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Where there’s no pistol, there’s a pestle

Yaw finished his mum kwatakwata!

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Chale News
January 07, 2025

Happy Constitution Day!

Here’s your quick quick snack before Mahama’s inauguration.

  • Crime: Driver dodges death in yam heist gone wrong.

  • Crime: Yaw Nimoah swapped a pestle for peace, leaving his community in shock.

  • National: NDC’s Ahiafor takes first Deputy Speaker hot seat, Asiamah returns like a pro.

  • Regional: Tamale Timber Market’s in ashes, and many traders are left with nothing but hope.

  • National: New prison bosses in the yard – Akufo-Addo switches up the squad.

  • Fact of the Day: What’s a baby Kangaroo called?

  • Politics: Bagbin’s back, baby!

QUICK BYTE

  • Abukari Seidu was just out here minding his business transporting yams on Dambai-Asukawkaw when highway robbers turned his trip into an action thriller. They shot him in the ribs and arm, but our guy kept it moving. With injuries that would send most of us crying for our mothers, Seidu drove himself to the nearest village. Once there, he did what any sensible Ghanaian would do: raise alarm. The police arrived… fashionably late. By then, the robbers had ghosted into the bush. Meanwhile, Seidu got patched up at Dambai Health Centre, but the nurses hit him with the “Sorry oo, bullets dey inside. Go Accra” move. Now, Seidu’s heading to Accra for “Operation Bullet Removal.” Read more

  • There’s a quiet farming community, where the loudest drama is usually the neighbor’s goat misbehaving. Then enter Yaw Nimoah, a 26-year-old farmer who took "family feuds" to a whole new—and horrifying—level. This guy has been threatening his 60-year-old mother, Salomey Ama Serwaa, for ages, and not just with side-eye. We’re talking full-blown “cutlass to your head” threats. Want the deets in full? Check out the Deep Dive section.

  • You know that feeling when your favourite gobɛ seller ghosts you. Now multiply that heartbreak by a thousand—that’s how Tamale’s Timber Market traders are feeling right now. Late Monday night, flames decided to do turn market into a bonfire no one asked for. Wooden stalls, dreams, and decades of savings went woosh in a matter of hours. The fire wasn’t just flames; it was a thief in the night, stealing the bread and butter of countless traders. Read more

  • Bernard Ahiafor’s moving from “just an MP” to Parliament’s First Deputy Speaker. Meanwhile, Andrew Asiamah Amoako, Fomena’s MVP, is back as Second Deputy. Will the Ninth Parliament be peace or pepper? We shall see. Read more

FACT OF THE DAY

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A baby kangaroo is called a joey.

  • Nana Addo just gave Ghana’s prisons a leadership glow-up with six new directors, starting December 1st. It’s like upgrading your squad for FIFA—fresh faces, big expectations, and no room for flops. Their appointments took effect on December 1, 2024. Read more

  • So, guess who’s back in the Speaker’s chair? Alban Bagbin! The man’s basically the G.O.A.T. of parliamentary leadership. Bagbin's acceptance speech was the kind of motivational talk that makes you want to clap even if you’re half-asleep. He promised to bring the heat (read: experience) to make Parliament a “beacon of hope.” Read more

DEEP DIVE

Where there’s no pistol, there’s a pestle

The community knew Yaw wasn’t exactly Ghana’s poster child for son of the year. He’d been arrested before for pulling a cutlass cameo on a neighbor but somehow, the matter disappeared like kenkey in a hungry man’s hands. Fast forward to this tragic morning in Yabram, where Yaw’s threats escalated into a crime scene straight out of a horror film.

When the Assembly member, Philip Kwadwo Bidaba, got a frantic call from a neighbor, Yaw was screaming for help, claiming someone had attacked his mum. But oh, the twist! Turns out Yaw’s “someone” was none other than Yaw himself, allegedly wielding a pestle. On arrival, the scene was as grim as it gets—Salomey lay lifeless on a mat, her head smashed.

Now Yaw is chilling in the Dambai police custody while the investigators piece together how it really went down. Read more

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