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More than 57,000 incidents of gun violence happened in the United States in 2016, killing at least 14,000 people and injuring 30,000, according to non-profit corporation Gun Violence Archive. The following are major shooting cases in the United State under President Barack Obama’s eight-year tenure. — HOUSTON, July 7, 2016 — Four police officers were killed and seven others injured as two snipers opened fire during a protest against police shootings across the United States. — ORLANDO, June 12, 2016 — A gunman wielding an assault-type rife and a handgun killed at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Obama decried the tragedy as an “act of terror.” — SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 2, 2015 — At least 14 people were killed and 17 others were injured after gunmen opened fire at a social services center in San Bernardino City, Southern California. — OREGON, Oct. 2, 2015 — At least 10 people, including the gunman himself, died in a shoo...

A new cease-fire agreement reached between the Syrian government and the opposition were welcomed by related parties on Thursday, but at the same time uncertainties remain over whether the truce will definitely end the nearly six-year-old civil war. The chronic conflicts in Syria have killed more than 300,000 people and displaced nearly 11 million others. NEW CEASE-FIRE The new cease-fire went into force at midnight Thursday as declared by the Syrian army. The nationwide truce was brokered by Russia and Turkey and agreed upon by the Syrian government and major opposition and rebel groups, while terrorist organizations such as the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and the Islamic State (IS), were excluded. At a meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the trilateral format involving Russia, Turkey and Iran will monitor and provide guarantees to the peace process. Contacts between him and le...

Stunning Nollywood actress,  Rukky Sanda  shared a video of herself dancing in Hindi style and caption it with this beautiful message. She wrote: Mood; I wake up this happy everyday… Literally smiling & then I thank my Good Gracious Amazing GOD for another day given… If u wake up next to me seeing the big smile on my face, u’d prolly think I’m cray* cray* Lol! But that smile I wear d & positivity that fills my heart is nothing short but d Grace of My Living God and his presence… He says Surrender all to me to my will & I shall guide and Direct ur path… It’s how I live my life… They say she’s too happy, she has no problem her life is perfect, I can goo onn and on…. Yes I am happy & my life is perfect even tho some might say there’s nothing like perfection* Guess what!!! I don’t agree… I say when u give it to God to do his will, he will PERFECT everything dat concerns u. Tz been an Eventful year… I won’t go into details cos I don’t believe in talking or...

Radio and TV Personality, Adenike Oyetunde has penned down an open letter to Olamide over his much talked about Olamide Live In Concert Show – OLIC. She wrote a bittersweet note to the singer, stating her woes over highly rated concert, people struggled to get tickets for: “Dear Olamide, what HAPPENED? What!!! I attended #Olic2 and without a doubt, it was by far my BEST event last year. I talked, and talked about it; everyone around me that didn’t go, knew they had to this year. Imagine my excitement when I saw these pictures by TyBello, I knew #Olic3 was definitely going to be a hit. I needed to see ‘Olamide Live In Concert’ *coughs. In my life, not even at either Canaanland or Redemption Camp had I EVER been stuck in such traffic. No clear plans on controlling humans (forget that we are peculiar here). The plan was go with Uber. There was a change, and a friend’s friend took @mayowaekpo and I. What should have taken maybe 30minutes max, turned to two years in traffic...

Ghana’s provisional GDP (including oil) for the 3rd quarter of 2016, grew by 4 percent compared to 3.5 percent in the same period of 2015. The services sector recorded the highest growth of 4.7 percent, followed by industry and agric with 3.9 and 2.3 percent respectively. However, the non-oil provisional GDP for the third quarter of 2016, grew by 4.6% compared to 4.1% recorded for the third quarter of 2015. According to the Ghana Statistical Service, the provisional estimate (including oil) for the third quarter of    2016 at current prices (including financial intermediation services indirectly measured) is GH?44,608.1 million. The estimate for the same period in 2015 was GH? 37,351.3  million. Also, the provisional estimate (excluding oil) for the third quarter of 2016 at current prices (including financial intermediation services indirectly measured) is  GH?43,786.8  million. For the same period in 2015, the value was GH? 36,117.8  mi...

