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Bia West wins maiden Western North Region Inter-District Quiz Competition

The Lamplighter Community School in the Bia West District of the Western North Region has emerged as Champions of the annual maiden edition...

Tarkwa UMat Basic School retains Western Region Inter-District Quiz title

The UMaT Basic School in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality of the western region have retained their title as champions of the 5th annual edition...

Ghanaians blast MP over ‘loose talk’

Chairman of the Finance Committee of Parliament, Dr Mark Assibey-Yeboah, has incurred the wrath of some Ghanaians following comments he is quoted to have...

‘Mortuary man’ opens up on what has kept him in his job

General Secretary of the Mortuary Workers Association (MOWAG), Richard Kofi Jordan, has opened up on what has kept him at his job when he...

My friend, be serious, no time for jokes – Furious Ken Agyapong charges

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has reacted to a claim made by founder and head pastor of the International Godsway Church,...

Affail Monney’s message to journalists ahead of 2020 election [Watch]

President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Roland Affail Monney, has charged journalists to take their safety into their own hands before, during and...

Meet first man to import bulletproof car into Nigeria and got assassinated

Celebrated politician, chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, was the first man to import a bulletproof car into Nigeria in 1964. The car was a Mercedes...

#Election Headquarters: Why these market women will not vote in 2020

Some market women in the capital, Accra, following the launch of the Election Headquarters by the Multimedia Group Limited, have threatened not to vote...

Y’asem Nie: How a chief’s corpse caused blackouts at mortuary – Mortuary man narrates

A former mortuary attendant and General Secretary of the Mortuary Workers Association has shared a harrowing account during his days as a mortician.Speaking on...

Korle-Bu mortuary man in trouble [Listen]

The Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana is threatening to deal with a Cameroonian- Ghana based mortuary worker at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.According to...

Akufo-Addo’s message to wife on her 69th birthday

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has taken to Instagram to celebrate his beautiful wife, the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo as she marks her 69th...

#Election Headquarters: Police not politically affiliated – DCOP Gariba

Director of Operations for the Ghana Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Sayibu Pabi Gariba, has said the police service will not be...

Ghana commits $100m to fight coronavirus

Government has allocated one hundred million dollars as emergency funds for campaign and sensitisation programme against the deadly COVID-19, popularly known as coronavirus.President Nana...

‘GCNet’s eviction from port customs management system a recommendation of UNIPASS to govt’

A revelation from Deputy General Manager for port trade facilitation company, Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet), Carl Sackey, indicates that the cancellation of...

74-year-old man jailed 20 years for defilement

The Nsuta Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced a 74 –year -old man to 20 years in prison for defiling a ten-year-old...

Y’asem Nie: ‘Mortuary woman’ shares horrifying details of her daily schedule [Video]

Many people believe that working in a mortuary is one of the scariest jobs on earth but for Mercy Okaijah, this is her passion...

As the Lord liveth, Mahama will regain power – Sammy Gyamfi

The National Democratic congress (NDC) seems to now have their eyes fixed on the Almighty Creator in their quest to wrestle power from the...

Govt warns freight forwarders against using old customs systems for new declarations

Deputy Minister of Finance, Kwaku Kwarteng, has issued a strong warning to freight forwarders who may want to use the old customs management systems...

Amazing! Meet the 10-year-old boy in SHS 1

A 10-year-old genius Ghanaian boy, identified as Michael Blair Tasiamo, has been admitted at the Fafraha Community Senior High School.The disclosure was made on...

Nine remanded over Kasoa Ofaakor shooting

The Ofaakor Circuit Court presided over by Justice Ebenezer Osei Darko has remanded into police custody, nine suspects, over their alleged involvement in a...

Read: How a colonial chief captured Osu Castle from the Dutch and resold it to them

Osu Castle, also known as Christiansborg Castle, is a castle located in Osu, Accra, Ghana.Christiansborg Castle was built by Danish colonialists in 1659 on a land obtained from...

Meet the man who finally got hired by UN after 500 rejections

A man identified as Momo Bertrand said he has finally been hired by the United Nations (UN) after being rejected 500 times.Bertrand took to...

‘I want to lie on a mattress before I die’ [Video]

You may have an earnest dream to build a mansion or drive a posh car before you depart from earth but an old lady,...

Court to give judgement on NCA trial on May 12

An Accra High Court will on May 12 decide the fate of Eugene Baffoe Bonnie, a former Board Chairman of the National Communication Authority...

Sogakope residents demand resignation of DCE over murder of assemblyman

An opinion leader in Sogakope in the Volta Region has called on the District Chief Executive (DCE) of the area to resign over the...

Sad! How this police officer lost his life in fatal Kintampo accident [photos]

Fresh revelations from Monday’s accident indicates that a police officer with the Suhum police Command was part of passengers involved in the ghastly accident...

Are you that ‘blind’ not to see ‘Circle Dubai’ – Former ambassador asks Prez Akufo-Addo

A former ambassador to the United Kingdom in the John Mahama administration, Emmanuel Victor Smith, has reacted to a comment often made by President...

Ambassador scores Akufo-Addo, Mahama

A former high commissioner of under the John Mahama-led administration, H.E. Emmanuel Victor Smith, has graded the first tenure of both former president John...

Middle Belt Development Authority to hold investment summit in June 2020

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of middle Belt Development Authority, Joe Danquah, has announced that the Authority will hold an investment summit in June...

Maiden edition of Miksi Soakings Party sends UG students in a frenzy

It was all fun and excitement at the maiden edition of the 'Miksi Soakings Party' as old students of Adisadel college took home the...

Video: Pregnant survivor of Kintampo accident speaks

A pregnant survivor of the ghastly accident between a Metro Mass bus and a Sprinter minibus at Kawampe in the Kintampo North Municipality of...

Soldiers present at ‘MediFella’ wedding arrested; face possible dismissal

Head of Public Relations for the Ghana Armed Forces, Colonel Eric Aggrey Quarshie, has revealed that soldiers who provided security services to hiplife artiste...

What benefits UNIPASS will bring to Ghana’s ports – Amaglo explains in this video

Korean Customs Services agency and new managers of Ghana's new Customs Management System, Universal Pass (UNIPASS), has outlined the benefits the system will bring...

I’m the first graduate in my family – Samira Bawumia [Audio]

Second Lady, Mrs Samira Bawumia, has revealed life was not rosy for her growing up as many have assumed.Though her father was a giant...

Colourful Kente display at 63rd Independence Celebration [Photos]

Being Ashanti region’s first time of hosting the nation’s independence celebrations, residents in the capital Kumasi, took the opportunity to put on display Ghana’s...

Assistant headmaster charged for sodomising his student

Assistant Headmaster for Ridge Experimental School in Akyem Oda, Michael Owusu, has been arraigned before the Akyem Swedru Circuit Court presided over by Mr...

Policeman arrested over shooting incident at Kasoa Ofaakor [Listen]

One Detective Corporal Michael Larbie of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has been arrested over his involvement in a...

Osofo Kyiriabosom pays courtesy call on Otumfuo

Founder and leader of the Ghana Movement Union (GUM), Reverend Christian Kwabena Andrews, popularly called ‘Osofo Kyiriabosom’, over the weekend paid a courtesy call...

Suspected robbers, kidnappers arrested in Kumasi

Some 12 people have been arrested over their alleged involvement in recent robbery cases and kidnapping of Fulani herdsmen and their dependents around Ejura,...

Kintampo accident: Bus driver, mate among survivors [audio]

It has emerged that the driver and mate of the Yutong bus were among the six people who survived the ghastly accident at Kawampe...