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Dr. Paul Boafo elected new Presiding Bishop of Methodist Church

The Rt. Rev. Michael A. Bossman was also elected as the Administrative Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana.Paul Kwabena Boafo was born at Asankrangwa...

Photos: Bawumia returns from Hajj

Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has arrived in Accra on Sunday from Mecca, Saudi Arabia after performing this year's Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj.He was...

Four Chinese caught mining in Ashanti Region forest

Four Chinese nationals have been arrested for mining deep in the Apontosu forest in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region.They were rounded...

Woman arrested for lacing husband’s dinner with tramadol

An adulterous wife, Madam Janfuah, is in the grips of the police for allegedly lacing her husband’s food with tramadol in order for him...

Committee set up to plan Kofi Annan’s funeral

A nine-member committee has been set up to plan the funeral of late UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.The committee to be chaired by a diplomat...

Akufo-Addo applauds renaming Ho Technical University after Ephraim Amu

President Nana Akufo-Addo says the decision by the Governing Council of the Ho Technical University to rename the institution after the great Ghanaian cultural icon,...

Victim of Manso Nkwanta brutal police shooting laid to rest

One of the seven persons killed by the Police in Manso Nkwanta on suspicion that they were armed robbers has been laid to rest,...

Kufuor decorated with highest national award of Liberia

Former President John Kufuor was on Friday conferred with the highest national award of Liberia, The Collar of State – Most Venerable Order of the...

Did Chief Imam try to stop Anas’ #12 documentary?

It has emerged the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu, may have tried to persuade undercover Investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, not...

Audio: I’m empty – SDA pastor breaks silence

The Dansoman District pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church, Pastor Ato Kessie who lost five members of his immediate family in last...

Presby Church rejects calls for churches to pay taxes

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) has rejected the recent calls for Churches to pay taxes on tithes, pledges and...

Corruption eroding gains of government intervention programmes

Mr. Richard Quayson, Deputy Commissioner of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has said public expenditure exaggeration by people entrusted with...

Fake doctor arrested during abortion on 17-year-old final year SHS student

Fifty-nine-year-old fake doctor who has operated for over 20 years has been grabbed by the Kwabenya District Police with the help of Medical and...

Photos: Funeral for Dansoman fire victims underway

A funeral service for the family of five including a two-months-old baby who died in a fire outbreak at Dansoman, a suburb of Accra...

Did Chief Imam try to stop Anas’ #12 documentary?

It has emerged the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu, may have tried to persuade undercover Investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, not...

Uber removes driver accused of attacking rider

Ride-hailing firm, Uber, has removed the driver who was accused of assaulting a passenger after a dispute over a fare.Uber, according to a statement, took...

E/R: Two dead after consuming puffer fish

Two people are reported dead while four are on admission at the Presbyterian hospital at Donkorkrom in the Kwahu Affram Plains North district of...

PHOTOS: Otumfuo calls on Rawlings

Former President Jerry John Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings have praised the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and the Okyehene, Osagyefo Amoatia...

PHOTOS: Otumfuo visits President Akufo-Addo at Jubilee House

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, on Friday, 24th August, 2018, paid a courtesy call on the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa...

Suspected gay attacked by angry friends at Madina

The fight against same-sex relationships which is abhorred in Ghana was taken to an extreme on Thursday by a group of friends in the...

‘Legalize marijuana in honour of Kofi Annan’

Some users of marijuana have called on government to legalize the narcotic substance in honour of the late former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan.According...

Kofi Annan likely to be buried on September 13

The President, Nana Akufo Addo has declared a full state burial for the late UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, a ceremony befitting a global...

DKM customers clash with Minister over payment [Video]

The customers of DKM Financial Services are accusing President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his ministers of not honouring the promise of retrieving their...

Photos: ‘I came with love’ Asantehene praises golf partner Okyehene

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has stepped foot in the kingdom of his traditional rival, Okyeman.It is one small step for the king and one...

Boy drowns in abandoned ‘One-Village, One-Dam’ project pit

A community has fallen into a state of shock and is infuriated with the government following the death of a 14-year-old who drowned while swimming...

VIDEO: How trade resulted in long-standing rivalry between Ashantis and Akyems – Historian explains

Head of History Department at the University Of Cape Coast, Professor Kwame Osei Kwarteng, has named trade as a factor of the long-standing rivalry...

VIDEO: Asantehene makes historic visit to Ofori Panin Fie

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu, is expected to join Okyehene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin at Kyebi as part of a grand durbar to mark...

Audio: Chief Inspector accuses ex-wife, children of making him poor

A Chief prosecutor of the Kumasi Central Police Station in the Ashanti region has justified his decision not to take care of his three...

AUDIO: Chinese galamseyers also mining our wives – Antwiwaaso residents cry

Residents of Antiwaaso in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region are licking their wounds over the social effects of Chinese illegal miners'...

Six hotels closed down for operating without licences

Six hotels have been closed down in the Eastern Region for operating without the requisite licences from the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA).Officials of the...

Tema Motorway to close on August 26

The Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) has announced a temporary closure of parts of the Tema Motorway Interchange to facilitate construction works on that stretch.According...

Gifty Anti, Avle and Dan Kweku Yeboah win Reading Promoters Award

Veteran broadcaster and host of The StandPoint on GTV, Oheneyere Gifty Anti has won the Reading Promoters Award for her stellar contributions toward Ghana’s...

V/R: Man kills giant snake attempting to swallow his daughter [Photos]

But for the timely intervention of Eklu Awayi, a native of Dzodze Awayikorpe in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta Region, his daughter...

400 homosexuals register for counselling

Four hundred homosexuals have registered with the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family (NCPHSRFV) to undergo voluntary counselling and reformation.Making this...

Photos from Eid-al Adha celebration in Accra

Hundreds of Muslims gathered at the Independence Square in Accra to offer prayers as they mark the Eid al-Adha celebrations.As part of activities to...

Photos: Mobile money vendor killed at Asylum Down

Residents of Asylum Down are still in shock following the death of a mobile money vendor in the area.The deceased whose name was only...

Don’t allow Kofi Annan to be buried in Switzerland – Allotey appeals

The Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is appealing to the family of late former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan...

Gov’t urged to pay attention to promotion of adult education

Government is being urged to pay equal attention to promoting adult education as it is doing for Free Senior High School. Country Director for Engage...

I pray you live for 150 years – Allotey Jacobs to Chief Imam

The Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has eulogized the National Chief Imam, His Eminence Sheikh Dr Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu,...

Video: Eid al-Adha: Everything you need to know

Today marks Eid al-Adha, an Islamic holiday also known as the “Festival of Sacrifice.” The holiday is the first of four days when Muslims sacrifice...