood from her body so she was surprised when the towel soaked with blood was used on her. A woman who lives in the house and was present when the police first entered the crime scene also tells Myjoyonline.com that when they entered, there was very little blood on the mattress and the bed sheet. She wondered if there wouldn’t have been more blood had there been a gunshot. “I think he shot my daughter and cleaned all the blood before my daughter became conscious,” Mr. Yirenkyi suggests. “He thought my daughter had died, but God saved her.” Criminologist Professor Ken Ataffuah says this is possible. “From the report, a neighbor heard a gunshot around 3am. It was not until at about 5am that this woman complained of pain and asked her husband for assistance. She possibly was in coma for a while or she had been chloroformed. There is evidence from what you [this reporter] tell me of a towel that contained blood and that towel ought to be taken to the police forensics for investigation.” A SOUR MARRIAGE? Benita met her husband nine years ago. They are both members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses sect. And that’s where they met. They dated for five years and were married for four years before the tragedy struck. Benita says their marriage was without problems. If there was any problem, it was the suspicion of infidelity on the part of her husband. Benita’s mother, Mrs. Agnes Yirenkyi, says she once mediated one such misunderstanding that arose when Benita returned from work one evening to find her husband in their room with a woman whose pictures and suggestive messages she had seen on his phone. She says the lights were off and when she knocked, Effort did not open the door immediately. Benita said he denied having anything to do with the lady but when she sent an insulting message to the lady in question, he was livid. A police report signed by ASP Owusu Dwomoh, Tema Community 11 Crime Officer suggests that Benita was sharing her husband with another woman. The report states: “It was established during investigation that the suspect Effort Dankwa who is legally married to the victim was also in another amorous relationship with one lady called Ernestina Dede Lagbeneku alias Christine Dede and had been going out to places like Prime Beach Resort at Prampram and Cocoa Beach Hotel at Nungua, Accra, to relax and make love. It was also revealed that while the suspect’s wife, victim Benita Dankwa, was at the hospital panting [fighting] for her life, the suspect had the presence of mind to engage in love conversations via WhatsApp, a social network, with the said Christine Dede.” The police report says when “suspect Christine Dede was arrested and interrogated, she confirmed being in relationship with the accused, Effort Dankwa, for the past five (5) months.” Benita has revealed that while they were courting, Effort once mentioned that he did not want any children in their marriage but she “took it for a joke” until they got married and he repeated it. “When we got married, I started worrying him with kids and he started declining and all that. Fortunately, or if I should say unfortunately for him, I got pregnant,” she stated. She says he never said anything bad about the pregnancy and no issue ever came up until she delivered. Sources close to the church say there is a group of people within the Jehovah’s Witnesses who have made up their minds not to give birth because they want to dedicate their time to the “preaching of the word.” Benita is aware of this but says her husband is not part of that group. Benita was delivered of the baby by a caesarian section on September 9, 2015 after 31 weeks. She says when she delivered, her husband started raising issues about the paternity of the baby. “He says the baby is not his,” Benita says. According to Benita, a gynecologist once attempted to have s*x with her when she visited the hospital, and when she got home, that was the first thing she told her husband. She said her husband did not raise questions about the pregnancy but when she delivered he used that as an excuse to say that the doctor may have impregnated her. Benita’s father, Mr. Yirenkyi, believes the pregnancy is the reason Effort Dankwa wanted to kill his daughter. “We decided to call the child Nana Kwame because he is a male born on Saturday. We are still waiting for the father to come and name him,” Benita says. BENITA’S HOPES AND FEARS Today is Sunday. It’s 9.00 am. At the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Tema Community 11, the congregation is singing a hymn. They are standing, except one woman at the back. That is Benita. She sings from her wheelchair standing next to her father and mother. In a baby cradle front of them, Nana