Deputy Minister of Defence, Major Retired Derrick Oduro has assured Ghanaians of their in spite of a terror warning issued to British nationals travelling to Ghana by the United Kingdom (UK). According to Major Oduro, the country’s security apparatus is wide awake and firmly on the ground to quell any incident of a terrorist attack in Ghana. In spite of …
The shadowy leader of the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has appeared in a new video – the first in nearly a year. In the latest one, released to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan, the Boko Haram leader spoke in Arabic and appeared to have visual impairment, judging by the way he struggled …
The Wesley Methodist Cathedral in Sekondi has engaged its congregants on the need to be vigilant and security conscious. This has come in the wake of terrorist attacks on Churches in Burkina Faso. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Joseph Kofi Darko of the Sekondi police, speaking at the Sunday service said following the recent terrorists attack in Burkina Faso, it …
Former President John Mahama has given his assessment of the country’s security situation, describing it as poor. “My assessment will be based on how Ghanaians feel and in my conversations with ordinary Ghanaians, they feel more insecure today than they did in the past. “There seems to be a spate of robberies, there are issues that didn’t exist before like …
Still in line with the recently celebrated World Press Freedom Day, we meet Fatima Ibrahim. She is the outspoken radio host at the Dandal Kura station in Borno State, north-eastern Nigeria. Fatima discusses human rights, land laws and also, the radical Islamic views of militant group Boko Haram in local languages and dialects. The northeast of Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest …
Nigerian soldiers have raided the main office of the private Daily Trust newspaper and confiscated computers. It follows the arrest of some staff at the newspaper’s office in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency. The Daily Trust says it may be connected with its lead story on Sunday about the military preparing an operation …
