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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has gone to the founder, former President Jerry John Rawlings, to plead with him to come back to the party and help it to regain power. The NDC, whilst in office, wrote off its charismatic founder but after the humiliating defeat in the 2016 general elections, it is now persuading him to come back ...

The leadership of a pro-New Patriotic Party Youth group in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region, “Atlantic Bases” has distanced itself from a list of Pro-New Patriotic Party Youth groups being tagged as vigilante groups terrorising Ghanaians in the name of the ruling Party. According to a leading member of the Atlantic Bases, Sanusi Issah, the group is ...

A fatal mining explosion has struck at Gbani, a community in the Talensi District of the Upper East region, with as many as 7 people feared dead in the tragedy. An endless chain of mining explosive deaths in the region has continued to spark public rage and concerns about the safety of mineworkers. The latest explosion, the extent of which ...

From right, COP Yohunu, the IGP, Asante-Apeatu, COP Bright Oduro, DCOP Ken Yeboah and ACP Ampofo Duku THE WOES of the 13 Delta Force members, who escaped from the KMA Circuit Court in Kumasi, have deepened as it has emerged that they will face additional charges over their illegal conduct. “There will be additional charges under Section 226(C) of the ...

Bright Simons, a brilliant social innovator and researcher, has revealed that the contract signed between the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government and the Middle East Resources Investment Group LLC, also known as AMERI Group or AMERI Energy “might be the most outrageous swindle this country has seen in the last decade.” According to the founder and president of mPedigree, ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo must not take Ghana backwards, ex-Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rev Prof Emmanuel Martey has cautioned, saying: “Ghanaians are watching”. Condemning the mayhem perpetrated by pro-government groups like Delta Force and Invincible Forces, Prof Martey said their action is a “national shame.” Right after Nana Akufo-Addo was sworn into office in January, the Invincible Forces ...

“There are too many mistakes” in the young government of President Nana Akufo-Addo, ex-Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Prof Emmanuel Martey, has said. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of the Christ Apostolic College in Kumasi over the weekend, Prof Martey, who was a harsh critic of the Mahama administration in the past, condemned what he described as festering ...