Kwame, Benita’s four-month old baby, lies smiling. Nana Kwame is both oblivious about the teaching on today’s judgment day and the reason her mother now sits behind the congregation. After some time, his grandmother picks him up and begins to feed him with a milky liquid in a feeding bottle. One medical doctor has described her safe delivery as a miracle. “Maybe God has something special for that child,” the doctor says. After the worship, Benita’s brother helps her out of the church. Before she is lifted into the car, she is interrupted by well-wishers from the congregation. This is where Benita met Effort nine years ago. For the past four years, they came to church together. On Sunday mornings, she fixed breakfast. And he drove her to church. That changed when Benita was discharged from the hospital. She did not return to their matrimonial home. For now, the Physiotherapy centre is her new home. She says her husband has never visited her there. “He asked me not to call him again so I have stopped calling him.” She relies on the benevolence of her father and friends to bring her to church. Today, her father and a family friend lifted her onto the front seat of her father’s wine pick up vehicle. When they parked, they lifted her onto the wheelchair and wheeled her into a space behind the congregation reserved for her. She often meets her husband, Effort, in church. “I often see him from afar,” Benita says. When asked whether he also sees her in church, she says she cannot tell. The congregation is not a big one. It is sub-divided into English and Akan sections. Both Benita and Effort worship at the English section, and looking at the size of the congregation, it would take a lot of effort from Effort not to notice the presence of his wife in the church. But Benita does not yearn for his presence. “Anytime I see him, my heart begins to beat,” she says. But it is not the heartbeat of love. Since the shooting happened, she’s been living in fear. At the physiotherapy centre, her bed has been repositioned. Out of the fear for her life, she is “hiding” in the corner. She fears whoever wanted her dead could shoot from the window directly facing where she used to lie. One of the persons she dreads most is her husband. This Sunday, January 24, 2016, however, her husband is not in church. She has been informed that two days ago, the police arrested and detained him. How did she receive the news? “I won’t say I am sad about it. It is something that has to be done,” she shrugs. Some have described Benita’s survival as a miracle. The happy marriage and family she hoped for has now drifted from reality to a faint imagination. But her greatest hope is to be able to get back on her feet and walk again. Dr. Francis Caiquo of the Tema General Hospital thinks the chances of reversing her paralyses are very slim. The medical report from the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital states that she had a “complete spinal cord injury (T3 sensory level).” “It will be difficult, if not impossible, to reverse her condition,” Dr. Caiquo says. Benita’s blood level is very low but her religion forbids blood transfusion. Dr. Caiquo who saw her at her last visit to the Tema General Hospital says that impedes the healing of her bedsores and also has the potential of causing heart problems. When asked whether she has hopes of getting back to her former self, Benita bursts into tears. “I think it will take a long time, but I have hope.” “It’s rehabilitation that she needs most. She needs a physiotherapist, a psychologist… her hands are okay. If the wounds heal, I am sure she will be able to hold her baby, take care of one or two household chores,” Dr. Caiquo recommends. “We hope the Lord has something for her,” he adds. Src : myjoyonline.com
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Religion/ Ghana to get 'sin-free' Facebook alternative. What Do You think ? by Abigali(f) : 10:57 pm On Jan 30 |
A Ghanaian Christian group is to launch a "holy" social network alternative to Facebook which will be free of "un-Christian" content.
"Social networks these days are filled with nude content and violence," the group LoveRealm said in a statement. "The site will be launched on 9 January and will ensure a holy social network experience by censoring and removing "un-Christian content," its CEO Yaw Ansong Jnr said. Hundreds of Christians are being invited to use the app in a pre-launch event at the Pentecost Convention Center in the capital, Accra, to enable them make inputs and accommodate necessary modifications, the statement added. Founders of the site hope that it will allow those struggling to keep the Christian faith to share weaknesses and confess their sins to one another.
