Ouagadougou – The landmark trial over a failed 2015 coup in Burkina Faso resumed in Ouagadougou on Wednesday after being suspended three weeks ago when defence lawyers staged a walkout, an AFP correspondent said. There was a large audience as the hearing opened before a military court which convened at a banqueting hall in Ouaga 2000, an upmarket southern district ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sam Pyne has quizzed if the purchase of numerous radio stations and the subsequent poaching of star presenters by former Finance Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffour can be said to be part of the causes of the takeover of uniBank. Sam Pyne speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen Wednesday said he ...

Government says the Minority in Parliament is being hypocritical in its stance over Ghana-US Military cooperation agreement which has become a subject of controversy. Responding to claims by the Minority that the agreement was new and would lead to the creation of a US military base in Ghana, the Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul said the erstwhile NDC government had signed ...

The Information Minister Mustapha Hamid has slammed the Minority in parliament for allegedly leaking the military agreement between the governments of Ghana and United States even before the House commenced the debate to ratify it. The conduct of the Minority, according to Hamid undermines the sanctity of the Parliament. Speaking at a press conference Wednesday where the Defence Minister Dominic ...

Former President Jerry Rawlings has kicked against the proposed “enhanced” military cooperation between Ghana and the USA. According to him, “Ghanaians have enough foreigners dominating their economic and social life” and that adding foreign troops to the “discomfort” would be a bit too much. Mr Rawlings made the comments on his Twitter handle Wednesday. Cabinet has approved an agreement, giving ...

ANTHONY MARTIAL looks increasingly likely to join Manchester United’s summer exodus but the advice to under-fire defender Luke Shaw is to knuckle down. Much has been read into Jose Mourinho’s decision to haul off Shaw at half-time of the 2-0 win at Brighton on Sunday, with the United boss subsequently accusing his side of “lacking, class, personality and desire”. It ...

Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale can’t claim to be a better artist than colleague Stonebwoy because he (Wale) “can’t even play live band for 10 minutes,” says the latter. Stonebwoy told JOYS NEWS’ MzGee, Wale’s claim to have “murdered” him is untrue. “Shatta Wale can never murder me, he’s never lyrically good like me and he knows that. I murdered him ...

The Minority Spokesperson on Finance Cassiel Ato Forson has said the decision by the Bank of Ghana to handover the management of unibank to KPMG will trigger capital flight among indigenous banks. The Central Bank, as regulators, has handed over managerial powers of uniBank to the audit firm, at least for the next six months, because the bank’s “capital adequacy ...

Nigerian musician D’Banj who was formerly signed to Mo’Hit record which he worked with Don Jazzy before he opted to stand on his own is set to go back to his ex-Boss. Well, they say what goes around always comes around, that saying has caught up with the former Mo’Hits stars as they are planning on collaborating again. The former ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says Ghana is fully committed to the success of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), after its formal launch in Kigali, Rwanda, at an Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, on Wednesday. With the CFAT described as “the largest free trade area created since the formation ...