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Desilting gutters, Korle Lagoon waste of govt money – NPP MP

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Subin constituency in the Ashanti region, Mr Eugene Boakye Antwi, says desilting choked gutters is...

Expect heavy downpours today – Meteo

The country will experience heavy rains this morning and afternoon , Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMA) has cautioned the public.Per a band of clouds tracked...

UN appoints Charlotte Osei for International Elections Commissioner role

The United Nations has appointed Charlotte Osei as an International Elections Commissioner to Afghanistan as it prepares to hold crucial presidential polls in September.  The appointment...

Government to provide all regions with passport offices

The Foreign Affairs Ministry has said plans are in place to ensure that all regions in the country have offices to serve passport applicants. The...

Pastors worship with Moslems at Kukuom Central Mosque

The leadership of churches at Kukuom, the capital of the Asunafo South District of the Ahafo Region, on Sunday, May 26, 2019, made history when...

Woman arrested in failed ritual murder

The Police in Osenase, a community near Akwatia in the Eastern region have arrested a 32-year-old seamstress known as Humu Iddrisu for allegedly conspiring...

Go to court & defend yourself if you are innocent – NPP to Ayariga

A New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) communications officer Ernest Yaw Kumi has asked the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, to go to...

Must-read from a ‘migrant spy’: No greener pastures on the desert

It was close to midnight when the young man crawled into the desert. All around him was darkness. A hundred metres away, a handful...

Akufo-Addo must resolve Stonebwoy-Shatta Wale feud – Bulldog

CEO of  BullHaus Entertainment Lawrence Asiamah Hanson known by many as Bulldog has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to intervene in resolving...

Lower Manya Unrest: PURC, PDS roll out payment plan roadmap

The Public Utility and Regulatory Commission together with Power Distribution Service (PDS) under the Tema region after a successful meeting with the MP for Lower Manya...

Security guard jailed for threatening to kill former minister

A former security guard at the State Enterprise Commission has been jailed two years by the Accra Circuit Court for threatening to kill the...

Watch Patapaa’s new banger

Agona Swedru based popular singer and 'crazy social media challenge' maker, Patapaa has released a new track called "My Destiny". My Destiny features Guy Cemetery,...

Stonebwoy, Shatta Wale saga a wake-up call for the music industry-Baako

Editor in Chief of the New Crusading Guide strongly believes that the unfortunate incident at Sunday’s Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) should serve as a wakeup call...

Gyan urged to decline Black Stars ‘General Captain’ post

Deposed skipper of the national football team, the Black Star, has been urged to decline a new position created for him within the team...

Ghana card mass registration at Ga East ends today

The Ghana card registration for residents in the Ga East municipality will end today . The National Identification Authority has thus announced centres where residents...

NADMO to disburse GH¢1.05 million to victims

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) will disburse $200,000 (GH¢1.05 million) to 96 victims and bereaved families of the June 3 disaster, who have...

Mahama Ayariga trial takes off

The Special Prosecutor, Martin ABK Amidu, has filed a case against National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga,...

Okudzeto Ablakwa writes on cancelling AU holiday

Under the direction of President Akufo-Addo, today the 25th of May which marks Africa Union Day or Africa Liberation Day as was reintroduced by...

Fallen cargo truck causes traffic at Nkrumah Interchange

There was huge traffic at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange on Friday afternoon (24 May 2019) as an articulated truck tumbled in an attempt to...

Woman reveals how her pastor husband sleeps with men

A woman has written to Ideal Home, a home affairs programme on 3FM in Accra, revealing how her husband has been having sex with...

Student gets 20 years for robbery

A 19-year-old student, who attacked and robbed a nurse of her handbag, inflicting knife wounds on her at Tikrom, near Ejisu, has been jailed...

Painter strangles grandmother; buries body in uncompleted building

A 22-year-old man, Shadrack Hushie, who allegedly murdered his grandmother and buried her at the backyard of their house at Zenu, in the Kpone...

Push tax on sanitary pads to alcohol – Girl Guides suggests to govt

The Ghana Girl Guides Association has appealed to the government to remove the tax on sanitary pads. According to the Chief Commissioner of the...

Police officer who killed 15-yr-old boy sentenced to 15 years

A Texas jury sentenced a former police officer to 15 years in prison Wednesday night for the shooting to death of an unarmed African-American...

Video+Photos: Container truck falls off Nkrumah Circle Interchange

A 40-footer container truck with registration number AS 4258 N has fallen on the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange in Accra from the Ring Road...

Audio: Prophet Nigel Gaisie breaks silence on kidnapped girls

Ghana’s hopes of finding and reuniting the kidnapped girls with their families may be an exercise in futility, the founder and leader of True...

Two Ghanaian drivers killed in terrorist attack near Burkina Faso

Two Ghanaian truck drivers were reportedly killed in a terrorist attack near the Burkina-Faso border on Thursday while transporting floor tiles from the Takoradi Port to...

Audio: PDS asked to halt mass disconnection over Manya Krobo riots

Power Distribution Services (PDS) has been directed to hold on with the mass disconnection exercise in the Lower Manya Krobo of the Eastern region. Deputy...

Audio: How I declined an invitation to appear before Emile Short Commission- Asiedu Nketia

General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said that he once declined an invitation to appear before the Justice...

Editorial: Shatta Wale, Stonebwoy VGMA fracas: Are we safe?

Many people made it a point to watch the much publicised 2019 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs) which also coincided with the 20th Anniversary...

Audio: Lower Manya Krobo MCE ordered to foot bills of Krobo riot victims

The Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Simon Kweku Tetteh, has been charged by the Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfuor, to foot...

Edwin Arthur elected president of PRINPAG

The Managing Editor of The New Independent Newspaper, Andrew Edwin Arthur, has been elected as the President of the Private Newspaper Publishers Association of...

Chokosi-Kokomba conflict: Two jailed 10 years

Two people have been sentenced to a total of 10 years imprisonment in connection with the Chokosis and Konkomba clash in the Chereponi and...

Company builds under high tension, abandons GH¢500,000 govt deal after electrocution

Park-side Limited, a construction company, has abandoned a GH¢503, 935.08 worth of contract for the construction of a public place of convenience (KVIP) at...

Audio: Boy, 6, drowns in Lake Volta during school hours

A six-year-old boy, identified as Benjamin Adu Gyamfi, a pupil of Roman Catholic Basic School in Yeji in the Bono East region, on Thursday...

Photos: Fire razes furniture shop at Sakaman

Fire has razed Central Furniture shop at Sakaman, a suburb in Accra destroying furniture worth thousands of cedis in the early hours of Friday. The...

VGMA clash: Shatta Wale plays too much, climbed stage aimlessly – Mark Okraku Mantey (Video)

Astute producer, Mark Okraku Mantey has waded into the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards brawl that ensued between Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale last weekend at...

Lower Manya chaos: Father of deceased, residents narrate ordeal (Audio)

Wilfred Sam Partey, father of a young man identified as Thomas Partey Nartey who lost his life in a clash between the Police and...

Kwesi Appiah names Andre Ayew as new Black Stars captain

Black Stars coach, Kwesi Appiah has named André Ayew as the permanent captain of the team ahead of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt....

Passport fees to go up

Government is considering reviewing passport fees upwards to help it break even and avoid the current losses incurred in the processing and production of...