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Leaks/ The toilet you only clean once a year by Abigali(f) : 11:01 pm On Jan 30 |
An "intelligent" toilet that opens when you approach it and self-cleans with every flush is on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
It also cleans the user with an aerated wand, which delivers warm water and warm air "from a seated position", a spokeswoman said. Despite a $9,800 (£6,704) price tag, more than 40 million earlier versions of the Neorest toilets have been sold. Bathroom firm Toto said the new prototype was still in development. Its self-cleaning process uses a combination of a disinfectant and a glaze - made out of zirconium and titanium dioxide - which coats the bowl. "Once it flushes it sprays the interior of the bowl with electrolysed water," explained Toto spokeswoman Lenora Campos. She said the "proprietary process" essentially turns the water into a weak bleach. "This bleaches the interior, killing anything in the bowl," said Ms Campos. Meanwhile an ultraviolet light in the lid charges the surface. That makes it super-hydrophilic - or water-loving, so nothing can stick to it - and also photocatalytic, enabling oxygen ions to break down bacteria and viruses. "You don't have to clean the toilet bowl for over a year," said Ms Campos. The BBC asked several of Las Vegas' hotels if they might be interested in such a product, but all declined to comment. However, one smart home expert said the device proved there was still space for innovation beyond hooking things up to the internet. "It illustrates the notion that tech breakthroughs involve rethinking things," said Frank Gillett from the tech consultancy Forrester Research. "It's not necessarily about adding anything new." Potential purchasers should be warned, however, that the device does not totally absolve them of toilet cleaning duties since its cleansing techniques do not extend to spills outside of the bowl.
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Leaks/ New website to give people 'greater control over their death' to be launched by Abigali(f) : 11:02 pm On Jan 30 |
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A website will be launched this week that will allow people to complete an online declaration of how they wish to be treated in the final weeks of their life. The charity behind the site said anyone who completes the document, known as an “advance decision” – detailing how someone can refuse a specific type of medical treatment or drug at some time in the future – will have greater control over their death. Compassion in Dying said it created MyDecisions.org.uk in response to growing concerns about how few people were planning ahead for end-of-life treatment should they lose the ability to make their own decisions. The website will take people through different scenarios that they may encounter if their health fails. From Thursday, users can receive a copy of their advance decision, otherwise known as a living will, or a copy of an “advance statement”. An advance decision is legally binding (depending on location), so if a healthcare professional ignores it they can be taken to court. An advance statement differs from an advance decision in that it sets down a person’s preferences, wishes, beliefs as a guide for anyone who might have to make choices if they have lost the capacity to make decisions. Research commissioned by Compassion in Dying revealed last year that only 4 per cent of Britons have made a record of their preferences or appointed a lasting power of attorney. Recently courts have put increased emphasis on respecting patient autonomy. In the 2011 case of “M”, significant weight was given to the sanctity of life, over and above M’s previously informally expressed views, when the court ruled that treatment could not be withdrawn from the patient, in a minimally conscious state. However last month in the case of Mrs N, a 68-year-old woman in a minimally conscious state, her previously expressed wishes on her own quality of life took precedence, even though she had made no advance decision. This time the court allowed medics to withdraw treatment after Mrs N’s daughter argued that her mother had no quality of life as she would have perceived it.
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Entertainment/ How I sold ‘iced water’ to survive - Nikki Samonas by Abigali(f) : 11:05 pm On Jan 30 |
Actress Nikki Samonas, who is of Greek and Ghanaian parentage, has revealed that she once survived on selling ‘iced water’ on the streets.
Speaking with MzGee on the Feminine Friday edition of the 'Day Break Hitz' show on Hitz FM, the actress explained that she had to hustle after the death of her father. “I once sold iced water, yeah I did, I sold water in Tema,” she said. According to the actress, some people erroneously believe that all half-castes are born with silver spoons in their mouths. Contrary to that perception, she said while growing up, she had to work hard in order to get food to eat and build a future for herself. Nikki Samonas, born Nikoletta Samonas, explained that life would have been much easier if her father was alive. “My father was one of the richest men in Greece so I believe if he were to be alive things would have been easier,” she explained. According to Nikki, her “dad was a captain with three vessels. He was working on the west coast during the Monrovia war. He was poisoned.” “Because I didn't have that fatherly love, I always want to have someone who will be there for me all the time, show me all the care,” she really needed.
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Romance/ Video: Kwasi Kyei Darkwah (KKD) apologies for having s*x with 19-year-old girl by Abigali(f) : 11:11 pm On Jan 30 |
Kwasi Kyei Darkwah (KKD), the popular Ghanaian broadcaster who was recently accused of raping a girl at in hotel in Accra has apologized.
He however, denied any wrong doing since according to him the act between him and the 19-year-old woman had the mutual consent of both parties.
