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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Thursday urged the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service (CID) to concentrate on purging the governing New Patriotic Party and the government of criminals shielding kidnappers. The NDC’s call come on the wake of the arrest of some eight individuals in connection to the kidnapping of two Canadian nationals in Kumasi, the ...

It has emerged that an explosive weapon was found among the arsenal of the kidnappers of the two Canadian ladies rescued on Wednesday. Pro-government newspaper, Daily Guide, reports on Friday, June 14 that besides the grenade, the kidnappers had an assortment of firearms “which were kept for defensive and offensive purposes.” Already, Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, said during a ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has brokered a deal with the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley, for a Ghanaian who has been in detention for over five years in Trinidad to be released and reintegrated into the society of the twin state Caribbean nation. Addressing the Ghanaian National Association in Trinidad and Tobago as part his ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described Ghana as the safest country in West Africa. He has therefore asked Africans in the Diaspora to come, explore and experience Ghana in this Year of Return. Addressing the House of Assembly of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Wednesday, 12thJune, 2019, President Akufo-Addo stated that, “in today’s world, where sadly crime and ...

The National Democratic Congress (NPP) has identified some NPP-affiliated vigilante groups as the alleged culprits behind the kidnapping of the two Canadian women. Speaking at a press conference Thursday on the back of the subject, Communications Director of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi, explained that the NDC was left with not much of an option than to expose the real identities ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the State Enterprise Commission, Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng, has sued musician and political activist, Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as A Plus for defamation. He is asking the court to, among other reliefs, compel A Plus to render an unqualified apology to him for the said statements and retract same. Mr Asamoah Boateng, in his ...

All the three living former presidents invited for the 70th anniversary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) failed to turn up, 3news.com has gathered. According to the party’s Acting General Secretary, James Kwabena Bomfeh, only former President John Agyekum Kufuor responded to the invitation by sending a representative to the programme held on Wednesday, June 12. The CPP, the second ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti region has rubbished claims Seidu Mba, one of the suspects in the kidnapping of the two Canadian women is a member of the party in the region. Government has indicated that eight suspects including five Ghanaians and three Nigerians are being held over the crime. Addressing a news conference in Kumasi on ...

It has emerged that Seidu Mba, a suspect in police custody over his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of two Canadian girls in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi, is not a member of security group, Delta Force, ABC News can report. Seidu Yakubu Mba, a popular football pundit in Kumasi was reportedly arrested together with seven others over the kidnapping ...

Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Bernard Antwi Boasiako has called for the spirit of dreaded deity ‘Antoa Nyamaa’ to strike him dead should he lie about Seidu Yakubu Mba, one of the alleged kidnappers of the two Canadians linked to the party. “I must be struck dead if I know Seidu Yakubu and have ...