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The Canadians who were kidnapped in Kumasi in the Ashanti region have been rescued by the Police, Starrfm.com.gh has learnt. The Canadians have been transported to Accra and are in good health, while two suspects are being held over the crime. Police sources say they were rescued Wednesday morning. It is unclear where they were rescued. Government announced the rescue ...

A body of a man suspected to be an illegal Miner has been retrieved from the Akyem Kade stretch of the Birim River in the Eastern region. The deceased -Samuel Adu Parko – believed to be 30-years-old reportedly drowned Saturday June 8, 2019, but his body was retrieved Monday June 10, 2019, after a search by local divers under the ...

An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Jennifer Dodoo has directed the Director General of the Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah to produce Mr. Gregory Afoko latest by June 19, 2019. The suspect who is standing trial for the murder of former Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Adams Mahama was ...

Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire have suspended the sale of cocoa beans to the open market under the 2020/2021 crop season until further notice. The suspension was announced in Accra Tuesday by the two countries to about 300 stakeholders in the cocoa value chain, comprising traders, processors and chocolate manufacturers, reports Graphic Online’s Maxwell Adombilla Akalaare. It is part of efforts ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has been released from police custody after being detained for about five hours. He is to report back to the police on Thursday, June 13. The NDC Chairman’s electronic gadgets have however been confiscated by police. Mr. Ofosu Ampofo turned himself into police custody earlier on Tuesday after a warrant was ...

The leadership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the rank and file of the party to remain calm following the arrest of the party’s chairman Samuel Ofosu Ampofo. The chairman was arrested by the Police Tuesday afternoon after he failed to respond to an invitation by the Police to answer to kidnapping charges leveled against him. ...

MyNewsGh.com can exclusively report that the two Canadians who were kidnapped last week have been rescued according to a police source in Kumasi. They were reportedly rescued on Wednesday morning in a suburb of Kumasi by a police SWAT team our source revealed. It is gathered that the driver of the vehicle used for the kidnapping who is a mechanic ...

The Minority in Parliament’s scare-mongering and falsehoods in relation to the ongoing debate on the public sector debt cannot be allowed to stand, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said. According to him, the Minority appears “confused” about the difference between “growth in the debt stock and borrowing”. A former deputy minister, Mr Cassiel Ato Forson, on Tuesday, 11 June ...

Chief campaigner for reform in Ghana’s legal education system has unveiled a proposal to replace the country’s ‘archaic’, ‘outmoded’ and ‘wasteful’ methods of training lawyers. Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare has proposed the complete scrapping of the General Legal Council, a body that supervises legal education and which is stashed with Supreme Court judges and chaired by the head of the ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has been given clearance by the Supreme Court go ahead with its planned limited voters’ registration after an initial suspension. This is after injunction application to halt the process was dismissed by the Apex Court. The limited voter registration which was scheduled to begin from June 7 and end on June 27. The seven-member panel of ...