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Entertainment/ Leaked Audio: Ex Boyfriend Confirms that Schwarzenegger bedwets(See Details) by Abigali(f) : 5:00 am On Feb 07 |
“Nunu Scent fo) Krom…Ye Wo Krom”
Afia Schwarzenegger and Kennedy Agyepong have been trending this week after the former lashed out to the Member of Parliament and businessman—to which the MP and millionaire responded with more than Afia expected. Afia Schwarzenegger questioned the source of wealth of the millionaire—and suggested that he is into drugs because his Oman Fm has collapsed and therefore his source of wealth is extremely questionable. That wasn’t all, she went hard on Ken Agyepong—mostly talking slack about his person. Unfortunately for Afia Schwarzenegger, Ken took time out to reply, and his response was brutal—it was as if throwing a rocket bomb and the enemy responding with a f-11 bomber. In Ken Agyepong’s reply; he annihilated Afia Schwarzenegger’s whole existence—taking us as far back as when she used to be called Mother, and allegedly a low level prostitute at Kumasi, Tarkwa and Adabraka, Accra. Kennedy had more to say: he added that Afia Schwarzenegger is a bed wetter and beyond that, she has a very stinking coochie.
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Sports/ Coaches Welcome Nii Lante by Abigali(f) : 12:36 am On Feb 13 |
The CAF-licensed Coaches Association of Ghana has impressed upon the sports minister - designate, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, to develop a good relationship with indigenous football coaches as a means of encouraging locals to develop.
The General Secretary of the association, Mr Ken Augustt, said while the knowledge and experience of the minister-designate in sports and football in particular were not in doubt, the association would welcome a collaboration that would enhance opportunities for local coaches. He said the change at the sports ministry should not be a change for the sake of it, but impressed upon the incoming minister to bring his experience and knowledge to bear on the sport of football in particular. Mr Augustt, himself an experienced football coach, said the Member of Parliament for Odododiodioo had good knowledge of the terrain he was about to preside over, and said improving the various national teams and the local football leagues should be pursued with utmost seriousness to overcome challenges that appear to threaten local football currently. He said the association welcomed the minister-designate with open arms knowing he was one of their own. Source: Daily Graphic
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Sports/ Trouble For Football Legend, Kanu by Abigali(f) : 12:38 am On Feb 13 |
Nigerian football legend, Kanu Nwankwo has been dragged to court by a former friend, Ayoola Gam-Ikon over wrong prosecution.
The businessman and lawyer is claiming he suffered as a result of a petition the football legend filed against him which made him lose money and valuable time. Ayoola claims Kanu’s malicious allegation made the police arraign him on March 5, 2013 on a 19 counts charge of fraud which was eventually struck out on July 30, 2015 by the trial chief magistrate He wants the court to order Kanu to pay him a sum of one billion naira for everything he lost during his trial process. Source: Thenetng
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Sports/ Coach Duncan Cautions Players Against Complacency by Abigali(f) : 12:41 am On Feb 13 |
Kotoko Coach David Duncan has urged his players to eschew complacency ahead of the new season.
The Porcupine Warriors are hugely touted as the hot favourites for the Premier League crown following a fabulous run in pre-season. The club has suffered only a defeat and run amok with several wins in pre-season. But Coach David Duncan is urging calm among his players ahead of the start of the new campaign. “You can have a lot of disappointments for a number of reasons,” Duncan told Joy FM. “We don’t supervise the players, as far as their lifestyle is concerned, maybe you the players can get carried away by the environment. “The competition as a matter of fact hasn’t started, I have been around long enough to know that you take one game at a time.” “We don’t let that get into our heads, there is a lot of work to be done.” Kotoko will open their 2015/16 Ghana Premier League campaign with a tricky tie at WAFA. Source: Ghanasoccernet.com
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Crime/ Woman In Court For Pouring Acid On Boyfriend by Abigali(f) : 12:44 am On Feb 13 |
Esther Enyonam Pakyi, who some time last year poured acid on her boyfriend, Eric Ohemeng, leading to a blind right eye, has been remanded in police custody.
