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The Director of Operations at the National Security Colonel Michael Opoku has discounted some of the evidence given by the head of the SWAT team at the Commission probing the chaos that characterized the Ayawaso by-election. According to him, the long hours the SWAT team leader DSP Samuel Azugu spent answering questions before the commission might have blurred his ability ...

Koku Anyidoho, Former Director of Communications at the Presidency during the erstwhile Mills administration, has revealed that, the late President John Evans Atta Mills cheated death and defied medical science. The Former President in 2011, refuted rumours that he was sick and about to die, but he proclaimed that he will live to ensure that the Better Ghana Agenda is ...

An opposition stalwart in the Ashanti region Joseph Yamin has said he had no hand in the shooting to death of a supporter of the National Democratic Congress at the party’s office. Wasiu Iddrisu was gunned down Monday in an altercation with a fellow member of pro-NDC vigilante group – The Hawks – within the precinct of the NDC Ashanti ...

“It is rare not to see the use of social media short-hands these days when marking scripts of students in law school. Am most convinced that very soon they will be using emoji’s”. This is the revelation of law lecturer at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Mr. Justice Srem- Sai. Speaking in an interview on StarrFm monitored ...

Smartphones are very common in Ghana. Despite the constant complains of economic hardship by its citizens, finding a smartphone that supports Facebook is an easy task. However, there are young men (and sometimes women) spending a huge percentage of their 24 hours in internet cafés. They basically live there, day and night. Conversations around spending so much time in internet ...

Myjoyonline.com is learning of the arrest of former Municipal Chief Executive for Ejisu-Juabeng in the Ashanti Region, Afrifa Yamoah-Ponkoh. Police in the Ashanti Region confirmed the arrest of the erstwhile John Mahama appointee to Luv FM’s Kwasi Debrah, Tuesday. About 15 armed security men in two police vehicles stormed his Fumesua residence and picked the politician, his househelp told the ...

Eighteen-year-old Anthony Osei Prempeh, a student of Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) who faked the kidnap of his colleague student, De-Vreeze Quainoo, in demand for a ransom has been convicted. He was convicted on his own admission of guilt and sentenced to a one-year bond of good behavior. His sentencing by the Takoradi District Court Presiding Judge, His Worship Michael ...

The Greater Accra regional Police commander DCOP Patrick Adusei Sarpong has described as falsehood the testimony of the East Legon police commander before the Commission probing the violence which characterized the Ayawaso West-Wuogon by-election. The East Legon police boss DSP George Asare told the commission last week that he was ordered by his superiors to step aside ahead of the ...

The law must deal with the perpetrators of the shooting incident that occurred during a meeting between some national executives and regional executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Kumasi on Monday, 18 February 2019 which led to the death of one person, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minority Leader in Parliament has said. He told journalists in parliament on Tuesday, ...

284 students who took the professional law exams last year are to repeat the entire program because they failed. Another 177 were referred in various papers, Starr News has gathered. The students failed mostly in Family law, Evidence and Advocacy. So far, only 64 students are known to have successfully passed the exams. The papers included Criminal procedure, Civil procedure, ...