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Deputy minister for Defense Major Derrick Oduro has disclosed that the three individuals who are being held for attempting attack the presidency also planned to attack the defense ministry. “The intelligence we gathered at a point indicated that these young men wanted to attack the Defense Ministry,” he told Morning Starr sit-in host Lantam Papanko Wednesday. He however added the ...

The Herald has uncovered massive rot at the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), following undercover investigations conducted at the state institution, which is under the Communications Ministry. This paper’s investigations, unearthed procurement breaches and conflict of interest situations at GIFEC, leading to the loss of a whopping amount of GHc1. 170 million, paid to some four companies for ...

Some aggrieved residents and road users have registered their displeasure in more than two hours demonstration held at Kpeve in the South Dayi District over a number of abandoned and deplorable roads in the Volta region, with a call on the government to fix these roads before 2020 general elections. In an interview with some of the demonstrators, one Kwabena, ...

The Medical and Dental Council Ghana (MDCG) has said Dr. Fredrick Yao Mac-Palm, who has been arrested over an alleged plan to destabilize the nation, is yet to renew his license to practice this year. In an interview, the Registrar of the Council, Dr. Eli Kwasi Atikpui explained that Dr. Mac-Palm was a qualified practitioner who was registered in May ...

There is uproar among some residents in New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region against the high number of dysfunctional Streetlights in their communities giving rise to attacks at night. The aesthetic visibility of street lighting entering Koforidua township makes one believe every part of the city is illuminated but the reality is the opposite as many sub communities ...

The three individuals who are being held for attempting to attack the Presidency have been hit with five charges. The charges do not include treason as it was earlier thought per government statement. A government statement Monday said they planned to destabilise the country and also attempted to attack the Presidency. At the magistrate court today, however, they were charged ...

Victor Adawudu, the lawyer for the three persons standing trial for allegedly manufacturing weapons and plotting to destabilize the country believes that the suspects were set up. According to him, there is no iota of truth in the claims by the state that the suspects were plotting to commit such a crime. While daring the state to provide adequate evidence ...

Another joint security operation, dubbed ‘Operation Calm Life’ by the military and police at New Takoradi in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region, has led to the arrest of 43 more suspects from their various hideouts. It would be recalled that about 213 persons suspected to be engaging in crime and other crime-related activities were rounded up in a ...

A total of 22 Ghanaians have been deported from Germany and the UK for overstaying their permits and engaging in activities that contravene the laws of their host countries. According to the Ghana Immigration Service, 17 of the number were deported from Germany. The deportees are all males aged between 21 to 60 years. A press statement said they were ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says he is glad the anger of Okyeman against the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), yielded the needed results. In a tweet, he expressed hope that the NDC party can curtail intemperate language during political discourse to avert such occurrences in the near future. “Let’s hope our party can curb the use of strong language ...