Friday, 26 February 2016

Abu Ramadan resurrects suit against EC over voters register

Abu Ramadan

A former National Youth Organiser of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Abu Ramadan, and one Evans Nimako, have revived a suit against the Electoral Commission (EC) at the Supreme Court seeking a declaration that the current electoral roll is not credible.

Teachers declare war over arrears

Teachers across the country have refused to back down on their decision to embark on an indefinite nationwide strike despite government’s plea.

Emotions ran high last Friday at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region following the startling confession of a 28-year old gold dealer of how he had sex with more than 183 women and used their vaginal fluids for money rituals.

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Some 268,381 customers have been compensated by the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) for wrongful billing that made them pay in excess of the water they had consumed.

The Registrar General has confirmed claims by embattled High court Judge Justice Paul Dery that Anas’ investigative company, Tiger Eye

Minority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has alleged that some officials of the Central Bank went to the Brong Ahafo region to encourage people to save with the now debt ridden microfinance company, DKM.

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Ghana in present times, remains one of the most talked of African state in the Sub-region considering marginal progress in the country’s political and economic sectors

The National Democratic Party appears disappointed after the governing National Democratic Congress apparently disregarded a letter to them asking for a coalition party.

Following the demise of the Member of Parliament for the Akyem Abuakwa North Constituency, people within the various parties have started presenting themselves as suitable replacements.

AFAG petitions Mahama to remove EC boss from office

Richard Nyamah, AFAG

The Spokesperson of pressure group, Progressive Nationalist Forum, has petitioned President John Mahama for the removal of the Electoral Commission Chairperson from office.

A 28-year-old man believed to be mentally unstable has wounded three people at Jamasi in the Ashanti region.

Scores of passengers traveling from the Northern part of the country to the Southern part are fleeing the Metro Mass Transport buses in Tamale.

District Chief Executive (DCE) of Pru in the Brong Ahafo Region, Emmanuel Kwame Poku, has accused personnel of the Naval Base of being less proactive in ensuring security of passengers on board the ferry that almost sunk on Wednesday February 17

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OWASS de-boardinises 30 final year students

Thirty final year students of the Opoku Ware Senior High School in Kumasi in the Ashanti region have been de-boardinised by the school authorities.

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The founder and leader of the Glorious Word Ministry International, Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah has warned drivers to be very vigilant on the road, because some ‘satanic human spirits’ are depending on them for human blood to accomplish their mission this year.

Joseph Whittal

A member of the Electoral Commission’s National Election Steering Committee, Joseph Whittal, has rejected allegations that he should be withdrawn from the committee because he is a known loyalist of the

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has called on the Electoral Commission Chairperson Madam Charlotte Osei to dissolve the 18-member November 7 elections steering Committee.

Chris Oyakhilome, the Senior Pastor of Christ Embassy and his wife, Anita - in happy times

The divorce proceeding between Chris Oyakhilome, the Senior Pastor of Christ

ISIS operative decapitates a young boy. Photo: Arab media

Just when you thought the Islamic State had reached its limit of depravity, it manages to outdo itself.

According to Kurdish media reports, the jihadist group that has captured wide swaths of Syria and Iraq beheaded a 15-year-old boy in Mosul for the crime of listening to Western pop music.

Reports cite officials in the northern Iraqi city as saying that the boy, Ayham Hussein, was discovered by ISIS henchman as he was listening to a portable compact disc player.

Hussein was detained by ISIS operatives as he sat inside a shop owned by his father in an open-air market in western Mosul. The boy was beaten and tried in a local sharia court, which sentenced him to be executed.

“The boy was executed by beheading in a town square in the center of the city,” a source told Kurdish media.

The execution shocked and angered Mosul residents, some of whom staged a protest at the home of the victim’s family.
Source: jpost.com

UPDATE: GORY...Over 60 Dead In Kintampo Accident(AUDIO)

Over 60 people are feared dead in a fatal accident on the Kintampo-Tamale highway.

The accident which occurred on Wednesday evening involved a truck carrying boxes of tomatoes from Burkina Faso with registration number AS 1414-16 and a Metro Mass Transit Bus heading to Tamale from Kumasi with registration number AS 7131-Y.

According to reports the Metro Mass driver lost control of the steering wheel and in the process of trying to save the passengers ended up colliding with the truck.

As at 12am Thursday, Dr Owusu Fosu, Medical Superintendent at Kintampo government hospital confirmed that 68 had lost their lives including children.

About twenty three (23) people have been severely injured and are receiving treatment.

A report filed by Addae Mununku indicated that the Metro Mass Bus was overloaded; carrying over 60 passengers with some of them standing.

The Ghana Police Service is yet to indicate the exact number of people who lost their lives because as at 1 am, some were still trapped under the bus.Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com

Wednesday, 17 February 2016

NDC Will Win 2016 Elections By 80%??????

The District Chief Executive for Juaboso constituency in the Western Region, Hon Kingsley Asoa-Apimah, has predicted that the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) will win 80% of votes in the upcoming November parliamentary and presidential elections in the constituency.

EC BOSS

Following claims that Dr Karl Mark Arhin is a National Democratic Congress (NDC) sympathiser, the Electoral Commission (EC) has decided to drop him from the November election steering committee it set up recently, Graphic Online understands.

The 19-year-old school dropout accused of stabbing to death Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North Constituency of the Eastern Region, has said he stabbed the lawmaker three times.

Justice Paul Uuter Dery has filed a petition with the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service over what he deems to be a death threat issued at him.

Army Head Orders Chief Imam’s Arrest Over Tafo Clashes

The Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen Richard Kwame Opoku-Adusei, has ordered the arrest of the Chief Imam of Tafo, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, for allegedly instigating the between Muslim youth and and indigenes of the area.

