The Ghana Armed Forces has clarified that no Ghanaian soldier was affected in this week’s bomb attacks on peacekeepers in a UN compound in Timbuktu, Mali. Social media platforms were splashed with chilling pictures of injured soldiers in critical condition being attended to by paramedics after the attacks on Wednesday. Many presumed that Ghanaian troops … Read more
Rear Admiral Matthew Quashie was born on 23 March 1951 in Accra. He attended Mfantsipim Secondary School, Cape Coast, for his General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary Level Certificate from 1965 to 1970. He entered the Ghana Military Academy in 1970 and subsequently enrolled in to the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS), Takoradi, from 1970 … Read more
Lieutenant General Peter Augustine Blay, the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), was born in Ezinlibo, in the Western Region of Ghana in November 1948. In academic education, he is basically a self-made man. After his elementary education, from 1965 -1969 he attended the Accra Workers College where he obtained his General Certificate of Education. … Read more