Ghana has been gloomy today as the nation sends home, Major Maxwell Adam Mahama. The state house, where the funeral took place has been filled with tears from family, friends, statesmen and even people who never met the late military officer who was lynched at Denkyira-Obuasi last week Monday. Residents of Denkyira-Obuasi gathered at the spot the late Major Mahama ...
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Kofi Wayo asks military to withdraw from all galamsey areas
Maverick politician and founder of the defunct United Renaissance Party (URP), Mr Charles Kofi Wayo, who says he has resigned from politics on Friday paid his last respects to Major Maxwell Adam Mahama and described him as a “warrior”. In an interview with Graphic Online at the forecourt of the State House, where the state burial service was underway Friday ...
Read More »Tribute by children of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama
Dear daddy, we were told you travelled. You told us you were going to come back. We spoke by phone almost every day. We told you to come and take us swimming and to play tennis and you said okay. We have been waiting for that ice cream you promised us. We miss playing with you. We miss the dancing ...
Read More »I never thought I would be burying my son – Mahama’s mother
Veronica Bamford, mother of Major Maxell Adam Mahama has questioned why she is the one to be burying his own son when it is supposed to be the other way round. Recounting fond memories with her son in a tribute, she disclosed that this was someone who counseled her whenever the need arose and had been a mentor to children ...
Read More »Manchester United not expected to offer deal to Ibrahimovic
Manchester United are not expected to offer striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic a new contract when his current deal expires on 30 June. The 35-year-old agreed a one-year contract, with an option for second season, last summer. But the extension had not been triggered by the time the Swede suffered his season-ending knee ligament injury in April. The Premier League’s retained list ...
Read More »$2bn bond: Be silent if you can’t praise – Ofori-Atta to Minority
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has hit hard at the minority members of parliament over their crusade against issuance of $2.25 billion bond. The Minister is admonishing the National Democratic Congress MPs to cease bad mouthing the deal if they cannot acknowledge government’s genuine efforts at fixing the “broken” economy. The minority has been alleging wrongdoing in the deal accusing the ...
Read More »Major Mahama died the wrong way – Kofi Wayo
Maverick politician, Chuck Kofi Wayo has disclosed that the late Major Maxwell Adam Mahama died the wrong way. He has therefore underscored the need for government to adequately resource security agencies in the country in order for them to live up to their mandate. “First the government needs to resource the security agencies. The basis of the nation is security ...
Read More »Political figures present at the state burial of Major Maxwell Mahama
A full state burial service for Major Maxwell Adam Mahama who was murdered gruesomely a week ago by some residents of Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region is ongoing at the Forecourt of State House in Accra as directed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Other dignitaries are filtering in with Former Presidents John Mahama and John Kufuor present along ...
Read More »We will not be demoralised by Majority’s insults and attacks – Alban Bagbin
The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has slammed the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its Majority in Parliament over what he refers to as demoralisation of the Minority. According to him, the Majority are good at hurling insults at the Minority when they are unable to engage in intellectual discourse on the floor of Parliament. The 1992 ...
Read More »‘We’re are highly indebted to you’ – Supreme Court tells Wood
The Justices of the Supreme Court, honouring Chief Justice Georgina Wood on her 70th birthday commended her for sterling leadership spanning a decade, and described her achievements as “unprecedented”. The Justices, who visited the CJ, who retired today, at her residence, presented her with a set of jewelry and a birthday card, for which she expressed her gratitude and delight. ...
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