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Four US Olympic swimmer fabricated a story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro with teammates after an altercation at a petrol station, Brazilian police have said.
Authorities began investigating the incident after the four swimmers, including gold medallists Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen, said they had been robbed by gunmen impersonating police officers in the early hours of Sunday.
"There was no robbery," Fernando Veloso, the head of Rio's civil police, told reporters on Thursday. "There was no robbery of the kind reported by the athletes."

Earlier on Thursday, a Brazilian news channel aired a CCTV video from the petrol station showing the swimmers involved in a dispute with employees, over what security sources said was damage to the premises.
The images broadcast on Globo TV appeared to show the athletes being prevented from leaving the station by security.
The video does not show them causing any damage, but only being hussled out of the b…

The recent increase in TV stations in Ghana and limited content has in the last few years led to an increase in the abuse of content rights by a number of TV stations. This has led to loss of revenue to the audio visual creative industry and the many TV stations who have continuously invested in their people and content, and loss of tax revenue to the government from the illegal activities of these TV stations.
The Communications Fraud Unit of the Ghana Police, CID Headquarters recently raided the Angel TVstudios for infringing on the sports content rights of Supersport. The raid was conducted based on leads provided by Multichoice Ghana Ltd. Angel TV which came into business a few years ago, has been alleged to be illegally airing EURO 2016 Games and the on-going Rio 2016 Olympics Games without the required rights for Ghana.  During the operation, the Police seized gadgets/devices used in perpetrating this illegality.

The rights to these major sports meets (Rio Olympics, Premier …

I woke up  to many messages on WhatsApp and Twitter asking whether John Dumelo was indeed married, and I sent him a message to find out what was happening.
Apparently actress Luckie Lawson posted on her Instagram page, “Congratulations on your engagement @johndumelo1 and thank you for letting me in on such a beautiful day like today,” which convinced many that John was indeed married.
John then explained to me that he rather attended the naming ceremony of a friend on Wednesday dressed in in all white. I remember seeing the actor and his friends at a naming ceremony via Snapchat so I immediately believed him.

Source: ameyawdebrah.com

A terror suspect was shot dead in Rwanda after a three-hour shoot-out in an affluent suburb of the capital, Kigali, police say. 
The man barricaded himself in the house and injured one police officer during the late-night battle.

Police say they have recently been investigating individuals suspected of links with foreign terror groups.
In January a Muslim cleric suspected of recruiting for so-called Islamic State was shot dead in Kigali. 
Police identified the suspect killed on Wednesday night as Channy Mbonigaba, from the western district of Rubavu.
Source: BBC

Daily Guide has gathered that the prevailing economic hardship has forced the youth in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional capital of Ghana to turn to selling their blood at hospitals within the municipality for a living.

Two of them Felix Mensah and Clement Ofori, told DAILY GUIDE that, they sustain themselves with what they get from the blood donation.

Felix said anytime he felt the need for money, he would quickly rushed to either St. Joseph Hospital or the Regional Hospital to donate blood because at the end of the day, he makes some money.
According to him, he does that to fend for himself since he is jobless and has no one to support him, disclosing that, he makes about GH¢100 anytime he donates blood.

Clement Ofori, for his part said, his motivation when it comes to the blood business is the money he receives anytime he donates blood at the various hospitals. “I have taken it as my personal business because am really making money out of it for my survival. I sometimes do…

The US Justice Department will phase out use of privately owned prisons, citing safety concerns.
Contracts with 13 private prisons will be reviewed and and allowed to expire over the next five years.
"They do not save substantially on costs and ... they do not maintain the same level of safety and security," Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said explaining the decision.
The majority of US prisoners are held in state-run prisons. 
On Wall Street, the stocks of private prison companies declined sharply after the news was announced.
By Thursday afternoon, Corrections Corp stock had plunged by nearly 50%.
An Inspector General's report released this month found that private prisons saw higher rates of violent incidents and rule infractions in comparison with government-run institutions. 
During the Democratic presidential primary race, Hillary Clinton's main rival Senator Bernie Sanders made a campaign promise to end the "private, for-profit prison racket".
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Ghanaian football legend, Nii Odartey Lamptey and fiancée, actress and former Ghana’s Most Beautiful finalist, Ruweida Yakubu have welcomed their second child together according to my sources. This comes after footballer’s rather public separation with wife Gloria, after it was revealed to the media that his children with Gloria were not his biological offspring.

The matter degenerated into a divorce, which is still in court, where Odartey Lamptey also disclosed that, his wife accused him of being infertile, which became a subject for discussion in the public domain. In June 2014, he was proud to disclose to the media again that, he is the proud biological father of a new baby with his fiancée.


Source: ameyawdebrah.com

We the Movement for the Kingdom Image (MFKI) want to express great disappointment in the Christian Council of Ghana and the Ghana Charismatic Churches Association for inactiveness in dealing with rots in the ministry job.

We think the Council has failed in bringing sanity into the church and behaving like toothless GATE-KEEPERS of the kingdom of God on earth which has contributed to the many gutters in the ministry of God.
There have been several cases where Bishop Daniel OBINIM founder and leader of God’s way church international putting the name of God into public ridicule in the name of performing miracles but the Christian Council of Ghana and the Ghana Charismatic churches Association have failed to take any deciplinary measures against him.

The latest one one is where OBINIM used his belt to whip a pregnant woman at his church for being pregnant whiles she is still a student.

OBINIM beat the lady at his church with his belt and later ordered his junior pastor to conti…

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has cancelled his trip to Ghana. The 92-year old African leader was expected to deliver a presidential lecture at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra, on the occasion of the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize.

Organizers of the event, Millennium Excellence Foundation, say the cancellation is due to reasons beyond their control. Sources at the Zimbabwean Embassy in Ghana who want to remain anonymous, told Citi News the trip was cancelled due to domestic political issues in Zimbabwe.

Despite Mr. Mugabe’s absence, the event will go ahead as planned but without the presidential lecture. At the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize slated for Saturday, August 20, nine persons including three Ghanaians; Dr Kwabena Dufuor, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong and Nana Kwame Bediako, are expected to be conferred with LAAP prize. Other personalities to be awarded, include Tokyo Sexwale (South Africa), Mrs. Tabitha Karanja (Kenya), Hanson Sindowe (Zambia), Emmanuel Adebay…

The Founder and General Overseer of the International God's Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, has caused another uproar after being seen in a video flogging a hapless pregnant girl and her boyfriend.

The controversial pastor who was angered by the couple’s amorous activity which has led to a pregnancy took the law into his hands and lashed the youngman on his bare back before turning to the girl flogging her mercilessly with a belt in the full glare of his congregation.


Throughout the brutal punishment, Obinim is heard questioning the jobless youngman why he got the girl pregnant when he has no finances for her upkeep and the upbringing of the unborn child.

The girl who was unable to stand the flogging attempts to escape, but she was held by henchmen of the Bishop to enable the bishop mete out more beatings.

After subjecting the two to severe flogging for several minutes, Obinim orders his junior pastors to remove their belts and subject the couple to more flogging.

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