The recent lynching, or gruesome mob murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama, who whilst discharging his official duties as the commander of a military group deployed in the Denkyira Obuasi area with the assignment of regulating local small scale mining aka “Galamsey” activities; was tragically set upon, beaten and stoned to death, and partially burnt by a crowd – is very ...

Former president JJ has disclosed he fired his ex-aide Victor Smith because the latter wanted to divert campaign funds from some Nigerians in the United States to the National Democratic Congress ahead of the 2008 elections. Mr Smith, who until recently was Ghana’s High Commissioner to UK and Ireland, was sacked as Rawlings’ secretary on April 9, 2008 via a ...

US comedian and actor Bill Cosby is to go on trial for sexual assault in Pennsylvania later in a case that is expected to last about two weeks. Former University employee Andrea Constand alleges the 79-year-old drugged and molested her in 2004. At least 50 women have accused him of sexual assault, but Mr Cosby only faces charges in Ms ...

A total of 468,053 candidates are expected to sit this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination which begins today. The students who will write about 10 papers including Mathematics, English and Science have been burning the midnight oil in preparation for the week long exercise. Meanwhile, education authorities in the troubled Denkyira Obuasi township of the Central region are still struggling ...

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region. They say Qatar backs terrorist groups including Islamic State (IS). The Saudi state news agency SPA said Riyadh had closed its borders, severing land, sea and air contact with Qatar and largely isolating it. It cited officials as saying ...

Former Ghana international Otto Addo has been confirmed as the latest addition to the backroom staff of German club Borussia Monchengladbach. The 41-year-old takes up the new job after leaving the coaching staff of Danish outfit Nordsjaelland last month. “We have a lot of talented players in our squad who have come from the academy and made their first steps ...

Fire has gutted a three football pitch-size main warehouse of Kingdom Books and Stationery at Prampram in the Greater Accra region. Firefighters are having a torrid time in dousing the fire five hours since it started. Properties mainly office stationery and furniture worth millions of Ghana Cedis have been consumed by the blaze which has affected four of the warehouses ...

Fears of violence is rapidly rising in the Bole Traditional Area in Northern region after the demise of the Paramount Chief, Awuladese Pontomprong Mahama (II) on Wednesday, May 31,2017 as tensions grow between supporters of two rival chiefs of Mandari, an important community within the traditional area where chiefs succeed the Bole Skin. Reports indicate that tensions are already escalating ...

The founder of the National Democratic Congress Jerry John Rawlings says greed and corruption caused the party’s humiliating defeat in the 2016 December elections. According to the former President, the greed and corruption of today is nothing compared to what existed before he toppled the military regime on June 4, 1979. “Generals were executed…because of corruption, the greed, corruption and ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has said he is not out to unite “good and bad“and urged the leadership of National Democratic Congress (NDC) to play their roles with distinction. “We lost our masses because we betrayed the cause of June 4. We never followed the tenets and principles of probity, accountability, integrity and transparency which the uprising stood for”. ...