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Some youth of Salaga in the newly created Savannah Region are currently on rampage, and have set ablaze the offices of the New Patriotic Party in the town to protest the announcement of Damongo as the regional capital. Akufo-Addo names Damongo as capital of Savannah Region Billboards within Salaga bearing photographs of President Nana Akufo-Addo have all been pulled down by the angry protesting youth who have threatened to storm the residence of the East Gonja Chief Executive to burn down the property tonight, 3news correspondent reported a while ago. The MCE, Mohammed Taminu, is currently in Accra where he attended…

Government has signed an agreement with Solin, a Hungarian private company, to construct 10,000 housing units in Ghana at an affordable price using a polystyrene concrete technology. The project seeks to bridge the country’s housing gap and provide fast and cost effective affordable houses for Ghanaians. It will also pave the way for many factories to be built across the country, which will feed the construction companies with the materials for the building. At a sod-cutting ceremony and commissioning of a sample 3-bedroom housing unit at the Spintex road in Accra under the project, Minister for Works and Housing, Samuel…

Guzmán was extradited to the US in 2017 Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug trafficking trial at a federal court in New York. Guzmán, 61, has yet to be sentenced but the verdict could mean life in jail. The Mexican was accused of being behind the all-powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, which prosecutors say was the biggest supplier of drugs to the US. He was arrested in January 2016 after escaping from a Mexican prison through a tunnel five months earlier. Tuesday’s unanimous verdict by a jury in Brooklyn…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given legal backing to the newly created Savannah Region, and selected Damongo as the regional capital. Northern Regional Minister Salifu Saeed has also been asked by the President to act as a caretaker regional minister for the 12th region of Ghana until a substantive minister is appointed. Damongo is the capital of West Gonja District host to the overlord of the Gonja Kingdom; the Yagbonwura. Nana Akufo-Addo in line with Article 5(8) of the 1992 Constitution, issued constitutional instrument (CI 115) Tuesday to cap the processes in creating the Savannah Region that was carved…

A group calling itself ‘NPP Youth for Integrity’ has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to establish Commissions of Inquiry to investigate a number of violent incidents recorded in parts of the country. The group said the electoral violence that took place in Asunafo, Asutifi, Talensi, Chereponi and other places in recent past, ought to be investigated like the recent Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence. On the back of criticisms and condemnation of the Ayawaso incident allegedly caused by some hoodlums under the guise of national security operatives, government was forced to set up a three –member Commission of Inquiry to…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has patted his government on the back for successfully implementing the proposals for and the creation of six new regions, describing it as historic. “We have written some Ghanaian history,” he stated Tuesday, explaining that it is the first time under Ghana’s 1992 constitution that the provision on the creation of new regions have been “invoked and successfully been implemented” In the run up to the 2016 general elections, then candidate Nana Akufo-Addo pledged to facilitate the creation of four regions from the Western, Northern, Brong Ahafo and Northern regions on the back of proposals…

President Nana Akufo-Addo has by a constitutional instrument named Nalerigu as the capital of the newly created North East Region. Northern Regional Minister Salifu Saeed has been appointed the interim Regional Minister for North East which is formed by East and West Mamprusi municipalities, Bunkprugu-Nakpanduri District, Yunyoo-Nasuan District, Mamprugu-Moagduri District and Chereponi District. Issuing the constitutional instrument (CI 116) Tuesday to give legal backing to the new region created through a December 27, 2018 referendum, the president said Mr. Saeed will “act as caretaker minister for the North East Region until a substantive minister is appointed”. This is in line…

Minister of Regional Reorganization and Development, Dan Botwe, has described as “shameful and baseless,” allegations and agitations by the chiefs and people of the Nkoranza Traditional Area over the tussle for the capital of the newly created Bono East Region. He said the action of the chiefs and people of Nkoranza could best be compared to that of a child crying for something from the parents in what is popularly termed in Akan as ‘su gye’, loosely translated as emotional blackmail. “They believe they have to fight for the regional capital so they have to use some tactics. They are…

A police officer dismissed for misconduct, has appeared before the Circuit Court in Accra with two bankers for allegedly defrauding a Chinese national to the tune of 70,000 cedis. The officer, Cyril Lumor Frank, was said to have claimed he could assist to discontinue EOCO investigations into the activities of the Chinese national, Jianhua Chen, and consequently got his accomplices to pose as EOCO officials. Frank and his accomplices Mark Fuakye and Prosper Kwashie Sossie, both former workers of the now defunct Energy Bank Ghana Limited were said to have impersonated one Charles Ofori, an Officer of EOCO. They are…

Brexit talks are at a “crucial stage”, Theresa May will tell MPs later when she updates them on the negotiations. The PM will say “we now all need to hold our nerve” to get the changes needed to get her Brexit deal through Parliament by the 29 March deadline. She has been trying to secure changes to the backstop arrangement – the “insurance” policy to avoid a return to border checks on the island of Ireland. The EU has reiterated it will not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement. Mrs. May is continuing to seek backing for her deal. She will tell…