Felix Ansah, a taxi driver, who allegedly confessed to killing many people for ritual purposes, including burying a pregnant woman at Ashaiman, has been granted GH¢60,000 bail with two sureties by an Accra Circuit Court. The Court presided over by Mrs Rosemond Baah Torsu ordered Ansah to report to the Police on Tuesdays every fortnight. … The post Taxi

Gunmen have kidnapped an Air Vice Marshal Sikiru Smith (Rtd), in the Ajah area of Lagos State. The retired Air Vice Marshal was said to have been picked up by masked men who shot sporadically and bundled him into a standby boat and sped off from the site where he was supervising work in the […] The post Gunmen kidnap retired Air Vice Marshal in Lagos appeared first on

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, MP for North Tongu, has indicated that, steps by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo led government to purchase a bigger presidential jet, was on the premise of the government abandoning the existing presidential jet for obscene luxury charters.

A Chief of Staff in the Kufuor administration, Kwadwo Mpianim, is not entirely against the Akufo-Addo administration’s decision to purchase a new presidential jet as long as the payment terms are prudent. “It will depend on the terms. For example, if you are going to take about GHS 20 billion from your coffers to buy […] The post Nothing wrong

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is demanding more answers from the government on matters connected to the use of Ghana’s presidential jet.

Prof Kwesi Aning of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center, KAIPTC, has said the government should compensate victims of the Ejura disturbances by punishing officials whose actions and inactions triggered the deadly incidents.

A member of the Justice Koomson Committee that probed the Ejura disturbances, Dr. Vladimir Antwi-Danso, has chided the family of the late Ibrahim Mohammed, popularly known as Kaaka, following its criticism of the committee’s report. Mr. Antwi-Danso on Eyewitness News indicated that the family had no right to criticize the committee’s work. “They do not […] The post Kaaka’s

Ernest Owusu Bempah is angry about recent reports that he had travelled with a government delegation to the United States purposefully to go and attack Twene Jonas, an ardent government critic.

The death toll from the two attacks in Kaura and Zango Kataf Local Government areas of Kaduna State has risen to 45. This follows the recovery of three more dead bodies by security operatives in Madamai and Kacecere villages of Kaura and Zangon Kataf Local Government Areas. The Kaduna State Commissioner of Internal Security and […] The post Nigeria: Death toll in Kaduna attack

Algeria will on Wednesday begin producing Chinese-developed Sinovac vaccines for its own use and export to other African countries. The production will be done in partnership with China and state pharmaceutical products company Saidal. The country plans to produce one million doses in October, two million in November and three million in December. The goal […] The post Algeria

A member of the committee that probed the Ejura disturbances, Professor Vladimir Antwi Danso, has advised the family of the late Ibrahim Mohammed, alias Kaaka, to provide any information they have about his death to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. According to him, the criminal aspects of Kaaka’s death were […] The post Volunteer

A number of civilians have been killed by a Nigerian air strike targeting suspected jihadists near Lake Chad, which straddles north-east Nigeria and three neighbouring countries. The incident comes less than two weeks after another air strike on a village that killed civilians in Nigeria’s north-east, where the military is fighting an Islamist insurgency. Details […] The post Nigerian

A Security Analyst, Adam Bonaa says the Ejura Committee was not asked to investigate the cause of Kaaka’s death, therefore making their conclusion on the cause of his death unnecessary.

A commission appointed by the health agency found that women and girls had been promised jobs in exchange for relationships or had been sexually exploited in order to keep jobs.

Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashaiman has asked the police to invite him or expunge his name from the case of Felix Ansah, a self-confessed ritual murderer, whose past jobs included burying a pregnant woman for him (the MP).

Security expert, Paul Boateng, says he is unhappy with some of the recommendations made in the Ejura Committee report released by the government on Monday.

Mavis Gyasi-Afriyie, Ashanti Regional Director of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has asked residents in the region to plant trees to help develop and promote eco-tourism.

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Access to information is a prerequisite tool for democracy to thrive.

Professor Elvis Asare-Bediako, the Vice-Chancellor (VC), the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) has appealed to investors to assist the institution with the building of hostels to solve student-accommodation challenges at its Dormaa-Ahenkro campus.