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The Oti Regional Minister, Joshua Makubu, has demanded for the removal of trees planted by the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to commemorate the June 4 anniversary this year. He said the use of a school premises for the planting of the trees was uncalled for, considering the history behind the June 4 agitation. Mr Makubu urged the NDC to rather purchase a piece of land for the intended purpose. Speaking to the media at the Kpasa Senior High Technical School in commemoration of this year’s Green Ghana Day. The Minister noted that the June 4 uprising was…

The Inspector-General of Police of the Ghana Police Service, COP George Akuffu Dampare has traveled to the Islamic Senior High Schhol at Abrepo in the Ashanti region where over thirty(30) students were reported to have sustained degrees of injuries this morning after police fired tear gas into protesting students. The IGP’s visit to the school was communicated in a press release issued by the Ghana Police and dated today, June 13, 2022. According to the release, the IGP has traveled to the school for first-hand assessment on the disturbance that occurred at the Islamic Senior High School today which left…

Over thirty(30) students of the Islamic Senior High School at Abrepo in Kumasi have sustained various forms of injuries following reports of police officers firing tear gas into protesting students in the early hours of today, June 3, 2022. The injured students were rushed to a nearby health facility for medical attention and have been admitted since. Reports indicated the students were protesting against rampant accidents in front of the school. According to school authorities, the protesting students blocked the road leading to the entrance of the school making it impossible for vehicles to access the school campus and move…

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for the North Tongu constituency, has dropped another bombshell on the national cathedral, claiming that Akuffo Addo has squandered a large sum of money on an abandoned plot of land. Mr. Ablakwa made this statement on his Twitter handle on Friday, June 10, 2022, and also compared it to Mahama’s GHS115million ultra-modern, fully equipped Shai Osudoku District Hospital. According to him, Mahama would have spent less than the amount Akufo has spent so far. “Prez Akufo-Addo has given Ghana an abandoned bare land with a few excavations for GHS200million; Prez Mahama gave Ghana…

Mr. Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of the Good Evening Ghana show on Metro TV, an Accra-based television station, has revealed that his admiration for President Akufo Addo dates back to when he was in opposition. In a video on his Twitter page, while Speaking on his good evening Ghana show on Friday, June 10, 2022, Mr. Otchere stated that he has every right to support Akufo Addo, so his critics can also support whom they deem fit. According to him, those attacking and describing him as “a stomach journalist” are rather thinking unreasonably because even when Akufo Addo was losing elections, he…

I Don’t Understand Why That Kelly Girl Is Trending – Ameyaw Debrah The renowned celebrity and lifestyle Ghanaian blogger and freelance journalist, Ameyaw Kissi Debrah, has wondered why a certain Tiktok girl called Kelly has been trending over a video she released on her TikTok page. According to Ameyaw Debrah, he has been seeing the girl’s video everywhere on the internet, but he still can’t deduce the essence of that trend. This was seen in a post on his Twitter handle by Modernghana News on Saturday, June 11, 2022. “I really don’t understand why that Kelly girl has been trending. Everywhere…

Larusso clues on A Musical Collaboration With Sarkodie Before The End Of The Year. Larusso, a young Ghanaian reggae-dancehall and Afrobeat artiste has told Ghanaians to expect a collaboration with Ghana’s most celebrated rapper, Michael Owusu, also known in showbiz as Sarkodie, before the end of the year. Speaking on Hit FM, an Accra-based radio station, on Friday, June 10, 2022, after his long-time picture had surfaced on the internet, the Killy Killy hit maker asserted that he had always been looking forward to getting a rap verse from Sarkodie, even from the day he took that picture with him.…

Beijing will “not hesitate to start a war” if Taiwan declares independence, China’s defence minister warned his US counterpart Friday, the latest salvo between the superpowers over the island. The warning from Wei Fenghe came as he held his first face-to-face meeting with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore. Beijing views democratic, self-ruled Taiwan as its territory and has vowed to one day seize the island, by force if necessary, and US-China tensions over the issue have soared in recent months. Wei warned Austin that “if anyone dares to split…

The Greater Accra regional minister, Mr. Henry Quartey, has threatened that as part of the region’s coordinating council’s initiative, they will arrest unauthorized persons who clamp their vehicles on the streets of Accra without any legal permit. While engaging with private firms on June 9, 2022, monitored by Modernghana News, Mr. Quartey, who doubles as the chairman of the regional coordinating council (RCC), ordered the immediate halt to the clamping of vehicles in the city by private entities without authorization and ordered that they go to their respective assemblies for a permit before they engage in such an act. “The Regional…

The member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has uncovered that the national cathedral building has been suspended since March and over 200 employees have been laid off due to financial difficulties. According to him, it is very shocking to hear that after the government has injected about GHS200 million, the projects still become stagnant due to a lack of finance even though they are still at an infant stage. He also wondered where such an amount of money was sent to. “The Akufo-Addo Cathedral Scandal gets murkier: Project contractors had to suspend work since March…