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The family of the slain soldier, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, has announced that he would be buried on Friday, June 9. Spokespersons for the family, Zakaria Sakara and WOII Ibrahim Samed, said the family would be meeting today and put final touches to plans as to how the funeral would be held. According to the family spokespersons, three funerals would be held for the 32-year-old Captain – one in Accra, one in Bole, the paternal grandmother’s hometown in the Northern Region and the last one at Tumu, the paternal grandfather’s hometown in the Upper West Region. This came to light…

A female suspect, said to be the woman, who was seen taking close up photos of the late Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama’s body, in the video evidence widely shared on social media has been arrested by the police in Kumasi. On social media, majority have concluded that the said woman, was the one who set Captain Mahama’s body ablaze, but others have argued that, from a careful look at the video, she was using a phone to get close up photos. Some criminologists have argued that, all the people around the scene of the incident, deemed to have urged the mob…

Mr. Herbert Mensah, President of the Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has expressed his condolences to the families and friends of the June 3rd 2015 flood victims. According to Mensah it was yet another tragedy that should not have claimed the lives of more than 150 victims on that tragic day. “Many have described the disaster as force majeure or an act of God, but if one carefully looks at all the circumstances surrounding the disaster of 3rd June 2015, many questions can be asked about what should have been done from a governance perspective to minimise potential fatalities,” Mensah said.…

Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited has announced plans to increase the use of sorghum which constitutes 50 percent of the total local raw materials used for its production to 70 per cent. About 48 percent of the raw materials used by the company are sourced locally. The 70% sorghum will translate into 15 metric tonnes by 2020. The projection will witness an increase in the existing 5000 contracted sorghum farmers to 10,000, creating an avenue for more farmers usually based in the Northern, Upper East and West regions. to increase livelihood. Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited used 12 per cent of local raw materials in…

Francis-Xavier Sosu, a renowned human rights lawyer, has been suspended by the General Legal Council for misconducting himself. He was found guilty of advertising himself on social media and was subsequently banned from practicing as a lawyer for three years. Rules of the General Legal Council does not permit lawyers in Ghana to undertake any form of advertisement. A statement issued by the council following its investigation read in part; “The disciplinary committee of the General legal Council formally charged Lawyer Sosu under Rule 2(4) of the legal profession (professional conduct and etiquette) Rules, 1969 L.I. 613 and that he;…

Mr George Kyei-Baffuor, a local governance advocate says the best mode for communities to address crime in their midst is to report the offenders to the police for prosecution. He was however, quick to blame the inability of law enforcement agencies to ensure speedy adjudication of cases brought before them as a major setback. Speaking to Johnnie Hughes on Community Connect on 3FM 92.7, Mr Baffour said it is often perceived that people are able to pervert justice and therefore some will want to take the law into their hands, “even though this is clearly an affront to the law.”…

  The White House has announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, an international effort to limit the warming from climate change to below 2 degrees Celsius. Almost 200 countries committed to climate action in Paris in 2015 and only one has decided to withdraw; with President Trump explaining the deal “punished” the US and would cost millions of American jobs. The decision has been described by many as “morally-bankrupt”; “reckless, irresponsible, and unjust”; “a grave moral and environmental injustice”; “a mission to sacrifice our planet to the fossil fuel industry”; and “an act of global…

Stepped up reproductive health education in the Atwima-Kwanwoma District is paying off as teenage pregnancy drops in the area. The District Health Director, Mrs. Comfort Suglo, said it went down by 5.1 per cent, last year. A total of 458 cases were reported in year 2016, compared with the 2015 figure of 507. She announced this in a speech read for her at a health outreach programme organized at Kwanwoma by Hope for Future Generations (HFFG), an NGO, and she said although progress was being made, nobody should be complacent. The programme provided a forum for parents, the youth and…

At least 15 children have died in South Sudan from a botched attempt to immunise them against measles, officials say. They were vaccinated with the same unsterilised syringe, and the vaccine was not stored properly, according to an investigation into the deaths. As a result, the immunisation campaign caused severe infection and sepsis. The team administering the vaccinations was “neither qualified nor trained” to do so, the health minister said. About 300 people were vaccinated during the campaign in the Kapoeta region, including 32 other children who fell ill, but survived, Riek Gai Kok added. Measles outbreaks in the country…

President Akufo Addo has named Gina Blay, Anna Bossman, Papa Owusu Ankoma and Baffour Adjei Awuah as Ghana’s missions to some four countries as part of his appointments. These men and women would represent the government in those nations. The four were given their letters of credence on Friday June 2, 2017 by President Akufo Addo at the Flagstaff House. Madam Ginna Blay is heading to Germany, Anna Bossman, former head of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) heads to France, Papa Owusu Ankoma, former Member of Parliament for Sekondi heads to the United Kingdom (UK) and…