NEWS

Merchant Bank ‘fights’ Ibrahim over ownership

Managers of Universal Merchant Bank (UMB), formerly Merchant Bank (Ghana) Ltd, are livid over recent publication by The aL-haJJ in which Mr Ibrahim Mahama’s name was linked to the wholly owned Ghanaian bank. UMB only recently snatched headlines when the bank’s Board, led by its Chairperson, Mrs. Betty Zormelo, pledged a whopping US$100 million to support President Akufo-Addo’s one-district, one-factory ...

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Fire Guts Kumasi Central Market

A fire outbreak at the Kumasi Central Market Monday afternoon has destroyed shops, stalls and goods worth several thousands of Ghana cedis. Luv FM’s Erastus Asare Donkor who confirmed the incident on Asempa FM’s Ekosi Sen said personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service are at the scene fighting the fire. The fire believed to have started at 1 p.m ...

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Four Chinese ‘galamseyers’ arrested; guns, bullets impounded

The Eastern regional Police Command has arrested four more Chinese nationals engaged in illegal mining in Akyem Topreman near Akwatia in the Denkyembour District. The 30 armed Police Contingent also retrieved a box of 155 BB cartridge ammunitions, a pump action gun and a locally made single barrel gun. The Police team also impounded five excavators and two Toyota Pickups, ...

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Akufo-Addo bans gov’t officials from buying state cars

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has banned government officials from acquiring state vehicles that are more than three years old. Addressing journalists Monday, the President stated that the practice where government appointees are allowed to purchase vehicles allocated to them when leaving office is no more in place. The president’s comment comes after the brouhaha over some state vehicles that ...

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Kumasi troubles ‘under control’ – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has said that the recent confusion witnessed in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi, is being addressed. According to him, this is to reassure Ghanaians of his government’s commitment to work under the Rule of Law. Addressing the press at Peduase Lodge after a 3-day retreat with government officials, the President called for support from Ghanaians, to help him ...

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DYMOG condemns “reckless attack on the Judicial Arm of Government”

The Leadership and entire membership of the Dynamic Youth Movement of Ghana (DYMOG) condemns in the most vehement terms the reckless attack on the Judicial Arm of Government by the Delta Force Vigilante group on 6th April,2017 at the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Circuit Court presided over by Her Lordship Mary Senkyere. The incessant attacks on people and ravaging of ...

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Kumasi Central market on fire

The Kumasi Central market in the Ashanti region is on fire, Starrfmonline.com has gathered. The cause of the fire is not yet known but reports indicate that the fire is fast spreading to other shops. According to reports, several shoppers and traders are trapped in the market as personnel from the National Fire Service are yet to arrive at the ...

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8 Delta Force Members Who Stormed Court Remanded

A Circuit Court in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi has refused bail to the eight members of pro-NPP group Delta Force who stormed a court there last week and freed suspects. This was after counsel for the accused prayed the court to grant them bail. The lawyers said their clients were nowhere near the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly Court, therefore, could ...

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Blacklist Kennedy Agyapong for sponsoring ‘terrorism’ – NDC to international community

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has served notice that it will soon petition the international community and the diplomatic corps to blacklist the honourable Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North Constituency, Kennedy Agyapong. They want a travel ban to be placed on the maverick politician for allegedly sponsoring terrorism in the country. They see Hon. Agyapong as being ...

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Police Intimidating Us – Aowin Galamsey Taskforce

An anti-galamsey taskforce in the Aowin District of the Western Region are accusing the Police of intimidating them in a bid to prevent them stop their fight against illegal mining activities in the area. According to the taskforce, the police who have consistently failed to support their efforts, also released persons arrested for illegal mining in the area. The Queen ...

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