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A four-year old girl was burnt to death at Nyankomasi Ahenkro in the Assin South District of the Central region. An eye witness who disclosed this to Adom News said mother of the child, Yaa Agyeiwaa placed a burning candle beside the child in their bedroom and excused herself to watch television at her neighbour’s house. “She went to buy ...

Police prosecutors say they are ready to prosecute 32 out of the 58 suspects arrested in connection with the murder of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama. The prosecutors made the announcement when the suspects appeared at the Accra Central District Court Wednesday morning. According to the police prosecutors, they have firm grounds to prosecute the 32 persons following their investigations so ...

National Women’s Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hajia Joyce Zainab Mahama has admitted the defeat of the party at the 2016 polls is still a big shock to some functionaries of the party. She disclosed on Accra-based Okay Fm however that the cause of the party’s defeat should not only be heaped on the Women’s wing because ...

“A level of human tragedy that we have never seen before.” That’s how Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa described a huge forest fire that has swept through the centre of the country, leaving at least 64 people dead since Saturday. Wildfires are an annual menace in Portugal. More broke out there between 1993 and 2013 than in Spain, France, Italy ...

Romanian Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu has been forced from power by his own party, in a no-confidence vote in parliament. His left-wing Social Democrat party (PSD) had accused him of failing to carry out necessary economic reforms. The prime minister was involved in a power struggle with party leader Liviu Dragnea, who was barred from office after a conviction for ...

Of 27 bills, eight relate to Brexit and its implications for key industries. As well as a bill to convert EU rules into UK law, there are measures on trade, customs, immigration, fisheries, agriculture, nuclear and sanctions.But other key manifesto plans have either been axed or delayed after the Conservatives lost their majority. The main non-Brexit proposals include: a Civil ...

A District Court in Accra has ordered the police to relocate seventeen-year-old boy Ebenezer Asamoah, one of the suspects believed to have lynched a military officer, Major Maxwell Mahama. According to the court presided over by Ebenezer Kwaku Ansah, until the police is able to establish the that the boy is eighteen, he should be sent to the borstal home ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has blamed Ghana’s first leader, Kwame Nkrumah, for virtually killing democracy during his reign. The former President who governed from 2001 to 2009 told the leadership of the International Democratic Union (IDU) which paid a courtesy call on him at his office in Accra, that ex-President Nkrumah almost plunged the country into poverty and chaos. ...

The Thirty-four suspects initially arrested after the lynching of Major Maxwell Mahama have been discharged by an Accra Central District Court. The 34 suspects were discharged and rearrested to allow the Police consolidate the process and present one charge sheet for both the 34 suspects and 24 others arrested later. According to Starr FM’s Wilberforce Asare, all the 58 suspects ...

A Religious Expert and Lecturer at the University of Ghana Dr. Ben Willie-Golo has condemned government’s decision to facilitate Christian pilgrimage to Israel and the Vatican City describing it as “reckless.” According to him, the government has no business in organizing trips for Christian pilgrims and it should be an individual choice not a State-sponsored decision. “Why will you want ...