EMPIRE NEWS UPDATE

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, (UEW) Professor Mawutor Avokeh and five other officers of the University have been detained by Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) over alleged procurement breaches, 3News has gathered. Credible information gathered by 3News suggests EOCO on Monday attempted to arrest the six officers but they protested and declined to write statements on the matter. They argued they could not give statements without the presence of their lawyers. EOCO in view of the circumstance, asked them to go and report Tuesday with legal representation for further questioning, which the six obliged and reported Tuesday morning. They are Prof. Avokeh; Finance Officer Dr. Akorli and his deputy, Frank Owusu Boateng; Internal Auditor, Ms Sena Darkeh; the Procurement officer, Mary Adzime, and Deputy Director of Works and Psyical Development, one Tetteh. Sources within the University’s Governing Council say the six officers have since been de...

The Interior Minister Ambrose Dery has charged police personnel in the country to support efforts by government in bringing to an end the increasing rate of crime in the country. According to him, the increasing rate of vigilantism, human trafficking, robbery among other crimes must be tackled head on. Addressing personnel of the police service in Cape Coast as part of his tour of the Central region, Mr. Dery pledged government’s support to help end crime in the country. He lauded efforts being taken by the regional command to reduce crime rate. He explained that the police needs to exhibit high professional conduct including dealing with the tag of corruption which the public tend to associate the police with. He also urged the public to support the police with information which will help arrest miscreants in society so every Ghanaian can go about his activities freely. “We will  vigilantism…I am giving you the order today that if there is vigilantism in your area...

Over 100,000 jobs created under NPP in September – John Boadu John Boadu, Acting General Secretary for NPP The Acting General Secretary for the ruling NPP Mr John Boadu has said, government through the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has recruited over 60,000 youth under various modules of the Agency as part of Government’s efforts of solving the unemployment situation in the country adding that about 40, 000 graduates have been given jobs in various sectors. Speaking on OTEC FM’S flagship programme ‘’Nyansapo’’ on Tuesday, October 31, Mr John Boadu said providing jobs for the unemployed youth was one of the top priorities of NPP Government. He added that, Nana Addo’s Government through Ghana Education Service also employed over 19, 000 graduates to complement free education policy. Mr Boadu continued that, Local Government Ministry has employed over 15, 000 Ghanaian youth into that sector adding government will soon roll out more pragmatic policies aimed addressing graduate’s...

Ghanaian Soul Singer, Efya walked off an interview set when she was asked if she thinks Nigerian Jollof is better than Ghanaian Jollof. The walk off was for a short while – probably as a protest at the thought. Conversations about who makes the better rice between the West African countries is always a heated one. The ‘Forgetting Me’ crooner joined the folks at thenet.ng to talk about music, her career, future projects and a lot more. Born Jane Efya Awindor, she was introduced to the Ghanaian music scene when she made it as one of 12 finalists of the music reality show “Stars of the Future” in 2008. She placed second in the competition to winner Irene Logan. She is a product of Yaa Asantewaa secondary School and University Of Ghana, Legon, where she graduated with a degree in Theatre Arts and Music. Between 2008 and 2011, she was part of the group ‘Irene and Jane’. They released one album “Unveiled” before going their see ways. After the break up, the then Jane changed her ...

Ghanaians don’t understand gospel music – Mzvee MzVee Ghanaian music diva Vera Hamenoo-Kpeda known in the music circles as MzVee has in an interview ousted out the perception in the minds of many that, secular artistes are far from spreading the gospel of Christ. The daavi singer in an interview with Frank Kwabena Owusu A.K.A Franky5 on the TIG (This Is Gospel) Show on Hitz FM hinted that, people have limited the scope of Gospel music to only quoting verses and talking about Jesus and other prophets in the bible hence, they see any other musician who centers his or her song on love and other social issues as agents of the devil, a perception she calls hypocritical. To her, people who do secular songs are not evil and that they contribute a lot to the kingdom business. She believes they are only paying heed to their God giving talent which should not be taking out of context. “I have so many of my fans who message me and they actually pray for me and this is the nicest part ...