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When Prof. Opoku-Agyemang met with Atta Mills’ family (Photo)

Running mate to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Mahama, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has met with the family of former President John...

Prof Jane Opoku-Agyeman to be officially outdoored as Mahama’s running mate on Monday

The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Monday, July 27, will officially outdoor his running mate, Prof Jane Opoku-Agyemang. Her formal outdooring...

Choman, identified as bodyguard of Akufo-Addo in Manasseh’s Militia expose′ threatens Sammy Gyamfi

A bodyguard to President Nana Akufo-Addo has threatened to deal with the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi. In a...

I speak better English than Prempeh College trained Chairman Wontumi – Upper East NDC Chairman

Alhaji Mumuni Bolnaba, the Upper East Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has asserted that he speaks better English than the Ashanti Regional...

Committee report on KNUST SHS student’s death ready

A report about the circumstances surrounding the death of Leonard Richard Sam - a final year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science...

This is the time to borrow – Economist defends govt’s borrowing

Dr Owusu Sarkodie, an economist at the Institute of Fiscal Studies, has defended borrowings made by the government to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic...

Atta Mills warned me never to disrespect Rawlings – Koku Anyidoho

The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Atta-Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has revealed that the late President John Evans Atta Mills warned him...

What Rawlings said after visiting Atta Mills’ grave [video]

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has described his late former Vice President, Prof John Evans Atta Mills, as an outstanding personality. In a tweet, he...

NDC loses staunch member

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has lost one of its top social commentators, Ohenenana Obonti Krow. Flagbearer of the party, John Dramani Mahama, disclosed...

Asomdwee Park to undergo renovation

Asomdwee Park, the burial grounds of the Late Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, former President will be given a facelift to enhance its status...

Police on manhunt for driver who run over police officer to death

Police in the Northern region are on a manhunt for a driver who is suspected to have run into a police officer at barrier...

Family demands justice as bikers crush final year student

The family of Gladys Awuni, a 16-year-old final year student of the Nyinahin Catholic Senior High School in the Atwima Mponua District of the...

Interpol Red Notice: Amidu urgently requests Foreign Ministry’s assistance to fly Adam Mahama to Ghana on this date

The Special Prosecutor has written to the Foreign Affairs Ministry to offer Samuel Adam Forster, one of the persons named in the Airbus scandal,...

Students of Mampong Akwapem Presbyterian SHS, teachers, others flee as gas tanker catches fire at school’s entrance

A liquefied petroleum gas tanker with registration number GN7453-15 which was fully-loaded with fuel has caught fire at Mampong Akwapem. According to an eyewitnesse, the...

Special Prosecutor identifies Mahama as ‘Government Official 1’ in £5m Airbus scandal

Special Prosecutor Martin Alamisi Amidu has identified the mysterious individual named in the £5 million Airbus scandal only as Goverment Official 1. He said in...

Police take possession of Hawa Koomson’s gun

The Awutu Senya East Constituency Member of Parliament , Mavis Hawa Koomson has had her gun taken from her by the police. Multimedia journalist Richard...

Akufo-Addo presents GH¢2 million to 1,000 disabled entrepreneurs

President Akufo-Addo, has presented ¢2 million to 1,000 disabled men entrepreneurs, under the Presidential Empowerment for Male Entrepreneurs with Disability (PEMED). Launching the event at...

Gov’t commissions 100-bed Infectious Disease Centre [Livestream]

Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has commissioned Ghana’s first-ever 100-bed Infectious Disease Centre at the Ga-East Municipal Hospital. President Nana Akufo-Addo cut sod for...

8th anniversary of the death of John Evans Atta Mills

Today in History, on July 24, 2012, exactly 8 years ago, Ghana’s president John Evans Atta Mills died at the 37 Military Hospital in...

Covid-19: Uganda records first death

Uganda, on the 23rd July, confirmed its first COVID-19 death as the Director General Health Services, Henry Mwebesa substantiated the fatality during a press...

