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Inter-schools violence: Older generation failed to guide youth – Security expert

A security expert, Dr. Emmanuel Sowattey, has attributed the rising wave of violence in Senior High Schools to the older generation’s failure to provide...

Finance Minister lays Value for Money Office Bill before Parliament

The Minister for Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, has laid the Value for Money Office Bill before Parliament, describing it as a decisive step to...

Rainstorms expected to hit parts of Volta, Eastern and Accra — GMet warns

The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) has issued an impact-based weather alert, warning that localised rainstorms and thunderstorms are expected to affect parts of the...

Police intercept truck carrying over 7,000 parcels of suspected marijuana in Nkwanta South

The Nkwanta South Divisional Command of the Ghana Police Service has intercepted a suspected drug-laden container truck, retrieving more than 7,000 parcels of dried...

Afenyo-Markin urges Bagbin to summon Korle-Bu, Police, Ridge Hospitals over alleged denial of care to hit-and-run victim

Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has called on the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to direct the Health Committee to summon the management of Korle-Bu...

Many Ghanaians are confused and frustrated with the NDC – Miracles Aboagye

A former presidential staffer and New Patriotic Party (NPP) communicator, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has criticised the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, accusing it of...

No NDC appointee can talk about ORAL now; what they’re doing is worse – Miracles Aboagye

A former presidential staffer and New Patriotic Party (NPP) communicator, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has criticized the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over the Operation Recover...

GRIDCo probes cause of power outage in parts of Tema

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has confirmed that an electrical fault at its Smelter II substation in Tema caused a power outage in...

First British baby born using transplanted womb from dead donor

A baby boy has become the first child in the UK to be born using a womb transplanted from a dead donor. Grace Bell, who...

Tow or be towed: New L.I targets traffic congestion and road safety

The Director of Policy Planning at the Ministry of Transport, Ghana, Eric Tetteh Addison, has revealed that a Legislative Instrument (L.I.) is currently before...

EPA says $35m needed to fully restore the polluted Birim River

The Chief Executive Officer of the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), Nana Ama Brown Klutse, has revealed that an estimated $35 million will be required...

40 Ghanaian languages face extinction

The Executive Director of the Ghana Library Authority (GhLA), Ziblim Alhassan Betintiche, has revealed that at least 40 Ghanaian languages are on the verge...

Abesim murder: Footballer sentenced to life in prison

The High Court in Accra has sentenced Richard Appiah, the footballer and draughtsman convicted of murdering two children in Abesim in the Bono Region,...

GNFS warns first-time drivers over dangerous Asukawkaw road

The Oti Regional Second-in-Command of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), D.O.1 Francis Agbavitor, has cautioned first-time drivers to exercise extreme care when using...

ECG grants metre readers authority to cut power over unpaid bills

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has introduced significant changes to its operations, empowering franchise officers, previously known as metre readers, to disconnect electricity...

Six Aggrey Memorial SHS students arrested over brutal attack on ADISCO student

The Ghana Police Service has arrested six students of Aggrey Memorial Senior High School for allegedly attacking a final-year student of Adisadel College in...

Ghana’s emergency healthcare system failing patients — Former GMA Vice President

Former Vice President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Justice Yankson, has raised serious concerns about Ghana’s emergency healthcare system, describing it as...

Police arrest three individuals in Ahafo Region for possessing illegal firearms

The Ahafo Regional Police Command has arrested three individuals on the Ayomso-Goaso road for allegedly possessing firearms unlawfully. During a press briefing in Goaso, the...

Renaming of airport will not impose huge cost on state – Transport Minister

The Minister for Transport, Joseph Bukari Nikpe, has dismissed claims that the decision to rename the country’s main international airport will impose a significant...

ECG explains why your prepaid may not last long [Listen]

The Communications Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), William Boateng, has responded to concerns from sections of the public who claim they...

“He was the backbone of the house” – Sister of hit-and-run victim speaks out after tragic loss

The tragic death of 29-year-old engineer Charles Amissah, who died after being turned away from multiple hospitals due to a lack of beds, has...

