Anas exposes ‘rogue ’ Police officers in latest documentary

Ace Investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas has finally released his latest undercover report which exposes some dishonest police officers in Ghana.
Dubbed “Bad Cops”, the latest investigative piece which is the last part of the Tiger Eye PI’s “Ghana’s Soul Takers” documentary, reveals the role some police personnel play in the various forms of chaos that happens on Ghana’s roads.

‘Ghana’s Soul Takers’ which aims at uncovering the artificial causes of avoidable deaths and carnage on roads in the country looked at the rot at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority, and how officials procure license for cripples, madmen, minors, among others for cash.

The about one-hour documentary details how some miscreants among the Police Service use their job to perpetrate wrongful acts that go against the mandate and principles of the Service
The last investigative piece by Anas shook the foundations of the Judiciary after some notable Judges were caught on tape taking bribe or allowing themselves to be induced.

These went a long way to influence the judgement of their cases and in some cases letting wrongdoers go without the law taking its course.

The new full video documentary released by Anas on the police, however, is geared towards creating road safety awareness and responsibilities among the general Ghanaian public and especially the Police MTTU

Source: Ghanaweb.com

UCC security officer murders ex-lover after raping her on Christmas Eve

A University of Cape Coast security officer is in the grip of the police for allegedly raping and killing his ex-girlfriend on the Eve of Christmas.

Adolf Coffie, 45, reportedly dragged the 32-year-old woman identified as Maame Serwaa into the bush where he raped her and hit her with an object after the sexual encounter.

The tragic incident happened at Kwapro near Ankaful in the Central Region, Joy News’ Richard Kwadwo Nyarko reported Friday.

A hunter who happened to be on his usual expedition reportedly heard the scream of the woman and rushed to the scene.
He threatened to kill Adolf if the woman was not rushed to the hospital, the police say.

The security officer abandoned Serwaa on the roadside and bolted.
Seeing what Adolf had done, the hunter reportedly rushed to her aid but she passed out after she gave details of the suspect.

The police subsequently arrested Adolf and charged him with murder.
He has since been remanded into police custody by a Cape Coast High Court pending further investigations and due to reappear on January 9, 2018.

Adolf, a father of five, is said to have been engaged as a security officer about a decade ago at the University of Cape Coast.

Spokesperson of the police in the Region, ASP Irene Oppong told Joy News they have retrieved some items from the residence of Adolf, which the police believe will provide a useful lead in their investigations.

Credit: Myjoyonline

Headmaster impregnates 16 year old student at Akim Oda

The Assistant Headmaster of St Francis Senior High Technical at Akim Oda in the Eastern region is reported to have impregnated a 16-year student of the school.

The assistance headmaster, Mr Vincent Otoo, has been lusting after the teenager since her appearance in the school thus luring her into a secret relationship.
The victim whose name is only given as Abigail is seven months pregnant after being in secret relationship with Mr Otoo since a year now.

It is also established that the suspect together with some teachers was trying to cover the issue to make the student give birth at home instead of the hospital.
The news which is being rumoured in the school, according to a close source indicated that a tutor in the school who doubles as Elder, Mr Obenu, led a delegation to the pregnant student family’s house to settle the matter at home.

It is confirmed that the parent who rejected the headmaster’s request, sent them away from their house.
The Senior House Master of the school, Mr Theodore, who confirmed the alleged pregnancy of the 16-year-old student, stated that investigations were still ongoing to come out with the true husband of the victim’s pregnancy.

Meanwhile, some of the students who shared their views on the issue indicated categorically that, they wouldn’t be surprised if the situation was true.

According to them, Abigail was not the first victim, as Mr Otoo had been luring a lot of the “girls into sex, all in the name of money and good grades.”

Source : Adomonline.com

22-year-old university student produces paper-made bricks

A 22-year-old university student has been adjudged as winner of the Young Icon category at the 2nd Kwame Nkrumah African Genius Awards after amazingly producing bricks made of paper.

