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The Obuasi Police Divisional patrol team in the Ashanti region has gunned down two suspected armed robbers following a gun battle at Oboasi Akomfokrom near mile 9. One of the suspects, according to the Ashanti regional police command, tried to escape police arrest at about 9 pm during the exchange of gunfire with the suspects. The incident is reported to ...

Correspondence from Western Region: The contractor working on the Tarkwa Banso Anyiase road has abandoned the project and moved all equipment from the site a few months after the elections. Prior to the elections the contractor, Kingspok Construction Ltd was seen constructing drains on the road, but a few months after the elections the contractor has abandoned the work. The ...

The former deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Samuel Koku Anyidoho, has dispelled suggestions that he has a rift with the former flagbearer of the party. Mr Anyidoho’s comment comes after some members of the NDC expressed worry over some tweets from the former deputy secretary-general on his Twitter page last week. He lauded Vice President Dr. Mahamudu ...

A deputy director of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) Philip Caezar Kumah has allegedly beaten his girlfriend to death at Akatsi North in the Volta region. According to the Volta Regional Police PRO, Sgt. Prince Dogbatse, the victim Elizabeth Yesutor, complained to her friends about the constant abuse by her lover but failed to heed to advice to report the ...

The former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Koku Anyidoho, has revealed that he is yet to receive a suspension letter from the party. According to him, reports of his suspension have only been circulating in the media adding that he is unaware of any suspension from the NDC. The Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the National Democratic ...

The co-founder and Executive Director of Afrobarometer, Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi has slammed President Nana Akufo-Addo for the removal of the Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelovo. According to Prof Gyimah-Boadi, the action of the President in the Domelovo debacle has completely ruined his anti-corruption credibility and questions the president’s commitment in the corruption fight. “As for the President’s credibility in terms of ...

Bernard Allotey Jacobs, a former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress has criticized the party’s communication officer for his attack on minority members of parliament. Following the approval of some ministerial nominees of President Akufo-Addo, the National Communications Officer of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi, took to social media to lash out at the leadership of the minority for ...

1. Let me use this opportunity to congratulate, once again, the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, on becoming Speaker of the 8th Parliament. His has been a distinguished career, having entered the 1st Parliament of the 4th Republic in 1993, and I came to meet him in the 2nd Parliament in 1997. 2. Rt. Hon. Alban ...

Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu has taunted President Akufo-Addo over his silence on the country’s national debt in his State of the Nation Address which was delivered in Parliament today, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. According to the Minority leader, whereas the President kept referencing the debt bequeathed to him by the Mahama administration in his previous addresses, he has kept mute ...

The Madina District Court has remanded one Prince Charles Dedjoe into East Legon Police custody for murder despite efforts by his lawyers for bail. The Magistrate Effua Tortimah in refusing the bail said until the docket has gone to the Attorney General for advice she has no power to grant bail. The court said the case is not even at ...