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A resident of Denkyira-Boase who witnessed the mob attack that led to the death of Captain Maxwell Mahama has disclosed that he was afraid to help the distressed soldier, who was running for his life. According to Kwaku Manu, who plies an Okada in the mining town, the soldier while running away from the blood-thirsty mob, jumped onto his motorbike ...

Starr News has spotted an abandoned brand new Community Information Centre in the Bongo District of the Upper East region which is yet to be commissioned but already serves as both a massage parlour for some dating students and a looting ground for faceless criminals. The building, erected with thousands of taxpayer’s Ghana cedis on the grassy bank of a ...

The five persons arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of late Capt. Maxwell Mahama are being processed to be arraigned before court, the Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Cephas Authur, has disclosed. Also, he said, the police has scaled up operations in the Denkyira Obuasi Township of the Central region where the army Capt. ...

The Ghana Bar Association has condemned the killing of a military officer, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, in Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region and has called on the security agencies to respond to the general lawlessness prevailing in the country. A statement signed by National President Benson Nutsukpui called on the security and law enforcement ...

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has taken over the entire town of Diaso in Denkyira Obuasi following the gruesome lynching of army Captain Maxwell Mahama by the townsfolk. Captain Mahama was lynched on suspicion that he was an armed robber, after a group of residents from whom he asked for directions during a Monday dawn jogging session spotted a pistol ...

The Minority in parliament will later today file a motion to compel finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta to appear before the House to answer questions over the controversial 2.2 billion dollars bond. The Minority has maintained the deal was shrouded in secrecy accusing the minister of conflict of interest. CHRAJ is currently investigating the allegation of wrongdoing in the issuance of ...

Seasoned Journalist Kweku Baako Jnr. has been slammed by former Youth and Sports Minister in the erstwhile Mahama administration, Joseph Yamin for publishing in ‘The New Crusading Guide’ the latter has helped GPSC mining company to secure military protection to carry out illegal mining in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region. According to The New Crusade Guide publication ...

Incensed youth of Okurasi in the Upper West Akyem District of the Eastern region nearly lynched a man for allegedly having sex with his friend’s wife. Kwabena Koomson was caught red-handed in the act with the married woman Tuesday. The angry youth enraged by what they described as the attitude of the suspect , massed up at his house with ...

Deputy Chief Scribe for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Lawson has described as loose talk comments by the Minister of State in-charge of Public Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo on how the NDC plundered state resources through the use of sole-sourcing in procurement. The Minister of State in-charge of Public Procurement, Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo yesterday disclosed how the previous ...

This comes after an army officer, Capt. Maxwell Mahama was ghastly lynched and burnt to death by residents of Denkyira Boase in the Central region. Capt. Mahama died in the dastardly act after he was mistaken to be an armed robber. He was a military officer with the 5th Infantry Batallion (5BN) at Burma Camp in Accra but on detachment ...