The Kwabre East Municipal Security Council in the Ashanti Region has commenced investigations into a communal clash between two youth groups at Ntonso. Some youth were on a rampage in the area as they attacked anyone on their way and vandalized some property. Schools were forced to close in the early hours of Monday because of the tensions. Police officers have been deployed to the area to maintain law and order, with one person arrested so far. The Municipal Chief Executive for Kwabre East, Nana Osei Assibey Bonsu, who spoke to journalists, said initial reports indicated that the clash bordered…
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the government will pay the full cost of the surgery of the conjoined twins at the Ridge Hospital in Accra. This was disclosed by the Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Opare on Monday, July 5, 2021, at a short ceremony at the hospital. The Chief of Staff said the procedure will be a historic one, and the President sees it as an opportunity to save lives and help the family of the twins. “The president takes this is a historic opportunity, one that will save lives, save the family from the problems…
Fire has gutted a three-storey building at Makola in the central business district of Accra. The building is made of shops occupied by traders who deal in hair and cosmetic products. The fire according to eyewitnesses begun at around 9 am on Monday, July 5, 2021, in one of the shops and started spreading to others. “I went to buy some things at Makola this morning. In the process, I saw smoke coming from the second floor of the three-storey building. So the people around started calling the Fire Service. After about five minutes, the Fire Service personnel were still…
Security Analyst, Emmanuel Kintu, has criticised the approach adopted by successive government in tackling crime and insecurity in the country. Speaking on Citi TV/ Citi FM’s The Big Issue, Mr. Kintu said attacks on citizens and other related crimes had increased due to the politicization of Ghana’s security system. He said Ghana’s polarized system had created a situation where security officials were now taking orders from politicians instead of solely abiding by their code of ethics in discharging their duties. “The Military is supposed to have its own command and control, but we have a democratic system where we have…
The Minister for Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, says the Defence and Interior Committee of Parliament will make public, the findings of its inquest into the assault of some residents of Wa in the Upper West Region by a group of soldiers. “When our findings are ready, we will make it public to the people and make all the measures that we are going to take public to the people of Ghana for them to know what happened.” On Thursday, July 1, 2021, a video showing armed soldiers beating some residents of Wa on the street went viral. Some eyewitnesses who spoke…
Some 134 students and a staff of Achimota School have tested positive for Covid-19, with most cases said to be the new Delta Variant. According to the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, the first three cases were detected in some students between June 14 and 16 this year. He explained that the development sparked a mass testing regime in the school. In all, 843 persons in the school, including students and staff were sampled as of July 1, 2021. Out of the 550 samples received, 135 returned positive, he said. “All 135 cases at…
The decapitated body of an adult male has been found at Feyiase in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region. A search party of the police and community members led to the retrieval of the head about 20 metres away from the location of the body. The circumstances leading to his death are not known. A woman in the area is said to have heard a loud cry nearby which ceased briefly prior to the body being found. Some residents later found the fresh body of the deceased dumped on a pathway in the area. The attention of police was…
The National TEIN Secretariat of our party, the NDC invites all TEIN members across the country to join the much anticipated “March for Justice” demonstration led by our National Youth Organizer, Lawyer George Opare Addo on Tuesday July 6, 2021 in Accra. It is trite knowledge that the Akufo-Addo administration has overly been insensitive towards the provincial of security for the Ghanaian populace. Since his assumption of office as President in 2016, there have been countless unjustifiable murder incidents which he, President Akufo-Addo, has shown no interest in seeking justice for the affected persons. The Military and the Police have…
The Chapter Eight, (57) ( 1) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana says there shall be a President of the Republic of Ghana who shall be the head of state, head of government and a commander – in – Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces. The Executive Director of Alliance for Sustainable Development and Participatory Governance, a pressure group in Techiman in the capital of Bono East Region, Nana Yaw Korang Antwi Boasiako has explain that, they only way to end insecurity and other security matters in the country is to amend chapter eight of the Ghana’s 1992 Constitution. Speaking…
Scores of students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), are injured after a misunderstanding allegedly broke out between some members of the University Hall [Katanga] and the Unity Hall, [Conti] in the early hours of Sunday, July 4, 2021. The incident occurred during a vetting process for the Students Representative Council, SRC elections, held at the Great Hall of the University. According to eyewitnesses, the students also vandalized some school property such as chairs and glasses. The Public Relations Officer of the Students Representative Council at KNUST, Caleb Asamoah Temeng, who was at the Great Hall,…