Author: Krobea

SOS Children’s Villages-Ghana, a non-governmental organization, has embarked on a project as part of its Family Strengthening Programme. The project is aimed at sending about 100 children to school. Thus, it is dubbed ‘SOS 100 children go to school project’. Living in Zuozugu, a small community in the Tamale Metropolitan District, until recently was a challenge. More difficult was it for an average peasant farmer who could barely make ends meet. The rains hardly set in and the unavailability of stable irrigation facilities makes farming a non-sustainable income generating venture. This obviously puts the children in these families at the…

Chiefs have been called upon to lead the fight against rising lawlessness in the country, in the wake of the lynching and burning of army officer Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama last Monday. The National House of Chiefs says “every town and village in our country has a chief, and so [chiefs] must accept the responsibility for ensuring that even criminals, including thieves, who are caught in the act, are handed over to the law enforcement agencies”. In a statement on Thursday, June 1, the House described the gruesome killing of Captain Mahama as a wake-up call “and we must act…

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has signed a new one-year deal with the Premier League club. The 34-year-old has played 299 games for City, scoring 81 goals, since joining from Barcelona in 2010. Earlier this season, Toure was left out of the Champions League squad and manager Pep Guardiola fell out with the player’s agent, Dimitri Seluk. “I am delighted. I told myself the journey at City is not done,” Toure told the club’s website. The former Monaco and Olympiakos man played in the first leg of the Champions League play-off against Steaua Bucharest in August, but was then dropped…

New evidence found against the two suspected killers of former Member of Parliament of Abuakwa North Constituency have landed them back in court, two days after they were discharged. Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bossu, who were arrested as the prime suspects in the stabbing to death of Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, were discharged last Tuesday, May 30 following a nolle prosequi filed by the Attorney-General. No reasons were given by the Attorney-General in filing for no-interest in the case at the high court. But on Thursday, June 1, an Accra District Court remanded the two prime suspects in police custody. They…

Following the death of army captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, friends and sympathizers have come out to share fond memories of the commander of the military detachment to Upper Denkyira West District in the Central Region. Captain Mahama was lynched and his body partially burnt on Monday, May 29 after what initial reports suggest was a case of mistaken identity. Residents of Denkyira-Obuasi thought he was an armed robber. But questions have been raised why the army officer did not defend himself with a pistol in his possession. Sharing fond memories of the late officer on TV3’s News 360 on Wednesday,…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has backed its leader’s call for a full-scale investigation into the murder of Ghana Armed Forces’ Captain, Maxwell Adam Mahama. Captain Mahama was lynched on Monday, May 29 at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region for reasons yet to be known. Initial reports, however, said he was mistaken for an armed robber. In a statement signed by Acting General Secretary John Boadu on Wednesday, May 31, the NPP condemned the act and advised Ghanaians especially the youth “to desist from taking the law into their own hands and rather resort to due process in their pursuit…

The Denkyira Traditional Council has directed all residents to be clad in black on Sunday, June 4 as chiefs pray to pacify the gods over the murder of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama. As a result, Sunday, June 4 has been declared a mourning day for all residents. Denkyira-Obuasi has been on the lips of all as it is the town where Captain Mahama was lynched and his body partially burnt. The town is under a quasi-lockdown as the police collaborate with the military to fish out persons involved in the lynching of the senior military officer. Captain Mahama was the…

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has expressed sympathies to the family of late Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, who was murdered in cold blood in Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region last Monday. In a statement issued by the Public Affairs Directorate of the Ghana Police Service on Wednesday, May 31, the IGP and the police administration also commiserated with “the Ghana Armed Forces for the gruesome murder of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama”. Signed by Deputy Director of the Directorate Sheila Kessie Abayie-Buckman, the statement said the police are collaborating with the military high command to unravel the circumstances…

The decomposed body of a woman was discovered on Table Mountain in Cape Town on Tuesday morning, Western Cape police confirmed. Captain FC van Wyk said that the provincial detectives’ team and park rangers made the discovery. “A post-mortem will be conducted to determine the cause of death and identity,” he said. Police officers and the forensic team were still on the scene, with Tafelberg Road said to be cordoned off to members of the public. The last publicised disappearance on the mountain was that of Unicef associate director for human resources Charlotte Nikoi, who disappeared without a trace while…

Black Stars striker Kwesi Appiah has clinched a permanent deal with English League One side AFC Wimbledon. Appiah moves to Wimbledon from Crystal Palace, where he has endured mixed fortunes since 2012. Until the end of the 2016/2017 season, Appiah played for Norwegian side Viking FK on loan. He has had other loan spells with Aldershot, Yeovil Town, Notts County and Cambridge United during his time with the Eagles. In 2014, Appiah was at Kingsmeadow for a loan spell, scoring three goals in seven appearances. “I really loved my short spell at AFC Wimbledon a few years ago and I…