Enyonam has been charged with attempted murder before the Adjabeng Court 2, presided over by Mr James Kojo Bota. Presenting the facts of the case to the court, Chief Inspector Gregory Yeboah said Ohemeng was a student at GIMPA while Enyonam was currently unemployed and resided at Madina. According to the prosecutor, the two were in a love relationship until June 2015 when Ohemeng announced to Enyonam his intent to break up the relationship. Chief Inspector Yeboah said Enyonam, aggrieved at the news, managed to acquire some sulphuric acid at Madina and on June 25, 2015 poured same on Ohemeng leaving him at the point of death after which she went into hiding. The prosecutor said Enyonam was arrested at Dansoman. Speaking to The Mirror in an interview on February 10, 2016 at the court premises, Ohemeng said he harboured no hard feelings against Enyonam. “Even though I can’t move my neck and I’m blind in my right eye, my only plea is that justice is served so that I know the way forward,” he said. The Judge, Mr Bota, has tasked the investigators to speed up investigations so the case could be resolved as quickly as possible. The case has been adjourned to February 23 pending investigations. The suspect has been remanded in police custody for two weeks. Source: Daily Graphic
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Crime/ Nigerian Suicide Bomber Gets Cold Feet, Refuses To Kill by Abigali(f) : 12:46 am On Feb 13 |
Strapped with a booby-trapped vest and sent by the extremist Boko Haram group to kill as many people as possible, the young teenage girl tore off the explosives and fled as soon as she was out of sight of her handlers.
Her two companions, however, completed their grisly mission and walked into a crowd of hundreds at Dikwa refugee camp in northeast Nigeria and blew themselves up, killing 58 people. Later found by local self-defense forces, the girl's tearful account is one of the first indications that at least some of the child bombers used by Boko Haram are aware that they are about to die and kill others. "She said she was scared because she knew she would kill people. But she was also frightened of going against the instructions of the men who brought her to the camp," said Modu Awami, a self-defense fighter who helped question the girl. She was among thousands held captive for months by the extremists, according to Algoni Lawan, a spokesman for the Ngala local government area that has many residents at the camp and who is privy to information about her interrogation by security forces. "She confessed to our security operatives that she was worried if she went ahead and carried out the attack that she might kill her own father, who she knew was in the camp," he told the AP on Thursday. The girl tried to persuade her companions to abandon the mission, he said, "but she said she could not convince the two others to change their minds." Her story was corroborated when she led soldiers to the unexploded vest, Awami said Thursday, speaking by phone from the refugee camp, which holds 50,000 people who have fled Boko Haram's Islamic uprising. The girl is in custody and has given officials information about other planned bombings that has helped them increase security at the camp, said Satomi Ahmed, chairman of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency. The United States on Thursday strongly condemned the bombings. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the U.S. remains committed to assisting those afflicted by the conflict and supports efforts to provide greater protection for civilians and the regional fight against terrorism. Boko Haram's 6-year-old Islamic insurgency has killed 20,000 people, made 2.5 million homeless and spread across Nigeria's borders. Source: Associated Press
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Crime/ ‘She Deserved It’ – Says Man Who Forced Girlfriend To Walk Naked by Abigali(f) : 12:57 am On Feb 13 |
A Man who beat his girlfriend for sending texts to other men and then forced her to walk naked down a New York street has told a court “she deserved it”.
Jason Melo, 24, appeared at Manhattan Criminal Court charged with assault and endangering a child after he allegedly choked and punched the woman in front of their newborn daughter. He denies those allegations but admitted filming himself making the 22-year-old victim walk the streets wearing only a short white bath towel and dark shoes. Jason Melo told the court his girlfriend ‘deserved’ to be humiliated in the video Shouting at her in Spanish as they walk Melo eventually yanks the towel away – leaving the victim completely naked in the cold of a New York winter. In court yesterday Melo said he did not regret shaming his girlfriend. He told the New York Post: ‘She shouldn’t have done what she did.’ The shocking video shows a man shouting at the woman in a mixture of Spanish and English. . “Take off your towel and pay the price for the shame,” he says while accusing her of “talking to seven other men”. The victim replies: “But not to have s*x with them.” The video circulated widely in American media. Melo later released a bizarre follow-up clip of him handing himself into police, in which he claimed never to have attacked the woman. Since the footage emerged, the victim – who has not been identified – has claimed she was scared of Melo. “He started threatening me, he threatened to slash my face,” she told Univision. Source: thesun
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Agriculture/ Farmers To Be Supplied With 100,000 Spraying Machines by Abigali(f) : 1:00 am On Feb 13 |
Cocoa farmers are to be supplied with 100,000 spraying machines this year at highly subsidized price.
