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About twelve (12) serving soldiers including a senior officer have been fingered in the foiled coup d’etat and are currently being interrogated over their alleged involvement, MyNewsGh.com reports. According to sources available to this portal, some of them were actually informants and will be treated as such while others were working in concert with the prime suspect Dr. Frederick Yao...
The Tema Metropolitan Office of the Electoral Commission says it is processing for court about hundred (100) persons who allegedly engaged in multiple voter registration. Nana Oduro Numapau, Tema Metropolitan Electoral Director, disclosed this when he was briefing Assembly Members of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) on the road map for the December 17, District Assembly, Unit Committee and Referendum...
The Students Representative Council of the Ghana School of Law will be leading a protest on Monday, October 7. This development follows the latest instance of mass failures during an entrance examination at the Ghana School of Law. In the recent entrance exam, only 128 of the 1,820 candidates who sat passed. Before this, only 64 out of the...
Some 180 condemned prisoners are languishing on death row at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison because successive Presidents had, since 1993, refused to sign their death warrants. The condemned prisoners include 174 men and six women, with many of them being sentenced to death by hanging for murder. The Nsawam Medium Prison is the only prison in the country...
Tension is mounting at Nkoranza in the Bono East Region where a 38-year-old accountant, one Kwaku Soro, has been enstooled as the chief of the town despite an ongoing mediation effort by Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. The Nkoransa Traditional Council has been without a paramount chief following the death of Okatakyie Agyemang Kodom IV, three years ago. The decision on...
Lawyer and Professor of Accounting, Stephen Kwaku Asare, popularly known as Kwaku Azar, has criticised the examining body responsible for the Ghana Law School entrance examination for demonstrating a lack of understanding of how examinations are evaluated and interpreted following the mass failure recorded this year. The public intellectual thinks that regulators of legal education in Ghana “are completely...
A formal complaint has been lodged at the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in America against Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, MyNewsGh.com reports. Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor, a social and political media commentator is accusing the controversial New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmaker of contracting Daniel Asiedu to assassinate former Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, Joseph...
A retired Military Officer, who has varied experience with coup d’états, has warned the government of Ghana and nation as a whole to handle the alleged coup attempt case with care. Captain Joel Sowu who was arrested in 1975 for an attempted coup against then head of state, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, using his experience as an example, said, the weapons...
Former President Jerry John Rawlings says it is wrong for any individual or group of persons to threaten former presidents. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) founder in a Facebook post condemned the youth groups who have threatened former President John Dramani Mahama over the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II brouhaha. “It is utterly inappropriate...
Deputy Minister for Defense, Major Derrick Oduro, has disclosed that the three individuals who are being held for attempting attack the presidency also planned to attack the defense ministry. “The intelligence we gathered at a point indicated that these young men wanted to attack the Defense Ministry,” he told Morning Starr sit-in host Lantam Papanko Wednesday. He, however, added...

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