Author Archives: larryehu

School boy kills classmate with drawing board

A nineteen-year-old pupil of the Agona East District Assembly (AEDA) Government School in Agona Kenyankor in the Central Region is on the run after allegedly killing a classmate with a drawing board. James Adjei hit his classmate, Richard Larbie with a drawing board after the latter was seen teasing the former for scoring Zero (0) mark in class exercise. Headmaster ...

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Lawlessness must stop now – Amnesty Int’l

The Executive Director of Amnesty International Ghana, Frank Doyi, has called for the end of increasing act of lawlessness in the country. His comments come after a Captain in the Ghana Armed Forces, Maxwell Mahama and a 67-year-old woman were lynched to death by irate mob at Denkyira Obuasi and Tindongo in the Central region and Upper East region respectively. ...

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Captain Mahama’s ‘killer’ found dead

One of the men captured in a video of the lynching of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, has been found dead. The body was found lifeless at Modase, a nearby community in Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region. Police found the body in a pool of blood early Thursday. It is not clear what may have caused his death but Nhyira FM’s ...

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Mahama’s lynching was premeditated – Atik

The lynching of Captain Maxwell Mahama on Monday May 29 by some irate youth of Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region on suspicion that he was an armed robber was planned, Atik Mohammed, General Secretary of the People’s National Convention (PNC), has said. According to him, accounts emerging from the incident indicate that he was not killed through mistaken identity ...

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Trump’s inward looking eroding US leadership – Mahama

Ghana’s former President John Mahama has scathingly criticized President Donald Trump’s plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement. Mr. Trump is expected to announce the shocking withdrawal Thursday. The move would be a major break from international partners and  would isolate the United States in global efforts to curb global warming. The decision would put the US ...

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Kwasi Appiah holds first Black Stars training session

Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah held his first training session with the senior national team yesterday with sixteen players at the Accra Sports Stadium. The session was Appiah’s first with the Black Stars ahead of his first competitive game, an African Cup of Nations qualifier against Ethiopia scheduled for Sunday, June 11 at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi. The ...

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Ghana Code Day introduces more children to the Digital World

The 2016 co-winner for the Tigo Digital Change-makers’ competition, Ernestina Appiah, has organized a one-day coding session for over 400 school children drawn from basic and Junior High schools in the Greater Accra Metropolis. Themed ‘Ghana Code Day’ Appiah brought together app developers from Mobile Web Ghana, Leti Arts among several other experts to teach the children various applications including ...

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Veep lauds start of new Construction Bank

Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia, has touted the launch of a new specialised bank, the Construction Bank, as a significant chapter in Ghana’s banking industry. Delivering a keynote address on Wednesday at the unveiling of the bank in Accra, Dr Bawumia urged the Board of Directors and shareholders of the new bank to pick up critical lessons from the defunct state-owned ...

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