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Kasoa ‘ritual’ murder: Prof Naana Opoku-Agyemang calls for speedy trial

The 2020 Vice-Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has called on the police to speed up investigations into...

Speeding driver escapes death as car crashes into tree on UG campus

Driver and a passenger in a Honda Accord saloon car escaped unhurt when they crashed into a tree Wednesday evening on the campus of...

ECG MD breaks silence on calls for his dismissal

The Managing Director (MD) of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Kwame Agyeman-Budu has described allegations levelled against him by the Unions as untrue. The...

Takoradi daylight robbery: Suspect shot dead, another arrested [Video]

A 30-year-old man identified as Shankiki suspected to be part of a four-member gang who robbed a couple at Takoradi market circle has been...

GAEC cautions public against recruitment scam

The Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), has cautioned the public against viral reports of ongoing recruitment. The outfit says it has observed that some unscrupulous...

Read: Ghana Atomic Energy Commission warns against sale of fake recruitment e-vouchers

The attention of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) has been drawn to information circulating on social media and short message service (SMS) about...

Anas Aremeyaw storms funeral of Kweku Baako’s mother [Photos]

Ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas has been spotted at the burial service of the late mother of veteran journalist, Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako. The burial...

Manager jailed 15 years for squandering company’s funds on betting

A mother broke into uncontrollable tears at the Hohoe Circuit Court last Wednesday when her son, a 31-year-old fuel station supervisor, was handed a...

SHS student jailed 15 years for robbery

The Obuasi circuit court has sentenced an 18-year-old senior high school student to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for robbery. Michael Dakorah, who was...

How Nii and Ayo opened La Cocina Mexicana restaurant at height of Covid-19 pandemic

‘We knew it would be tough but the thought of meeting the needs of our new found customers and a desire to introduce authentic...

800,000 Ghanaians vaccinated against Covid-19 – GHS

Ghana Health Service (GHS) has vaccinated about 800,000 Ghanaians against Covid-19 since the roll out of the mass vaccination exercise across the country on...

Akufo-Addo signs book of condolence in honour of Prince Philip

President Akufo-Addo on Wednesday signed the book of condolence opened for the late Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip at the British High Commission in...

50-year-old man stabbed to death in Oti

A 50-year-old man has been stabbed to death by his cousin during a family disagreement at Bodada in the Jasikan District of the Oti...

John Mahama signs Prince Philip’s Book of Condolence [Photos]

Former President John Dramani Mahama has signed the book of condolence, opened in memory of the late Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. The book was...

Omane Boamah exposes two universities offering fake degrees

Former Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, has cautioned the public against 'fake degrees' from the so-called London Graduate School (LGS). In a social...

Man, 29, jailed 20 years for robbing IMF Country Director

The Circuit Court in Accra has sentenced one Mohammed Buzu, a 29-year-old trader to 20 years in jail for pulling a machete on the...

Covid-19: About 2,000 vaccines in Northern Region to expire on Friday

The Northern Region is reeling from a setback on the fight against the novel coronavirus. Thousands of Covid-19 jabs deployed to the region as part...

Five suspected baby thieves detained after failing to pay bail

The Bibiani Circuit Court has granted bail to five suspected baby thieves at Sefwi Punikrom. Paulina Owusu 26, Stephen Owusu 32, Sampson Addai 33, Kofi...

Taxi driver, ‘okada’ rider trade blows [Watch]

The usual flow of cars was obstructed by a taxi driver and commercial motorbike rider when they engaged in fisticuffs. It is believed there was...

Buffer Stock Company sets record straight on Free SHS mackerel

The National Food Buffer Stock Company has urged the public to disregard reports on the importation of Chinese mackerel to substitute egg supplies in...

Confusion in C/R NPP as School Feeding Caterers chase NPP Chairman for cash

There is confusion over delayed payment of monies for caterers of the School Feeding Programme in the Central region. The monies which are made through...

This is how much power distributors lose to illegal connections annually

Illegal connections in Ghana’s electricity distribution system are denying electricity distributors more than GH¢1.3 billion annually. The loss constitutes an average extra cost of 15Gp...

Woman found dead in uncompleted church building

A 35-year-old woman has been found dead in an uncompleted structure belonging to the Baptist Church at Abira in the Kwabre East District of Ashanti...

Man allegedly stabs cousin to death at Jasikan

Residents of Buem Bodada in the Jasikan district discovered the lifeless body of a carpenter identified as Francis Brown, Wednesday morning. The deceased was...

Dangerous giant snakes invade Kumasi residential settlements [Video]

The residents of Ashanti Region’s capital city, Kumasi are reporting a rampant invasion of snakes in some residential settlements. In the past three...

GWCL to cut water supply to Tema residents

Management of Ghana Water Company Limited has announced that there will be an interruption in water supply to parts of Tema. The affected areas will...

GH¢10,000 bounty placed on ‘head’ of Takoradi daylight robbers

The Western Regional Security Council has offered a GH¢10,000 bounty on the ‘head’ of suspects involved in a daylight robbery at Takoradi. The amount will...

Two arrested for possessing 260 packets of cannabis

The police in the Bono Region have arrested two men for allegedly transporting 260 packets of compressed dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp. The...

The carnage continues: Eleven dead, scores injured in Yapei road accident [Photos]

About eleven persons have been reported dead with others in critical condition following an accident at Alipe in the Central Gonja District of the...

‘Trotro’ somersaults on knocking down robbers at Sowutuom

The bravery of a commercial vehicle (trotro) driver has led to the arrest of two robbers at Anteku, a suburb of Sowutuom. According to police...

Queen Mother returns home after 5-year absence [Photos]

The Paramount Queen of the Ga State, Naa Deede Omaadru III has returned home to Ghana after a five-year stay abroad due to ill...

My integrity at stake in fight against galamsey – Abu Jinapor

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor says his integrity is at stake in his quest to deal with illegal mining...

Carnage on Ghana’s roads: Speeding car kills level 100 student at UCC

The Director of Public Affairs at the University of Cape Coast, says a level 100 Bachelor of Commerce student, has been killed in a...

Two feared dead as ‘Trotro’ crashes into faulty trailer on Tesano road [Photos]

At least two persons are feared dead after a commercial vehicle, popularly known in Ghana as trotro crashed into a faulty trailer packed in...

Apam funeral attack: 26 land guards arrested

Some 26 persons, said to be land guards, have been apprehended by the police at Apam in the Central Region. This follows an attack on...

Kasoa murder: Sad moments as Jane Naana mourns with family [Photos]

Running mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, has commiserated with the family of 10-year-old Ishmael Abdallah who was gruesomely...

Ex-convict, friend bag 34 years for Robbery

 An ex-convict, identified only as Isaac and his friend, Yussif Mumuni, have been sentenced to a total of 34 years imprisonment in hard labour...

Police grab wanted robbery suspect at Oda

A suspected armed robber, who has been on the wanted list of the Accra Regional Police Command, has been arrested at Oda. He allegedly confessed...

Otchere-Darko mourns after being hit with sad news

Founder of Danquah Institute, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, is mourning the death of his beloved father, Dr Joseph Felix Boateng Otchere-Darko. Flashman, as he was popularly known,...

Sekondi-Takoradi records 3 robbery cases in 3 days; residents in fear

Some residents of Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region say they are living in fear after recording three robbery cases in three days. According to them,...