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Government's efforts to combat illegal mining activities in the country has received support from the judiciary with the Chief Justice designating  14 special courts to deal with all mining related offences committed under the Minerals and Mining Act, Act 703.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cautioned the newly sworn-in deputy ministers to stand out in the performance in his administration to vindicate him for appointing them.

The Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Portuphy, has accused the Nana Addo led government of forcing  the former governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Abdul Nashiru Issahaku to resign.

The objective to end illegal small-scale mining, popularly known as galamsey, may not be easy to accomplish as some illegal miners are threatening to vote out the Nana Akufo-Addo government if galamsey is banned.

Security Expert and Executive Director of Irbard Security Consult, Irbard Ibrahim has said the only way Ghana can curb the recent insecurity in the country is to decouple politics from State security.

Former President of Ghana, John Mahama, has warn members of the NDC party to halt blaming his appointees for  National Democratic Congress'(NDC) defeat but him because he led the party in the 2016 election.

Former president John Mahama has called on members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to use their time in opposition as a learning process not to repeat the same mistakes they have committed over the years.

Ghana’s former President, Jerry John Rawlings has described last week's attack by the United States of America on Syria as “evil.”

President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo has replaced EX President John Mahama as the Co-Chair of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates.

The Board of Directors of GCB Bank Limited (GCB) has appointed Mr Anselm Raymond Sowah, a  banker and lawyer, as the Managing Director of the Bank.

The Supreme Court has given the go ahead to a United State based Ghanaian lawyer Professor Stephen Kweku Asare to amend a writ he had filed against the General Legal Council (GLC).

Three people are feared dead after clashes between Konkombas and Dagombas at the Konkomba Yam Market Agbogbloshie in Accra.

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has described the punishment issued by a Kumasi Circuit Court to the 13 Delta Force members for escaping from police custody as lenient.

A 31-year-old Ghanaian man has been arrested in Germany for allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman in the presence of her boyfriend.

Some alleged six police officers have brutalised a cripple in a small fishing community called Ekpu near Half Assini in the Western Region.

Reports according ClassFMonline, the brutality occurred on Tuesday, 11 April when about 300 officers stormed the town Half Assini to conduct a swoop.

Narrating the incident, a resident of the area said officers stormed the area with water cannons, truncheons, tear gas, and guns.

He said they were “beating every young person they see, irrespective of who you are, they arrest you and beat you up”, adding: “Right before my eyes, six of them were beating a cripple, a disabled person who was sitting in a wheelchair; in fact they threw his wheelchair away, he was lying on the floor, they were holding sticks, batons and other weapons and they were beating him on the floor.”

Another resident, Stephen Tetteh, who confirmed the assault on the disabled man said the raid could be linked to an earlier attack on a police station in the area by the youth following the death of a young man who was in police custody after being arrested for alleged theft.

The angry youth vandalised the police station and attacked the only officer who was on duty at the time.
According to Stephen Tetteh, the baton-wielding officers, led by the Western Regional Police Commander, indiscriminately beat residents, thus throwing the entire locality into a frenzy.

Assemblyman for the area, Peter Miezah, described the situation as a horrifying one saying such a police raid had never happened in the small community.

Meanwhile, the police command has denied beating up any residents. The command said 50 suspects were rounded up in the swoop.