This comes after an army officer, Capt. Maxwell Mahama was ghastly lynched and burnt to death by residents of Denkyira Boase in the Central region. Capt. Mahama died in the dastardly act after he was mistaken to be an armed robber. He was a military officer with the 5th Infantry Batallion (5BN) at Burma Camp in Accra but on detachment ...

A former District Chief Executive of the Upper Denkyira West Assembly says the dastard lynching of an army captain at Diaso comes as no surprise to him because the people there appear pre-disposed to savagery. Piecing together his experiences during his three-year tenure as DCE, Ambrose Ashia said he observed the people of Denkyira-Oboasi in the Central region have a ...

The transition from senior high school (SHS) represents an especially challenging period in the lives of young people, particularly girls. It is a perilous time, especially for girls from poor rural communities. They complete SHS to enter adulthood in the context of a dearth of employment opportunities and immense pressure to marry early or start contributing to family income, making ...

Five prime suspects in the gruesome murder of the late Captain Maxwell Mahama are being interrogated by the Police after 80 people were rounded up by the Military Tuesday. The army commander was lynched and set on fire whilst jogging in the area yesterday dawn. Reports say residents mistook him for an armed robber. Investigations so far have revealed that ...

The fight against illegal mining popularly known as galamsey has now moved from physical to spiritual. This, according to New Patriotic Party (NPP) member, Henry Nana Boakye is because those involved have consulted shrines and other spiritual deities for power and protection against any external forces bent on destroying their work. “The fight against galamsey not flesh and blood; it ...

Former President JJ Rawlings has described the ghastly murder of a service man by civilians in Denkyira-Obuasi as “an act of cruelty.” Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched Monday morning for being allegedly mistaken as an armed robber. “Your loss is a loss to the whole country. Your husband, son and brother lost his life serving his country,” the former military ...

Renowned Ghanaian hip-life musician, Kofi B, known in real life as Eric Kofi Boakye Yiadom has said lynching of a military office, Captain Maxwell Mahama is spiritual. He explained that, his death[Maxwell] was planned in the spiritual realm but the mob was used to accomplish the mission the physically. The late Captain Maxwell Mahama was killed at Denkyira Obuasi in ...

I have yet to pore over the full details of what President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had to say about the tragic early-morning lynching of Capt. Maxwell Mahama, of the 5th Battalion of Infantry, in the northwestern enclave’s township of Denkyira-Obuasi (or Boase, in some news reports) in the Central Region (See “Lynched Army Captain Was Protecting Illegal Chinese Miners – ...

Seven persons have sustained serious burns after a gas explosion at Asante Akyem Agogo in the Ashanti Region Tuesday morning. An Eyewitness Seth Amoako narrating the incident to Adom News said the explosion occurred at a gas filling station. It is unclear what might have led to the explosion but residents say a leaking gas tank caught fire when a ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man convicted of killing four people in Omaha in 2013 has been given Nebraska’s first death sentence since the state’s voters reinstated the punishment in November. A three-judge panel issued its ruling Tuesday in the case of Nikko Jenkins, who was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder for the August 2013 shooting deaths. The ...