Truck runs over cars

Passengers on board four vehicles including drivers of the affected vehicles had to jump from them and race at top speed to save their lives last Thursday at Abrepo Junction in Kumasi.

This was after a Daf articulated truck, with registration number GT 7196-T, fully laden with teak in huge metal containers, which was ascending a hill, developed a fault and started to backtrack.

The affected cars, which were behind the huge truck, were a Toyota Rav4 with registration number GS 5785-10, an Opel Astra with registration number AS 1983-W, a Toyota mini bus with registration number AW 6379-11 and a Mitsubishi Pajero car.

The four vehicles were damaged beyond recognition after the truck, which was moving at top speed, ran over them. The truck later turned upside down, with the driver locked in it.

Richard Karikari, a member of the Ashanti Regional National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), who was at the scene, said they had to use a ladder to climb to the top to save the driver who was locked in the truck.

He said the truck was coming from Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region heading to Tema “but the driver decided to dodge the main route where the Axle Load Weighing Point is located at IPT near Asuoyeboa in Kumasi and used the Abrepo Junction route”.

Mr Karikari said upon reaching the Abrepo Junction traffic light, the truck got stuck in traffic whilst climbing a hill.

When the traffic started to move and the driver tried moving, its long shaft developed a fault so the truck could not move forward but rather started backtracking.

The driver’s mate tried stopping it with a metal object but the truck ran over it and started to move backwards with speed. The driver’s mate, sensing danger, alerted the drivers behind the truck to leave their vehicles and ran.

The drivers and passengers onboard those vehicles heeded the caution by vacating their vehicles and fleeing at top speed to avoid being trapped in their cars by the rampaging truck.

Minutes after those on board the four vehicles had vanished, the heavy truck loaded with teak ran over the cars before turning upside down.

Luckily, no deaths were recorded in the accident but the four cars involved were damaged beyond repairs, Richard Karikari told DAILY GUIDE.

He noted that had driver not tried to dodge the Axle Weighing Point by using the Abrepo Junction road, the unfortunate incident would not have occurred

Justin Bieber Has Bought Himself A Love Nest In California

Justin Bieber has spent a whopping $6 million on the 9,000 square foot property in Calabasas, an affluent area in the San Fernando Valley, 22 miles from Los Angeles. Justin is expected to move in at the end of June and local residents are keen to welcome him to the area. I wonder if Selena will be moving in with him?


Mayor of Calabasas, Mary Sue Maurer, told TMZ: “Justin is welcomed to Calabasas and his privacy will be respected just like everyone else’s.”

One of the reasons Justin – who is regularly mobbed by screaming fans – bought the house is said to be because it has two security gates.

Justin had been interested in another house – a bachelor pad which Ashton Kutcher had been renting after splitting from wife Demi Moore – but the ‘Two and a Half Men’ actor decided to act fast and buy it so he could keep it.

Ashton explained: “All of a sudden my assistant tells me there’s somebody coming to look at the house to maybe buy it. I get a text from this guy [Justin] and he’s in my house, checking it out, trying to buy my house. He’s like ‘Yo, I’m in your house right now. I’m checking it out’. I’m like ‘What? Are you trying to take my house from under me?I was like ‘I don’t want to lose this house’. He forced me to buy a house. He’s trying to steal my swagger.”

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Man stabs Girlfriend for cheating

Isaac Kojo Asare, a 27-year-old manager of a Takoradi-based palm kernel export company, is in the grips of the Kwesimintsim Police near Takoradi, for inflicting cutlass wounds on his 22-year-old girlfriend, Ruth Tuffuor, on allegations of infidelity.

The victim, who is a Diploma in Business Studies student of Takoradi Polytechnic (T-Poly), was first rushed to the Kwesimintsim Polyclinic but had to be transferred to the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi where she is responding to treatment.

Supt. Akologo Ayamga, Kwesimintsim District Police Commander, who disclosed these to DAILY GUIDE, noted that the suspect and the victim had been dating for about five years.

According to Supt. Ayamga, Kojo Asare claimed his girlfriend, for some time now, had been cheating on him and that he once caught her red-handed having sex with another man.

He indicated that on March 28, 2012, at about 10pm, the suspect laid ambush in his girlfriend’s area at Anaji, also near Takoradi, on suspicion that she was cheating on him.

The suspect later confronted Ruth and allegedly inflicted multiple cutlass wounds on her while the victim struggled to save herself on that fateful Wednesday evening.

Ruth shouted for help and was later saved by some of the inhabitants in the area.

She was sent to the Kwesimintsim Polyclinic and later transferred to the Effia-Nkwanta hospital.

