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Chaos has erupted at Tamale after Police clashed with some NDC youth of Moshie Zongo after the youth attempted to resist a court-backed eviction exercise Friday. The clash, amidst gunshots, occurred when a team of 40 armed police personnel stormed the area to evict the party men who had erected a structure on a plot of land belonging to another ...

The West Africa Centre for Security and Counter-Extremism (WACCE) has warned that Ghana is not cloistered from terrorism attacks. The Centre’s warning comes in the wake of terror alerts issued by the United Kingdom and Canada to their citizens residing in Ghana. The Canadian Embassy in its security alert said “there is a threat of terrorism. Terrorist targets could include ...

The government is only being proactive by engaging the United States government before the treaty for the hosting two Guantanamo Bay detainees which runs out in January 2018, according to the Vice Chairman of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Kweku Ampratwum Saropng. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Shirley Ayorkor Botchway on Tuesday informed Parliament, her Ministry and other ...

Tension is mounting within the Ghana Police Service, as to who replaces the Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, who is expected to proceed on retirement in eleven days from today, having attained the mandatory retiring age of 60. On August 15, 2017, the ballistic and forensic expert leaves office as the 28th person to hold the position of ...

Activist and National Youth Organizer aspirant of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe aka Abronye DC has vowed to marshal all he can to resist the implementation of the controversial towing levy, even if it will cost him his membership of the NPP. According to him, it’s unintelligible that the NPP will want to implement such an unpopular ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo is at the Saltpond Methodist Church for a Memorial Service to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC). This is the first time a sitting president has visited the town, where the UGCC was founded to mark the anniversary. The President was joined by leading members and the party faithful ...

Ghanaians desirous of travelling to the United States of America (USA) face a daunting task as President Donald Trump has endorsed a legislation that will abolish Visa Lottery, as well as curb the level of legal immigration using skills-based immigration system. Analysts say if the bill is passed and implemented, it could cut legal migration to US by some 50%. ...

Two people have not been accounted for after a tow truck managed to pull out a mini bus that plunged into the Kpesie Lagoon along the La-Teshie beach road in Accra, police have said. “The brief information we have received is that this particular vehicle was coming from La Palm Hotel and heading towards the Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping ...

Embattled businessman in the controversial GHc51 million judgment debt case, Alfred Agbesi Woyome has filed a case at the African Court on Human and People’s Rights, a day after his petition at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) was thrown out. The ICC rejected Woyome’s petition citing Article 6(4) of its Arbitration Rules and also the lack of establishment of ...

An Accra High Court Presided over by Justice Kwaku Ackaah Boafo has ordered for the release of the Indian businessman, Ashok Kumar Sivaram, who has been in detention at the Airport for two days. The judge, however, ordered his passport be retained by the Ghana Immigration Service. Mr. Sivaram, the judge added, should report to the Immigration Service Tuesday August ...