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Youth movement for Akufo-Addo’s re-election pops up [Photos]

A youth movement has been launched to rally support for the Nana Akufo-Addo government in the December general election. The volunteer group, under the Greater...

Decomposed body of missing policeman found floating in river

The fifty-year-old police inspector who went missing after checking his plot of land at Asuboi in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern Region has...

Full Text: Akufo-Addo’s 19th address on measures taken against spread of Covid-19

Fellow Ghanaians, good evening, and thank you, once again, for letting me into your homes. Three weeks ago, I delivered Update No.18 on the measures...

Mahama pledges to bring back school feeding grant

The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has promised to return to headmasters the responsibility of feeding school children in public schools. Mr...

Man, 29, allegedly commits suicide over lover

A 29-year-old man, only identified as John, who is a resident of Nweneso No. 2 in the Ashanti region, has allegedly committed suicide. According to...

Woman bites off rapist’s m*nhood [Photos]

An armed robber got his manhood bitten off when he become selfish with getting pleasure while on the job. The criminal went to carry out...

Popular socialite dies in fiery Rolls Royce crash [Video]

Popular fuel trader and socialite, Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi, was killed in a fiery high-speed car crash early on Sunday. He was...

NPP Communications Director shot by unknown gunmen

The Upper West Regional Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bukari Ali, has been shot by unknown gunmen while on his way...

We’re 95 % ready for December 7 polls – EC tells Parliament

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, says the Commission is 95% ready for the December 7 polls. Mrs Mensa disclosed this...

NPP marks Elephants Day

Supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Eastern region have declared Sunday, November 8, 2020, as an elephant day. The day is set...

Driver, mate crashed to death in accident on Cape-Coast highway

A driver and his mate have been crashed to death with six others in critical condition in two separate accidents on the Kasoa Cape...

Narcotics commission destroys $3 million cocaine haul

The Narcotics Control Commission has destroyed $3 million worth of cocaine which was seized in a joint operation at the Terminal Three facility at...

Inusah Fuseini lauds Speaker of Parliament

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini, has described Prof Aaron Mike Oquaye, as his favourite Speaker...

Nana Konadu attacks NDC

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of stealing her manifesto ideas. According to...

Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong named ‘Entrepreneur of the decade’

Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has been awarded ‘Entrepreneur of the Decade’, at the third edition of...

55-year-old Solomon Kwadwo Kusi wins 2020 National Best Farmer

A 55-year-old farmer from the Jomoro District of the Western Region, Solomon Kwadwo Kusi, has been adjudged the 2020 National Best Farmer. He received...

N/R: 16 suspects remanded over attack on police officers

Some 16 suspects, who allegedly attacked the two police officers at Nanton Kpawumo in Tamale yesterday, have been reminded by the Tamale Circuit Court. Police...

NHIS card to be linked to Ghana Card – Dr Dsane-Selby

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr Lydia Dsane-Selby, says measures are underway to link the National Health Insurance...

From Ghana to Nigeria: Little pieces of home

The young Ghanaian men and boys who come to this farm in Osun state, Nigeria, each year to find work mostly say they do...

Check out Nana Konadu’s outstanding women in politics

Flagbearer of the National Democratic Party, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, has named her outstanding Ghanaian women in politics. According to the former First Lady, these...

KATH Board in hot waters for advertising position of Director on mandatory leave

The Kumasi High Court, Human Rights Division, has place an injunction on the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) from replacing its Director of Finance. The...

36th edition of National Farmers’ Day celebration delayed, this is why

The 2020 National Farmers' Day celebration at Techiman in the Bono East region today, November 6, 2020, delayed. The 36th edition is been held on...

Publish names deleted from voters’ register – EC told

The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to publish deleted names from the voters' register. According to the Chairperson,...

Ahafo Ano South East DCE escapes robbery

District Chief Executive (DCE) for Ahafo Ano South East, Joseph Dapaah, has lamented that despite a population of over 85,000, they have only six...

Weapons seized at Tema port turns out to be gas pistols

The Ghana Police Service has revealed that the 436 pistols and ammunition that were confiscated at the Tema Port in October turned out to...

Kotoka Old Students refurbish ICT lab at Burma Camp

The Kotoka Old Students Association (KOSA) has handed over a refurbished ICT laboratory to the Garrison Education Office and the school authorities at the...

Election 2020: All you need to know about hotspots, police deployment

The Ghana Police Service has identified a number of areas where chaos is likely to erupt ahead of the December 7, elections. The vicinities are...

JHS graduate who built car wins big award [Photo]

Kelvin Odartei, the Junior High School (JHS) graduate who became an internet sensation for manufacturing his own car from scraps has been honoured. His work...

Shocking as bereaved family abandons corpse at chief linguist’s residence at Sekyere-Kwamang [Video]

An angry family has abandoned its corpse at the residence of the chief’s linguist, Okyeame Kwadwo Brenya at Sekyere-Kwamang in the Ashanti...

John Dumelo ‘wins’ minister’s heart

The National Democratic Congress' (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for Ayawaso West Wuogon, John Dumelo has won the heart of National Security Minister, Albert Kan Dapaah. The...

Power One, 2 others sent to prison over alleged murder of biochemist

The Kaneshie District Court has adjourned the murder case of Edward Quartey Papafio, a 64-year-old biochemist, who was allegedly murdered by three traditional priests...

3 burnt to death after truck collides with tricycle at Anloga Junction [video]

Three people have been burnt to death after the tricycle they were traveling in collided with a trailer at Anloga Junction in...

Akufo-Addo commissions Asokore-Mampong Affordable Housing project

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, 5th November 2020, commissioned 312 completed units under the Asokore-Mampong Affordable Housing Project. The...

Residents attack police officers in Northern Region

Three police officers have been attacked by some residents at Kpawumu-Fuo in the Northern Region. According to reports, Atsu Adanu, 35; Lance Corporal Mordzi Samuel,...

Woyome fails to save property

The Supreme Court has thrown out businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome on his latest challenge of the sale of his property meant to offset the...

Policeman beats barber to pulp for ‘wooing’ his daughter

A barber at Kasoa Walatu, Denis Authur, received the beatings of his life when he was sighted with a policeman's daughter. The 24-year-old narrated to...

Akufo-Addo inaugurates KNUST-Obuasi campus [Photos]

President Nana Akufo-Addo has inaugurated the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Obuasi Satellite Campus.  This was as part of his four-day tour...

Bride, wedding guests break down in tears [Video]

Shocking footage shows a bride and wedding guests break down in tears at the sight of a United States-based groom they saw for the...

Parliament fumes as EC boss snubs House

The leadership of Parliament is incensed with the chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, for what it terms incessant display of...

Rev. Owusu Bempah reverses prediction on US elections

Leader and Founder of the Glorious Word Power Ministries International, Prophet Isaac Owusu Bempah, has exposed his confusion on the spiritual decision for United...