[Translate] Three of the suspected looters NINE OF the 11 men, including two Community Protection personnel popularly called ‘Kufuor Police’, who were arrested for conspiring to take advantage of Thursday’s wild fire outbreak at the Kumasi Central Market, have been put before a Kumasi circuit court. The court, chaired by Amoh Yartey, on Friday remanded all the suspects,... 

[Translate] Hours after President John Evans Atta Mills, met with leaders of the Mamprusi and Kousasi traditional groups at Boligatanga on a peace plan amongst the two feuding factions, gun shots were heard. Alhaji Guma, spokesperson for the Bawku Naba, Asigri Abugrago Azoka confirming the shooting incidence on Asempa Fm, an Accra based radio station this morning, contended that, the... 

[Translate] Black Stars Serbian manager Milovan Rajevac has expressed worry over skipper Stephen Appiah’s unavailability for the team’s international friendly with the Cranes of Uganda this Sunday. Appiah was quoted to have said that he is addressing some family issues, hence his absence for the Stars’ preparatory match exercise. In an interview with coach Milo at the... 

[Translate] Ghana’s gold output in the first quarter of 2009 was 675,151 ounces, up 9 percent on the first three months of last year, while higher world prices pushed cumulative mining revenue up 11 percent to $641.2 million, Chamber of Mines data showed on Saturday. Ghana, the world’s no.2 cocoa producer, is also Africa’s second biggest gold miner after South Africa. It produced... 

[Translate] Akua Sena Dansua, Women and Children's affairs minister The Minister of Women and Children’s Affairs, Akua Sena Dansua has denied saying the four year duration for the Senior High School education would deny women the right to early marriage. She was alleged to have made the comment in an interview as part of her defence to why the SHS would have to be reverted to three years. Reactions... 

[Translate] Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, National Chief Imam Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, National Chief Imam will organise the 2009 Hajj. A statement signed by Alhaji Awaisu Bio, Public Relations Officer of the office of the National Chief Imam said the Chief Imam has the mandate to select the country’s representative to the Hajj conference. “Since the tenure of office of the Interim Management... 

[Translate] India’s Bharti Airtel may structure a stake sale to South Africa’s MTN Group, part of a larger merger plan, through its holding company and parent firm, so there is no need for an open offer, two bankers and a legal source said. But sources close to The Chronicle say that the deal, which is supposed to have ringfenced the original millions – some say $600 million –... 

[Translate] Hatchett … he’s the daddy A SUPER daddy aged just 29 has set a new record in the US by fathering TWENTY ONE kids. Desmond Hatchett’s children have 11 different mums and their ages range from a newborn to 11-years-old. The prolific father even boasted of fathering four tots by different women in the same year. His giant brood came to light after authorities in Tennessee... 

[Translate] Paul Kwabena Ofori with Madam Elizabeth Sackey MP for Okaikoi North The death of a 59-year-old lotto agent, Paul Kwabena Ofori, in the Tesano Police Station cells yesterday, after his entreaties for medical attention were ignored, has come under the purview of the new Inspector General of Police, Paul Tawiah Quaye and Hon Elizabeth Sackey, the Okaikoi North constituency MP. At the centre... 

[Translate] Presidential spokesperson, Mahama Ayariga has described as historic President Mills’ mediation between the Bawku Naba and the Mamprusi leader, Alhaji Akalifa. The meeting was held at the Upper West Regional capital, Wa on Friday as part of the president’s four day official visit to the Northern Regions of Ghana. “It has never happened that a president has brought the two...