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An accident on the Cape Coast-Accra highway has claimed one life while others have been left in critical conditions. The accident occurred at Gomoa Assin when a long trailer with the registration number GM 3587-21 loaded with bags of cements run into a stationary cargo truck loaded with scraps in the middle of the road. Driver of the trailer is reported to have died on the spot after the crash. Two persons, including the driver’s mate and the cargo driver, have been admitted at the Apam Catholic Hospital in the Central Region, where they are receiving treatment. In an interview…

The Ejisu District Court has remanded a driver arrested in connection with the accident at Ejisu-Besease which claimed the lives of three male adults. According to police, the Honda CR-V which was driven by the accused, Justice Adjoyi attempted to overtake other vehicles, but lost control and killed three persons. The deceased include, 62-year-old Hamidu Mohammed, 40-year-old Masawudu Nalko, and 50-year-old Abdul-Rahman Mohammed. The three have since been buried in accordance with Islamic rites. Police prosecutors asked the court to remand the accused person to enable them more time to investigate the matter. The court granted the plea and remanded…

Man does not live by bread alone. He has a dynamic and fertile mind to think and a passionate and pulsating heart to feel. The great genius scientist, Albert Einstein, describes the human body as a wonder machine whose less than 10% use of its potential has lifted the civilization to the present level. The human body, along with remarkable potential consciousness, forms a wonderful combination with vast possibilities of achievement in any field of human endeavor. Let us talk about its various sheaths (koshas) – The first one is physical body, the Annamaya sheath which is visible from outside.…

Nigerian police say they have launched an investigation after 31 people died in a crush in the southern city of Port Harcourt. It happened in a sports field on Saturday morning where a church was handing out food to the poor, some of whom had waited there overnight. The crowd “became tumultuous and uncontrollable” and organisers failed to calm the situation, police say. Many of those who died in the crush were women and children. Witnesses told the AFP news agency there was frantic pushing and some were trampled underfoot when people trying to reach the entrance were forced back.…

A tipper truck on Friday morning crashed into two abandoned toll booths at the Tema end of the Tema-Accra Motorway. Two people were injured as a result of the accident. The accident occurred in the early morning (May 27, 2022) when the truck heading towards Accra from the Afienya section crashed into the empty toll booth, damaging the structures. The driver and his conductor, who were injured, were rushed to the Tema General Hospital. The Tema Regional Motor Traffic and Transport Directorate (MTTD) Commander, Chief Superintendent William Asante told journalists at the scene of the event that the tipper truck…

Some Ghanaian celebrities drawn from the worlds of the arts, entertainment, sports, and social media producers have called on the Commissioner of Insurance, Dr. Justice Ofori to let insurance companies design products that will help protect their professions. They made this call when the Insurance Regular organised a workshop on the Principles of Insurance for a mix of the celebrities. The celebs were of the opinion that all of them use parts of their bodies in performing their arts hence the need to protect these parts. One opines that a music artiste needs an insurance to protect his or her…

The work environment can be a perilous climate, particularly in a modern setting. In 2017 alone, there were 2.9 million non-deadly wounds in the work environment. While that number is down somewhat from years past, lessening working environment mishaps – workplace accident reduction still stays among significant objectives for some organizations all through the country. Envision strolling into your plant one Monday morning to observe the light over your workspace has blown over the course of the end of the week.  No biggie, you think.  You choose to report it toward the finish of the shift and approach setting up…

Some residents of Wonder World Estates, Avenue Lincoln near the British High Commission at Ridge in Accra, have expressed worry over the presence of two tigers in the estate believed to be owned by business mogul, Nana Kwame Bediako, popularly known as Freedom Jacob Caesar. The presence of the tigers in the community, according to the residents, is making them unsafe. According to Daily Guide sources, all efforts by the residents to get the owner or the management of the facility to evacuate the tigers have proven futile as on most occasions, their complaints are met with hostile responses. Some of the…

Five persons are reported dead after being buried by a charcoal and maize-loaded vehicle in a road crash along Begoro-Osiem road in the Eastern Region. The accident occurred on Monday, May 17, 2022 at about 2:00pm involving the truck and a  28-seater Benz Bus. It is said to have happened while the vehicle was negotiating a sharp curve near Akrumusu village. When police and fire officers got to the scene, the vehicle loaded with charcoal and maize had overturned in a gutter with its tyres hanging in the air. The driver, Solomon Owusu, and one Kofi Boateng, aged 46, were…

Loud Christian prayers ring out each day like a song as relatives of men trapped a month ago in a mine in Burkina Faso try desperately not to give up hope. It has taken the rescue team 31 days to reach the first rescue chamber in which the missing miners might have sought refuge from the flood waters that engulfed the Canadian-owned Perkoa zinc mine after unexpected torrential rains on 16 April. But when the chamber was opened this week, none of the men – six Burkinabès, a Zambian and a Tanzanian – were there. Now their families’ hopes rest…