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The Police have dismissed suggestions by an NGO, Child Rights International, that it is holding a 12-year-old boy in connection with Major Mahama’s killing. Director of Police Public Affairs, DSP Sheila Abayie Buckman, says the boy was questioned by officers on his role in the murder of Major Mahama and was let go. After the callous lynching of Major Maxwell ...

Fresh from a “major” victory in court, pressure group Occupy Ghana has vowed to do everything possible to retrieve an estimated ?5bn of taxpayer’s money lost through mismanagement by public officers. A member of the group Sydney Casely Hayford told Joy News Tuesday, the judgement emboldens the Auditor-General to do more than document the sins of public officers in his ...

The 2017 graduation ceremony for students who pursued various masters’ programmes at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) has been postponed indefinitely. The ceremony was to have taken place in February, but a notice from school authorities in January said it has been called off. Myjoyonline.com’s sources at the Institute revealed the absence of a standing Council for the school ...

Interdicted former Commander of the East Legon District Police command, DSP Emmanuel A. Basintale has stated that he has not engaged in any act of criminality and is ready to fight allegations of gold fraud against him in court. Five policemen including DSP Basintale, were interdicted in March this year in connection with a number of alleged fraudulent gold deals ...

Some traders in some markets in Ghana, especially in Accra, have been found to be selling fake, plastic eggs. The plastic eggs at first glance look real but when shaken slightly appear to contain a lot of fluid. When boiled, they get the appearance of shea butter. On Wednesday June 14, host of Nkran Kwanso on Accra100.5FM, Blakk Eye, chanced ...

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has sternly rejected assertion making rounds that four Warrant Officres are being investigated by the military high command in connection with the gruesome murder of Major Maxwell Mahama at Denkyira-Oboase in the Central region. In a statement dismissing what it described as “a number of unsubstantiated assertions have been made by Kwodwo Asare-Baffour Acheampong (KABA) ...

In what appears to be a desperate attempt to stop them from telecasting some programmes on their networks, Managers of Television Stations accused of showing pornographic movies have hit back at the petitioners. They have vowed to defy any directive from the National Media Commission (NMC) and Information Ministry that would be promulgated to stop them from showing some movies ...

The MP for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has said the court did not order for the closure of the University of Education, Winneba. “The registrar of the institution is up to some mischief with some people and that, in it, I am sure, will give rise to another action in court. So, simply put, I will say that the court did ...

Businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome was given an amount of GHC 35,000 by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, when he lost his mother. GHC 20,000 of the amount was given by the NPP party while the President also donated an amount of GHC 15,000 to him. Four ministers of state including a Deputy Sports ...

The government has released GHc78.5 million to defray part of the arrears owed caterers under the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP). The disbursement covers the remaining five days of the third term of the 2015/2016 academic year and 65 days of the first term of the 2016/2017 academic year. A statement signed by the Minister of Gender, Children and Social ...