Minister for the Interior, Ambrose Dery has urged the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) to step up its border patrols and controls to protect the territorial integrity and security of the country. He says it has become more compelling now than ever to strengthen and streamline the management of our borders considering the prevailing threats of … Read more
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, in a tribute on behalf of the People and Government, to Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, described the Fallen Hero “as a Soldier’s Soldier.” The Vice President said the nation would immortalise and celebrate the courage of the late soldier, but his death should herald the end of impunity and indiscipline in … Read more
Major Maxwell Adam Mahama was a soldier’s soldier. A soldier is he or she who commits to die, so that the Nation may live; so that we may live in peace and tranquillity. Major Maxwell Adam Mahama lived the creed of the Ghana Armed Forces to its letter. At the gates of the Military Academy … Read more
Major Maxwell Adam Mahama was a soldier’s soldier. A soldier is he or she who commits to die, so that the Nation may live; so that we may live in peace and tranquillity. Major Maxwell Adam Mahama lived the creed of the Ghana Armed Forces to its letter. At the gates of the Military Academy … Read more
Major Maxwell Adam Mahama was a soldier’s soldier. A soldier is he or she who commits to die, so that the Nation may live; so that we may live in peace and tranquillity. Major Maxwell Adam Mahama lived the creed of the Ghana Armed Forces to its letter. At the gates of the Military Academy … Read more
The Ghana Army has lost one of its finest Snipers in the late Capt. Maxwell Mahama who met his untimely death after he was lynched in Boase, a mining community in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region on Monday. He is said to have won an award as the best sniper during … Read more
The Defence Ministry has ordered the release of $50,000 for the construction of new accommodation facilities for the Army Recruits Training School at Shai Hills in the Greater Accra region. This follows the Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul’s visit to the school on Tuesday where he observed that the school, which trains many of the country’s … Read more
Mr James Awuni, husband of a midwifery student who was sacked from the Gushegu Midwifery Training School in Ghana’s Northern Region for being pregnant, has said the dismissal was unfair and discriminatory and pleaded with the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection to intervene. On Wednesday, 10 May, the Principal at the Training School … Read more
Some of the military recruits who were dismissed for misbehavior and threat to national security are still appealing to authorities to address their concerns. The 501 recruits were undergoing six-month recruitment training at the Army Recruits Training School (ARTS) at Shai Hills, Accra. They were to be absorbed into the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) after … Read more
Corruption has started germinating from the stables of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), leaving many people to wonder whether the canker is likely tobseize in the public sector. Information intercepted by this paper indicates that about Six Hundred and Twenty Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred and Ninety Three Ghana Cedis Forty Six Pesewas (GH¢629, 993.46) … Read more
The hospital in Kumasi will also be designated as an emergency hospital The Ghana Military Academy and Training School has held a graduation ceremony for the Special Medical Intake 3, during which 99 men and women were commissioned by Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. In all, 51 men and women joined the army, with … Read more
Forty-one police trainees have been dismissed from police training schools for allegedly using fake certificates to get recruited into the Ghana Police Service. Out of the number, 22 trainees were dismissed from the Puwalugu Police Training School in the Upper East Region, 10 from the Kumasi Police Training School in the Ashanti Region, five from … Read more
Forty-one police trainees have been dismissed from police training schools for allegedly using fake certificates to get recruited into the Ghana Police Service. Out of the number, 22 trainees were dismissed from the Puwalugu Police Training School in the Upper East Region, 10 from the Kumasi Police Training School in the Ashanti Region, five from … Read more
A total of twenty-two police recruits undergoing training at the Pwalugu Police Training School in the Upper East Region have been sacked. The twenty-two recruits made up of fourteen women and eight men, were sacked for allegedly presenting fake admission letters and certificates for admission to the school. Speaking to Citi News, the Commander of … Read more
A total of twenty-two police recruits undergoing training at the Pwalugu Police Training School in the Upper East Region have been sacked. The twenty-two recruits made up of fourteen women and eight men, were sacked for allegedly presenting fake admission letters and certificates for admission to the school. Speaking to , the Commander of the … Read more
The former Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr John Kudalor, was yesterday pulled out of the Police Headquarters to mark his retirement from the Ghana Police Service. The colourful event was witnessed by the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Sampson Michael-Oje, heads of sister security agencies, former Minister of the Interior, … Read more
President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will be sworn into office tomorrow, January 7, 2017. He will become the fifth President of the Fourth Republic. We bring you brief profiles of the previous First Families. Jerry John Rawlings Jerry John Rawlings was the first President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. He was born on June … Read more
Little is known about some British military officers who nurtured what evolved into the Ghana Armed Forces as we have them today. In 1928, the Gold Coast Regiment of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF) had as its Officer Commanding a certain Lt. Col. WC Wilson, who attracted the following decorations, DSO, O. B.E., … Read more
I have read with utmost disdain the wishy washy rejoinder written by Mr Joseph Weguri in response to my previous write up in which I exposed the Machiavellian machinations he was employing , in his futile attempt, to not only dent the unblemished reputation of Hon. Mark Woyongo but also to discredit his enormous development … Read more
Two of the dismissed recruits of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have revealed on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that, they have received offers from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Boko Haram after they stated that, they were being compelled to join these militant groups. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Kwame Tutu … Read more