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The Ghana Football Association is hoping it can lure Juventus midfielder, Kwadwo Asamoah, back to the Black Stars after his three-year absence from the team. GFA vice-president George Afriyie says the body will use the upcoming holidays to impress upon the player the need to return, and follow that up with a trip to Italy later. Asamoah has not played for Ghana since the 2014 World Cup defeat to Portugal. He has battled with injuries since then but has returned for Juventus, where he has been used sparingly this season. While Asamoah, capped 69 times for Ghana, has not yet retired from…

Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has ended the third phase of his tour of ECOWAS countries with a day’s working visit to Niger. At a meeting with Nigerien President, Issoufou Mahamadou, the two leaders pledged to strengthen the ties of co-operation that exist between their countries. They also agreed to hold in Ghana this year, a Permanent Joint Commission on Co-operation to serve as the legal framework to address their trade and investment concerns. Expressing concern about the low volumes of trade between the two countries, President Akufo-Addo stressed the importance the ECOWAS market represents to the development of…

Controversial Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale, has released a tribute song for the military officer who was gruesomely murdered Monday at the Central Regional town of Denkyira-Obuasi. Capt. Mahama, a member of the 5th Infantry of the Ghana Armed Forces, was jogging at Denkyira-Obuasi at about 8:30am on May 29 when he was lynched and a part of his body set ablaze, the Military High Command confirmed in a statement issued Tuesday. His murder has reignited calls for action to be taken to stem the tide on vigilantism and mob justice which has recently crept into the Ghanaian society, leading…

Manchester suicide attacker Salman Abedi bought most of the components used to make the bomb himself, police have said. Many of the bomber’s movements and actions were “carried out alone” in the four days prior to the attack, Russ Jackson, head of the North West counter terrorism unit, said. But police have yet to rule out whether he was part of a wider network. Three men arrested over the attack were released without charge on Tuesday. Det Ch Supt Jackson said much of the police investigation had been working through Abedi’s last movements. Officers have examined his movements on CCTV…

Ghana’s Police investigators will this morning begin building a solid case against five residents of Denkyira-Obuasi who were arrested for allegedly lynching a military officer and setting a part of his body ablaze. At least 50 residents were on Tuesday rounded up by a team of armed military and police personnel deployed to the small Central Regional town to fish for the murderers of Army Captain, Maxwell Adam Mahama. READ:  Five arrested over the murder of Capt. Mahama The suspects were screened on site through interrogation and the five were found to have questions to answer, consequent to which they were…

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Fourteen persons, including an assemblyman accused of being behind events that lead to the attack on Somanya Police Station in the Eastern Region, have been refused bail by the Circuit Court in Koforidua, and are to spend the next two weeks in custody. Police say the assemblyman Ebenezer Jones Adamtey Dendendin led his accomplices to attack the offices of the Electricity Company of Ghana in Somanya last Friday causing destruction to properties. His always triggered a further attack on the Police Station in Somanya on Monday by some group of persons who demanded that the assemblyman is released from lawful…

The cases of financial malfeasance in public procurement have been attributed to the delay on the part of government to pay contractors. There have been many cases in recent times where the cost of some government projects  have been bloated, causing the country to lose a lot of revenue. Some of these projects include the controversial  Ameri power deal, and the construction of the Atuabo Gas Power plant, which was bloated in excess of 15 million Ghana cedis. Vice president of the Ghana Institute of Procurement and Supply, Simon Annan, says if the country wants to get value for money,…

Five persons have been arrested in connection with Monday’s murder of a military officer at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region, the Police in the region has announced. No woman is among the five suspects. A total of 50 people were rounded up by the Central Regional Police Command for interrogation during which the five, whose identity are yet to be disclosed, were found to have questions to answer on the incident that has received condemnation by Ghanaians. READ: Mistaken identity! Army officer lynched & burnt as armed robber The Central Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Irene Oppong, who spoke…

Former President Jerry John Rawlings is urging calm and restraint following the “unfortunate lynching” of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama of the Ghana Armed Forces. Tributes and appeal for calm started pouring in Tuesday when news about the murder of the captain on national duties went viral. He was killed by residents of Denkyira-Obuasi who mistook him for an armed robber on Monday morning while jogging in the town with his pistol. Describing his death as a “loss to the whole country”, the former President who left the military as a Flight Lieutenant urged all to remain calm. “Taking the law…