The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has condemned an attack on GhOne journalist Ridwan Karim Dini Osman who was assaulted in the discharge of his duties. Mr Osman, while covering a fire outbreak at Ashfoam in the North Industrial Area in Accra on Monday night was slapped several times from behind for forcing his way to cover the incident after he ...
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Delta Force ’13’ punishment lenient – Ablakwa
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has described as lenient the punishment issued by a Kumasi Circuit Court to the 13 Delta Force members for escaping from police custody. According to the MP, the 13 members should have been given a harsh sanction that would have served as a deterrent to others. “If you look at ...
Read More »Akufo-Addo won’t contest 2020 polls – Alhaji Bature
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo would not be contesting the 2020 polls, editor of the Al Hajj Newspaper, Alhaji Bature Iddrissu has said. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo became President on his third attempt at the presidency. He failed to win the 2008 and 2012 elections. In 2016, he polled 53.85 percent of the valid votes cast to become Ghana’s fifth ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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, ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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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