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Caregiver remanded over 11-month baby’s death

The caregiver at Happy Bloomers Creche at Agbogba, Clara Ayani-Ampah, who was arrested over the death of an 11-month-old baby girl, has been remanded...

Thunder strikes 24-year-old woman dead at Nkwanta North

A 24-year-old woman has been struck dead by thunderstorm at Kpassa in the Nkwanta North district of the Oti Region. The incident occurred on Friday evening...

Akufo-Addo gets doctor of philosophy degree

The University of Cape Coast on Saturday, May 29, 2021, conferred a Doctor of Philosophy degree on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. This is to...

Akufo-Addo takes on Joy FM over alleged campaign against Free SHS, unaware that GES was part of discussion

JoyNews/AdomNews · Akufo-Addo takes on Joy FM, accusing it of waging campaign against Free SHS policy President Nana Akufo-Addo has accused Joy FM of waging...

Kokrobite youth angry over destruction of gods

Some youth at Kokrobite are angry over the grading and destruction of their gods.According to them, they have been deprived of worshipping and paying...

Police at Suhum fires warning shots to disperse angry Amanase residents

Police at Suhum in the Eastern Region fired several warning shots to disperse angry residents of Amanase, a suburb of Suhum before there was...

COVID-19: 1 more dead as Ghana’s active cases reach 1,138

One more person has died of the novel coronavirus bringing the death toll to 784, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). This comes as...

OSIWA partners Crime Check to end criminalization of poverty

The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and the Crime Check Foundation (CCF) have rolled out an initiative in their quest to end...

Census: Get counted – Akufo-Addo urges Ghanaians

President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched 30 days countdown to 2021 Population and Housing Census with a call on all to get counted when...

Carpenter bags 25 years for robbery

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly court, presided over by Abdul Razak Musah, has sentenced a 36-year-old carpenter to 25 years imprisonment for robbery. Kwesi Amoako, also...

NLC secures injunction against striking lab scientists

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has secured an interlocutory injunction to compel laboratory scientists across the country to call of their strike. The court order...

Another ‘galamsey’ pit collapse at Campso; one dead [Photos]

One person has been confirmed dead after an illegal mining (galamsey) pit collapsed on him at Campso, a farming community in the Juaboso district...

Man ties farmer up, butchers him in cold blood

A man in his mid fifties has been butchered in cold blood at Inchaban Nkwanta, a community near Takoradi in the Shama District of...

DSP Azugu transferred!

DSP Samuel K. Azugu has been transferred from the National Security Secretariat at the Blue Gate as the Commander of the SWAT unit, Citi...

AMA embarks on demolition along Accra Brewery-Railway line [Photos]

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has embarked on an exercise to rid the Accra Brewery-Railway line enclave of illegal occupants and encroachers. The exercise took...

Nationwide LSM training ends in Greater Accra region

The three-week nationwide Larval Source Management (LSM) training across the country ended on Thursday, May 27th, 2021 in the Greater Accra Region with a...

Amanase residents go berserk after hit-and-run driver kills man

A group of irate youth at Amanase on the Accra-Kumasi highway on Thursday embarked on a massive demonstration after a hit-and-run driver killed a man. The...

Former PNC National Chairman, Bernard Mornah in trouble! [Video]

Former National Chairman of the People's National Convention (PNC) has been reportedly assaulted by security personnel in Burkina Faso. Bernard Mornah, who is...

Plan International saves rural girls from menstural ‘shame’

Some female students in Tafi Mador RC DA Basic School and Leklebi DA Basic School in the Afadzato South District have narrated how they...

Galamsey: OccupyGhana chides Akufo-Addo over burning of excavators

Pressure Group, OccupyGhana, has described President Nana Akufo-Addo’s endorsement of the ‘burn-on-sight’ approach adopted by operatives of Operation Halt, as unfortunate. OccupyGhana also decried the...

Group condemns arrest of LGBTQ+ persons in Volta Region

The Center for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria has called on the Attorney General to withdraw the charges levelled against alleged LGBTIQ+...

Fire Service personnel arrive in taxi to douse flames at Akyem Begoro [Video]

Social media has been inundated with a video of fire service personnel arriving at an emergency scene in a chartered taxi to douse flames...

6 prisoners regain freedom as NGO pays court fines

Some six prisoners have regained their freedom after being convicted of petty offences but were unable to pay the court fines between GH¢320.00 and...

Three NPP executives arraigned over alleged assault

Three Sunyani East Constituency executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) were on Wednesday arraigned at Fiapre in the Sunyani West Municipality. This was for...

Policemen detained over alleged extortion denied bail

The Accra Circuit Court 2 has denied bail to the five policemen who were arrested  following a report of alleged extortion against them. The five...

Galamsey: Over 400 military men commence fourth phase of Operation Halt II

Over four hundred officers of the Ghana Armed Forces have been deployed for the fourth phase of the fight against illegal mining dubbed Operation...

My father reported me for deportation: Woes of a young Ghanaian entrepreneur surviving abroad

A young Ghanaian man has recounted his turbulent experience with his father while striving hard to break through the odds in a foreign land.Eric...

Multimedia partners HD+ for a thrilling television viewing experience

Viewers of all Multimedia Group Limited platforms are in for an exciting television viewing experience as the media giant has partnered SES HD PLUS...

JB Danquah’s murder: Defence lawyer detained at SSNIT hospital

The lead lawyer for Daniel Asiedu, the accused person in the murder of the late Abuakwa North Member of Parliament (MP), Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu,...

Free SHS: GES boss sends ‘SOS’ message to parents

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) is appealing for calm as the government addresses challenges in the implementation of the free Senior...

Very sad: How a caregiver maltreated baby who died later

The police have nabbed a caregiver at a crèche in Accra who vented her anger on an 11-month-old baby girl and allegedly killed her...

Man kills brother’s wife for refusing his proposal

A 35-year-old man has allegedly killed his brother’s wife for refusing his proposal at Uro-mekaa, a village in the Sawla district of the Savannah...

Check out daily cost per head of food served in SHS

It has been revealed that the daily feeding fee per head in public Senior High Schools (SHS) nationwide is GHS 5.20p. This is according to...

Galamsey: Okyenhene calls for suspension of mining in Ghana for a year

The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amotia Ofori Payin, has called for the suspension of mining in the country for a year for a review of the...

JB’s murder: Court throws out motion to move jury to crime scene

An Accra High Court has thrown out a motion praying it to move a seven-member jury to the crime scene of murdered J. B....

NLC directs KATH Laboratory Scientists to end strike

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has directed members of the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists to call off their strike action. “The union should...

Man shoots lover, commits suicide after he caught her allegedly cheating

A peasant farmer, identified as Samson Bismarck Ataafi Kwaku, has allegedly committed suicide after a failed attempt to murder his lover. According to reports, the...

Day-old-baby found near girls’ dormitory of Pong-Tamale SHS [Photos]

A day-old-baby girl has been found in a bush close to Pong-Tamale Senior High School's (SHS) Girls' Dormitory in the Savelugu Municipality of the...

Sir John’s burial date finally announced

The final burial rites of late former Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, aka Sir John, is set to come...

Railway workers incur wrath of Minister

The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, has exposed what he describes as fraudulent activities being undertaken by some railway workers. Mr Quartey has explained...