A contestant in this year’s Miss Commonwealth Ghana beauty pageant has narrated a chilling account of how she was allegedly tortured for what organisers claim was theft of GHc500. 24-year-old Nana Ama Essien who emerged as Miss Role Model per her position as third runner-up said she was dragged to a shrine at Kukurantumi near Koforidua in the …

A 19-year-old senior high school student, Abigail Manu, feigned her kidnapping and requested her father to send her a ¢500 ransom being demanded by the supposed kidnapper. Her stratagem, however, failed after her 11-year-old brother led her father and police officers to the house of her 25-year-old lover, Reagan Boabeng Ampofo, at Mpobi, about 12 kilometres from Kumasi, the Ashanti …