Suspects identified as Police confirm arrest over assault on Obrachire SHS student

The Central Regional Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three students in connection with the assault of an Obrachire Senior High School student,...

Court of Appeal dismisses Kennedy Agyapong’s second attempt to halt Multimedia defamation trial

The Court of Appeal has thrown out a fresh bid by failed NPP flagbearer candidate and former Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong, to halt...

Ahanta West Assembly Members dissociate from petition against MCE

The Assembly Members of the Ahanta West Municipal Assembly have officially distanced themselves from a petition calling for the removal of Municipal Chief Executive...

Nana Yaa Jantuah clashes with Titus Glover on Mahama’s performance [Watch]

A heated exchange erupted on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem between former Greater Accra Regional Minister Daniel Titus Glover and Presidential Staffer Nana Yaa Jantuah...

Twitter comment calling me beautiful but brainless broke me – S3fa

Ghanaian songstress S3fa has opened up about the emotional toll of social media criticism, revealing that a harsh comment questioning her intelligence and talent...

Ghanaians overpaid GH¢1.5bn for electricity — CEMSE says amidst demand for 11% tariff cut

The Centre for Environmental Management and Sustainable Energy (CEMSE) has revealed that Ghanaian electricity consumers may have overpaid an estimated GH¢1.5 billion in the...

Cocoa Pricing: Clerks lament attacks by farmers, describe reduction as ‘biggest scam’

Some cocoa clerks and farmers in the Upper West Akyem Municipality of the Eastern Region say they are counting their losses following the government’s...

Acute water shortage hit sections of the Greater Kumasi Metropolis

An acute water shortage has hit sections of the Greater Kumasi Metropolis, leaving thousands of residents scrambling for water after days of dry taps. For...

Concerned Ahanta West NDC Executives petition President for removal of MCE

Concerned branch executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Ahanta West have petitioned the President to remove the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of...

Two dead, 19 injured in gory accident on N1 highway [Photos]

Two people have died and 19 others sustained injuries in a serious accident near Fiesta Royale Hotel on the N1 highway in Accra. The collision,...

Boakye Agyarko launches nationwide tour to rebuild NPP

Boakye Agyarko, a hopeful for the National Chairman position of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has announced the commencement of a nationwide tour aimed...

Mahama sets 15% manufacturing-to-GDP target by 2030, eyes 500,000 industrial jobs

President John Dramani Mahama has announced a national target to raise Ghana’s manufacturing sector contribution to at least 15 percent of Gross Domestic Product...

Asutifi North MP donates 35 Bunk Beds to Gyedu Technical Institute

The Member of Parliament for Asutifi North two-in-one beds to Gyedu Technical Institute to help address a shortage of accommodation facilities. Speaking at a brief...

Mahama warns smuggling, counterfeiting are economic sabotage; vows ruthless crackdown

President John Dramani Mahama has declared that smuggling, counterfeiting, and the rebagging of substandard goods constitute economic sabotage and will be treated as serious...

Tullow buys Prof. Atta Mills FPSO for $205million

UK-based oil and gas firm Tullow Oil has signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement to acquire the floating production, storage and offloading vessel Prof....

OSP probes alleged GH₵25.8m palm oil diversion scheme

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has launched an investigation into suspected corruption involving the diversion of 50 twenty-foot containers of palm oil...

The education system is suffering from moral deficit – Rev. Opuni

Executive Director of the Alliance for Christian Advocacy Africa (ACAA), Rev. Opuni, has said that Ghana’s education system is suffering from what he described...

Court remands galamsey operator for wife’s murder

Nicholas Gyekyey, a 22-year-old galamsey operator, alias “Town Boy”, has been remanded into police custody by the District Magistrate Court in Enchi for allegedly murdering his wife, Erica Ocansey. His plea has not been taken, and he...

Host of Abrokyire Nkomo, Akwaaba CEO meet Deputy Foreign Minister on dual citizenship

Kwaku Amankwatia, a diaspora radio program host at Asempa FM 94.7, and Samuel Lartey, CEO of Akwaaba Holland Foundation, paid a courtesy call on...