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ECG to undertake maintenance work in parts of Accra; Check out affected areas

Some parts of Accra will be experiencing power outage on Tuesday, August 17. This is to enable the state power distributor, the Electricity Company of...

Woman sues Nyaho Healthcare for alleged negligence

The General Jurisdiction Division of the Accra High Court has ordered Nyaho Healthcare Limited to release the complete medical records of a woman who...

Six police officers injured in accident [Photo]

Six police officers have reportedly sustained various degrees of injuries in an accident in the Oti Region. Reports indicate the incident occurred at Anfoega when...

What Sammi Awuku said after meeting with NLA staff, management

The newly-appointed Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Sammi Awuku, has said that he has had series of meetings with the staff and...

Ghanaians must be hallucinating to think Agyeman-Manu executed botched vaccine deal without Akufo-Addo’s approval – Amidu

The former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has cast doubt that the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, is the only government official involved in the botched...

Family buries JHS pupil who ‘committed suicide’ with a cutlass to avenge death [Video]

The family of 14-year-old final year pupil, Leticia Kyere Pinamang, who allegedly committed suicide, has buried her with a cutlass to avenge her death. During...

Labour strike: Court slaps UTAG with GHC 3,000 cost

An Accra Labour Court 1 has slapped the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) with GHC3,000.00 fine over what the court describes as a...

Female teacher found dead by roadside [Photo]

A teacher, Jennifer Akuamoah of the St. Patrick’s Preparatory School has been found dead after going missing on Friday. According to her mother, Florence...

Family members flee town as woman, 45, is found dead in her room

A 45-year-old woman, Ama Tweneboa, has been found dead in her room at Nkusukum, a suburb of Mankessim in the Mfantseman Municipality in the...

Man recounts how his p*nis shrunk after having s3x with a strange woman

A young man from the Ashanti Region has narrated how he woke up with a shrunken penis after he had sex with a strange...

Fire ravages classrooms, offices, store of St Charles SHS in Tamale

Fire destroyed classrooms, offices and a store at the St Charles Senior High School (SHS) in Tamale this morning. The cause of the fire is...

Family of police officer allegedly murdered by boyfriend demands justice

The family of a police officer allegedly murdered by her boyfriend at Damongo in the Savannah Region has called on the police to ensure...

CIMG inaugurates CIMG Exams and Ghana School of Marketing Boards

The Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG) has inaugurated the CIMG Examinations and the Ghana School of Marketing (GSM) Boards. This has become necessary...

Agenda 111 Hospitals: Govt secures $100m Commencing fund – Oppong Nkrumah

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has revealed that government, through the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund, has secured $100 million for the commencement of the Agenda 111 Hospitals. “Currently,...

COVID-19: There is pressure on treatment facilities – GHS

For weeks, the country has been experiencing a surge in cases attributed mainly to community spread of the delta variant and a lack of...

Robbers attack filling station at Asenema

A gang of armed robbers on Saturday attacked a fuel filling station at Asenema, a suburb of Adukrom in the Eastern Region. According to sources,...

Staff of GIHOC deny seeking for the removal of MD Maxwell Kofi Jumah

The nation’s premier distillery company, the Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC), under the management of Maxwell Kofi Jumah, has held a staff durbar as...

GIHOC donates to Ga Mantse ahead of Homowo Festival

The nation’s premier distillery company, the Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC), led by its management, has made some donations to the Ga Mantse and...

Fire ravages parts of Makola Shopping Mall [Photos]

A fire outbreak gutted many stores at the Makola Shopping Mall in Accra Sunday morning Many goods worth thousands of cedis have been destroyed by...

Tears as hundreds bid farewell to ‘Okada’ rider murdered at Abomosu [Video]

The Akyem Abomosu township in the Atewa West District of the Eastern Region is in a state of mourning as hundreds bid farewell to...

Six arrested for stockpiling arms at Kandiga

Barely two months after all parties involved in a land dispute between the Doba and Kandiga communities in the Upper East Region signed an...

GH¢24m lost to fire between January and June

The country has recorded 3,301 fire outbreaks between January and June this year as against 3,870 within the same period last year. Although the incidents...

Expanding Boundaries International boosts STEAM education in rural Ghana

Expanding Boundaries International (EBI), a United States-based organization, along with its local partners, Rural Smile Foundation and Richard Akoto, aims to provide access and...

Okyenhene hands over doctors flat to Kyebi Government Hospital

The Ken and Angela Foundation, under the auspices of Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has handed over two-storey doctors flat to the Kyebi Government...

Kasoa ritual murder: Committal proceedings to begin on August 16

The Kaneshie District Court will on Monday, August 16, 2021, conduct committal proceedings of the two persons, including a minor, who are being held...

Crushed Young: Ekosii Sen Impact Project cuts sod for 3-bedroom apartment for road accident victim [Photos]

A sod has been cut for work to begin on a three-bedroom apartment for Moses Addai, a 13-year-old boy whose right leg has been...

Gushegu police arrest man for allegedly defiling 10-year-old girl

Police at Gushegu in the Northern Region have arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl on Monday, August 9, 2021. The Gushegu...

Minister involved in ghastly accident [Photo+Video]

The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has been involved in a ghastly accident. The accident occurred on Saturday on the Fiapre-...

MP escapes death after vehicle somersaults twice [Photos]

The Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dayi, Rockson Dafeamekpor, has escaped death after being involved in a ghastly accident. The accident occurred after a...

Health Minister has a message for Ghanaians

Embattled Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, says he has always acted in the interest of Ghana in discharging his core mandate. According to Mr Agyemang-Manu, he...

Ga Mashie celebrates Homowo today

The celebration of Homowo, the primary festival of the people of Ga, will be held in Ga Mashie today with a call on all...

One-week observation for policeman who died in Bagbin’s convoy accident [Photos]

The one-week observation for the dispatch rider of Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin's convoy, Chief Inspector Abednego Kaachire Kofie, has been held. The ceremony took...

I want to go back – 10-year-old street boy begs after losing ‘home’ under overhead bridge

Born and raised in the border town of Sampa, somewhere in the Bono region, 10-year-old Eben was excited about the prospects of visiting Accra...

Mahama mourns with former GRIDCo boss as he buries son [Photos]

Former President John Mahama, on Friday, August 13, 2021, joined ex-boss of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), William Amuna, to lay his son, Andrew...

SHS final year student stabs teacher

A final year student of Three Town Senior High School (SHS) near Denu in the Ketu South Municipality has stabbed his teacher. The teacher, John...

25-year-old arrested for allegedly defiling girl, 10

A 25-year-old man, Sulemana Manu, has been arrested by the Gushegu police in the Northern Region for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl at Pisinga. The...

Woman shot in highway robbery

A female passenger sustained gunshot wounds in another highway robbery attack at Afram Plains South District of the Eastern Region. The woman was rushed to...

Policeman crushed to death on Tema Motorway

A policeman attached to the Workshop of the Ghana Police Service in Accra has been crushed to death by a motorist on the Accra-Tema...

Sections of N1, N2 Highways to experience disruptions in traffic flow on Saturday and Sunday

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has announced that parts of the N1 and N2 Highways will experience disruptions in traffic flow between Saturday,...

JHS shut down as man invades premises with machete

Kodjonya Millennium Presbyterian Junior High School (JHS) in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region has been temporarily closed down. This is...