Forty suspects have been arrested in connection with Wednesday’s bloody clashes at Old Tafo which led to the death of one person, the Public Relations Officer of the Ashanti Regional Police Command, ASP Mohammed Yusif Tanko, has confirmed.

The Asante Youth Association (AYA) has asked “visitors” in the Ashanti Region, not to mistake Asante “hospitality” as a “weakness”.

Woyome

Businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome has decided to go for an international arbitration with regards to the GH¢51.2 million judgment debt which the Supreme Court has asked him to refund.

He gave the hint of his latest move on Thursday after the Supreme Court dismissed an application by one Abdulai Yusif Fanash Muhammed who had filed an application to contest the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction over the case.

Muhammed had prayed the court to declare that the financial engineering claims by Mr Woyome arising out of the tender bid by Vamed Engineering GmbH/Waterville Holdings during the procurement process in June 2005 until its wrongful abrogation in August 2005 was not an international business transaction within the meaning of Article 181 of the 1992 Constitution.

Counsel for Mr Woyome, Ken Anku who spoke to Graphic Online’s Seth J. Bokpe said even though Muhammed’s case would have inured to the benefit of Mr Woyome, he was not the one who initiated it contrary to arguments that the suit by Muhammed was spearheaded by Mr Woyome.

“The action at the Supreme Court was not commenced by Alfred Agbesi Woyome. We were only brought in as defendants and the plaintiff withdrew his action so we also withdraw our action,” he maintained.

Mr Anku explained that “this is not the end of the case” as his client in the next couple of days would head to the International Chamber of Commerce to argue out his case that the contract that was terminated by the Kufuor administration was not an international contract, contrary to the Supreme Court's stance since there was no Parliamentary approval, there was no contract.

“My client has always maintained the position that the two contracts that were terminated by Kufuor were not what he went to court to seek for payment,” he said.

The Supreme Court in July 2014 ordered Mr Woyome to refund GH¢51.2 million to the state on the grounds that he got the money out of unconstitutional and invalid contracts between the state and Waterville Holdings Limited in 2006 for the construction of stadia for CAN 2008.

JB´s 'killer' benefitted from Justice For All programme

Joy News has learnt, a man who has confessed to killing the Abuakwa North MP Joseph Boakye Danquah Adu, was a remand prisoner and a beneficiary of the Justice For All Programme.

The late JB

Joy News has learnt an MP (name withheld) was instrumental in providing information that led to the arrest of a young man who has confessed to killing the Abuakwa North MP, JB Danquah Adu.

One of the key suspects in the murder of the late Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North has been identified as Daniel Asiedu, Starrfmonline.com can confirm.

Asiedu, who is currently in police custody, was rounded up on Thursday in an operation led by the Accra Regional Police Commander DCOP George Dampare when he went to Agbogbloshie in Accra to decode the phones of the late Joseph Boakye Danquah Adu.

According to highly placed police sources at the Accra Regional Police Command, one of the three phones which were taken for decoding had the picture of the late MP “as screen saver and that of former President John Kufuor as screen lock.”

“The repairer alerted the police and they picked Asiedu up,” the source confided in Starrfmonline.com.

Danquah Adu was stabbed to death at his residence at Shiashi in Accra early Tuesday by unknown assailants.

Starrfmonline.com is being told that the suspect, who will be transferred to the Homicide Unit at the Police Headquarters for questioning, is assisting the law enforcement agency to track two other accomplices known as Avenger and Agogo Junior.

Preliminary investigations reveal that the assailants may have used a ladder to enter the MP’s room via his window to kill him.

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described the “bloody murder” as “shocking.”

The acting national chairman of the main opposition NPP Freddie Blay said the party “is in a state of shock”, adding that the death “is an unfortunate situation.”

It has ordered all party flags at district, regional and national headquarters to fly at half-mast.

Biography
The Abuakwa North MP was the grandson of late J.B Danquah, a Ghanaian statesman, pan-Africanist, scholar and historian, who played a significant role in pre- and post-colonial Ghana.

Danquah, a chartered accountant, would have been 51 in July.

He was a deputy women and children’s affairs minister under the John Agyekum Kufuor administration.

Prior to becoming an MP, he was the Executive Director, Automotive Springs (Ghana) Limited, Accra.

He left behind a wife and two children.
Source: Starrfmonline.com

$7b ENI OCTP deal inflated by $2bn for kickbacks

The $7 billion OCTP Sankafa gas deal between the Government of Ghana and Italian oil firm ENI is bloated by at least $2 billion, out of which some Ghanaian government officials will cut their kickbacks, the Minority in parliament has alleged.

One of the rampaging youth in the old Tafo confrontations has been arrested by the Police in Kumasi for embarking on sporadic shooting in the area Thursday morning.

The dusk till dawn curfew imposed on Tafo by the Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has been extended to

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He, however, states that it is not an indication the said projects are not ongoing as members of the opposition party are trying to portray to the populace

Good news as Parliament approves withdrawal of 1% interest tax

Parliament on Wednesday February 6, 2016, approved the Income Tax Amendment Bill. The new Act, when signed by the President into law, will remove a recently imposed 1 percent tax on interests earned by investors, and also cut withholding tax from 15 percent to 7.5 percent.

Police put GH¢10,000 bounty on heads of JB’s killers

Curfew imposed as Muslim youth clash with land owners at Old Tafo

Four people are feared to have died in clashes between a predominantly Muslim community and some locals at Tafo in the Ashanti Region over a cemetery.

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Police put GH¢10,000 bounty on heads of JB’s killers