Bus driver allegedly crushes police officer

A bus with registration number GT 1089-F has allegedly run over a police officer on duty at the Diare police checkpoint in the Northern...

Obinim makes damning revelation about Kennedy Agyapong

Bishop Daniel Obinim, Leader and Founder of the International God’s Way Church, has said that Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong's life...

Assistant Headmaster of Ejisu Senior Technical High School arrested!

Assistant Headmaster of Ejisu Senior Technical High School has been arrested and detained by police for detaining two students in his office. The students were...

Touching tribute by classmates as KNUST SHS student is buried

Students of the Kwame Nkruma University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Senior High School (SHS) have paid their last respects to their colleague, Leonard...

Rawlings pays respects to late Atta Mills [Photos]

Former President Jerry John Rawlings, in the early hours of Friday, July 24, 2020, paid his respects to former President John Evans Atta Mills. Mr...

Barbaric: 90-year-old woman lynched

A woman, believed to be in her 90's, has been lynched at Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah region. Reports indicate the...

Govt announces reduction in 9% CST charges

Government has announced a reduction in the Communication Service Tax (CST) from nine per cent to five per cent. The move is to reduce the...

National Security busts ‘connection man’ for getting Nigerian a Ghanaian passport, birth certificate [Photos+Video]

A Ghanaian has been arrested by operatives of the National Security for allegedly falsifying passport and birth certificate documents for a Nigerian. The documents were...

We’re ready to account for ¢54.3m spent on meals during lockdown – Deputy Finance Minister

Deputy Finance Minister Kwaku Kwarteng has said his outfit is ready to justify the ¢54.3 million that went into the distribution of cooked food...

Lockdown: Check out how much govt spent on cooked food

The Finance Minister has revealed that the government spent GH¢54.3 million on cooked meals distributed during the 21-day lockdown in Accra and Kumasi. According to...

‘Only Ghanaian contractors to build 88 district hospitals’

Government has said only Ghanaian construction companies will be awarded contracts to build 88 hospitals in districts across the country. Delivering the Mid-year Budget Review...

Ofori-Atta announces another 3 months of free electricity, water to Ghanaians

Ghanaians will enjoy another three months of free water and electricity supply as the government further reduces the burden of the Covid-19 pandemic on...

Revealed: When construction of 88 district hospitals will begin

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has revealed President Nana Akufo-Addo’s promise to build some 88 district hospitals will begin dring his next term. Mr Ofori-Atta disclosed...

Finance Minister justifies GH¢ 10 billion BoG loan

Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has justified the government’s GH¢ 10 billion loan from the Central Bank. Presenting the 2020 Mid-Year Budget Review on Thursday,...

Akufo-Addo to launch GH¢ 100 billion Ghana Development Programme – Finance Minister

Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has disclosed that President Nana Akufo-Addo, in the coming weeks, will launch a development programme aimed at revitalising the...

Kantanka granted official operational licence

The highly-anticipated Kantanka range of vehicles, built by Ghanaian inventor, Safo Kantanka, is set to soon get on the market. This is because the Kantanka...

Ken Ofori-Atta replies Bishop Agyin-Asare in 2020 Mid-Year Budget Review

Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has hit back at the Presiding Bishop of Perez Chapel International, Bishop Charles Agyinasare. Presenting the 2020 Mid-Year Budget Review on...

2020 and beyond will be difficult – Finance Minister

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has admitted 2020 and beyond will be difficult for Ghana's economy due to the impact of COVID-19. He stressed the...

Parliament passes new land bill

Ghana’s Parliament has passed Ghana's land bill 2019 into law after the third reading in the House. The bill was passed on Thursday, July 23, 2020,...

US lifts visa sanctions imposed on Ghanaians

The United States (US) Government has lifted the visa sanctions imposed on some Ghanaians in 2019. The sanctions were over claims that Ghana was unreasonably...