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Nigeria: Senate Orders Suspension of Dana Airlines Operations

Abuja — The Senate has ordered Dana Airlines to suspend its operations pending the conclusion of its investigation into Sunday’s air crash. The Senate also directed the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Dr. Harold Demuren, to step aside until all investigations into the air crash had been completed. The resolution followed a […]

Rawlings’ Speech at Aflao on June 4

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has described businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome as a “crass criminal” who was allowed to dupe the country by the Atta Mills-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government. According to Mr. Rawlings, who until now had been silent over the Woyome issue, the NDC now had no moral right to accuse anybody […]

Woyome re-arrested on fresh charges

An embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome, who was set free this morning, has been re-arrested and leveled with two fresh charges. He has been charged with defrauding by false pretense and causing financial loss to the State to the tune of GhC 51 million. Mr. Woyome, who appeared calm in court, pleaded not guilty to […]

US Student admits eating Ghanaian’s heart, part of brain

(CNN) — Hours after his family members alerted police to a human head and two hands they discovered stashed in metal tins, a Maryland man admitted killing his housemate, cutting him up, then eating his heart and part of his brain, authorities said. Alexander Kinyua, 21, was being held without bail Thursday at the Harford […]

147 people feared dead in Nigerian plane crash

By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com Nigeria’s aviation ministry said Sunday that 147 people were aboard a Dana Airlines passenger jet that crashed into a two-story building in Lagos, the country’s largest city. “I don’t believe there are any survivors,” said Harold Denuren, Nigeria’s director of aviation. The flight originally was reported to have been carrying […]

Cargo plane crash in Ghana kills 10, crew survives

ACCRA — A cargo plane crash-landed on Saturday near the airport in Ghana’s capital Accra after overshooting the runway and hit a bus on the ground, killing at least 10 people, but the crew survived, officials said. Wreckage from the Boeing 727 Allied Air plane could be seen in an area near the airport along […]

Liberia’s Taylor jailed for 50 years

Liberia’s ex-President Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in jail by a UN-backed war crimes court. Last month Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone during the 1991-2002 civil war. The prosecution at the Special Court for Sierra Leone wanted an 80-year prison term, which the defense said […]

Kenya: Explosion Rocks Kenyan Capital

Nairobi — A massive explosion has rocked a building on Moi Avenue in Nairobi, adjacent to the Mount Kenya University. The cause of the blast at Assanands House remained unclear but several people could be seen being pulled out of the damaged building. Witnesses said some of the injured women appeared to be in a […]

Killers Chase Oman FM’s Boss

The Director of Radio at Ken City Media, Kwabena Kwakye, fondly called KK, is the target of a killer squad assembled to, according to information reaching DAILY GUIDE, eliminate or render him physically incapable of sustaining his occupation at the media network. A report about the possible assassination has been reported to the Kwabenya Police […]

Martin Amidu speaks: NDC legal team interfering with A-G’s work

A former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Martin Amidu, has expressed fear that some National Democratic Congress (NDC) legal team members, whose business is to meddle in the affairs of the A-G’s department could undermine the prosecution of the infamous Alfred Agbesi Woyome case. Mr. Amidu in a statement to Citifmonline.com to support a […]

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