BREAKING NEWS: Another bullion van attacked at Okyereko, Winneba- Accra road.
A bullion Van with registration number GN 6956-17 has been attacked Thursday at Okyereko on the Winneba-Accra road. According to Kasapa FM’s Yaw Boagyan, the suspected armed robbers, numbering about six allegedly emerged from the bush and shot the window at the passenger side of the vehicle where the police security guard was sitting. The armed men took to their heels after the failed attempt to decapacitate the police officer and the driver of the van. None of the occupants were injured. The incident was reported to the Winneba police even though it occurred at Gomoa Okyereko. According to Boagyan, the van was transporting money to the bank. The Police Commander at Gomoa Okyereko is yet to address the media on the incident. The van has been sent to Winneber Police Custody for investigation. This is the second bullion van attack in less than ninety-six hours. A Police officer was shot dead by suspected armed robbers in an attack on a bullion van at Adedenpo near James Town in on Monday June 14. –Starrfm Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
A/R: Robbers shoot, injure 2 of 5 gold dealers in attempt to steal from them
Two gold dealers have been shot and robbed by armed robbers at Mosikrom in the Amansie South District of the Ashanti region. The two were among five gold dealers, who were robbed by about six armed robbers around 4:00am today, Thursday, 17 June 2021. The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Director for the area, Mr Edward Oduro Nsiah told Kumasi FM’s Elisha Adarkwah that the two victims allegedly resisted the gun-wielding men from robbing them and in the process were shot in the legs. They were rushed to St. Martins Hospital at Agroyesum but have been referred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital for further treatment. The NADMO Director said the doctors at the St. Martins Hospital have advised that the victims’ severely damaged legs to amputated. The Amansie West Police command has commenced investigations into the incident and on the heels of the armed robbers. Mr Oduro Nsiah complained about rampant armed robbery attacks in the area. He could not tell whether it was the temporal ban on mining activities that was causing an increase in robbery cases because the district is a mining area. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
JUST IN: Suspected Armed Robber Who Killed Police Officer Finally Speaks And Reveals Deep Secrets -SEE PHOTOS
The emerging news culled from Opera News has it that the suspected robber arrested by the police has spoken and makes some shocking revelations. Following the robbery at James Town about the three men on motorbikes who robbed the Bullion Van which lead to the death of the police officer escorting the the Van and a pregnant woman. The Ghana police service has done an incredible job by arresting one suspect who is believe to involve in the robbery that lead to the death of the officer. The report sated that the suspects in the police grips said: ” It was not our plan to kill the police officer, all we wanted is to take the money and go but he wanted to take his weapon and my friends started shooting. I am not the one who killed the officer” The suspect revealed this in the interrogation room. The police have vowed to do justice to the death of the officer and put an end to all crimes but is counting on the general public to support their operations by volunteering relevant information that could help them in their investigations. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
Gov’t urged to offer GHS10k as business startup capital for final year tertiary students
Dr. Sa-ad Iddrisu a United States-based Economist and lecturer, has called on government to start awarding startup capital to final year tertiary students for them to start small-scale businesses. This comes on the back of the current youth unemployment crisis in the country. Dr. Iddrisu believes things may get out of hand if the government doesn’t take immediate action to give the youth and graduates work to do. In his latest piece, the Economist notes that there are more than a hundred ways to deal with the rising youth unemployment problem stressing that offering start-up capital to University Graduates is key. Dr. Iddrisu adds that government should also give Corporate Tax incentives to businesses that will potentially offer jobs to these graduates. “Government should offer immediate tax incentives to small and large businesses that are able to hire fresh graduates from the tertiary institutions. Those we may call “first time workers”. Government can offer these tax incentives in grade levels, depending on the number of hires by any company,” part of the write-up from the US-based lecturer reads. It continues, “Although this will affect government revenue due to decline in corporate taxes in the short run, it can be compensated with income taxes, reduction in crime and increased productivity, thus, GDP in the long run.” In his conclusion, Dr. Iddrisu has urged the police administration to secure bulletproof vests for police officers in the country to use when assigned on duty. Below is the full statement of Dr. Sa-ad Iddrisu circulating on WhatsApp groups: Government should start offering 10,000ghc as Business Start Up Capital for Final Year Tertiary Students Dr. Sa-ad Iddrisu writes; I wrote a short piece yesterday calling on government to act immediately to address the joblessness of the youth and also wished a Rest In Peace to the police officer who was killed during the bullion van robbery. Shortly after, many replies poured out to me on WhatsApp groups, and one that caught my attention greatly was the one that asked me to shut up for telling the government to act immediately without offering any solutions. That was an interesting comment, but I would like to say that it’s the government’s responsibility to fix the country. Therefore, no citizen owes the government any solution(s) being that we relinquished that trust to government upon government every four years through elections. Also, it’s worth noting that, elsewhere, nations are built on policies from think tanks, academia, research institutions, and the general public. In Ghana, the story is different. Our country is built with policies from party headquarters’ or the presidential candidates homes where only few friends and family are invited for dinner. We live in a country where government’s refuse to adopt solutions to problems formulated by policy think tanks, academia and others. If you find yourself in parliament, then perhaps you would be taken serious when you propose solutions to a national problem. Even with that, it will depend on whether you are a “grade 1 or grade 2”parliamentarian. Thus, knowing all these sad realities, there