It is an initiative by Desert Lion International (DLI), a Ghanaian company that deals in agricultural implements, and the goal is to support efforts at improving crop yield. Mr. Kwame Tweneboah Koduah, its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) said the machines had been certified by the Cocoa Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and received the approval of the COCOBOD. He broke the news at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between DLI and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi. The pact is to help build the capacity of the company to manufacture vital agricultural inputs to increase agricultural production. It is currently engaged in the assembling of cocoa spraying machines and the manufacture of insecticides. The company has set its sights on acquiring the competence and capacity to manufacture the spraying machines locally in the next five years. Professor William Otoo Ellis, Vice Chancellor of the University, initialed the agreement for the institution, while Mr. Koduah, penned for his company. Mr. Koduah spoke of plans to establish an international training and assembling centre at Adadientem in the Ejisu-Juaben to provide hands-on training to undergraduate and graduate students. Prof. Ellis said as a technology-based universities, KNUST would lead efforts to develop modern techniques for production of agricultural implements. Source: GNA
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Celebrities/ "I'm Not Married" - Sarkodie by Abigali(f) : 1:02 am On Feb 13 |
Rapper Sarkodie has refuted reports that he is married. According to the artiste real name Michael Owusu Addo, he is yet to tie the knot.
Ghanaian actress Salma Mumin was quoted to have said in her recent interview on eTV that the “Adonai” hitmaker was married. In a way to find the truth in what the actress told Eddy Blay on the Late Night Celebrity Show, a fan asked the rapper on twitter if it was true. Obidi in a simple reply to the fan who asked “@sarkodie Are you married !?” said “Want to”. Sarkodie and his girlfriend Tracey have been dating for long. The couple has been seen traveling around the world. They have managed to keep most of the things that happen in their relationship from the public eye. Source: Zionfelix.com
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Celebrities/ Actor Nearly Drowns On Movie Set by Abigali(f) : 1:04 am On Feb 13 |
Diminutive Ghanaian actor Yaw Dabo nearly drowned in a swimming pool on Tuesday, according to reports.
The actor was acting on the set for upcoming movie, Kakai Soldier, with other cast such as Kyeiwaa and Vivian Okyere among others at the Njul Guest House in Mankrong Nkwanta in the Agona East Constituency when the incident took place. It is really not clear what exactly happened but a source from the set told NEWS-ONE on Tuesday afternoon that some crew members went to his rescue. According to the source, he didn’t know how to swim and was made to shoot in the pool until he started gasping for breath. Dabo is one of Ghana’s smallish actors who are doing very well for themselves. He is popularly known for his performance in the movie, Me Giwu Girl, by Media5 Promotions. It would have been a big blow to the local Twi movie industry had anything happen to him. Source: Daily Guide
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Celebrities/ Photo: Check Out Juliet Ibrahim's Gorgeous Mother by Abigali(f) : 1:06 am On Feb 13 |
Today, the mother of actress cum musician Juliet Ibrahim is celebrating her birthday and the latter took to Instagram to tell her fans how wonderful her mother is.
