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So, what’s in the bag today?
Crime: Fraud, bail, and a vanishing act—no miracle here!
National: Agenda 111 is still work in progress.
National: Women’s gamble game is on the rise, yo!
Regional: Train Test Gone Rogue—Safety, Where Art Thou?
Health: KBTH’s copper pipes got robbed—fix it, bruh!
Fact of the Day: Which is hotter? The sun or lightning?
Regional: Dodged a cow, hit a tree, Bolgatanga’s wild ride!
National: Minority says: 'You didn’t fix our blackout blues!'
QUICK BYTE
Pastor Cris Karl Ofori, who was supposed to be all about blessings and saving souls, is now in court for allegedly hustling GH¢310K from a businessman under the pretense of “visa miracles.” This dude promised to work some divine intervention to get visas for a whole fam, but instead, he turned the sacred into a scam. The businessman, Amadu Seidu, from Sampa in the Bono Region, was all set to jet off to Canada with his crew when our pastor claimed he could hook him up. But guess what? It wasn’t a miracle—it was more like a vanishing trick gone wrong! Want the deets in full? Check out the Deep Dive section.
Imagine ordering a new phone and getting one that’s missing some features. That’s the current state of our hospitals. Our Health Minister dropped the bomb that the Agenda 111 health projects are only about 95% done. Roads are dusty, labs are half-built, and beds are just collecting dust. Out of the whopping GH₵1.7 billion needed, only a measly GH₵400 million was ever released. So, our government is now scrambling, lowkey hoping to find the remaining billion-dollar funding to finish the job. Until then, we’re all stuck with “work in progress” vibes, waiting for the day our healthcare upgrades go live. Read more
Ghana’s betting scene is flipping the script with women making up 20-30% of addicted gamblers. Want the deets in full? Check out the Deep Dive section.
An Afcon test train on the Tema-Mpakadan line went totally off-script at Saki Bediako Junction and ended up taking a middle-aged woman’s life. This rail project was supposed to be our ticket to decongesting roads, with a price tag that screams “big flex,” but now we’re staring at a disaster that’s got everyone saying, “Bruh, safety’s missing in action!” Eyewitnesses are buzzing, saying that while the new tech and flashy bridges were in place, the safety upgrades didn’t make the cut. The whole thing is under investigation, and the government’s now sweating bullets, trying to prove that this isn’t just a pretty face of infrastructure but one that actually protects its people. Read more
FACT OF THE DAY
A bolt of lightening is about 6 times hotter than the sun.
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, things got wild when thieves started snatching copper pipes that keep patients oxygenated. Acting CEO Dr. Frank Owusu Sekyere was all, “Nah, this ain’t it,” during a media tour, laying down the law on how stealing these pipes is a straight-up life threat. Over the weekend, some shady characters tried to jack cables and pipes right off the hospital, costing KBTH a whopping GH₵400,000 to replace. Meanwhile, these clout-chasers might only score like GH₵50 selling them as scrap. Crazy, right? They’ve ramped up their CCTV game and are even looking to pull in some private security. Read more
On the Zuarungu road in Bolgatanga, things got wild when a private ride, cruising from Bolgatanga to Garu, had to swerve like crazy to dodge a stray cow. Instead of a smooth ride, the driver ended up knocking down a motorcyclist and then slammed headfirst into a tree. The motorcyclist didn’t make it, and that hit everyone hard. The driver, along with the rest of the crew, got seriously injured like, broken arm vibes and had to be rushed to Upper East Regional Hospital. Read more
The Minority in Parliament is throwing serious shade at President Mahama, saying his big claim of “dumsor” being fixed back in 2016 is all talk and no walk. Former Finance Minister Mohammed Amin Adam isn’t buying it, and he’s calling on Mahama to drop a load-shedding timetable ASAP. Read more
DEEP DIVE
Women are breaking records
Ghana’s betting scene isn’t just a dudes’ club anymore. Women are jumping in and sometimes getting way too deep in the game. The Ghana Gaming Commission dropped the news that 20-30% of addicted gamblers are women. It’s like when you think only guys are sliding into the sports betting DMs, but boom—women are here, too, playing the field. And let’s be real, sometimes it’s not just fun and games; it’s turning into a legit struggle.
Our homie, Commissioner Emmanuel Siisi Quainoo, told the media that gambling addiction isn’t just a “boy thing” anymore. He spilled that a 2023 survey by TGM Research showed 41.7% of Ghanaians had placed bets in the past year, making Ghana one of the top four African countries in betting engagement.
But yo, it ain’t all glam and glitz. The Commission is stepping up its game by bringing in psychologists to help those caught in the trap of addiction, both for self-banned bettors and those who need a rescue from their own reckless plays. They’re even cracking down on betting spots near schools and churches, ‘cause seriously, nobody wants a betting frenzy interrupting Sunday service or study time. Read more
No miracles, just fraud on repeat!
The saga started when Amadu got introduced to the pastor by someone, Nana Abena Sika, who probably thought, “Why not try a holy fixer?” So, in October 2024, the pastor told him to cough up GH¢80K as a down payment and even threw in three passport booklets for good measure. Amadu, dreaming of new beginnings in the Great White North, paid up and then got hit with more demands until the total reached GH¢310K. But then, like any bad magic trick, our pastor later said, “Nah, I couldn’t do Canada, but I got you UK visas instead.” Classic switcheroo, right?
When Amadu and his fam actually showed up in Accra for the promised UK trip, Pastor Ofori went AWOL. For three days, he played Houdini, and eventually, the heat caught up with him. The court, not buying his disappearing act, admitted him to bail for GH¢350K with three sureties—yeah, even the sureties got their IDs checked, fam! And in his caution statement, he admitted to the offence, though he pleaded not guilty. The whole situation is like a bad reality show where promises of heaven turn out to be more like a scam on Earth.
At the end of the day, it’s clear this pastor’s miracle work wasn’t divine intervention—it was just straight-up fraud. Read more
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