"Two refused entry...For offending Ghana's integrity", is the banner headline of the Times. The accompanying story says two French nationals were refused entry into Ghana on Tuesday, January 6, for holding the country's dignity in contempt. The Times says the conduct of the two people, Mr. Jean Ajail and Mr. Pascal Roger Leray, were found not conducive to public good. According to the paper, a statement issued in Accra yesterday by the Ghana Immigration Service said the two men travelled to Ghana on Tuesday aboard a Swissair flight from Zurich. They displayed indecent behaviour towards Ghanaian women on the flight and extended that rude behaviour to the First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, who was on the flight, the Times quoted the statement as saying.
In another front page story headlined "One killed as rival drivers' groups clash in Brong Ahafo", the Times reports that one person died when members of the Ghana private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) and the Progressive Transport Owners' Association (PROTOA) clashed at Kojokrom in the Brong Ahafo Region. According to the Times, four other people suffered severe gunshot wounds in the conflict, sparked off by a dispute over loading rights. GRi
"Driver in deadly duel with passenger", is the headline of a story in the paper which says a taxi driver at Bolgatanga escaped death at the hands of a passenger who tried to cut his throat in a bid to steal his car. The Times says Mr. John Kwaku Abavor, 32, the driver, has been admitted at the Bolgatanga Hospital following a deadly duel with the passenger. The paper says Mr. Abavor, who has several stitches on the neck and fingers as a result of deep knife wounds, is responding to treatment. GRi In a back page story under the headline: "Bungalows turned into hen coops...Tumu", the Times reports that occupants of government bungalows and quarters at Tumu have turned their boys quarters and corridors into hen coops, pigsty and goat pens and pito breweries. The Times says the Sissala District Assembly has therefore set up a sanitation task force to inspect, arrest and prosecute people who are engaged in such practices. According to the paper, this was disclosed by Mr. Robert Wavei, the District Chief Executive at the second ordinary meeting of the assembly at Tumu yesterday. GRi