isn’t much motivation to offer solutions and policy alternatives to government. Therefore, it’s not that citizens don’t have solutions to offer the government to address the youth unemployment and other crisis facing the nation. It’s a question of whether the government will listen and implement them or the opposition parties will adopt such policies and implement them properly for the development of the country when they win power? That’s part of the reasons why you find citizens resorting to only complaints and demonstrations rather than offering solutions to government. If I haven’t read policies offered by citizens, at least, I have read policies offered by Imani Ghana, university professors and even that of “We the People Matter Movement”. Imani Ghana even struggled with government officials and sometimes landed in courts, just to give advice on best practices to government. Yet, we are all witnesses to how past and present governments have behaved, with some officials taking things personally against Imani Ghana representatives. As then Executive Director of “We the People Matter Movement”, from 2019 to 2020, I led a team to offer policy alternatives on ex-gratia, healthcare, local governance, corruption, among others. All were published in various newspapers and online platforms. Yet, we are all witnesses to how things are in Ghana! That being said, I reflected upon a quote that I once read stating, “change only takes place through action.” As a result, this quote motivated this reply to my initial thoughts yesterday, to expand my perspective to discover ways that government can enact action to mitigate the youth unemployment crisis. There are more than hundred ways to deal with the rising youth unemployment problem which many citizens may have in mind, but two solutions keep crossing my mind at the moment: 1. Corporate Tax incentives: Government should offer immediate tax incentives to small and large businesses that are able to hire fresh graduates from the tertiary institutions. Those we may call “first time workers”. Government can offer these tax incentives in grade levels, depending on the number of hires by any company. Although this will affect government revenue due to decline in corporate taxes in the short run, it can be compensated with income taxes, reduction in crime and increased productivity, thus, GDP in the long run. 2. Start up capital: It is obvious that existing companies can’t hire all yearly graduating students from the tertiary institutions in the country. Government needs to offer incentives to fresh graduates to develop a business mindset and be able to start their own businesses. Government can offer all final year students a suggested amount of 10,000ghc or less to start a business after graduation. However, this may be dependent on government ability to fund it taking into account that we have about 250,000 students graduating yearly from our tertiary institutions. In case of budget constraint, government can offer only a selected percentage of final year students the determined amount as a start
My son not in private school; apologise or face court —Education Minister threatens Daily Post Newspaper over defamation
Lawyers for Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum are demanding a retraction and an apology from the Daily Post Newspaper for allegedly publishing a material that has embarrassed their client. This follows a publication in the Daily Post Newspaper on Tuesday, June 15, 2021, that it sourced to a Facebook post from Nana Osei Poku, an employee of the Ministry of Education. In the publication, the Daily Post Newspaper insists that the Education Minister lied about not having a child enrolled in a private Senior High School. In a letter to the Editor of the Daily Post Newspaper, the lawyers are demanding an apology and a retraction while noting that the content of the publication on Tuesday has caused their client a huge embarrassment. “The false allegation made on the front page of your newspaper has caused our client, who is a seasoned educationist of high repute deep embarrassment, as it has lowered his standing in the eyes of right-thinking members of society,” parts of the letter reads. It concludes, “We hereby on behalf of our client, demand that you forthwith cease and desist from making any further false claims about our client’s son’s enrollment in a private SHS and further demand that you publish in the National Dailies a retraction of the allegation made in your Tuesday 15 June 2021 issue of your newspaper, giving it the same prominence as the original defamatory publication, and render unqualified apology to our client, failing which our client will seek legal redress without further recourse to you.” —Eric Nana Yaw Kwafo Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.
BANDIT THREAT: International Relations And Security Expert Offer 3 Advice To Security
A Ghanaian US-based International relations and security expert, Francis Abugbilla has offered securities officials at the two targeted areas some good advice to prevent the bandit’s threats of attacking Bolga and Tamale. Apexnewsgh.com reports According to a Police Wireless communique sighted by Apexnewsgh.com, the terrorists may have already entered the country and are hiding in unknown locations. They are said to be in possession of explosive nuclear weapons that are capable of causing mass destruction and are poised to launch the attacks any time soon. However, upon hearing such sad development, International relations and security expert, Dr. Francis Abugbilla described the threat news as a critical issue that should not be consumed as a joke looking at the havoc already caused by these bandits in neighboring Burkina Faso. In an interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnews Gh, the Security Expert offered 3 wonderful pieces of advice to help complement the already initiated plans by the security towards bandits attack prevention within the targeted areas. Below are his advice so far to the security: 1, “To increase the security presence along the Ghana- Burkina border that will beef up security, 2, to get the general public informed so that they will be able to signal unsuspecting people or activities that are around them and 3, to make drills something that will be part and parcel of people who congregate so that, in case of attacks they will be able to either overcome it or be able to defend themselves. He was hopeful that with this process, the bandit will never get the chance to executive their evil deeds”. However, he cautioned the security not to allow these bandits to succeed with the attack, stressing that if they succeed, they will continue to gain momentum and subsequently continue with the attacks and kill innocent people. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093.