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Several youth of Boase in the Upper West Denkyira district of the Central region have been rounded up by uniformed military men who have stormed the town over the killing of an officer, Captain Maxwell Mahama, by indegenes of the mining community. According to an army statement, about 35 troops are currently in the town to unravel the circumstances surrounding ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has presented a 19-member Cabinet to Parliament. The President had been under immense pressure from the minority to name his cabinet after he named his ministers some three months ago. Conspicuously missing from the list read by the Speaker of Parliament Professor Mike Ocquaye Tuesday is the Sports Ministry which had always been part of ...

The Member of Parliament for Upper Denkyira West, Samuel Nsowa-Djan, has called on the Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Major General Obed Akwa to call some soldiers deployed to Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region to search for killers of Captain Maxwell A. Mahama, to order. Captain Mahama was lynched by irate youth of the ...

Attorney General and Minister of Justice Gloria Akuffo has said the two suspects (Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bossu) who were discharged by an Accra High Court on Tuesday 30 May after her office filed a case of nolle prosequi in the case regarding the murder of late Abuakwa North MP JB Danquah-Adu are not free at all. “We have reviewed ...

Former president John Mahama has expressed condolence to the family of the military officer ghastly killed by residents of the Denkyira Obuasi in the Central region. The officer whose name has been given us Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched by residents on suspicion of being an armed robber. The late Captain Mahama was a military officer with the 5th Infantry ...

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia yesterday cautioned government appointees against abuse of government resources, stressing that the Akufo-Addo administration would not tolerate the practice. Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia yesterday cautioned government appointees against abuse of government resources, stressing that the Akufo-Addo administration would not tolerate the practice. He challenged them to rise above the status quo and focus on greater performance ...

The chief of army staff Maj Gen. William Azure Ayamdo is leading a high-powered military delegation to the Central region following the lynching of a soldier Maxwell Mahama in Doase in the Upper Denkyira West district. According to a statement from the Ghana Armed Forces, the “high-powered fact-finding team… is proceeding to the scene of the incident to ascertain the ...

The Editor of Pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) newspaper, the Informer Andy Kankam has threatened to rip the Council of State apart and expose them for peddling what he described as falsehood. He insists that there are attempts by the Council of State to compel the Minority side in Ghana’s Parliament to withdraw a petition at the U.S.A Securities and Exchange ...

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 ...