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  Armed military officers fired gunshots into the air on Tuesday to disperse some youth who had massed up at the Obuasi District Police Command to demand the release of some illegal miners in custody. The youth in their numbers burnt car tyres close to the police command to protest …

  Conflict and Security Analyst, Colonel Retired Festus B. Aboagye, has criticised government’s decision to deploy more military personnel to Bawku as a means of resolving the conflict there. The Defence Minister on February 8, said although there were 400 military personnel at Bawk, government will send 500 more to …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Samuel Abdulai Jinapor The Lands and Natural Resources Ministry has set up a committee to probe the alleged military brutalities on some illegal miners, who were reportedly arrested on Friday, July 15. Samuel Abdulai Jinapor has charged the Committee to thoroughly investigate to ascertain the veracity …

  By:brightwebtv /nana asare barimah     Some three military officers who were caught up in a shootout with some residents of Buabula, a suburb of Bawku, in the Upper East Region have been airlifted to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra. They are said to be critically injured. Seven …

  By:brightwebtv /Nana asare barimah Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin   The Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Lawyer Nana Obiri Boahen says it is unfair to strip of Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin’s military bodyguards. Over the weekend, the Military High Command of Ghana stripped the …

  By:brightwebtv /Nana asare barimah Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, Speaker of Parliament Armed Forces to regularise attachment of military personnel to Speaker Military personnel were attached to Speaker without proper procedure, Armed Forces Parliament resumes sitting on January 25 The Chief of Staff at the Headquarters of the Ghana Armed Forces, …

By:brightwebtv /Nana asare barimah   The Ghana Airports Company says on Tuesday, “an unattended bag” was sighted at the arrival hall of Terminal 3, prompting officials to call in bomb experts    Kotoka International Airport The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have begun investigations into alleged bomb scare at the Kotoka …

By:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Guinea coup leader meets President Akufo-Addo, ECOWAS Chair, and President Alassane Ouattara Guinea’s military junta said on Friday it would not bow to regional pressure and allow President Alpha Conde, detained since his overthrow on Sept. 5, to leave the country. On Friday Ivory Coast’s President, Alassane …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Parliament has tasked its Defence and Interior Committee to investigate circumstances leading to the assault of some residents of Wa, by military personnel on Thursday. The Members of Parliament on Friday deliberated on the aforementioned issue. During the discussion, some of the legislators were clad in …

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu, has directed the Defence and Interior Committee to probe the circumstances that led to Military brutalities in Wa. The Committee, chaired by Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Agyapong, has four weeks to investigate, collate all …