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The District Chief Executive Officer for Dormaa East of the Brong Ahafo Region,HON EMMANUEL KOFI AGYEMAN, has commended H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo led NPP government for the implementation of the Planting for Food and Jobs. Speaking to the press during WAMFIE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 100 years celebration as a guest speaker, the outspoken District Chief Executive emphasized how the policy had directly brought enough food on the Ghanaian Market. “Planting for export and rural development- free distribution of 205,700 cashew seedlings to farmers this year. Process of raising 500,000 coffee seedlings for free distribution to farmers next year has started at 3 nursery sites at Mewerefiriwuo, Kesepa and Akontanim” he hinted. ” The Assembly together with central government would want to raise 500, 000 cashew seedlings to be distributed for free to farmers next year” he added. Honourable Emmanuel Kofi Agyeman also expressed concern about the One District, One Factory(1D 1F) as his constit...

A 37-year-old woman fought her way out of the stone tomb after she was buried alive by mistake and lay conscious inside her coffin for 11 days. Rosangela Almeida dos Santos, appears to have desperately tried to escape her wooden casket, which had been nailed shut after she was buried alive. But she had already died by the time family members smashed open the tomb last Friday after locals reported hearing screams coming from her grave, according to reports.  Some people ask to call an ambulance, as others touch the woman’s feet and comment on how warm she feels. Ms Santos was declared dead by a hospital on January 28 and was buried the next day. People living near to the cemetery alerted her family on February 9 — 11 days after she had been laid to rest — after hearing screams and bangs coming from inside the tomb. Her body had reportedly turned around and still warm, cotton wool which had been in the woman’s ears and nostrils had come out and she had injuries on h...

A self-styled military captain, Prince Ferguson Essel, 27, has been arrested by some army personnel and handed over to the Nsawam police command in the Eastern Region. Captain Albert Kwadwo Evedzi of the 37 Military Hospital in Accra assisted by Sergeant Tengey Anthony of Burma Camp, Accra, were visiting the region when they effected the arrest of the suspect and handed him over to the police after the townsfolk told them they were suspicious of Essel’s claim that he was a military personnel. When the suspect’s room was searched at Ntoaso, a suburb of Nsawam, three military uniforms, a kit bag, a water pack, a beret with a military crown, desert boots and military belts were retrieved. The suspect has been detained and the military uniforms retained for further investigation. Some individuals who have fallen victim to his extortion have started lodging complaints at the police station. ASP Kofi Sarkodie, Nsawam Police Crime Officer, who has been briefing Class News’ regional corr...