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The Accra Regional Police Command has arrested a suspect, who is said to be the kingpin of fraud and robbery syndicate. The suspect, 36, was arrested after he has displayed a stolen judge’s car. The police alleged Nene Tetteh, who is a car dealer, spotted an unregistered Hyundai Accent saloon car displayed for sale on April 6. Calling the phone number displayed on the car, one Agyapong responded. The two agreed on GH¢25,000 after which Agyapong promised to send one of his errand boys with the car for inspection. The victim duly received the car and after inspection, drove it…

Ghana government says it will not extend its programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) when it expires in April next year, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured. Government will receive 918 million dollars under the three-year programme that seeks to restore the country’s debt sustainability and macroeconomic stability to foster a return to high growth and job creation. President Akufo-Addo’s New Patriotic Party criticised the John Mahama-led government for side-stepping parliament to sign the agreement and threatened to take the government to court at the time. In February this year, Minister of Monitoring and Evaluation, Dr. Anthony Akoto…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he is undaunted by public pronouncements of New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong. The maverick politician has been critical of his party’s government since it assumed the reigns. He recently took a swipe at the president for virtually leaving out Central Region in his appointments. Answering a question at an interaction with some journalists at the Flagstaff House on Tuesday, President Akufo-Addo said he has not had any problems with Mr Agyapong’s comments since he knows the kind of person he is. “It doesn’t give me…

The destruction of water bodies by the activities of illegal small-scale mining has taken on international dimension as Ivory Coast has complained its water supply system is being affected. Leaders of Ivory Coast have, therefore, alerted Ghana’s government over the canker. These were revealed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday when he met a section of the media at the Flagstaff House in Accra. It was an interaction to ostensibly review his first six months in office. In answering the very first question on the day, posed by TV3’s Nana Kweku Aduah, President Akufo-Addo narrated how the Minister…

President Akufo-Addo says he has no regrets in leading the repeal of Ghana’s criminal libel law despite scurrilous comments against his person in his political career. Though the Criminal Libel law was enacted in the colonial era to frustrate the freedom of the people and perpetuate servitude, it was maintained after independence and, in some cases, were even extended during the one-party state of the First Republic. In 2001, President Akufo-Addo who was then the Minister of Justice and Attorney General under the John Kufour administration led in repealing the law in fulfillment of the New Patriotic Party campaign promise.…

President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared a major security operation to wipe out Al-Shabaab and ordered that militants be killed and buried. Speaking on Monday at Kizingitini in Lamu County, the President ordered that the terrorists be killed and buried. “We shall finish them,” he said of the terrorists who have turned Boni Forest into a playground, attacking and killing locals before retreating there. A visibly angry President also implied that Public Works Principal Secretary Mariam El Maawy, who was last week abducted, shot and injured by the terrorists, could have been targeted for issuing title deeds to locals. Militants Ms Maawy…

Hundreds of motorbikes without the necessary registration documents were Tuesday seized within the Accra metropolis in a new nationwide exercise by the Ghana Police to end the use of unlicenced motorbikes in the country. Officers and personnel of the Service were deployed at strategic major roads in Accra, including the N1, Mallam- Kasoa road and Nima, where riders were stopped and their documentations checked. Those who had the proper documentation and licences were allowed to go while those without had their motorbikes seized and booked for prosecution. The current nationwide exercise follows a directive from the Police administration to all…

Madam Emma Odoom, the mother of Christabel Ekeh says Ghanaians should pray with her for her daughter, following the release of Christabel’s nude photos, which have had Ghanaians talking all week. Madam Odoom is also pleading with Ghanaians to stop insulting, calling her daughter names and talking about things they do not know about. She revealed in an interview with the Graphic Showbiz that there is nothing mentally wrong with Christabel, and that Ghanaians should pray and rally behind her so that whatever she is doing, will be successful instead of trolling her on the Internet. She said: “I think people…

Scores of people who were on their way to a cemetery at Kormantse-Nkum in the Central Region to dig a grave have been involved in an accident that has left some of the ‘gravediggers’ unconscious and others with head, knee and leg injuries. The 17 people who are from Abandze, have been rushed to the emergency department of the Saltpond Government Hospital in the Mfantsiman Municipality for medical attention. The Kia which was loaded with cement, concrete blocks, sand, construction tools and alcoholic beverage as well as the 17 people crashed into a tree at the bottom of the road…

R&B singer R Kelly has denied allegations that he is holding several young women in an “abusive cult”. The singer’s lawyer said he would work “diligently and forcibly to pursue his accusers and clear his name”. A BuzzFeed report accuses the singer of brainwashing women, who got closer to him in an effort to boost their musical careers. One of the women said she was “not being brainwashed”. Kelly denies any wrongdoing. He has faced previous accusations of sexual misconduct, but was never found guilty. READ: R. Kelly is holding 6 young women in abusive ‘cult’ The report, which quoted…