One Ghanaian is dead and another Ghanaian, off-duty Philadelphia police officer is in the hospital after both were shot by stray bullets while attending a 4th of July neighborhood barbecue. The two Ghanaians were hit around 10 p.m. Wednesday in the 7000 block of Buist Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia. Police say someone opened fire on Mulhfeld Street and…
They were just sitting in the car talking about “life and death” when a loud pop went off. “It sounded like a fire cracker,” recalled Mary Acheampomaa. “I said, ‘What the hell was that?’” There was silence in the car. Then, from the backseat, came a voice. “I’m hurt.” Jenas Nyarko, 31, was, indeed, hurt. It was going to…
A 31-year-old Ghanaian woman living in Toronto, Canada has been shot dead at a funeral ceremony in her community close to the Replin Avenue, MyNewsGh.com can authoritatively report. She was pronounced dead after being rushed to the Toronto trauma centre after the shooting a close family source revealed to MyNewsGh.com indicating that Jenas Nyarko suffered life-threatening injuries due to…
Ghana could be slapped with “visa restrictions” by the US government if it fails to comply with international obligations “regarding issuance of travel documents.” According to the US government, the West African nation has not been proactive in issuing travel documents to Ghanaians awaiting deportation in the USA hence the threat. “In December 2016, the U.S. Department of Homeland…
A Swedish court has sentenced a Ghana international to 32 months in prison after Kingsley Sarfo was found guilty of two cases of rape of an under-aged girl. The Malmo District Court says the 23-year old Sarfo, a midfielder with top Swedish club Malmo FF, had sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl in an apartment and in a public…
A teenage girl died Tuesday after she jumped into the railbed of a Bronx subway to retrieve something, but touched the third rail and was electrocuted, officials said. Adama Laura Jenneh, 17, a straight-A student at Martin Luther King High School in Manhattan, lost her footing as she went onto the tracks of the No. 2 and 5…
Ghana’s Ambassador to the U.S. has been caught in a cat and mouse game, with the US authorities piling pressure on him to sanction the deportation of thousands of Ghanaians. Dr Agyei Bawuah has described as unfair, pressure on him to give his approval for hundreds of Ghanaians to be sent home for violating U.S. immigration laws. “It leaves…
A 21-year-old man of Ghanaian descent, Kwasi Anim-Boadu has been stabbed to death in London. The deceased was knifed near Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s home in Finsbury Park. According to the UK’s Standard, the incident which occurred on Saturday is the 39th fatal knife attack in London this year. His attacker, Brayane Tchenda, has been charged with possession of…
An Uber driver charged with raping a passenger earlier this month was able to walk free because officials failed to notify immigration agents about his arrest, authorities said. Frederick Amfo, 30, an illegal immigrant from Ghana, was arrested after a female passenger said that on April 8 he forced her into the backseat of his car and raped her,…
Three persons suspected to be Ghanaians have been arrested in Britain for being part of a 13-member drug syndicate that smuggled £32 million (GH¢203,001,958.59) worth of cocaine and cannabis into the country. The three, Felicia Kufour, Mark Agoro, 52 and Wilfred Owusu, 30 were arrested in separate raids across the southern part of England with other members of the…