Read what she wrote for the mother; 30 years ago this beautiful ageless beauty gave life to me and ever since then she has never ever given up on me. Through the wars, through the hustle, struggles, heartbreaks, temptations and pains of being on her raising 4kids she still fought hard and made sure her children stood out and grew into amazing kids that she’ll be proud of someday! Disappointments was never a setback for her. I saw you stand and fight rebels ; get shot at by Civil War Rebels just to make sure ur kids stay alive; I recall every single moment and one day we will tell our story. When I told her, I wanted to be an usher, a receptionist, doing modeling or acting; she never questioned; she would rather drive me to auditions back in the day and wait around to drive me back home if need be! She believed in my vision and dream to become a superstar someday! Today im proud that I have been able to put this smile on your face and you are able to sit back and relax as well as enjoy the fruit of your labor. The best is yet to come as you remain my prayer warrior and highest supporter and greatest fan ever. I love you and I appreciate you for all you have done for my siblings and I and all we can do is celebrate you to the whole world! This picture was taken only yesterday and you still look like a sweet 16. My #wce my mother and my role model. @sheibrahim I love you and I wish I could do so much more to make you see I appreciate you; I’m just glad I’m able to do the little I do. God richly bless you and may you grow agelessly beautiful, wise, stronger and stronger as ever. Amen Source: Livefmghana.com
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Entertainment/ 'Nigerian Men 'Sleep' With Ghanaian Ladies Before Leaving' by Abigali(f) : 1:09 am On Feb 13 |
Ghana-based Nigerian Comedian, Hogan says no Nigerian man comes to Ghana and leaves without tasting the ‘apples’ of Ghanaian girls.
He said this in an interview with Livefmghana.com. “No Nigerian comes to this country without having a taste of some of the finest apples Ghana has though most of them come for business reasons,” he said. Hogan is a stand-up comedian, an actor, a producer, writer and a corporate MC and one of Nigeria’s most celebrated comic actor in Ghana. He broke into lime light in 2011 with his rib cracking jokes on Hitz FM’s Laughter Express, followed by Charter house’s 1000 laugh series in the same year. Since then, he has rocked several big stages and worked with Africa’s celebrated comedians in Ghana, Nigeria and beyond. He is the producer of Chronicle of Hogan, a series of Comedy skits airing on Viasat 1 and Joy Prime and recently won an award for short and animated films at the 2015 F.O.F.A AWARDS in Ghana. Source: Livefmghana.com
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Entertainment/ Stop Exchanging 'Sex' For Movie Roles - Emelia Brobbey by Abigali(f) : 1:11 am On Feb 13 |
Ghanaian actress, Emelia Brobbey has advised rising actresses to refrain from exchanging s*x for movie roles.
The veteran actress told Mr. Lattus on J.Life Fm’s Entertainment Chart Show that it is totally wrong for up and coming actresses to sleep with Movie directors and producers with the aim of getting roles to play in their movies. “They should forget any producer or director who will demand for s*x before giving them roles…they should learn and follow our steps. Sleeping with someone won’t help you in any way. “It’s about human relation and not s*x relation. They should be vigilant and join good production houses…they should look for the right productions that will be helping them rather than others that the executives will take advantage and sleep with them,” she said. According to Emelia, anybody who will sacrifice her body with the intention of becoming a movie star will have her career crash along the way. “Movie is business, so if he sleeps with you and you didn’t deliver after having the role…I don’t think you will have another role again. It’s your talent that will make you a star and not by sleeping with movie producers and directors. “What can make you a movie star is humility, your human relations, and prayers. Sleeping with producers and directors wouldn’t bring out the best in you. It’s totally wrong for them to use s*x as a tool to penetrate into the movie industry. Everybody in one way or the other has a way that will make her become a recognized movie star. Some will shoot multiple movies…others will shoot just a single movie and they may be recognized. It depends on the luck,” she posited. “I always feel shy when I hear that producers and film directors have s*x with characters before offering them roles in movies. It brings down the reputation of women. I don’t believe in sleeping with a movie producer or director before you can become a movie icon,” Emelia Brobbey got candid. Source: Newshuntermag.blogspot
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Celebrities/ Bisa Kdei Surprises Becca With Flowers On TV (PHOTOS) by Abigali(f) : 1:14 am On Feb 13 |
Afro-pop musician, Becca, was all smiles on Friday when highlife sensation, Bisa Kdei, surprised her with flowers and a cake.
The pretty songstress was a guest on GhToday on GhOneTV to talk about her career and upcoming projects when Kdei called into the program with a Valentine message. Minutes after the call ended, some people walked on set with flowers and cakes from Kdei for Becca, livefmonline.com reported. Kdei’s gesture is likely to deepen the perception that he and Becca are in a romantic relationship. His open demonstration of affection for Becca comes barely a week after she denied being in a relationship with the ‘Mansa’ singer.
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