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The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah Cheremeh has caused a Kia truck loaded with illegal lumber at Sunyani in the Bono Region to be impounded. The minister who was returning from a trip in the region chanced upon the truck with registration number AS 4955E loaded with the illegal lumber and was heading from Dormaa to Yeji in the Bono East. The minister tried to stop the truck but the driver ignored the signal and smashed and destroyed the Lands Minister’s car instead. Mr. Asomah Cheremeh had wanted to inquire about the destination of the lumber. The…

Oti Regional Minister, Nana Kwasi Owusu-Yeboa, has said efforts are being initiated by the Military High Command to establish a barracks and platoon units in the Oti Region. He said the barracks, to be sited at Dambai, the regional capital, would accommodate 100 personnel of the military with the platoon units located at vantage points in the Region. Mr Owusu-Yeboa said this at a press conference to brief the media on activities of the Regional Coordinating Council since the creation of Oti Region and to welcome the New Year at Dambai. He said the Ghana Police Service has also approved…

At least 14 people have died and four injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) blew up a bus in north-western Burkina Faso. The vehicle was mainly carrying students back to their places of study after the New Year break. Reports suggest the bus drove over the IED in Toeni, a department in the region of Sourou. It is not clear who was behind the attack but jihadist threat has increased in Burkina Faso recently. On Christmas Eve, 35 civilians were killed in the north of the country in a suspected jihadist attack on a military bas Western countries have…

A sea of mourners swept into the Iranian city of Ahvaz early on Sunday morning to receive the remains of Qasem Soleimani, the general killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad last week. The mourners beat their chests and chanted “death to America”. Soleimani was the architect of Iran’s sphere of influence across the Middle East and he was considered to be the country’s second most powerful man. His assassination marked a significant escalation between Iran and the US. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, who had a close personal relationship with Soleimani, warned of “severe revenge” for the attack,…

The Most Reverend Dr Paul Kwabena Boafo, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Ghana, has called on all political leaders to go about the 2020 election campaign with circumspection to safeguard the peace of the nation. He said they should also avoid politics of insults and attacks on personalities and rather do campaigns that address issues, which would bring development to all Ghanaians. He urged the politicians to speak peace as they go round their campaigns and “not talk as if we want to create conflict, war and tensions in the communities”. “Whoever mounts a political platform should be guided…

The Director General of the Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, has been relieved of her post in a major shakeup at the top hierarchy of Ghana’s Police administration She has been moved to head the Police Welfare Department as the Director General while Commissioner of Police Isaac Ken Yeboah who was the Director General in charge of Administration, has been pushed to take over as the Director General of CID. They are to assume their new roles from January 15, 2020. COP Addo-Danquah who was the Deputy Director General of CID was appointed to head the…

Ghana is to establish a Diasporan Savings and Investment Account to attract people of African American descent to invest in the various sectors of the country. The plan, which is at its infant stage, will explore how to target retail other than institutional investors. According to the Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori Atta, this is expected to attract about 3 billion dollars, the same level as remittances currently in a period of a year or two. He added the move is to build on the successes of the Year of Return, which marked 400 years when the first African slaves…

Iran’s supreme leader has vowed “severe revenge” on those responsible for the death of top military commander Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani was killed by an air strike at Baghdad airport early on Friday ordered by US President Donald Trump. The 62-year-old spearheaded Iranian operations in the Middle East as head of the elite Quds Force. Mr Trump said he caused millions of deaths. The killing marks a major escalation in tensions between Washington and Tehran. Soleimani was widely seen as the second most powerful figure in Iran, behind Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The Quds Force, an elite unit of the Iranian…

The Ghana Audit Service say a lot of public servants in the country are illegally occupying their positions because they have failed to fulfil the constitutional obligation of declaring their assets and liabilities. Quoting Article 286 of the 1992 Constitution, Assistant Public Relations Officer of the Audit Service said the category of persons to declare their assets and liabilities are required by law to do so before assuming that police. However, he revealed that a large number of public servants who have not declared their assets and liabilities are occupying public office, something he said contravene the laws of Ghana.…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rubbished reports that its decision to organize parliamentary primaries in April, a few months to the December 2020 elections, will affect their fortunes. In its latest report, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) states that although the party is most likely to win the 2020 elections, the timing of its parliamentary primaries will give them little-to-no time to calm certain situations that usually characterize such primaries. Reacting to this in an interview with 3news.com’s Selorm Amenya, Director of Elections for the NPP Evans Nimako emphasised that the party has plans in place to ensure things…