Supt. Ayamga told DAILY GUIDE that the suspect, who reported himself to the police, was in custody.

He mentioned that Asare was being investigated for causing harm with the use of offensive weapon which was a first degree felony, contrary to section 70 of the Criminal Act 1960.

Source Daily Guide Ghana

MI not getting married...yet

According to City People magazine this week, MI is supposedly engaged to top model and beauty queen, Erica Okundaye (pictured above), first runner up Miss Nigeria 2010. According to the softsell magazine, the two have been dating for four years, they practically live together now and MI has met with her parents in Benin to get their consent to marry their daughter.

23-Year-Old Millionaire, Arrested For Trading Scheme

In March, 23-year-old UK Foreign Exchange trader Alex Hope made headlines for reportedly spending more than $320,000 on champagne at a Liverpool night club. Exactly one month later, he’s back in the news. But this time, instead of libations, it’s about allegations. Click below to read the rest of the story.
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Hope was arrested Tuesday by the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority “on suspicion of being involved in an unauthorised foreign exchange trading scheme,” City A.M reported. His publicist, who told City A.M. that Hope denies the allegations, had no further comment when contacted by The Huffington Post.

A little more than a week ago, Hope came to HuffPost’s offices to talk about his passion for foreign exchange trading and the public’s mixed reaction to his nightclub spending spree. Dressed in a sharp navy blue suit and wearing an expensive watch with a pair of white athletic socks, Hope chatted about his meteoric rise to trading stardom, his aversion to the celebrity lifestyle and what it means to “splurge sensibly.”

But given recent events, Hope’s critics might feel justified in condemning his decadent display of wealth amid a struggling global economy. And the fans who congratulated Hope’s success, asking for trading tips via his twitter account, could be having second thoughts

Tyler Perry Accuses Atlanta Police of Racial Profiling, Investigation Underway

Tyler Perry says he was a victim of some not-so-civil treatment by Atlanta police.

An internal investigation has been launched into the filmmaker and TV producer's claim that two officers acted hostilely toward him during a traffic stop because he is black, and only relented when a black officer showed up and apparently recognized Perry, E! News confirmed Wednesday.

So, what does Perry have to say about the incident?

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The Good Deeds director described his version of events in detail on his Facebook page on Sunday, writing that he was driving to the airport from his Atlanta-area studio without his usual security detail and was pulled over for making a left turn from a right lane—a maneuver he attempted to ensure he wasn't being followed.

According to Perry, the officer who approached his window asked, "Why do you think someone would be following you?" After which, he wrote, another cop banged on the passenger-side window.

The second officer, Perry wrote, asked, "What's wrong with you?" and when the driver's-side officer explained that Perry thought he might be followed, the officer repeated, "Why do you think someone is following you? What's wrong with you?"

Before he could answer, Perry recounted, the driver's-side officer ordered him to put his foot on the brake, then reached for the car's on/off switch.

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"I finally realized that he thought that switch was the key," Perry wrote, "so I told him that it wasn't the key he was grabbing. I reached down into the cup holder to get the key, not realizing that the key had a black leather strap on it. As I grabbed it they both tensed up and I dropped it as I heard my mother's voice from when I was a little boy.

"My mother would always say to me, 'If you get stopped by the police, especially if they are white policemen, you say "yes sir" and "no sir," and if they want to take you in, you go with them. Don't resist, you hear me? Don't make any quick moves, don't run, you just go.'"

Perry claims that the officers continued to badger him about why he might be followed.

"It was so hostile. I was so confused," he wrote. "It was happening so fast that I could easily see how this situation could get out of hand very quickly. I didn't feel safe at all. But one officer stopped his questioning and said, 'We may not let you go. You think you're being followed, what's wrong with you?' At this point, I told him that I wanted to get out of the car. I wanted the passersby to see what was happening."

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When he got out, Perry wrote, another cop pulled up—a black cop—and "took one look" at Perry, "an 'oh no' look on his face."

"He immediately took both officers to the back of my car and spoke to them in a hushed tone," he continued. "After that, one of the officers stayed near his car while one came back, very apologetic. I said all of that to say this: do you see how quickly this could have turned for the worse?"

"RACIAL PROFILING SHOULD BE A HATE CRIME INVESTIGATED BY THE FBI!!!" Perry concluded.

The Atlanta Police Department said in a statement to E! News that they have confirmed that Perry was involved in a traffic stop with two officers and that his claims, "as expressed by him publicly," have been referred to the department's Office of Professional Standards.

"OPS has opened an investigation to determine if Mr. Perry's claims can be substantiated, and whether any departmental policies or procedures were violated during the stop," police said