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A District Court in Accra has ordered that the 19 suspects being held for the gruesome murder of major Maxwell Adam Mahama be moved from police cells to Prison custody. It follows a request put forth by police prosecutors on Wednesday, on grounds that prison custody will be the safest place for the suspects who are currently dotted in police cells in Accra and beyond. Police prosecutor Supt George Amega, raised security concerns over the suspects’ continuous stay in police cells, for which reason he prayed the court to remand them into prison custody, TV3’s Komla Klutse reported. READ: Capt.…

The Managing Director of Yara Ghana Limited has mounted strong defence for government’s move to increase fertilizer use to boost farming in the country, as he rejects long-held perception linking fertilizer use to the low life expectancy rate in Ghana. Danquah Addo-Yobo contends that while globally the average use of fertilizer is 130 kilograms per hectare, the sub Saharan Africa is doing just 16 kilograms per hectare. He was speaking to 3news.com at a three-day West Africa Fertilizer Agribusiness conference in Accra organised by the Commodities Research Unit (CRU) in partnership with the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP). Yara Ghana is…

A deputy Chief Executive of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), Akilu Sayibu, says it is the agenda of the Authority to promote one potential exportable product in all the 216 districts. This, he said, is aimed at increasing earnings through the export of non-traditional export products and also create employment. He said aside employment and export earnings, producers would also make money from their potential exportable products. Mr Sayibu who was interacting with the media in Accra, appealed to the Regional Co-ordinating Councils (RCC), and other stakeholders to support the project to create wealth and employment. Mr Sayibu, who…

Member of Parliament for Bongo in the Upper East Region Edward Abambire Bawa says President Akufo-Addo’s performance at the Tuesday’s media encounter clearly shows he is not on top of issues in the country. He argued answers given by the President at his maiden media encounter Tuesday is a clear indications that he is not on top of issues, claiming some of those answers were untrue. “The President was not on top of the issues because some of the issues he spoke about were blatantly untruth” he said on the newspaper review segment on TV3’s New Day Wednesday. According to…

A technical committee is to be set up to look into the cause of the Tuesday night fire outbreak at the 10th floor of the Job 600 building, offices for parliamentarians, in Accra. The said committee is expected to issue a report on the incident by Monday, July 24. Chief Fire Officer, Dr Albert Brown Gaisie, who revealed on TV3 New Day Wednesday morning, explained “give us up to Monday, we should be able to come out with something”. Prompt response from personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service saved the entire building from going up in flames Tuesday night.…

South African parliament and police are to provide security for an ANC MP after a number of death threats against her. Parliamentary spokesman Moloto Mothapo said the decision followed a security assessment that confirmed “a security threat existed” against Makhosi Khoza. Ms Khoza has been a prominent critic of President Jacob Zuma and corruption within the governing ANC. Last week she received a death threat saying she had 21 days left to live. On Tuesday, at a ceremony to mark Nelson Mandela’s birthday, Ms Khoza, 47, called President Zuma a disgrace. He has faced numerous allegations of corruption, all of…

Chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, Ms Charlotte Osei, faces impeachment over allegations of abuse of office, causing financial loss to the state and breaches of the country’s procurement law. Some staff of the Commission who are making the allegations have petitioned President Akufo-Addo to cause the Chief Justice, Ms Sophia Akuffo, to initiate impeachment proceedings against Ms Osei. READ: EC commissioners don’t trust each other – Parliament told The staff are claiming Ms Osei without recourse to laid down administrative structures and the Public Procurement Act, singularly abrogated contracts, secured a V8 Land Cruiser for her use, and awarded contracts…

One would have expected to see Nana Boafo by the roadside, assuming a posture that elicits sympathy from passersby, with cup in hand begging for alms like most blind people do in the big cities. But no, Nana is a different ‘breed’ of his kind; a visually impaired man who has refused to live by alms. He has chosen to live by the work of his own hands; the kind of blind men who are rare to find these days. Nana is exemplifies the saying “disability is not inability”. He’s a motivation to others in similar challenged situations to forge…

One would have expected to see Nana Boafo by the roadside, assuming a posture that elicits sympathy from passersby, with cup in hand begging for alms like most blind people do in the big cities. But no, Nana is a different ‘breed’ of his kind; a visually impaired man who has refused to live by alms. He has chosen to live by the work of his own hands; the kind of blind men who are rare to find these days. Nana is exemplifies the saying “disability is not inability”. He’s a motivation to others in similar challenged situations to forge…