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Driver who crashed police officer at Apam checkpoint arrested

The Central Regional Police Command has detained a 50-year-old driver for running over one of its officers at a snap checkpoint at Apam. In an...

Lekki shooting: Man steals from nurse who treated him for free [Video]

A young Nigerian man, Roland, who was shot at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20th, reportedly stole from one of the nurses who...

Jamestown clash: NPP man blames party’s youth for violence [Video]

A supporter of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), identified only as Opei, has accused his party members of being behind yesterday's violence. To him, some...

NDC Executive dies in a motorbike crash [Photo]

An executive of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has died in a motorbike crash while on his way from a campaign activity in...

More hotspots identified ahead of December polls

Senior Programmes Officer at the Small Arms Commission, Leonard Tetteh, has revealed more areas where chaos is likely to erupt ahead of the December...

Finance Minister to present budget for first quarter of 2021 on this date

The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta is expected to present the budget for the first quarter of 2021 to Parliament on Wednesday, October 28. The...

What I’d have done as President of Ghana – Kennedy Agyapong [Video]

Controversial lawmaker for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has listed what he will do should he become President of Ghana. Mr Agyapong said his tenure as...

Nana Konadu, children pay last respects to Rawlings’ mother [Video]

It was a sad moment when the wife of Ex-President Jerry Rawlings, Nana Konadu Agyeman and her children paid their last respects at Mr...

Judges praise new electronic tracking system for justice delivery

To improve transparency in Ghana’s criminal justice delivery, a system to publicly track criminal cases in court has been launched. The electronic Case Tracking System...

Batabi church disaster: Victims receive GHS 200,000 from gov’t

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, on behalf of the government of Ghana, has donated GHS 200,000 to victims of last Tuesday's Batabi church disaster. Families of...

GT Bank commissions ICT centre at Ayi Mensah Basic School [Photos]

Guaranty Trust Bank Ghana Limited (GT Bank) has commissioned and handed over a fully furnished state-of-the-art computer laboratory to the Ayi Mensah Basic School...

First Lady begins massive campaign for Akufo-Addo

First Lady of the Republic, H.E. Mrs Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo, has urged the electorate at Trobu to vote massively for President Nana Akufo-Addo...

Violence alert: NDC, NPP supporters fight with beer bottles at Jamestown [Video]

Some supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) have engaged in a bloody clash. As announced by both party leaders,...

Police officer crashed to death on Kasoa-Cape Coast highway

A 39-year-old police officer, Sgt Salihu Hifzullah, popularly known as Israel, has been crushed to death at Gomoa Manso check-point on the Kasoa-Cape Coast...

I wish you die in prison – Judge tells convict who defiled 2-year-old granddaughter

A Cape Coast Circuit Court Judge, Mrs Dorinda Arthur Smith, has wished that a convict she sentenced to 21 years imprisonment in hard labour,...

Exclusive: Photos from former President Jerry John Rawlings’ mother’s funeral

Ex-president Jerry John Rawlings sobbed as he paid his last respect to his mother, Madam Victoria Agbotui, at a solemn ceremony that took place...

Security analyst’s warning over proliferation of guns in Ghana

A security analyst with the Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, Paul Boateng, has hinted of possible gun clashes in Ghana. To Mr Boateng,...

Agona West NDC PC charged over plot to assassinate Gender Minister

Paul Ofori Amoah, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate (PC) for Agona West has been accused of attempting to assassinate fellow PC and...

Arrival of Rawlings’ mother’s mortal remains at the State House [Video]

It was a moment of mixed feelings when the mortal remains of the late mother of former President Jerry John Rawlings, Victoria Agbotui, arrived...

Church building collapse: Rescue operation at Akyem Batabi ends

The search and rescue operation at the collapsed church building at Akyem Batabi has come to an end. According to authorities, a full-blown investigation will...

Sammy Awuku, others escape death after fire guts vehicle [Video]

Media reports suggest that the National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Awuku, who was travelling with the party's Parliamentary Candidate (PC)...

Rawlings breaks down in tears as mother is laid in state [Video]

It was a sad moment for former President Jerry Rawlings when he paid his last respects to his mother, Madam Victoria Agbotui. In a video...

Election 2020: Kwakye Ofosu set for victory

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Abura Asebu Kwamankese, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has expressed confidence that he will emerge victorious. According to him,...

Cashew farmers angry with one-month-old Tree Crops Development Authority already

Barely a month after the inauguration of Ghana’s Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA), the body has courted the wrath of cashew nut farmers in...

Why Owusu Bempah wants EC to give him the money for 2020 elections

Reverend Owusu Bempah has asked the Electoral Commission (EC) to give him the funds for the 2020 elections. According to him, there is no need...

Mother allegedly stones baby to death at Tema New Town [Video]

Residents at Tema New Town were thrown into a state of shock on Friday when news broke that a young woman had...

Tanker drivers union chairman reported missing

The Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union, George Nyaunu, has been reported missing. Reports indicate Mr Nyaunu has not been since...

Police arrest 6 more suspects in 2nd assassination plot against Gender Minister

Six suspected criminals, who allegedly made another assassination attempt on the life of Cynthia Morrison, Agona West Member of Parliament (MP) are in the...

$150 Covid-19 testing fee: Why Koku Anyidoho believes it’s reasonable [Read]

Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, has reacted to the $150 price for the Covid-19 test at the...

Adom News gets results: Titus Glover to fund ¢50k medical expenses of boy with bone cancer

Member of Parliament for Tema East, Daniel Nii Kwartei has pledged to fully fund all medical expenses of an 18-year-old boy in his constituency...

Meet the hero who rescued victims of Akyem Batabi church collapse [Video]

A 37-year-old man, Kwabena Boahene, also known as Cote D'Ivoire, has been lauded for his exploit in the Akyem Batabi church collapse. As...

Akufo-Addo, others mourn late Most Rev Dr Asante-Antwi [Photos]

President Nana Akufo-Addo and his wife, Rebecca Akufo-Addo on Friday, October 23, 2020, led a delegation to the state burial of late Most Rev...

I cut my political teeth under late Dr Busia – Kufuor

Former President and a Founder of the New Patriotic Party, John Agyekum Kufuor, has disclosed that his political experience was gained through an apprenticeship...

Dumpsites will be used as recreational centers – Minister

As a measure to prevent evacuated spaces in the country are not used as refuse dumping sites again, authorities in the country, beginning from...

#EndSARS: Children turn vandalised palace into playground

Children were filmed having fun in Oba of Lagos’ swimming pool after hoodlums vandalised his palace and took away personal belongings including his staff...

Fake prophet, pregnant woman dupe Koforidua residents

A gang of fraudsters operating under the guise of preaching the gospel on the streets has succeeded in duping many residents in Koforidua, the...

Donald Trump wants to speak with me – Rev Owusu Bempah [Video]

Controversial man of God, Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah, says President of the United States of America (USA), Donald Trump wants to have a conversation...

Moment Duncan-Williams prophesied about #EndSARS and other global uprisings [Watch]

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams of the Action Chapel International had once prophesied about the #EndSARS protest ongoing in Nigeria and other reported cases of unrest...

Death toll in Akyem Batabi church building collapse hits 22 [Photos]

The death toll in the Akyem Batabi church building collapse has now reached 22. Rescue workers combed through the rubble overnight as they search for...

State burial service of Most Rev Dr Samuel Asante-Antwi [Video]

Former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana, Most Rev Dr Samuel Asante-Antwi, has been given a state burial. The ceremony took place...