The Ministry of National Security has refuted claims that, its operatives have unduly arrested and detained a freelance journalist, Sacut Amenga-Etegu. This follows a reports on social media that the freelance journalist has been unduly arrested at a court premises. According to the reports, the journalist was arrested after he …
Read More »Metro Mass security coordinator jailed 10 years for blackmailing former MD
A security coordinator at the Metro Mass Transit Company Limited Lawal Fuseina has been sentenced to serve a 10-year prison term for blackmailing his former Managing Director (MD) Mr Bennet Aboagye. The Circuit Court in Accra convicted and sentenced him after he was found guilty for charges including unlawful entry …
Read More »Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu: The African president with all-female security detail
Samia Suluhu Hassan has been in Tanzania’s political space for over two decades now, presently she is President of the East African nation. As a Muslim, she is always pictured with her veil as she undertakes her mandate of running the country of over 40 million. Soon after then Vice-President …
Read More »Central Gonja nurses, midwives say ‘no security, no posting to Boachipe CHPS’
The Central Gonja branch of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has said until the security of health workers is guaranteed, no health worker must be posted to the Boachipe CHPS in the Savanna region. The group’s comment follows a shooting incident that occurred at the Boachipe CHPS …
Read More »Security officer shot multiple times during cash-in-transit heist
A 41-year-old security officer is fighting for his life in hospital after he was shot during an alleged cash-in transit heist in Umlazi, Durban, on Tuesday. According to a statement released by Emer-G-Med, whose paramedics responded to the scene in Umlazi R section just before 12pm, the man had suffered …
Read More »Accra FM’s Bobie Ansah arrested by ‘security operatives’
Kwabena Bobie Ansah, host of ‘the Citizen show’ on Accra FM has reportedly been arrested by persons purported to be National Security operatives, after his show on Thursday, February 10, 2022. According to Kwame Kwakye, the producer of the show, he cannot really tell what occasioned the incident that happened …
Read More »Fire Sekondi-Takoradi MCE – Security Analyst demand
Sekondi-Takoradi MCE arrested Police officers discovering voice under new administration, Dr. Adam Bonaa Sekondi-Takoradi MCE to be arraigned before court Friday February 4 Security analyst, Dr. Adam Bonaa has said the Metropolitan Chief Executive of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA), who verbally assaulted a police officer, Abdul-Mumin Issah, should …
Read More »Coups: US ready to help Ghana, others deal with security threats
The United States of America (USA) is ready to support Ghana and other African countries to respond to security threats in the region, General Stephen J. Townsend, the Commander of the U.S. Africa Command has said. He said the U.S Government had provided Ghana with equipment support, deploy training, research, …
Read More »Captain Smart missing from National Security Secretariat
Court grants Captain Smart GH¢50,000 bail National Security detains Captain Smart after meeting bail conditions Captain Smart charged with extortion Onua TV/FM’s morning show host, Blessed Godsbrain Smart, popularly known as Captain Smart, is reportedly missing, barely 12 hours after he was taken into National Security custody. According to …
Read More »Captain Smart ‘missing’ from Nat’l Security custody
Onua TV/FM’s morning show host Blessed Godsbrain Smart, popularly known as Captain Smart, is nowhere to be found barely 12 hours after he was taken into National Security custody. The Maakye host was detained by the state security apparatus shortly after an Accra Circuit Court granted him bail on Wednesday, February 2. …
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