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The Accra District Court has committed 14 persons accused of lynching Major Maxwell Adam Mahama to commence trial on February 15, 2018. The trial judge,  Ebenezer kwaku Ansah held that facts presented to the court provide ample evidence for the suspects to stand trial. Trial for the 14 including the Assemblyman for Denkyira Obuasi who was alleged to have initiated the attack leading to the lynching of the soldier is therefore set to take place at the High Court. The prosecution in charge of the case informed the court of having 15 witnesses and some 52 exhibits in the form…

The Ghana Football Association’s bid to start the Ghana Premier League on February 11 could suffer a jolt as the planned smooth take-off is threatened by some legal tussles. The Ghana Football Association announced that the 2017/18 league season would start from Saturday February 11, 2018. Many clubs have started their preseason training while others are participating in the ongoing GHALCA G8 tournament in Cape Coast and Kumasi respectively. As Techiman City President Charles Kwadwo Ntim set for a protest at  Court of Arbitration of Sports after the GFA legal system threw away his team’s case against the 2017 champions…

Two persons accused of stealing the body of an old man from the Tarkwa Municipal Hospital’s mortuary have been granted bail. They were granted bail in the sum of 30,000 Ghana cedis with two sureties each by the Tarkwa circuit court. The accused persons are John Asante, 37, a mortuary attendant at the Tarkwa municipal hospital and Seth Owusu, 48, fridge mechanic at Atonsu-Bokro, a suburb of Kumasi. The third suspect Efo Kwesi is on the run. The two pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit crime and stealing. The Prosecutor, Chief Inspector Faustina Celestina Anaman, told the court, presided…

The Ashanti region police command has step up efforts to arrest 8 armed men who shot and killed two police officers at Drobonso in the Ashanti region, Thursday morning. The deceased were part of a team who were returning from night patrol at Drobonso Tent City. Ashanti region Police PRO, ASP Juliana Obeng told 3news.com that preliminary investigations indicate the patrol team was ambushed at a section of the road which has been barricaded with logs. She explained that, 8 unknown armed men on the Onwam Mountains fired at the three officers, killing two and injuring one. The injured officer…

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has destroyed illegal makeshift structures along the rail lines at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle serving as havens for criminals and prostitutes. The AMA mayor, Mohammed Nii Adjei promised a crackdown on the squatters after TV3’s exposé detailing how the slum there have been turned into a hub for sex trade. On the second phase of clearing the capital city of illegal structures, the Assembly moved in under security protection to demolish these structures at the Nkrumah Circle near the VIP transport yard. One person was arrested for possessing what is suspected to be narcotic drugs.…

Two police officers have been shot dead by unknown gunmen at Drobonso in the Ashanti region Thursday  morning. Another officer, Constable Enock Okyere, in critical condition is currently receiving treatment at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after sustaining gunshot wounds. The Ashanti regional police PRO,  ASP Juliana Obeng confirmed the incident to TV3. The deceased have been identified as Inspector Adolf Mutse, a driver and Constable Prosper Ashinyo. More soon Source: 3news.com | Ghana

TV3 Sports can confirm that the Vice Chairman of the Black Stars management committee has been ordered to apologise over unsavory comments he made about Ghana’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Initial reports, circulated in the media, had suggested that Wilfred Osei Kwaku Palmer has been banned from speaking to the media by the Ghana Football Association. Wilfred Palmer had told an Accra-based Citi FM Black Stars’ failure to make it the tournament was due to the fact that ‘unclassified payments’ were not made to match officials. “I was quite surprised that Ghanaians and the media sided with former…

 Parliament is to begin probe into what has become known as the ‘cash-for-seat’ saga on Thursday, January 11, 2018, which is expected to be telecast live. The five-member ad hoc committee set up by the Speaker of Parliament, Mike Aaron Oquaye, would investigate claims that expatriates paid as high as US$100,000 to sit close to President Akufo-Addo at an event. The ad-hoc committee is made up of two minority members and three majority members. The committee is chaired by Ameyaw Kyereme, MP for Sunyani East. Other members are Dr. Mark Asibey Yeboah, MP for New Juabeng South; Yaw Buabeng Asamoah,…

Hundreds of rescuers are combing wreckage in Southern California for those missing after mudslides that have killed 17. Another 28 injuries have been reported in Santa Barbara County following the deluge that overwhelmed an area scorched by wildfires last month. More than 100 homes were destroyed, and another 300 have been damaged. One rescue worker tearfully described plucking a “muddy doll” of a toddler from under several feet of debris. Berkeley Johnson said the two-year-old girl was taken to hospital and suffered an injury to her hip. “I don’t know how the baby survived,” Mr Berkeley told the Santa Barbara Independent…

When WhatsApp added end-to-end encryption to every conversation for its billion users two years ago, the mobile messaging giant significantly raised the bar for the privacy of digital communications worldwide. But one of the tricky elements of encryption—and even trickier in a group chat setting—has always been ensuring that a secure conversation reaches only the intended audience, rather than some impostor or infiltrator. And according to new research from one team of German cryptographers, flaws in WhatsApp make infiltrating the app’s group chats much easier than ought to be possible. At the Real World Crypto security conference Wednesday in Zurich, Switzerland, a…