News of the murder of a Ghanaian soldier, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama has shocked the entire country on Tuesday morning. Adam Mahama was the victim of mob justice by a group of residents in a town in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region. He was lynched to death and his body burned by residents who claim he ...

Former President Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has called for calm and restraint as the security agencies investigate the unfortunate lynching of a serving military officer at Denkyira-Obuasi. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the former President expressed his sincere condolences to the wife, family and the unit of the late Captain Maxwell Mahama for their unfortunate loss. “Your loss ...

Thirteen South Sudanese soldiers have gone on trial accused of raping foreign aid workers and murdering their local colleague. The incident in the capital, Juba, last July resulted in a UN report which accused UN peacekeepers of failing in their duty to protect civilians. It happened as rival forces in the civil war clashed in the city. The soldiers’ lawyer ...

The Minister for Defence, Mr Dominic Nitiwul has said the lynched Captain Maxwell Mahama shot and wounded one attacker in an attempt to defend himself, when he came under attack at Denkyira Obuasi and Monday. “What I can confirm to you is that he wounded somebody by shooting him in an attempt to defend himself,” the Defence Minister said in ...

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Leadership of Denkyira Development Association is calling on the Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul call military personnel deployed to the troubled town to order. According to the Denkyira Development Association, the military contingent dispatched to restore order in the area have restored to physical assault of innocent residents. Scores of youth in Boase, a mining community in the Upper West Denkyira ...

Golfer Tiger Woods was found “asleep at the wheel” with the engine running when he was arrested, US media reports say. Woods was found behind the wheel of his Mercedes, which was stopped in the road, and had to be woken by the arresting officer early on Monday. “Woods had extremely slow and slurred speech”, a copy of the police ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated emphatically that persons involved in the dastardly murder of a captain of the Ghana Armed Forces on national duties on Monday morning would not be spared. Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama was brutalised and burnt to death by a mob who claimed they mistook him for an armed robber when they saw him jogging ...

The Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan, has admonished the military to desist from applying brute force on residents of Diaso following the death of an officer, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama. The Regional Minister made the remark in a Citi News interview following the lynching of Captain Mahama, at Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District on Monday. The residents reportedly ...

Several youth of Boase in the Upper West Denkyira district of the Central region have been rounded up by uniformed military men who have stormed the town over the killing of an officer, Captain Maxwell Mahama, by indegenes of the mining community. According to an army statement, about 35 troops are currently in the town to unravel the circumstances surrounding ...