Mustapha Hamid, Spokesperson for Nana Addo Dankwa  Akufo-Addo the  President-elect, has hinted that names of persons to occupy cabinet positions and other ministerial portfolios  in the new government will be unveiled 24-hours after he is sworn into office. There have been various lists being bandied around on media platforms as persons who will be assigned various ministerial roles in the incoming government led by Nana Addo. But Hamid on Starr Today stated that that the real list of persons penciled for the respective positions will not be hidden from the public after January 7, 2017. “Within 24-hours after he has been sworn into office, we will get to know who his ministers will be. For now I don’t think we need to give any credence to a purported ministerial list being circulated”, he emphasized. The investiture of Nana Addo takes place on January 7, 2017 after cruising to victory beating the incumbent President  John Dramani Mahama of the National De...

The Minister of Sports Nii Lante Vanderpuije has served notice President John Mahama will return as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate in the 2020 elections, despite a humiliating defeat in the December polls. Speaking on personality profile show – Starr Chat – on Starr 103.5 FM Wednesday, Mr. Vanderpuije stressed Mahama will be “forced” by party members to stage a comeback because he is the obvious choice to lead the outgoing NDC government. “We’ll force John Mahama to go,” the MP for Odododiodoo told his host Bola Ray. The outspoken and controversial lawmaker is optimistic his boss will be on the ballot again in four years’ time, adding there is no way his running mate Kwesi Amissah-Arthur will contest if Mahama declines. “If John Mahama will not go, Amissah-Arthur will not go,” Mr. Vanderpuije was emphatic, noting that a reverse decision by the outgoing vice president will be a “betrayal” of his boss. President Mahama lost the 2016 elections b...

Abuja – The Presidency says the appointments into the Federal Government’s boards, parastatal and agencies will be “fully back on track” at the beginning of 2017. A Presidential Media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, made this known in an interactive session with State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday. The delay in the appointments of members of the boards and agencies by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has been generating interest and comments from various quarters particularly from members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Shehu, however, assured that the process will be fully back on track at the beginning of the new year. “You know that the reconstitution began methodically, from sector by sector. You should expect that to resume at the beginning of the new year. “The president has given directions on what to do,” he said. On the agricultural programmes of the Federal Government, the Presidential aide said that the President’s persistent calls for ...

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rallied Ghanaians to unite behind the President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, to push through his government’s development agenda – to overcome poverty and other indignities. Mr. Kwaku Ntim Twumasi asked that they showed strong support, understanding and good will to the new political administration. He made the call at a ceremony held by the Spiritan University College branch of the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) of the NPP to honour him for the huge part he played in the party’s election victory in the Ejisu constituency. The party won both the presidential and parliamentary elections by 84.48 per cent and Mr. Twumasi, popularly known as “NTK”, was instrumental in that. The students together with the constituency youth wing, in recognition of his vital contribution, presented him with a citation. Mr. Twumasi encouraged everybody to find space to contribute to the effort of building a society that worke...

The only New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary candidate to win a seat in the Volta Region, Michael Gyato, has attributed the remarkable victory of the party in the general elections to the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) poor performance in the region. The NPP normally heads into the elections with low expectations of the Volta Region given the region’s standing as an overwhelming stronghold of the NDC. However, as results filtered in from the elections, it became clear the party was heading for an improved performance in the region, owing to among other things, a significantly reduced turnout in the region. In the end, the NPP had improved its presidential performance to about 18 percent and managed to clinch an unlikely seat in one of the 22 constituencies. Speaking to Citi News, the MP-elect for Krachi East also said the region was no more a stronghold for the NDC as, according to him, more education has ensured that “Ghanaians are now discerning. They can read bet...

Dr Zanetor Agyemang- Rawlings, Member of Parliament (MP) elect for the Korley Klottey, in the Greater Accra Region has asked her constituents to get on board and support her to fulfill the development agenda of the constituency. Dr Zanetor Rawlings She said with the elections over, all that was needed was team work to propel the development of the area. Dr Agyemang- Rawlings was speaking to journalists at the Parliament House in Accra, during a registration exercise for newly elected MPs organised by the House. She agreed that the primary duty of the legislator was the making of laws, but however said as an elected representative of the people, she would represent their interests in the House and bring on board the issues that affect them. The MP-elect and daughter of former President Jerry John Rawlings promised to champion issues affecting women and children. “As a leader of a group, you don’t work with only those who chose you, but you provide a representation for all the...