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One person is reported dead and several others injured after Asante Kotoko bus rammed into a truck – The police commander in the area says the driver of the kotoko bus was probably overspeeding. The driver of the Kumasi Asante Kotoko bus has been accused of the accident that involved the club’s bus and a truck at Nkawkaw near Abepotia ...

Government has been charged to desist from the trend of receiving foreign support from development partners across the world. Retired diplomat during the tenure of the Kwame Nkrumah administration, KB Asante, is of the view that the trend of Ghana receiving aid and grants from various partners inures to the negative development of the Ghanaian economy. Speaking to Class FM ...

President Akufo-Addo has assured business owners opposed to the 3 percent VAT flat rate policy that the benefits of the policy will be realised in the near future. The policy, he argued, will be key to getting the ailing economy back on track. The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) on July 4, 2017 announced commencement of the application of the 3 ...

The driver’s mate of the Kia Rhino that the Asante Kotoko Football Club team bus run into has also been confirmed dead. His death brings to two the number of causalities recorded in the fatal crash that occurred on Wednesday night at Nkawkaw in the Eastern region after earlier confirmation of the death of Thomas Obeng Asare, the equipment officer. ...

An attempt by some law graduates to stop the General Legal Council from administering entrance examination and interview before admitting qualified students into the Ghana School of Law has failed. The group, who are LLB graduates, had gone to the Human Rights Court in Accra seeking an injunction to stop the examination on Friday, July 14, 2017 but the court ...

The case involving 13 members of the dreaded vigilante group affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been adjourned to August 8, 2017. A Kumasi Circuit Court presided by her Honour Mary Nsenkyire adjourned the case Thursday July 13, 2017 on the plea of a representative of the prosecutor in the case, C/Inspt. Hannah Acheampong. The 13 suspects ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said he is “saddened” by news of the accident involving players and officials of Kumasi Asante Kotoko. “Saddened by the news of the accident involving players & officials of Kotoko. My heart goes out to the team; speedy recovery to the injured,” Mr Akufo-Addo said in a tweet. The assistant equipment officer of the ...

Players and officials of Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football Club suffered double agony Wednesday night when their properties were stolen by some heartless persons after their bus was involved in a gory accident at Nantia, about 300 meters to the main Nkawkaw bypass road. They were robbed off their belongings including laptops, mobile phones and undiclosed amount of money by persons ...

The National Service Secretariat (NSS) has deployed a total of 2,000 service personnel for the 2017/18 service year to the agriculture and agro-business sector to support the government’s “Planting for Food and Jobs” programme. “In accordance with the scheme’s commitment to meeting President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s vision, we have deployed 2,160 service personnel to the agricultural sector for the ...

All the injured Asante Kotoko players, but one have been discharged from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi after the team bus crashed into a stationary truck at Nkawkaw. The assistant equipment officer of the club Kofi Asare died on the spot. The discharged players are Evans Kwaw, Eric Donkor, Saddick Adams, Frank Sarfo Gyamfi, Baba Mahama, Osei Agyeman, ...