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I don’t fear leaving the legal profession – Sosu tells Association of Judges and Magistrates

The Madina Member of Parliament (MP), Francis-Xavier Sosu, says he is not scared to exit the legal profession for cautioning against acts that have...

Minority takes on PURC, ECG over new high charges

The Minority in Parliament has cautioned the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to suspend the new service charges...

Public hearing on LGBTQ+ Bill resumes

The Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee will today, Thursday resume public hearings on the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill...

Perry Okudzeto, Linda Asante appointed Deputy CEOs of NPA

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Perry Okudzeto and Linda Asante as the Deputy Chief Executives (CEOs) of the National Petroleum Authority(NPA). The appointment was...

Fire Service officials visit colleagues involved in fatal accident on Atebubu Highway [Photos]

The Chief Fire Officer (CFO), Julius Kuunuor, has led a delegation to visit its four personnel who were involved in an accident on the...

Transport fares to go up by 30% effective Friday

Private Commercial Transport Operators say effective Friday, February 18, transport fares will be increased by 30 percent. According to the group, this decision has been...

Police apologise to Lamashegu chief and residents over clash

The Ghana Police Service has apologised to the chief and people of Lamashegu and Dagbon as a whole over the misconduct of some personnel...

Aggrieved NABCo trainees protest over delay in salary payment

Beneficiaries of the government’s Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) programme are set to hit the streets today, Thursday, February 17, 2022, in protest of what...

Woman sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for stealing a baby at Akyem-Bodua

The Asamakese Circuit Court has sentenced a 33-year-old woman to seven years imprisonment for stealing a baby at Bodua, a town near Akwatia in...

Ghana Airports Company appoints Pamela Djamson-Tettey as new MD

The Ghana Airports Company Limited has appointed Pamela Djamson-Tettey as its new Managing Director, effective 18th February, 2022. This follows an emergency meeting by the...

Abu Jinapor donates GHC20K to Apiate Support Fund

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has donated GHC20,000.00 to the Apiatse Support Fund. The donation is to complement...

E-levy: Why Francis and MacBook are trending

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Wednesday reiterated the need for Ghanaians to support the passage of the Electronic Transaction Levy (e-levy). Taking to Twitter, the...

Govt cuts sod for first SHS at Yunyoo-Nasuani district

Government has cut sod for the construction of the first high school in the Yunyoo-Nasuani district of the North East Region. The 12-unit classroom block...

Can a cockroach be justified in a court of fowls? – Sosu asks Magistrates and Judges Association

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina constituency, Francis-Xavier Sosu, in a response to a statement from the Association of Magistrates and Judges of...

Commercial driver jailed 15 years over incest

Kwame Karim Tetteh, a 52-year-old commercial driver who had sex with his 14-year-old daughter at Pig Farm, an Accra suburb, has been sentenced to...

Lamashegu shooting: Court remands police officer

A Tamale Circuit Court has remanded General Corporal Samson Kweku Darfour, the police officer who allegedly shot 24-year-old Rahman Jibril who was driving the...

UPSA lecturers to resume academic activities on February 21

Lecturers at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) have been asked to return to the lecture halls on Monday, February 21, 2022. This information...

35 wooden structures razed to the ground at Darkuman

About thirty-five wooden structures at Darkuman Black Park in Accra have been razed to the ground after a fire outbreak on Wednesday afternoon. According to...

Judges Association to haul Sosu to GLC over ‘political judges’ comment

The Association of Magistrates and Judges of Ghana (AMJG) has stated that it will lodge a formal complaint against Member of Parliament for Madina...

Illegal Blood Sale: Ghanaians share horrifying experiences

Some Ghanaians have shared their experiences on extortions they suffered in their quest to get blood for relatives who were in dire need at...

Heads of public institutions sacked in Akufo-Addo’s tenure

The Managing Director of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), Yaw Kwakwa, was dismissed from his job. Journalists broke his dismissal to him while...

IGP settling personal scores – Abronye DC alleges

The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, is accusing the Inspector-General of Police (IGP)...

Postmaster General, Obour surprises Matilda Amissah-Arthur [Photos]

The Postmaster General, Bice Obour Osei Kuffour, delivered at the doorstep of H.E. Matilda Amissah-Arthur, the former second Lady of the Republic of Ghana. The...

Roads Ministry clarifies Minister’s conversion of tollbooths into urinals comment

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has clarified the controversy surrounding the conversion of tollbooths into urinals in the country. In a statement on February...

Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal partner Biotech to produce COVID-19, TB and Malaria vaccines

Ghana, Rwanda and Senegal are partnering with German biotechnology company, BioNTech SE, to fill, finish, and package BioNTech mRNA vaccines in Africa, as a...

Beyi W’ano: KMA announces plans for death-trap State Experimental School [Audio]

Mayor of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Samuel Pyne, has revealed plans the assembly has for the State Experimental Basic School in the Ashanti...

Association of Judges and Magistrates condemns Sosu

The Association of Magistrates and Judges has described comments made about judges by Madina MP, Francis Xavier-Sosu, as “unfortunate, reckless and misguided”. During a street...

Parliament summons Ayorkor Botchwey over Ghana Card as e-passport

The Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament has summoned the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration,y Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, to appear before it to...

Kitchen fire destroys school structures in Tamale [Video]

Portions of the Laurenda International School in Kanvii, a suburb of Tamale in the Northern Region have been completely destroyed by a fire outbreak. Nine...

Teacher Kwadwo denies ‘I’ll never fight GES again’ comment

Teacher Kwadwo, known professionally as Michael Owusu Afriyie, has disassociated himself from reports that he will not fight the Ghana Education Service (GES) if...

Two jailed 30 years for robbing driver of his phone valued at GH¢800

Two unemployed men who smeared pepper powder unto the face of a Bolt driver and made away with his Techno Carmon Phone valued at...

IGP Dampare really surprised us – Hopeson Adorye on Abronye’s detention [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Dampare Really Shocked Us - Hopeson Adorye on Abronye's arrest, detention A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Hopeson Adorye, has...

58-year-old man found dead in river at Abesim

A body of a 58-year-old man, identified as Pascal Moro, has been discovered in River Wakoa at Wakogyamu, a suburb of Abesim near Sunyani...

UTAG strike: Lecturers’ needs will be met when the ability is available – Former MP

Former Member of Parliament (MP), Samuel Ayeh-Paye, has said the government will comply with UTAG's proposals and needs if there is the ability to...

Boy, 12, drowns in river at Nkoranza

A 12-year-old boy, Stephen Amponsah, has drowned in a river at Nkoranza in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region. The incident occurred around...

E-levy: Minority’s tussle in Parliament was a fight for democracy – Mahama tells clergymen

Former President John Mahama has described the fistfight that erupted in parliament over a disagreement during the voting on the controversial Electronic Transaction Bill...

Woman appeals to President, IGP to help find her husband

A 48-year-old petty trader at Akyem Oda, Mrs Mercy Kwarteng, has appealed to President Nana Akufo-Addo and the Inspector-General of Police, Dr George Akuffo...

Fire Service reacts to fatal accident involving its officers

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has expressed sadness over a fatal accident that has left four of its officers in critical condition. GNFS in...

Farmer attempts suicide after shooting wife over sex

A 31-year-old farmer has been nabbed by the Adansi Nyakumase police for attempting to kill his wife, 21-year-old Doris Amoah. Charles Soglo's defence is that...

UTAG Strike: Some lecturers are not even happy but… NLC [Listen]

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has welcomed the Accra High Court's order for the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) to suspend its strike. Speaking...