News of Thursday, 18 August 2016

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Bishop Obinim whips teenage members for fornication Ben Ephson to NPP: I’m sorry Obinim speaks on flogging of ‘fornicators’ in church Teacher rapes SHS student Oye Lithur reports Obinim to DOVVSU Arrest Obinim immediately – Amnesty Int’l demands

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Opinions

• Leadership is by example, Charlotte Osei
• Open letter to the Prominent People Association of Kumawuman
• Beginning of the end
• Illegal mining, logging undermining SDG 12 achievement
• Manifesto launch: The 'first mover vrs fast second strategy'
• Ineffective leadership, bane of Ghana's mediocre institutions
• Volta Region and the HSGF
• Western development fund? Just look at SADA
• Welcoming Omamah Mugabe…

General News

• GWCL officers stole my $84,000 - Sachet water company owner
• Deplorable roads didn’t make Nana Addo sleep - NPP
• ‘Gov’t must be serious with energy crisis’ – Dr. Nduom
• I didn’t fail law school - Baba Jamal
• First Lady not funding NGO with public funds - Aide
• We don’t know whereabouts of GCB bullion van attackers – Police
• Demand accountability from politicians – IDEG
• Ghanaians may choose from more than 30 presidential candidates - EC
• Local gun producers must be roped in to end arms proliferation
• Keep your partisan politics to yourselves - Prof. Asante tells clergy
• Roads under Mahama 'phenomenal' - Inusah Fuseini
• Police flee post as residents protest over escape of GCB van attackers
• Bishop Obinim whips teenage members for fornication
• Escaped GCB bullion attacker re-arrested in Afram Plains
• NIC to make it compulsory for government buildings to be insured
• Teacher rapes SHS student
• 4-Year Presidential term debate: Political science lecturer warns Ghanaians
• Ghana Police raid Angel TV over illegal airing of Euro 2016 matches
• NPP’s election petition slowed our performance - Mahama
• NPP’s allegations against Lordina unnecessary - Government
• Obinim disciplined his children to serve as a deterrent - Aide
• Mahama roads just 1% of Kufuor's - Darko-Mensah
• President Mahama off to commission the John Evans Atta Mills FPSO
• 5 in critical condition, 16 injured in Donkorkrom police shootout
• Ghana must re-commit to pan-Africanism with Mugabe visit - Irbard
• NPP can't lecture NDC on presidential conduct - Kwakye Ofosu
• Police to investigate video of Obinim flogging ‘fornicators’
• George Loh shoots down Amidu’s analysis of Montie 3 case
• Cops culpable in suspects’ escape will be punished - Police
• CLOGSAG calls off strike
• Group demands ECG concession review
• Ben Ephson to NPP: I’m sorry
• 50% believe EC will declare wrong results
• Bawumia, Nana Addo have changed our destinies – PWDs
• NDC most guilty of vote buying - CDD Survey
• Arrest Obinim immediately – Amnesty Int’l demands
• We'll avoid another election petition - Mahama
• Ghana in tatters; help me and NPP to get power – Akufo-Addo
• We’re still paying debt left by NPP government – Kofi Adams
• Gender issues must be highlighted ahead of polls – Oye Lithur
• Reconciling with Afoko will be in NPP's interest - Bossman Asare
• Obinim speaks on flogging of ‘fornicators’ in church
• Mahama commissions FPSO Atta Mills
• Oye Lithur reports Obinim to DOVVSU
• NPP’s attacks on EC a manifestation of its fears – Mahama
• Obinim flogging of teen lovers utter ‘madness’ – Lawyer
• CDD survey finding on vote buying an insult to Ghanaians – Lawson
• 80% of Ghanaians call for privatisation of ECG - Survey
• CDD pre-election survey “total nonsense” – NDC
• Water, Hygiene, sanitation critical to national development - WaterAid
• Only 63% of Ghanaians believe EC will be neutral – Survey
• Man found dead with body parts missing
• We’ve not been paid – School feeding caterers

Politics

• Ban on political activities in Awutu Senya unfair – NPP
• No show for President John Mahama in Agona Nkwanta
• Mahama has been wicked to Northerners - Kwamena Duncan
• Mahama is ignorant of his own party's history - Prof. Oquaye
• NPP is more peaceful than when Afoko was chairman - Prof. Oquaye
• NDC government deserves a second term - Mahama
• NPP’s attacks on EC a manifestion of its fears – Mahama
• NDC green book too small to contain party’s achievements - Francis Dodovi
• Akufo-Addo hits Klottey Korle with campaign
• NPP will not write another ‘Stolen Verdict’ - Mac-Manu
• President Mugabe’s visit to Ghana cancelled
• NPP'll establish training institution, scholarship scheme for PWDs – Bawumia
• Vote buying: NDC, NPP reject CDD report
• Mahama blowing funds again – Akomea
• Don’t give NDC another chance — NPP
• Nana Addo, Philip Addison storm Korley Klottey
• NDC candidates, activists upbeat about 2016 victory
• Akufo-Addo takes campaign to artisans in Accra

Crime & Punishment

• Baby thieves escape lynching
• Woman beheaded at Adansi-Fomena
• Car snatchers nearly lynched at Awutu Breku
• Man arrested over attempts to steal minerats at Kanda Mosque
• Bookman jailed for wee
• Woman’s throat slashed for rituals
• Bullion heist: Justice'll be served – Minister
• Four men before court for defrauding businessman
• Convicted ECG Staff fight for bail pending Appeal

Religion

• Hajj Committee secures visas for all 1500 Tamale pilgrims

Health News

• Korle-Bu turns away pregnant women
• FDA to punish individuals who break law on 'no smoking at public places'
• Legislative Instrument on Mental Health is timely - Dr Osei
• KATH sees sharp decline in maternal deaths
• Biomedical lab scientists to strike on Aug 22

Regional News

• GES needs legal backing to effectively check headteachers - Tsegah
• Koforidua youth sell blood for a living
• Residents set Donkorkrom police station on fire
• Airtel Ghana commissions ICT centre for Somnyamekodru Primary School
• IGP urges chiefs to help maintain peace
• UK government supports colleges of education with GHC5m
• Support “A day of help” – Ivor Greenstreet
• Tigo Digital Change-maker winner spreads reading camps in rural communities
• Police Constable dies in road crash
• MP unhappy with progress of work on Adaklu Community SHS project
• Rehabilitation of Tarkwa-Nsuaem roads begins