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Claims by government that the two former detainees of Guantanamo Bay were to spend only two years in Ghana, have strongly been disputed. The two, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, were in detention for 14 years, after being linked with terrorist group Al-Qaeda and later transferred to Ghana under a bilateral agreement with the United State of America. A Foreign Affairs Ministry’s statement in January 2016 announced, “At the request of the US Government we have also agreed to accept two detainees of Yemeni origin who were detained in Guantanamo but who have been cleared…

The Supreme Court has directed counsel involved in the case seeking the abrogation of the agreement between the government of Ghana and America for hosting two former Guantanamo Bay detainees in the country to make further submissions before a decision is taken. The court had scheduled to give judgment today, May 10 but realised certain issues need to be addressed before a decision is taken, TV3’s Godfred Tanam reports. The Supreme Court said it has not been able to reach a decision in respect of some of the reliefs the plaintiffs are seeking: plaintiffs say the whole agreement was unconstitutional and…

President Akufo Addo has expressed his condolence to the families and victims of Tuesday’s gas explosion which left almost 200 people with various degrees of burns and injuries. The unfortunate incident occurred when a tanker near the Olam Oil deport caught fire and exploded injuring the station attendants and several other persons who were within 10 a meter radius of the station. In a tweet on Wednesday morning, President Akufo-Addo said “Very sad and sorry to hear about the gas explosion in Takoradi y’day. I extend my deepest condolences to the injured and families affected.” Very sad and sorry to…

Heated tension between the NPP’s Northern Regional Chairman, Bugri Naabu, and Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Djaba is a negative publicity to the New Patriotic Party, that’s according to a political analyst and lecturer at the University of Cape Coast. Bugri Naabu and Otiko Djaba clashed in the Northern region on Friday, May 5, 2017, over a misunderstanding between the two. Speaking to 3News, Jonathan Asante Okyere said the Gender Minister should have understood that, per her ministerial role, she is no longer a party activist and that she should have acted with self-restraint. “This is, for starters,…

A school girl who was among more than 200 kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 refused to be part of a release deal because she is now married to a militant fighter, Nigeria’s government said Tuesday. The disclosure underlines the complex psychological effects of a lengthy captivity, and gives an indication of the work required to rehabilitate and reintegrate those released. Boko Haram has used kidnapping as a weapon of war, seizing thousands of women and young girls as part of its eight-year quest to create a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria. Men and boys have also been forcibly…

Government has released funds for the payment of school feeding grants for second cycle institutions in the country which are under the scheme. The total amount of GH¢ 106, 697, 628. 80 is in respect of the third term feeding grant of 137, 300 students for the 2015/2016 academic year and 140, 264 students for the 2016/2017 academic year. In a statement released by the Ministry of Finance, it stated that the funds had been released to the Registrar of Scholarships for payment of feeding grants for second cycle schools. The ministry further indicated that it is processing the remaining…

Traders at the Odawna Pedestrian Shopping Mall whose stalls were demolished to make way for the construction of the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange have expressed disappointment in the government for its failure to compensate them. According to them, all efforts made during the past administration concerning the compensation proved futile. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) at the inception of the construction demolished part of the shopping mall to allow space for the contractor to work. The NDC government in power then promised to compensate the affected traders but they are yet to receive any compensation. The chairman of the traders union…

The Minority in Parliament is convinced the Northern Regional chairman of the governing party, Daniel Bugri Naabu has opened his mouth wide enough to be invited to give evidence in the murder of Adams Mahama. The former New Patriotic Party Upper East Regional chairman was gruesomely murdered in 2015 in an acid attack. Some people are standing trial for the murder including Gregory Afoko, brother of NPP’s suspended National Chairman. Following last week’s a mudslinging incident between Bugri Naabu and Otiko Afisa Djaba who is the Minister of Gender and Social Protection, the former accused the latter, as well as…

The scrapped allowance for teacher trainees across the country is to be restored by September this year, government has announced. Minister in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, who revealed this said the government is busily working on the modalities to restore the allowance by the next academic year in September Speaking at this year’s National Congress of Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) at Dorma Ahenkro in the Brong Ahafo Region, Prof. Yankah said the Akufo-Addo government is working to ensure that newly posted teachers are paid on time. The congress was attended by the Executives of the…

Source: 3news.com | Ghana