British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who in the past sparked fury over comments about Africans, arrives in The Gambia on a charm offensive Tuesday as its new government considers rejoining the Commonwealth. Johnson is to meet President Adama Barrow and visit the British-funded Medical Research Council, his ministry said, resetting ties after years of tension … Read more
Three armed robbers have raided the Prof. Ignatius Acheampong Hostel at Kwaprow near the University of Cape Coast (UCC). The robbers stormed the hostel, which houses UCC students, on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 2:00 a.m., and locked up the security guard on duty before embarking on their mission. According to some eyewitnesses, after locking … Read more
The United States of America (USA) is providing technical assistance to help Ghana protect its cyber- space and empower the law enforcement agencies. Dubbed “The Security Governance Initiative”, the assistance is three-pronged and comes under Ghana’s international cooperation with the US government. Focal areas An agreement signed between the two countries last February listed the … Read more
Information gathered by ClassFMonline.com indicates that the five cars seized by some military personnel and national security officers from the NDC’s National Organiser Kofi Adams have been returned. ClassFMonline.com also learns that National Security Minister Albert Kan-Dapaah has called Mr Adams on phone and apologised to him over the matter saying neither he nor government … Read more
A Local vigilante and a young suicide bomber lost their lives in a foiled suicide bomb attack in Dalori Quarters in Maiduguri Borno state north-east Nigeria. The attack which occurred on Tuesday morning killed the suspected child suicide bomber and a male security guard who prevented the from gaining access into the mosque. It was … Read more
The former Member of Parliament (MP) for Lawra Nandom and Minister-designate for Interior says the President Akufo-Addo government would not abdicate its protection and security role to the citizenry. Ambrose Dery said in consonance with Article 200 of the Constitution, the government is going to ensure that there is a strict enforcement of existent legislation … Read more
In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on his 88th Birthday & Ghana of 1957, on the eve of the 60th Independence Day Anniversary Celebrations “…(T)he spring of 1957,…Dr. King traveled across the Atlantic to witness Kwame Nkrumah become the first prime minister of the newly independent Ghana….(It is)…a lesser-known sermon, “The Birth of … Read more
Ed Sheeran has spent some time in an imaginary box in Ghana. The pop sensation just did a candid Instagram story, talking about his new music, writing process, and Kevin the security guard. The most interesting anecdote, we think, concerns his latest album Divide, some of which he wrote while in Ghana, West Africa. Sheeran … Read more
A gunman has killed five people at a club hosting an electronic music festival in the Mexican resort of Playa del Carmen, in Quintana Roo state. Among those killed are two Canadians, an Italian and a Colombian citizen, Quintana Roo Attorney-General Miguel Angel Pech said. The fifth victim was a woman who died in the … Read more
“The Gambia’s autocratic president, Yahya Jammeh, who once claimed a “billion-year” mandate to rule, has conceded defeat after a shock election loss to a real-estate developer who once worked as a security guard in London” That is how the Guardian newspaper reported on December 2. There is time for everything thing. A time to born … Read more
The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has questioned the morality of providing retirement homes for ex-Presidents as part of the luxury perks given former Presidents. He asked why government should commit the state purse into building homes for all former Presidents and assume such burden at the cost of the tax … Read more
Some macho men numbering about 200, claiming to be members of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Invisible Forces, on Monday morning thronged the premises of the Golden Jubilee terminal of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), to demand their share of national security jobs. According to the heavily-built men who were dressed in black … Read more
Some macho men numbering about 200, claiming to be members of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Invisible Forces, on Monday morning thronged the premises of the Golden Jubilee terminal of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), to demand their share of national security jobs. According to the heavily-built men who were dressed in black … Read more
People gather at the site of a car bomb attack at a vegetable market in eastern Baghdad, Iraq A car bomb in Iraq has struck a market in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 11 people and injuring dozens more. Interior ministry spokesman Saad Maan was quoted as saying a security guard fired on a suspicious … Read more
Shot in the arm and slumped behind a table, Francois al-Asmar played dead as the gunman walked through the exclusive Istanbul nightclub shooting the wounded as they lay on the ground. Like most of the 39 people killed at a New Year’s party in Reina, a hang-out for the Turkish jet set and moneyed foreigners, … Read more
So-called Islamic State says it was behind the new year attack on a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people. The group said in a statement it was carried out by “a heroic soldier”. At least 600 revellers were celebrating in the early hours of Sunday at Istanbul’s Reina nightclub when the gunman began firing indiscriminately. … Read more
Police in Istanbul are hunting for a gunman who opened fire at a well-known nightclub, killing at least 39 people. The attack happened at Reina nightclub early on Sunday, as hundreds of revellers marked the new year. Officials say some 15 foreigners were killed, including citizens from Israel, France, Tunisia, Lebanon, India, Belgium, Jordan and … Read more
The Police service and the Armed Forces are two great security services that are very indispensable to the other when it comes to constitutional functions of maintaining law and as well as defence. The police particularly cannot carry out it constitutionally mandated duties maintaining law and order per the dictates of article 200(3) without the … Read more
The Gambia’s elections commission head has dismissed President Yahya Jammeh’s call to annul the election he was declared to have lost. Mr Jammeh said on state television on Saturday that he rejected the result and his party announced they will file a petition to the Supreme Court. Elections head Alieu Momarr Njai told Reuters that … Read more
Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh said on Friday he rejects the outcome of last week’s election that he lost to opposition leader Adama Barrow and called for fresh elections. The announcement made on state television throws the future of the West African country into doubt after an unexpected election result that ended Jammeh’s 22-year rule and … Read more