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Lately, we have all been witnesses to horrifying spectacles of victims of explosions involving petroleum products in some fuel stations and domestic places in different parts of the country. These accidents leave many of us wondering what is happening to regulations on safety standards by those who have the duty of enforcing them. We all recall the recent fuel explosions at Atomic Junction, La Trade Fair Center, Tulip Inn Hotel all in Greater Accra and Takoradi in the Western Region. According to the regulatory authorities, investigations conducted so far indicated the explosions were as a result of failure to adhere…

The Minority in Parliament are  mounting pressure on President Akufo-Addo to sack Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, describing him as a “dangerous envoy”. The demand follows what many have described as divisive and partisan comments made by Mr. Ayisi Boateng over the weekend. “This government is doing its best to create job opportunities and me for instance, I told my people over there [that], it is because of NPP that I’m here, so the NPP man is my priority… My topmost priority is the problems of an NPP person before any other Ghanaian, take it or leave…

A Senior Lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba, Dr. Ahmed Jinapor, has advised government to find the root cause of vigilantism in the country instead of threats to sanction police commanders who fail to arrest perpetrators of vigilantism. The lecturer said “we need to go to the root of this issue and the fact is, these boys need jobs. The youth were promised that when we come to power, we are going to give you jobs and the truth be told, the jobs are not there”. The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, was reported to have warned that police commanders…

Each National Service person will now pay a mandatory monthly GHC15 fee as insurance cover in a new policy by the National Service Scheme. Under the insurance policy, personnel would enjoy free healthcare during their 12-month national service and in the event of death while in service, GHC15,000 would be paid to the next of kin. Personnel who suffer temporary disability while in service for period not less than a month, will also receive GHC3,000 compensation package from the inusers, GLICO. Again, aside other complimentary packages, personnel would be entitled to a soft loan of GH500 which would be payable within…

Police commanders who fail to arrest and bring to justice any vigilante group in their jurisdiction, would be sanctioned, the Interior Minister Ambrose Dery, announced Tuesday in an audacious move aimed at clamping down on vigilantism that is threatening Ghana’s security. “Let me make it clear that now, if there is vigilantism in any part of the country, the Police in that area must either arrest the perpetrators, investigate and bring them to justice or the commander must be sanctioned,” he told a group of Police officers in Cape Coast Tuesday. Vigilante groups operating under the umbrella of political parties…

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Amnesty International has condemned the decision of a military court in Cameroon to sentence an opposition leader to 25 years in prison. Aboubakar Siddiki was arrested in 2014, accused of plotting to destabilise President Paul Biya’s government. He is “the latest victim of the Cameroonian authorities’ strangling of opposition voices”, the UK-based human rights group said. No credible evidence was presented to the court to convict him, it added. Mr Biya, 84, has been in power since 1982, and his critics accuse him of being authoritarian. Mr Siddiki is the leader of Cameroon’s Patriotic Salvation Movement – a small opposition…

New Patriotic Party executives at Twifo Atti-Morkwa in the Central Region are demanding disciplinary action against the Member of Parliament for the area, Abraham D. Odoom, for allegedly working against the Akufo-Addo-led government. The executives at a news conference Tuesday leveled a series of allegations against the MP whose conduct, they claim, is getting out of hand. According to them, the MP has been sabotaging the government’s subsidized fertilizer policy by selling some of the products to farmers in the area at a low price of GHC40 as against government’s price of GHC50. Mr Odoom, according to the constituency executives,…

Essential documents at the centre of investigations into the alleged financial malfeasance and procurement irregularities against the Vice Chancellor of the University of Education Winneba (UEW) Prof. Mawutor Avoke and five others, have allegedly been stolen. According to the new Governing Council of the University, the documents were allegedly removed from files at some offices in the University at night. “…The Council has been informed of alleged removal of vital documents from files at some offices that are at the centre of the investigations at dead night,” a statement issued and signed by the Council Chairman Prof. Emmanuel N Abekah…

Two persons alleged to be behind the manufacturing and sale of single-barrel guns on the local market have been arrested by the Police in Kumasi. 49-year-old Isaac Opoku Mensah and 39-year-old Samuel Kumah, both blacksmiths were in possession of 13 locally-manufactured guns when they were arrested by the Ashanti Regional Anti Robber Unit of the Police. Investigations have since commenced into the matter by the Regional Police Command. 3 illegal arms dealers Meanwhile, a private saloon car with the registration AS 1108-17 carrying weapons has been arrested on the Kumasi-Obuasi higway “A search conducted in the vehicle revealed a white…