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ECG to cut power supply to parts of Accra, check out areas affected

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced power cuts in parts of Accra beginning, Friday, May 8, 2020. According to the ECG, the planned...

Fact check: Govt accused of lying to Ghanaians, find out what it is

On April 13, 2020, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a statement approving the disbursement of US$1 billion credit facility to the...

Covid-19: Bono Region first recorded case is Togolese

The first person to test positive for the novel coronavirus in the Bono Region is a Togolese national who entered the country illegally, Regional...

Stan Dogbe reacts to smashing GBC journalist’s recorder

Top aide to former president John Mahama, Stan Dogbe, says he never smashed the recorder of fellow journalist from the radio wing of the...

Covid-19: Deputy Education Minister’s message to hungry private school teachers (watch)

Private school teachers wailing over unpaid salaries will have to watch and pray as President Nana Akufo-Addo considers their plea for a stimulus package. Deputy...

Man remanded over pickaxe attack on wife (photos)

A Wa Magistrate Court has remanded into prison custody, a 35-year-old private security man, Vitus Kundeyiri for an alleged attempted murder of his wife...

Coronavirus: More young people contracting disease in Ashanti region

More young people than adults are getting infected with Covid-19 in the Ashanti region. Statistics from the regional health directorate show 50 percent of 163 confirmed...

Fuel tanker mate killed in gory accident

A driver’s attempt to prevent a collision with a passenger commercial vehicle has led to the untimely death of his mate. The fuel tanker with...

Adwoa Safo cuts sod for the construction of NHIA office, fire service station

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Dome-Kwabenya Constituency on Monday, May 4, 2020, cut sod for two major projects in her Constituency. The...

‘800,000 job losses recorded in hospitality sector’

About eight hundred thousand workers in the hospitality, leisure and tourism sectors are said to have lost their jobs. According to the Ghana Tourism Federation...

This is how much wife offered for husband’s murder [Listen]

It has emerged that a wedded wife, who connived with her lover to murder her husband, offered to pay the assailants GH¢ 1.5 billion. Elijah...

Ghana to take delivery of Madagascar’s anti-Covid-19 drug [Audio]

Madagascar has donated some of her much-touted herbal potion that has become famous for its ability to cure coronavirus or Covid-19 patients to Ghana. Director...

Man remanded for defiling two apprentices

A 41-year-old man, who allegedly defiled two hairdresser apprentices at Amoabeng, in the Atwima-Nwabiagya South Municipality, has been remanded into police custody by the...

Akan drum, the oldest African-American object in the British Museum

The Akan drum is the oldest African-American object in the British Museum, brought from West Africa to the Colony of Virginia as part of the slave...

JHS pupil jailed for breaking into drinking bar to steal alcoholic beverages

A Junior High School (JHS) three pupil, who broke into a drinking bar through the ceiling and took away several sachets of alcoholic beverages,...

Car crashes man, 26, while making video call with girlfriend

A 26-year-old man, Olajide Asade, who was reportedly making a video call with his girlfriend in Siun along Abeokuta-Sagamu expressway, was crashed by a...

New recoveries as Ghana’s coronavirus case count jumps to 3,091, check out details

Ghana’s total coronavirus case count has jumped from 2,719 to 3,091. This means 372 more cases have been recorded. According to the Ghana Health Service...

Ghana to find vaccine for Covid-19 – Prof Alex Duodu

The Director-General of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Professor Alexander Duodu, is optimistic Ghana can help find a vaccine for the deadly novel coronavirus...

Taxi driver electrocuted while plucking pawpaw

Tragedy on Wednesday struck at Wassa Akropong in the Western region when a middle-aged man was electrocuted to death. The deceased, Yaw Owusu, popularly known...

Police partner Zoomlion to disinfect, fumigate facilities

As part of measures to provide a safe environment for police personnel in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the Ghana Police Service...

Esoko predicts continuous increase in food prices

Agricultural profiling and messaging service organisation, Esoko, is predicting a continuous increase in the prices of food items due to uncertainty on the way...

2-year-old dies from fuel tanker fire in Takoradi

The body of a two-year-old boy has been retrieved after two tankers caught fire at Apremdo in Takoradi, Wednesday afternoon. The boy was sleeping in...

Mahama’s touching birthday wish to Otumfuo

Former President John Mahama has wished the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II a happy birthday in a special way as he celebrates his 70th...

Wife and lover arrested after mistaking contract killer’s number for that of police commander

A wedded wife along with her lover have been arrested for conniving to murder her husband. The two were arrested by the Manhyia Divisional Police...

Zoomlion denies buying Live 91.9 FM

Management of leading waste management company, Zoomlion, has denied reports of being the new owners of radio firm Live FM. Live FM is one...

Rawlings’ message to Otumfuo as he celebrates 70th birthday

Former President Jerry John Rawlings and his wife Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, have congratulated the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II on the occasion of his...

Police Service begins mandatory testing of personnel for Covid-19

The Ghana Police service has begun testing all its personnel for Covid-19. This follows an earlier announcement that those who were dispatched during the lockdown...

Go Help Africa supports women at Ayawaso West

Go Help Africa Ghana has supported 10 women in the Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly with GH¢500.00 each towards the purchasing of working materials to...

STC, Metro Mass Transit suffer losses due to COVID-19 protocols

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has put Inter-City STC and Metro Mass Transit Limited (MMT) into dire financial situation compelling them to turn to...

Diesel tankers gutted by fire in Takoradi

Two diesel tankers due to discharge fuel at a station at Apremdo in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis have been gutted by fire. The two trucks were...

Y’asem Nie: Of Galamsey pits and dark underworld of illegal activities – Accounts of former ‘child galamseyer’

An 'ex-galamseyer', Kojo Owusu, has shared his experience on the life-threatening occupation of illegal mining, popularly known in Ghana as 'galamsey'. Mr Owusu, known to...

Y’asem Nie: Former ‘galamsey’ kingpin makes important connection between galamsey pits and crime [Video]

A man, identified as Kojo Owusu, has revealed how most wanted criminals use galamsey pits as a hideout haven from the police. As someone who...

Armed robbers shot my dad seven times – Ghanaian singer

Singer Irene Logan says she is no longer keeping her life story to herself and has narrated how armed robbers shot her stepfather seven...

Awutu Senya East MP supports Association of Private Schools

The Member of Parliament (MP)/ Minister for Special Development Initiatives, Mrs Mavis Hawa Koomson of Awutu Senya East Constituency, who is known as Obaatanpa,...

Press Freedom: MFWA boss challenges Mahama’s number one claim

The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, has described as false claims by former President John Mahama on...

Afia Schwarzenegger reminds ‘hypocritical’ movie stars of another ailing colleague [video]

Ghanaian comedian, Afia Schwarzenegger, has told movie stars in the country to go help Emmanuel Armah, another ailing colleague of theirs.   Her call on...

Coronavirus: No soldier has tested positive – Defence Minister

Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, is a happy man because none of his officers and men of the Ghana Armed Forces has tested positive...

Man cheats death; survives close range gunfire [photos]

Elder Newland Ansah-Baah, secretary to the Kofi Akrashie Stool, on Tuesday evening survived an assassination attempt. Mr Ansah-Baah is reported to have been shot four...

Details of Bishop Bernard Nyarko’s one-week observance out (Watch)

Bishop Bernard Nyarko's family has finally revealed details for the one-week observance of the late actor. Bishop Nyarko passed away at the Greater Accra...

Mud swallows bulldozer operator in the Ashanti region

A bulldozer operator of about 30 years has died in an illegal mining pit after the mud swallowed him with the heavy equipment at...