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The Inspector-General of Police James Oppong-Boanuh has said police officers have the right to use lethal force if they feel their lives are under threat. The IGP told the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament on Wednesday that situations on the grounds determine the response of the security agencies at any point in time. “Honourable Chair, you and I know that ...

Former President John Mahama has said a “video circulating of my visit to injured persons in a hospital is an old one and has no link to current developments in Ejura”. Prior to the circulation of the video, the former flag bearer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) had said: “I urgently call on President Nana Akufo-Addo to ...

Shaip Africa Foundation led by its founder, Mr. Clement Clinton Blay in collaboration with the National Service Personnel in Ellembelle district has organized blood donation exercise to the St. Martins De Poress Hospital to support the hospital’s blood bank. The Shaip Africa Foundation, a non-governmental Organization saw the need to enrich the blood bank of the St. Martins De Poress ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Minister for Interior, Ambrose Dery to conduct a public inquiry into the circumstances that led to the unfortunate incidents at Ejura in the Ashanti region. A statement signed by the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, also revealed that the President has given the Interior ...

Former President of Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, was yesterday re-arraigned before an Accra High Court over alleged shady deals which were exposed by popular investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in his ‘Number 12’ investigative piece. Mr. Nyatakyi together with a former member of the Executive Committee of the GFA, Abdulai Alhassan, appeared in court, charged with three counts ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, 29 June 2021, opened the Toyota Tsusho Vehicle Assembly Plant, which is assembling some models of Toyota and Suzuki vehicles in the country. Describing the occasion as a very happy one for him, the Ghanaian people, and for the government’s industrial transformation agenda, President Akufo-Addo stated that Toyota Tsusho’s presence in Ghana has ...

Three armed robbers who were arrested following a robbery incident in Obuasi in the Ashanti region have admitted taking part in the murder of the late Mfantsiman MP, Ekow Quansah Hayford. The robbers, according to the Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, COP Isaac Ken Yeboah, who were arrested during a robbery incident on the ...

The British High Commission in Ghana has admonished its nationals to stay away from public gatherings after violent clashes in Ejura in the Ashanti region, leading to the deaths. Two people were shot dead by the military with over seven people injured during violent clashes at Ejura. The clashes occurred after a social media activist was attacked by a mob ...

The National Peace Council (NPC) is seriously pointing at existing internal conflicts in Ghana as loopholes through which violent extremists can march into the country to wreak havoc. The warning, delivered during a peace-building training meeting in the Upper East Region, comes weeks after a terrorist attack claimed at least 160 lives in next-door Burkina Faso. The NPC’s Upper East ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), in a statement signed by its Communication Director Kakra Essamuah, has appealed for calm in Ejura in the Ashanti Region following the lynching of social media activist Ibrahim ‘Kaaka’ Mohammed and the subsequently shooting to death by soldiers, of two of several protesters on Tuesday, 29 June 2021 and called “on the security agencies ...