News in Brief

Judgement is to be given on 23rd July in the case in which Professor Albert Owusu-Sarpong, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of KUST has sued the University and its Council over the appointment of a new Vice-Chancellor.

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Eben Quarcoo, former Editor of "Free Press", opening his defence has said the story that "the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Government was dealing in drugs and intended to use the proceeds to purchase arms", was based on a similar one in the "African Observer", published in New York.

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It has now been confirmed that the passenger boat which capsized on the Volta lake last Friday and left an unspecified number of people dead was overloaded.

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The Wa Police have arrested a 22 year old tea seller for allegedly raping a 25 year old cola seller in Wa.

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The Private Newspaper Publishers Association of Ghana has sent a petition to the Chief Justice expressing shock at a 42 million Cedis fine imposed as damages on the "Ghanaian Chronicle" for libel.

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Mr Bismark Doku-Nartey, President of the Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen, has denied that the organisation is a political wing of the NDC government.