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Three soldiers of Operation Cowleg who sustained life-threatening gunshot wounds have been transferred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi. They came under attack from persons suspected to be Fulani Herdsmen while on operational duties at Agogo in the Ashanti region on Monday. The nomadic herdsmen are said to have ambushed the security personnel who had responded to a distress call from a woman that her farm was being destroyed by a herd of cattle. The herdsmen allegedly shot the security operatives from behind. The three soldiers and a police officer were rushed to the Agogo Presbyterian Hospital…

Some residents of Bulahagu, a suburb of Tamale opened fire on police officers who had gone on a rescue mission in the vicinity. According to the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Yussif Tanko, the police received information of an attack on a supposed witch at about 7:30pm Sunday January 7, 2018 in Bulahagu. The command swiftly dispatched officers to the rescue of the said woman Meimunatu Niendow, 35. She was founded in a torched house with bruises all over her body with a mob surrounding her. In an attempt to rescue Meimunatu, the mob vented their anger on…

A founding member of the United Front Party, Joshua Attoh Quarshie has urged President Akufo-Addo to seek help from the commonwealth secretariat in appointing a prosecutor to head the office of the Special Prosecutor. According to the veteran politician, it will only take a non- Ghanaian to effectively call the shot and ensure fairness in justice delivery. “If the NPP is serious about appointing a Special Prosecutor, we should ask the Commonwealth Secretariat to pick someone for us. The Special Prosecutor should not be a Ghanaian,” Joshua Attoh Quarshie said. Joshua Attoh Quarshie who was speaking in an interview on…

Ghanaians who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) suffer widespread discrimination and abuse both in public and in family settings, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Monday. While some Ghanaian officials have publicly called for an end to violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity, the government has yet to repeal a “colonial-era law” that criminalizes same-sex activity. The 72-page report, “’No Choice but to Deny Who I Am’: Violence and Discrimination against LGBT People in Ghana,” shows how retention of section 104(1)(b) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 prohibiting and punishing “unnatural carnal knowledge,” and failure to actively…

The cedi began 2018 on a bearish note, depreciating against all the three major trading currencies on the interbank currency market. At the close of trading on January 5, the cedi had registered average depreciation of 0.24 per cent against the three benchmark currencies. Although the dollar dipped on the international currency market on the first trading week of the year, the cedi failed to capitalise on the development to shine. It depreciated by 0.05 per cent to sell at GH¢4.42 per dollar on January 5. The euro, on the other hand, found support in strong growth expectation for 2018…

North Korea is to send a delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games taking place in South Korea in February, officials from the South say. The breakthrough announcement came as the countries met for their first high-level talks in more than two years. The delegation will include athletes, officials and supporters. A military hotline between the nations, suspended for nearly two years, will be reinstated from Wednesday, the South’s officials said. What’s happened at the talks? They have continued all day and the developments have been conveyed by officials from the South: Vice unification minister Chun Hae-sung told journalists: “The…

Charlie Christensen is a man on a mission to raise funds for clean water for residents of some communities within Africa with no access to clean water. The philanthropist, who has been walking for over two years, does the ‘Walk for Water’ to symbolize the long walk many people have to embark on in search of clean water. “I was living in Tanzania to volunteer, and I experienced how people were suffering from lack of clean water, and it became a life mission to try and give them this water,” the philanthropist told the host of Sunrise, Winston Amoah, on…

Tentmaker Ghana, and entrepreneurial organization has launched a programme to train children in coding and programming. Dubbed ‘The Raptorkids Programming’, the training programme is expected to equip kids with the right skills to meet global standards. The programme is also aimed at elevating the creative abilities of kids in Ghana in order to prepare them to be relevant and make global impact. “I believe we are gradually moving to the space where real impact will be made not by users of software or digital tools, but the creators of these common global language, i.e. computer programmes and codes, because each…

Dear Mother Ghana, Happy New Year oooo! Afehyia pa! May the year go round to meet all of us! Afe sesee, we should all be alive so we can all enjoy you, Mother Ghana! Also Afe sesee, I would still be updating you on what is happening in our land. So how did you spend the Christmas and the New Year? Chicken? Goat meat?  Akonfem , Dabodabo or Tilapia? I am sure you had it all. If you didn’t, then you have done yourself papa! Because let me tell you… nokore nokore mese wose, some of your children have really…

This article is to commemorate the 18th Anniversary of the formation of the Tertiary Students Confederacy of the New Patriotic Party (TESCON). It also coincides with the 25th Anniversary of the birth of the Fourth Republic. From its humble beginnings as a tertiary students wing of the NPP, TESCON has steadily evolved into a powerful political machinery, occupying an important place within the structure of the NPP. Since its inauguration on January 8, 2000 by the venerable John Agyekum Kufuor, the distinguished former president of the Republic, TESCON has been at the forefront of student and political activism, and grass…