Elijah was born to Ghanaian parents, but currently resides in South Africa where he studies Industrial Engineering at a university.

The young innovator rose to prominence after producing a type of brick made from paper in an attempt to help solve South Africa’s waste and housing problems.

According to him, the realization that the country has been struggling with paper waste management, as well as affordable housing, inspired him to bring forth this innovation.

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, Elijah explained that the idea of producing paper-made bricks, known as ‘nubrix’, started when he was a child.

In fact, as early as 11 years, he already had plans of finding a way to make housing in South Africa cheaper, which ultimately led to the invention of his innovation.

“New bricks came back in primary school when I was 11 years old. Back then I was very passionate about Science. When I was in Grade 6 my dad used to burn his old photocopy text books and this was the time during global warming and me, being the scientist thought of something to do,” he narrated.

He added: “In about a few days later, one of the TV programmes was poaching one of the shortest of RDP housing in South Africa and RDP housing is a form of cheaper housing by the government.

“So I said let’s see if I could use a paper to help cellutape this [papers] so I did different tests, different ratios of different stuff, different methodologies of how we can turn the paper into bricks and use that whole scientific process.”

Elijah is confident that if the world should adopt the use of paper-made bricks, then global warning could as well be reduced because waste will be put to effective use, instead of being burned.

He is, therefore, seeking official certification from a regulatory body in order to be able to put his innovation on the market for sale.

According to him, his paper-made bricks are weather resistant and have the ability to stand harsh conditions.

The wondrous nature of Elijah’s innovation led to him winning the Young Icon category at this year’s Kwame Nkrumah African Genius Awards held in Accra.

His innovation was also selected as one of the best during the first Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) held on African soil early in 2017.

Credit: Citifmonline

The Need To Post University Teacher Trainees To The Classroom, The Government Must Hear This!!

Policies come with projections and in this same direction, comes the success of such policies.

Ghana is bent on alleviating poverty through the introduction of social intervention policies and such example of a policy is the free Education policy, which offers most parents, the opportunity to educate their wards to even as far as the second cycle level, and most children, the opportunity to enjoy second cycle education for free.

To support this policy requires structures, both the human and structural resources.

But it appears the issues of teacher deficit is still on the rise and it is indeed not the best for a country like Ghana.

Educational courses in the Universities are a great impact on the policy since it is this very level at which we can even and also be more efficient.

Teaching is a gift as many believe. And this justifies the reason why many people could think of no other profession than teaching, in which they find joy, devoid of the compensation conditionalities.

One may wonder how it feels to be in the University, in anticipation of impacting knowledge into society, only to complete and realise the fact that, there are no ready jobs for such people.

One could even wonder what one goes through in the University just in a bid to acquire a first degree in Education in an anticipation to impact knowledge into society just for the sake of social and economic development.

In the recent budget read before parliament by the honourable minister for finance, Ghana, as it stands, have a teacher deficit of seventy thousand (70, 000). At this time and period of the free education policy, we should have even had a lower teacher deficit if only we want the resources positioned.

Our only question is, are the University teacher trainees not qualified to fill such positions of teacher deficit ....?

The government must employ teacher trainees if only they are committed to the Free Education Policy and bent on reducing graduate unemployment because we, the University teacher trainees believe that employment of this very category of unemployed graduates in question is also a step geared towards reducing and curbing graduates unemployment.

We, the students of the University of Education Winneba and its affiliated campuses, the University for Development Studies also with its sister campuses, the University of Cape Coast and other Universities with educational specialisation(s), hereby present our justifications before the Government.

We also call on other schools to join and support our coalition. It is our hope that government takes a critical look at this development and we will by this make moves to further remind the government of our plights if we did not see any change in our favour.

.......Signed...........
Ebenezer Fokuo Mensah
University of Education, Winneba (Alumni)
Enoch Ansah P1
University of Education, Winneba
Joseph Arthur
University of Education Winneba

The Second Semester Calendar for 2017/2018 academic year