The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has rung the changes again at the Ghana Police Service. In a release intercepted by www.3news.com, senior officers are expected to assume their new roles with immediate effect. Dated April 20, 2017, the release announced the transfer of the likes of the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of … Read more
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has rung the changes again at the Ghana Police Service. In a release intercepted by www.3news.com, senior officers are expected to assume their new roles with immediate effect. Dated April 20, 2017, the release announced the transfer of the likes of the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of … Read more
Ghana international Yaw Yeboah is likely to be sold by Manchester City in the summer with his contract set to expire in a year’s time. Yaw Yeboah will not be returning, with City refusing to allow another loan move for the 20-year-old Ghanaian because his contract expires in 2018. This either means he will extend … Read more
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has retrieved an amount of five hundred and eighty thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢580, 000.00) belonging to the Asankare Cocoa Purchasing Depot at Adomfe-Asante Akyim from two armed robbers after a shoot-out with the police. The robbery according to the police took place over the weekend during the Easter festivities. Speaking … Read more
A Kumasi High Court presided by justice Obiri Yeboah has granted bail to the 13 members of the notorious Delta Force standing trial for raiding the office of the Ashanti regional security coordinator. The 13 who were on trial for rioting, assaulting a public officer and conspiracy to commit crime on Friday March 24, 2017 … Read more
Thirty three people, made up of 21 males and 12 females, was yesaterday arrested in a police swoop at various ghettos in Kumasi. The suspects are believed to be illicit drug peddlers and users who were located at various areas in the Ashanti Regional capital. They were arrested at places like Tinka, Alabar, Columbia in … Read more
Ghanaian youngster Yaw Yeboah is set to join Portuguese side FC Porto on loan in June. According to reports in Portugal, Porto have contacted representatives of the 19-year old over a possible move. Yaw Yeboah is currently playing for Eredivisie side FC Twente, on loan from Premier League club Manchester City. Yeboah has made 19 … Read more
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has denied media reports suggesting that the presiding Judge, in the Delta Force case was assaulted by the members of the vigilante group when they besieged the court Thursday. The court, presided over by Mary Nsenkyire, had ordered the 13 of them standing trial for the assault of the Ashanti … Read more
The suspect was shot in the left thigh after resisting police arrest Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested a suspected notorious criminal who has been behind several incidents of robbery in Asante New town and its environs. The suspect, Alexander Peprah was shot in the left thigh after resisting police arrest. The police trailed him … Read more
Following the escape of 13 accused members of the New Patriotic Party-affiliated vigilante group, Delta Force, from the Kumasi circuit court, the Ashanti Regional Police command has revealed that its personnel at the court may have been blindsided by the route the Delta Force members used. According to the Ashanti Regional Police’s Public Relations Officer, ASP … Read more
The Ashanti regional police commander has said he takes full blame for Thursday’s Delta Force attack on a Circuit Court in Kumasi. DCOP Ken Yeboah said the police committed an error by failing to anticipate the attack. He, however, said he would not resign over the incident because he has corrected the error. He spoke … Read more
The 5 police officers stationed at the court were overpowered by the irate group The Ashanti Regional Police Command is on a manhunt for 13 Delta Force members who escaped from custody on Thursday April 6, 2017. The suspects who appeared before the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Circuit Court presided over by Her Worship Mary … Read more
The Police in the Ashanti Region have issued a bench warrant for 13 Delta Force members who escaped from their custody on Thursday with the help of fellow Delta Force colleagues who had thronged the hearing at a Kumasi Circuit Court. The 13, who were remanded into prison custody and billed to reappear on 20 … Read more
The Graphic Communications Group (GCGL) has petitioned the Police Administration to take measures to investigate and arrest a man who claims to be involved in illegal gold mining, popularly known as galamsey. The petition, which was signed on its behalf by the Managing Director, Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, and addressed to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), … Read more
The Delta Force is alleged to have attacked the REGSEC coordinator in Kumasi. A leading member of the New Patriotic Party in the Ashanti Region is appealing to police to temper justice with mercy by allowing members of the Delta Force to apologise for attacking the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator and be discharged. Thirteen persons … Read more
A leading member of the New Patriotic Party in the Ashanti Region is appealing to police to temper justice with mercy by allowing members of the Delta Force to apologise for attacking the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator and be discharged. Thirteen persons have since been arrested and charged after the incident. Police are still investigating … Read more
Operation Save the Suffering Masses (OSSM), a Kumasi-based human rights organisation, has criticised the Ashanti Regional Police Command for the inefficient manner it handled the recent attack on the Regional Security Co-ordinator by the Delta Force, a vigilante group of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Nana Kwasi Kwarteng, Spokesman for OSSM, in a statement issued … Read more
Lawyer Charles Opoku Yeboah, an Accra-based lawyer has not been charged with fraud as being reported in a section of the media. Further Investigations by the Ghana News Agency have now revealed that lawyer Yeboah is not facing a charge of fraud at an Accra High Court as reported in a news item last week. … Read more
After two successive seasons, Ghana’s most prestigious art prize, the Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Ghanaian Art has announced the ten artists who have made the final cut into the 2017 shortlist. The Prize which was established in 2014 under the Kuenyehia Trust for Contemporary Art, a private not-for-profit trust, seeks to make a contribution to … Read more
Long before Robin van Persie’s title-crowning strike against Aston Villa or Paolo Di Canio’s gravity defying scissor-kick for West Ham, there was one volleyed goal that football players of professional and amateur backgrounds desperately sought to simulate. ‘The Yeboah’ was the holy grail for a generation of schoolkids and Sunday league players alike. The man … Read more