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12-year-old boy can’t be tried in Major Mahama’s death – Lawyer

Private legal practitioner, Kofi Diaba, says the 12-year-old boy arrested in connection with the lynching of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama cannot stand trial. The police in the Ashanti region over the weekend arrested the boy at Manso Nkwanta and eight others including women for their alleged involvement in the soldier’s death. Speaking with Stephen Anti on News Hour, on 3FM ...

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Rlg refutes claims it failed to supply over 12,000 laptops

The management of Rlg Communications Limited has denied reports suggesting the company failed to supply over 12,000 laptops although the state fully paid for them. Media report Monday, June 5, accused the communications firm of flouting its contractual terms with the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation to produce and distribute 103,181 pieces of laptops at a total cost ...

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Kumasi: Soldiers brutally assault Police officer

A Police officer has been brutally assaulted by some soldiers at Uadarra Barracks in Adum, Kumasi in the Ashanti region. The Police officer, name withheld was using a thoroughfare at the barracks to the regional police command when he was stopped by the soldiers and asked to return. The soldiers argued that, it was late for the police officer who ...

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Bole: Soldiers deployed over looming chieftaincy clashes

The Northern regional minister Salifu Saeed has called for peace in Bole after tensions escalated between supporters of two rival chiefs over the Bole Skin. The confusion is said to be linked to disagreements over the rightful heir to the Bole skin after the death of the paramount chief Bolewura Awuladese Pontomprong Mahama (II). Speaking in Bole, the regional minister ...

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Rawlings cause of Ghana’s current problems – Alhaji Bature

The Managing Editor of the Al Hajj Newspaper, Alhaji Bature Iddrissu has revealed that the litany of problems that have bedeviled the country must be blamed on former President Jerry John Rawlings. “He ruled this country for 19 years and I am telling you that the current problems we are facing must be laid at his doorstep. 19 wasted years ...

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‘I never said John Mahama used lynched soldier for rituals’ – Owusu Bempah

Reverend lsaac Owusu Bempah, General Overseer of the Glorious Way Chapel, has expressed shock at recent comments about him by Reverend Stephen Opuni, General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana (CCG). Rev Opuni, in an interview last week, condemned Rev Bempah over some comments he purportedly made about the lynching of Captain Maxwell Mahama. Rev Bempah is alleged to ...

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Akufo-Addo’s visit to Major Mahama’s family in pictures

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday visited family of the late Major Adam Mahama to commiserate with them. There, he again, expressed his deepest condolences for their loss and disclosed that in agreement with the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. Obed Akwa, the late Captain be promoted to the rank of Major. He also revealed that a monument ...

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Akufo-Addo ‘sweats’ over cabinet list

One of the most difficult decisions President Akufo-Addo had to take since he was sworn into office five months ago was to decide who among his “large size” and lopsided Ministers join his 19-member Cabinet, The aL-hAJJ can confirm. Though the President has been reluctant naming his Cabinet, sources in government say the pressure on him from some sections of ...

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‘Kitchen’ too hot for Akufo-Addo

Having come to the realization that President Akufo-Addo will be unable to fulfill most of his lofty campaign promises, First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo and some kingpins of the ruling New Patriotic Party have resorted to begging Ghanaians on the president’s behalf. The first lady and some NPP apparatchiks, The aL-hAJJ has gathered, are overly worried about the high expectations ...

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