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KAIPTC restructures research and academic units to strengthen response to West Africa’s evolving security challenges
The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) has embarked on a major institutional restructuring aimed at enhancing its capacity to respond to West Africa’s increasingly complex and fast-evolving peace and security environment.
Why Ghana’s Mobile Money security is a house of cards
In the bustling markets of Makola and the sleek high-rises of Airport City, a silent predator stalks the Ghanaian pocket. It does not break locks or climb fences; it simply asks for a key that we have been conditioned to give.
Vincent Ekow Assafuah writes: Welcome home Sedina
The United States District Court, District of Nevada, in its ruling on the extradition request concerning Sedina Christine Tamakloe Attionu, clearly outlined the legal elements that must be satisfied before a certification of extradition can be granted. First, the Court had to satisfy itself that it possessed proper ju...
93% of youth fear armed groups may infiltrate Ghana
A new survey has found that 93 percent of Ghanaian youth are concerned that armed groups could cross into the country and threaten its stability, highlighting growing anxiety over regional security risks despite rising optimism about Ghana’s future. The survey by the Ichikowitz Family Foundation examined young people’s...
Security fired warning shots after gate breach attempt — Lawyer Kantanka on Adwoa Safo’s incident
Kristo Asafo Church Lawyer Nana Kofi Kantanka has clarified that security personnel only fired warning shots during a tense moment involving former Dome-Kwabenya Member of Parliament, Sarah Adwoa Safo, at a Kristo Asafo leadership programme, after an alleged attempt to breach the gate with a vehicle.
Urban flooding: “landguardism, corruption undermining city planning” — Damba
Mohammed Alhassan Damba, immediate past president of the Ghana Institute of Planners, has said the country’s flooding and urban development challenges stem not from a lack of planning laws but from weak enforcement, corruption and political interference in land administration. Damba said existing planning frameworks ha...
Catholic Bishops rebuke government for tagging LGBTQI+ debate as unimportant
The Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference has urged the government to treat the ongoing debate over family values and LGBTQI+ issues with greater seriousness, warning that dismissing the matter as unimportant undermines a conversation many Ghanaians consider morally and culturally significant. In the statement dated Friday...
Buffer Stock case: you’ve turned EOCO into “one-man institution” – Afenyo to Raymond Archer
Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has accused the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Raymond Archer, of centralising authority within the anti-graft agency, amid growing controversy over the re-arrest of former National Food Buffer Stock Company Chief Executive Abdul-Wahab Hana...
GFA mourns Berekum Chelsea player Dominic Frimpong after fatal bus attack
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has expressed shock and sorrow following the death of Dominic Frimpong, a player for Berekum Chelsea, who was killed in an armed robbery attack on the team’s bus. Frimpong reportedly died after gunmen attacked the team while they were returning from a Ghana Premier League fixture, a...
Our client never threatened Ghana police in viral video – KOKA’s legal team
The legal team for New Patriotic Party (NPP) activist Kweku Osei Korankyi Asiedu, known as KOKA, says their client did not threaten any police officer, arguing that a viral video showing an altercation referred instead to an internal party security member and not the national police service. Lawyer Enoch Afoakwa said o...
Oko Omaboe of Adepa Pharmaceuticals allegedly commits sucide
Oko Nortei Omaboe, Board Member of Adepa Pharmaceuticals Limited, manufacturers of high-quality pharmaceutical products in Ghana, and husband of Mrs. Romana Sarpong Omaboe, Board Member and Managing Director of Adepa Pharmaceuticals, has been found dead in his office. Asaase’s News Source further indicates that Mr. Oma...
Interior Minister commends border security agencies, pledges support to address challenges
Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, Minister for the Interior, has commended security agencies operating along the Aflao border for their dedication and sacrifices in safeguarding the country.