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Former President of Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, was yesterday re-arraigned before an Accra High Court over alleged shady deals which were exposed by popular investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in his ‘Number 12’ investigative piece. Mr. Nyatakyi together with a former member of the Executive Committee of the GFA, Abdulai Alhassan, appeared in court, charged with three counts ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, 29 June 2021, opened the Toyota Tsusho Vehicle Assembly Plant, which is assembling some models of Toyota and Suzuki vehicles in the country. Describing the occasion as a very happy one for him, the Ghanaian people, and for the government’s industrial transformation agenda, President Akufo-Addo stated that Toyota Tsusho’s presence in Ghana has ...

Three armed robbers who were arrested following a robbery incident in Obuasi in the Ashanti region have admitted taking part in the murder of the late Mfantsiman MP, Ekow Quansah Hayford. The robbers, according to the Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, COP Isaac Ken Yeboah, who were arrested during a robbery incident on the ...

The British High Commission in Ghana has admonished its nationals to stay away from public gatherings after violent clashes in Ejura in the Ashanti region, leading to the deaths. Two people were shot dead by the military with over seven people injured during violent clashes at Ejura. The clashes occurred after a social media activist was attacked by a mob ...

The National Peace Council (NPC) is seriously pointing at existing internal conflicts in Ghana as loopholes through which violent extremists can march into the country to wreak havoc. The warning, delivered during a peace-building training meeting in the Upper East Region, comes weeks after a terrorist attack claimed at least 160 lives in next-door Burkina Faso. The NPC’s Upper East ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), in a statement signed by its Communication Director Kakra Essamuah, has appealed for calm in Ejura in the Ashanti Region following the lynching of social media activist Ibrahim ‘Kaaka’ Mohammed and the subsequently shooting to death by soldiers, of two of several protesters on Tuesday, 29 June 2021 and called “on the security agencies ...

Ghana has recorded some 166 new COVID-19 cases, according to the latest figures of the Ghana Health Service. The active caseload is now 1,559. Since mid-March 2020, a total of 95,642 cases have been recorded here in Ghana. Out of that number, 93,288 have recovered. So far, 795 people have died of the disease in Ghana. Regional breakdown: Greater Accra ...

The Official Liquidator for the defunct Fund Management Companies (FMC’s) will on Friday, July 2 have an investor class meeting with customers of some defunct FMC’s. A statement by the Registrar-General stated that “all the creditors of the under-listed companies are being invited to a Virtual First Creditors meeting on the scheduled time for each company to be held on ...

There were heated exchanges in open court as the Member of Parliament for Assin Central Ken Ohene Agyepong and lawyers of investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas traded in vulgar language. Under cross-examination lawyers of Anas sought to enquire about the personal competency of Ken Agyepong regarding a video he obtained from Salis Newspaper, one of the basis for his ‘Who ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said: “I urgently call on President Nana Akufo-Addo to initiate an immediate de-escalation of the situation in Ejura”, where two protesters were killed by a combined police and military team as they marched in anger a day after the mob killing of local social media activist Ibrahim ‘Kaaka’ Mohammed. Four other protesters also got ...