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The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has kick-started its campaign for November 7 presidential and parliamentary elections with the distribution of outboard motors, embossed with pictures of President Mahama and the campaign theme of the ruling party, ‘Changing lives; Transforming Ghana.’

 

Barring any last minute hitch, President John Dramani Mahama will at the end of this month perform a ground breaking ceremony for the commencement of expansion works at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).

 

Nearly five hundred passengers would have perished on board a Yeji-bound ferry from Makango near Tamale, but for the swift intervention of rescuers.

 

Five persons alleged to have killed cattle belonging to Fulani herdsmen in Agogo in the Ashanti Region, have been remanded in Police custody by the Asante Akyem North District Magistrate court. According to the prosecutor, the five allegedly attacked a herdsman because he refused to show up in court as a witness in the recent incident of disturbances in the area.

It has emerged that the Member of Parliament for the Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Joseph Boakye Danquah, 51, was overpowered in a struggle by his 19-year old attacker, who only had a knife, a catapult and a cutter. This is according to the charge sheet available to Citi News. The killing took place at the MP’s residence at Shiashie in Accra on February 9, 2016.

The Water Resources, Works and Housing Ministry has started the dredging of the Densu River to improve water supply to Nsawam and its environs.

Scores of people are injured as a trailer rammed into over 20 vehicles on the George Walker Bush Motorway popularly known as the N1 Highway on Tuesday evening.

The cancer-stricken boy who demanded to sit in a plane before his predicted death has died at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital,Starrfmonline.com can confirm.

Wonder Kpe died on Monday evening, a family source told StarrFMonline.com.

The boy who had been suffering from a protracted cancer and has been told by medical doctors that nothing can be done to save him, asked nurses of the Korle Bu hospital to drive him to the Kotoka International Airport so he can sit in a plane before his date with death.

The nurses granted his wish and drove him in an ambulance to the Airport where he had the opportunity to sit in a Delta Airlines flight and took photographs with the cabin crew.

The sorrowful incident gain national prominence as the Presidency and several other Ghanaians offered to help. He was scheduled to fly to South Africa for a surgical operation.

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A journalist with the Multimedia Group, Ato Kwamena Dadzie, claims to have filed a police complaint against the Member of Parliament for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong.

The Ghana Technology University College (GTUC) has been adjudged the best private university in Ghana due to its quality publications, research and web presence.

 

Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, stole the show at the one-week celebration of the late First Vice Chairman of the party in the Western Region, Ben Kwaw, held at the Mount Olivet Methodist Church at Lagos Town near Takoradi yesterday.

 

 The NPP flagbearer stunned the mourners at the packed-to-capacity church auditorium when he mounted the pulpit and exhibited his preaching prowess and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.

 

This was after the Superintendent Minister of the church, Rev Dr Christina Dzakpasu, had invited him to deliver his message in the course of the programme.

 

After consoling the numerous family members, sympathizers of the NPP as well as friends and loved ones who thronged the place, Nana Akufo-Addo virtually preached to the mourners.

 

Quoting from Romans 14:8, the NPP flagbearer remarked, “If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord,” and this was greeted with a loud shout of “Amen!” from the mourners.

 

Stunned by the dexterity and zeal with which the NPP leader quoted the scriptures and his subsequent words of encouragement, especially to the bereaved family, the Superintendent Minister had no other option than to grab one of the microphones and remark, “Nana Addo is now an evangelist.”

 

The Reverend Minister’s statement was greeted with laughter, clapping and shouts of “Yes it shall come to pass; the battle is the Lord’s.”

 

The arrival of the NPP leader and his entourage at the auditorium of Mount Olivet Methodist Church sent the mourners into an ecstatic mood, as they struggled to shake hands with Nana Addo.

 

The bodyguards of the 2016 NPP flagbearer had a tough time controlling the crowd when he entered the Methodist Church and tried to greet the sympathizers who were already seated.

 

The mourners, some of whom were clad in the party’s paraphernalia, boldly showered praises on Nana Addo.

 

They assured him that the NPP would win the November 7 general election.

 

Nana Addo, who was overwhelmed by the rousing welcome accorded him by the mourners, raised his hands to acknowledge their cheers.

 

He was accompanied by Freddie Blay, Acting National Chairman of the NPP; Peter Mac Manu, NPP’s Campaign Manager; Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen; Sammy Awuku and other bigwigs of the party in the region such as Papa Owusu-Ankomah, MP for Sekondi and Joe Ghartey, MP for Essikado-Ketan.

 

The rest were Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, MP for Takoradi; Joseph Boahene Aidoo, former Western Regional Minister and Joseph Cudjoe, MP, Effia.

 

Mr Benjamin Kwaw, who until his sudden demise was acting as the Regional Chairman of the party, passed away on Monday, February 8, 2016 after allegedly collapsing during a keep-fit exercise.

 

He died at the age of 56 and would be buried on April 30, 2016 at his home town in Enchi, according to the family head, Ebusuapanyin Ndebie.

 

Source: Daily Guide

 

The Eastern Regional Police Commander DCOP Angwubutoge Awuni has challenged Security Expert Dr Kwesi Aning to stop running his mouth in the media on how the menace by Fulani herdsmen is being tackled across the country and rather move to the field to see at first hand the threat they pose.

 

The teenager who allegedly killed the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, has been officially charged with murder.

 

The suspect arrested for allegedly killing Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North constituency, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, has told investigators that he went in the MP’s house to steal but ended up killing him in self-defense.

A thirty-year-old man is reported to have  stabbed his girlfriend to death on Valentine’s Day for refusing him sex.

 

The incident is said to have happened at Suminakese, a town in the Eastern Region, according to classfmonline.com.

 

Ebenezer Yaw Darko, also known as ‘Power’, according to the report, went into a fit of rage after his girlfriend, Yaa Nimakoa, 26, refused him sex after reportedly spending money on her.

 

Ms Nimakoa, who did not die immediately after the stabbing, according to the report, told people who rushed to assist her that Darko, whom she had been dating for five years, attempted raping her when they returned home at about 10pm after an outing.

 

When she refused, Darko grabbed a knife and stabbed her, the report stated.

 

Nimakoa died as she was being rushed to the hospital, the report added, noting that her parents had warned her against dating Darko, who, according to them, was “mentally unstable.”

 

Source: Graphiconline