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 ...
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#CaptainMahama: Forgive Diaso community – Pastor
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 ...
Read More »“Instant Injustice” evidence of a Class War in Ghana
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 ...
Read More »I fired Victor Smith over cash diversion – Rawlings
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 ...
Read More »468, 053 students take part in BECE today
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 ...
Read More »3 football pitch-size Kingdom Books Warehouse on fire
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 ...
Read More »Bole: Violence Looms as Chieftaincy tensions escalate
Fears of violence is rapidly rising in the Bole Traditional Area in Northern region after the demise of the Paramount Chief, Awuladese Pontomprong Mahama (II) on Wednesday, May 31,2017 as tensions grow between supporters of two rival chiefs of Mandari, an important community within the traditional area where chiefs succeed the Bole Skin. Reports indicate that tensions are already escalating ...
Read More »Greed, corruption caused NDC’s defeat – Rawlings
The founder of the National Democratic Congress Jerry John Rawlings says greed and corruption caused the party’s humiliating defeat in the 2016 December elections. According to the former President, the greed and corruption of today is nothing compared to what existed before he toppled the military regime on June 4, 1979. “Generals were executed…because of corruption, the greed, corruption and ...
Read More »‘I am not here to unite good and bad’ – Rawlings
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has said he is not out to unite “good and bad“and urged the leadership of National Democratic Congress (NDC) to play their roles with distinction. “We lost our masses because we betrayed the cause of June 4. We never followed the tenets and principles of probity, accountability, integrity and transparency which the uprising stood for”. ...
Read More »Ayew brothers turn up for Black Stars training in $200,000 Bentley
The Black Stars opened a non-residential training camp on Wednesday at the Accra Sports Stadium but it is the cars of some of the players that has caught the attention of fans rather than their skills on the pitch. Case in point being, English Premier League siblings Andre Dede Ayew and Jordan Ayew who pulled up together in a customised ...
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