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Thirteen suspects who were allegedly involved in the gruesome murder of Major Maxwell Mahama have been discharged by an Accra Magistrate court. The 13 were part of the initial 32 suspects charged with murder during a hearing two weeks ago. The remaining 19 including a woman, are still facing charges of murder. According to the Police, they went back to ...

The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) yesterday raised a litany of issues in Parliament on the alleged corrupt deals which have taken place under the leadership of President Akufo-Addo who has promised zero tolerance for corruption. The Minority raised issues ranging from the $2.25 billion bond recently issued by the government, intention of government to raise another 15-year bond to ...

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) is on the heels of Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko, the immediate-past Managing Director (MD) of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited, over some alleged payments and withdrawals from the government’s account. The account in question is the Chief of Staff’s ‘Sundry Account’ which the BOST boss regularly lodged money into and ...

The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has expressed worry over the Minority’s insistence that there was insider-trading and conflict of interest in the issuance of the $2.25 billion bond by government in April. The IFS is warning the Minority’s multiplicity of petitions to foreign Securities and Exchange Commissions over the bond could spell doom for the country’s economy. The Minority ...

Attempts by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to equalize the alleged rot at Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) Company Limited, indicate their Members of Parliament (MPs) slept on their jobs while in opposition to keep National Democratic Congress (NDC) government at the time on it toes. “Claiming the worse thing happening today at BOST happened in the previous administration ...

Contrary to claims the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won the 2016 polls through dubious means, former Member of Parliament (MP) for Bantama Constituency, Henry Kwabena Kokofu has attributed the victory to the Lord. “We did not win the elections with our might……our victory came from the Almighty God who makes everything possible when we said the battle was the Lord’s”, ...

A 60-year-old man is in the grips of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Volta Regional Police Command in Ho for allegedly attempting to traffic some six children at Kpassa in the Nkwanta North district. The suspect, Eric Akwesi Amponsah, was arrested last Friday, June 30, by the police upon a tip off at the Kpassa lorry station on board ...

The Finance Committee of Parliament has summoned the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta to an emergency meeting Thursday. The meeting is to probe further details and explanation for the controversial 3% flat rate tax that has been introduced by the government. The 3% VAT rate came into effect on July 1, 2017 following the passage of Act 948 to amend ...

Dr. Elsie Effa Kauffman, the Quiz Mistress for the 2017 National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ2017), has described her missing bag as “a problem of six days.” Dr. Kauffman, who is a senior lecturer and head of the Biomedical Engineering Department of the University of Ghana, was left bewildered Thursday June 29, 2017 when her handbag containing her valuables was ...

The founder and leader of Royal House Chapel International,Sam Korankye Ankrah has said the people of Denkyira-Boase have been cursed by God and as a result cannot produce any leader for killing Major Maxwell Mahama in cold blood. Major Maxwell Mahama was murdered in cold blood after he was mistaken for an armed robber by some youth in Denkyira-Boase some ...