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One feared dead, others injured as tipper truck crashes into Tema Motorway tollbooth [Video]

An attendant at the Tema Motorway tollbooth is feared dead with others injured after a tipper truck crashed into it. The gory accident occurred in...

Deadline for 2021 Population and Housing Census extended

The Ghana Statistical Service has extended the deadline for the 2021 Population and Housing Census to Sunday, July 18. The exercise, which started on Monday,...

‘Okada’ rider stabbed to death at Satellite Junction on Accra-Nsawam Highway

An Okada rider, said to be in his mid-20s, has been stabbed to death at Satellite Junction on the Accra-Nsawam highway. The deceased, identified as...

Akufo-Addo, Boakye Agyarko, others mourn with popular MP [Photos]

President Nana Akufo-Addo, Former Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, among others, have commiserated with Bantama Member of Parliament (MP), Francis Asenso Boakye. This was on Saturday,...

Landlord threatens to shoot Census enumerator

An enumerator assigned to the Dr Berko Area for the 2021 Population and Housing Census has shared his chilling experience with the Daily Graphic,...

Boy healed of arm fracture while watching TB Joshua’s funeral service

“I experienced something I had never seen in my life,” so began Cherry Nnadi as she testifies about the experience of her son Success...

Two-year-old found dead in gutter after going missing

The death of a two-year-old at Obuasi Zongo in the Ashanti Region has thrown the community into a state of mourning. The deceased, identified as...

Police Service bids farewell to 4 COPs [Photos]

The Ghana Police Service has said goodbye to four Commissioners of Police (COPs) as they proceed on retirement upon attaining the age of 60. These...

Police in Bolgatanga arrest 3 suspected armed robbers in their hideout

Upper East Regional Police Command on Sunday, July 11, arrested three suspected armed robbers alleged to be involved in several armed robbery cases in...

Akufo-Addo commissions 85-bed Central Gonja District Hospital

President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned an 85-bed Central Gonja District Hospital, located at Buipe, in the Savannah Region, at the start of his two-day...

Armed robbers kill driver on Yeji Highway

A commercial driver from Efigyase in the Ashanti Region has been killed by armed robbers on the Yeji Atabubu highway. The armed robbers targeted and...

E/R: 35 SHS girls give birth, 7 pregnant in Suhum Municipality

A total of 35 Senior High School (SHS) students in the Suhum Municipality of the Eastern Region have been delivered of babies while seven...

Popular pastor hot over prediction on Copa America and Messi

Founder and Leader of the Glorious Wave Church is in troubled waters after his prophecy on the Copa America finals went sour. Prior to the...

Police on rampage against cargo drivers at Yapei

Some cargo drivers numbering about 80 have accused police at Yapei in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region of harassment, extortion, and...

I sold toffees and ice creams to survive – Dean of UPSA Law School

Dean of the Law School of University for Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Prof. Ernest. Kofi Abotsi, has in an interview on Joy FM, recounted...

AMA removes unauthorised signages along High Street

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has removed unauthorised signages mounted in the median along the John Evans Atta Mills High Street in Accra.The exercise...

Uber driver crushed to death

An Uber driver in charge of Nissan Versa Saloon car with registration number GR 9685-21 was killed in an accident on the Harbour dual...

Spouses of President and Veep deserves benefits from the State – Razak Kojo Opoku

A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says considering the tasks undertaken by the spouses of the President and Vice President in support...

Wereko Brobbey petitions Speaker to halt payment of emoluments to presidential spouses

Former Chief Executive Officer of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Charles Wereko Brobbey, has petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin to call on...

Parliament orders probe into armed robbery attacks on mobile money vendors

Parliament has tasked its Defence and Interior Committee to investigate the surge in robbery attacks on mobile money vendors in the country. The Second Deputy...

Ejura probe: Kaaka’s family ‘snubs’ committee

The family of the late social media activist, Ibrahim ‘Kaaka’ Mohammed, will not participate in the ongoing public inquiry into circumstances that led to...

Bank of Ghana hospital now open to public

The Bank Hospital has now been opened to the public, with a pledge to provide quality service for clients, in line with best practices. Constructed...

Don’t open bottle lids with teeth – Dentist advises

A dentist at the Sunyani Regional Hospital has advised the general public to desist from opening bottle lids with their teeth to avoid getting...

7-member-committee set up to investigate Makola fire incident

A seven-member committee has been set up to investigate the Makola fire incident which occurred on July 5, 2021. The committee will consist of representatives...

Nursing mother, her baby crushed at Bolgatanga

A woman and a baby were crashed by a long vehicle at Bolgatanga Friday morning. They died instantly. According to witnesses, the unfortunate incident occurred...

AMA shuts down bakery at Jamestown [Photos]

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has ordered the closure of a bread bakery at Jamestown in Accra for not complying with safety regulations and...

Driver jailed 7 years for defiling 14-year-old pupil

A 21-year-old driver has been handed seven years imprisonment for defiling a 14-year-old Junior High school pupil at Maame Dede, a suburb of Adeiso...

Check-out beautiful photos as Akufo-Addo commissions Pokuase Interchange

President Nana Akufo-Addo, Friday, July 9, 2021, commissioned the four-tier Pokuase Interchange. The project’s construction commenced in April 2018 and was initially expected to be...

Akufo-Addo shades Mahama

President Nana Akufo-Addo has taken a swipe at former President John Mahama over the construction of interchanges in Ghana. Speaking at the commissioning of the...

Ejura killing probe: Why Committee delayed Friday’s sitting

Hearing by the three-member committee probing the shooting and killing of two Ejura youth protesters by military officials delayed on Friday morning. The committee, chaired...

John Mahama’s take on salary for First and Second Ladies

The issue of handling spouses of Political office holders is not a new one; it has engaged the attention of all governments since the...

Planting for Food and jobs: Over GH¢1 billion spent on fertiliser import

Government spent over GH¢1 billion to import fertlisers under its flagship Planting for Food and Job project last year, the Minister of Agriculture, Dr...

Lighthouse case: Court strikes out chunk of church’s defence against Larry Odonkor

Day Three of a suit brought by the six former bishops and pastors of Lighthouse Chapel International against their former church alleging the non-payment of...

Man, 22, chops off his boss’ head [Photo]

Residents of Sefwi Amoakrom in the Bia West District of the Western North Region, have been thrown into a state of shock after a...

Ghana Reinsurance pays 10 million dividend through SIGA

Ghana Reinsurance Company Limited (GhanaRE) has presented a cheque of 10 million Cedis to government through the State Interest and Governance Authority (SIGA). The...

Farmer found dead in a river at Asiakwa [Photo]

A man, believed to be in his late 50’s, has been found dead in the Twafo River at Asiakwa in the Eastern Region. Residents say...

Man, 43, lynched for shooting his wife at Sehwi Nsawora

A man, believed to be in his 40s, has been lynched at Sehwi Nsawora after allegedly shooting his wife at Sehwi Sika ne Asem...

Azugu is now under IGP – Minister tells Parliament

Deputy Superintendent of Police, Samuel Kojo Azugu, has, since May 27, 2021, been recalled by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) from the Ministry of...

Gov’t begs man whose CCTV captured robbery attack on bullion van to release video

The Interior Minister Mr Ambrose Dery has appealed to the man whose CCTV cameras captured the robbery attacks on a bullion van leading to...

Ejura: Why I released bodies without autopsy – Doctor reveals

The Medical Superintendent at the Ejura Government Hospital, Dr Mensah Manye, has told the Ejura Committee that a postmortem could not be conducted on...