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Asiedu, the prime suspect at the centre of the murder of the Abuakwa North MP JB Danquah has been discharged by an Accra High Court. Asiedu together with Vincent Bosso have been discharged by the High Court presided by Justice LL Mensah after the Attorney General filed a Nolle Prosequi to terminate proceedings. A senior state attorney Sefakor Batcha informed ...

The late Captain Maxwell Mahama, leader of the platoon detailed to a mining company at Denkyira-Obuasi, was about to be promoted to a ‘Major’ after he successfully sat his examinations a few weeks ago, Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul has revealed. According to Mr. Nitiwul, the murdered officer was posted to the area about three weeks ago to relieve the Commander ...

The Denkyira Boase town in the Central region has become a ghost town following the ghastly lynching of an army officer there by residents, StarrFMonline.com has gathered. According to Starr News’ Central regional correspondent, Kwaku Baah-Acheamfour “most of the young people have fled” because they suspect that there will be retaliatory attacks from the military. Residents of the Denkyira Boase ...

Former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Ambassador Victor Smith has explained that the party’s Founder and Chairman of the Council of Elders, former President Jerry John Rawlings is partly to be blamed for the NDC’s abysmal performance in the 2016 general elections. Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia’s Programme, the former spokesperson for the Rawlingses explained that as ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo must show leadership and put in place stringent measures to check acts of lawlessness that is creeping into the society, Member of Parliament for Builsa South Clement Apaak has said. His comments come after a soldier Captain Maxwell Mahama was attacked and killed by a mob in Denkyira Boase in the Upper Denkyira West district ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said it is in a hurry to take back political power which it lost to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) through what the party described as ’deceit and lies’. According to the NDC, the ruling government’s performance, since it took power in January this year, has been a disaster, a clear indication that ...

The military captain who was reportedly lynched by some residents of Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region was the leader of a military detachment dispatched to the community to protect some Chinese engaging in illegal mining (galamsey) in a forest reserve in the area. The late Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched by residents on suspicion of being an armed robber while ...

A police patrol team on Sunday dawn allegedly shot and killed a police officer who was escorting an ‘OA’ passenger bus to the Northern region. Identified as Lance Corporal Robert Kumi Ackah of the Tamale Rapid Deployment Force, he was said to have been mistaken to be an armed robber by his colleagues and killed near Dawadawa, on the Buipe-Kintampo ...

Speaker of Parliament Prof Mike Oquaye is adopting diplomacy in resolving visa fraud allegations against some Members of Parliament, Kate Addo, Acting Director of Public Affairs of Parliament, has said. It will be recalled that the British High Commission accused some MPs of facilitating into the UK the entry of some supposed relatives, with such persons overstaying their visas. The ...

The 13-member Kwesi Botchway Committee probing the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) 2016 election defeat is expected to present its report to the party today, Tuesday, May 30. The committee was set up early this year to investigate t circumstances that led to the party’s defeat and was expected to submit its report within three months. However, the committee could not ...