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The police have so far arrested 42 persons in connection with the horrendous murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama. The Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the Ghana Police Service, DSP Sheila Kesse Buckman, told Starr News the youngest among the suspects is a 12-year-old while the oldest is a 57–year-old man. “So far we have arrested 42 suspects which we ...

A man believed to be in his 30s on Sunday drowned in a pond at Teacher-Mante in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern region. The deceased, Identified as Kwasi Ammarh was swimming in the pond with his five-year-old boy when they both began to drown, however, the child was saved by an eyewitness. Several efforts to rescue the man failed ...

The National Youth Wing of the ruling New Patriotic Party has extended a “special goodwill message” to all candidates writing the Basic Education Certificate Examination (B.E.C.E.) which commences today Monday June 05, 2017. “As this exam marks a very crucial stepping stone in the academic pursuits of all candidates, it is the hope and prayer of the entire youth wing ...

The Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has laughed off claims that Ghana’s president Akufo-Addo garnered a disappointing two votes to lose out on the ECOWAS chairmanship slot to Togo’s Faure Gnassingbè. Social media is awash with rumours that Akufo-Addo lost miserably to his Togolese counterpart, but Ghana’s foreign minister is surprised about the news since “there was no vote” ...

Government has strenuously denied claims by a former Presidential Staffer that the NDC government ordered the purchase of some 43 new vehicles a few days before leaving office at the behest of the new Akufo-Addo government. The previous administration led by former President John Mahama was accused of illegally procuring the aforementioned vehicles for the presidency at a cost of ...

The head pastor of the Calvary Charismatic Church (CCC), Reverend Ransford Obeng, has urged the military to forgive the perpetrators of the murder of the late Captain Maxwell Mahama. According to him, he sympathises with the family of the deceased service man whose death has thrown the whole nation into disbelief and mourning. Speaking to the Ultimate News on the ...

The recent lynching, or gruesome mob murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama, who whilst discharging his official duties as the commander of a military group deployed in the Denkyira Obuasi area with the assignment of regulating local small scale mining aka “Galamsey” activities; was tragically set upon, beaten and stoned to death, and partially burnt by a crowd – is very ...

Former president JJ has disclosed he fired his ex-aide Victor Smith because the latter wanted to divert campaign funds from some Nigerians in the United States to the National Democratic Congress ahead of the 2008 elections. Mr Smith, who until recently was Ghana’s High Commissioner to UK and Ireland, was sacked as Rawlings’ secretary on April 9, 2008 via a ...

A total of 468,053 candidates are expected to sit this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination which begins today. The students who will write about 10 papers including Mathematics, English and Science have been burning the midnight oil in preparation for the week long exercise. Meanwhile, education authorities in the troubled Denkyira Obuasi township of the Central region are still struggling ...

Fire has gutted a three football pitch-size main warehouse of Kingdom Books and Stationery at Prampram in the Greater Accra region. Firefighters are having a torrid time in dousing the fire five hours since it started. Properties mainly office stationery and furniture worth millions of Ghana Cedis have been consumed by the blaze which has affected four of the warehouses ...