The lead story in the Times is about the arrest of three suspects involved in the lynching of two women accused of witchcraft. The story says the Tamale Police have arrested three people suspected of involvement in the lynching of two women accused of witchcraft at Kumbungu last Thursday. The police, according to the Times, are searching for five others who are on the run. The Times says the police, briefing newsmen at Tamale on the latest development, said two assemblymen in the area had also been invited for questioning. GRI

The Times in an inside page story says the executive of the Accra district branch of the Civil Servants' Association of Ghana yesterday denied a publication in the Times of January 23, that the district executive have removed the national executive from office. A rejoinder jointly signed by Mr James Amissah and Mr Salifu Mensah, Accra district chairman and secretary of the association respectively vehemently denied ever issuing such news release. They said they were also not associated with the contents and style of that release. GRI

"17 blind students excel in JSS exams", is the headline of an inside page story which says all the 17 students presented by the Akropong School for the Blind for last year's Basic Education certificate Examination (BECE), passed and will continue their education in three integrated senior secondary schools in the country. The Times says Mr Macbeth O.K. Moamere, headmaster of the school announced this to newsmen at the school's premises and said 14 of the students were boys and that the result was an improvement on previous years' results. GRI