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Asempa FM launches ‘End Galamsey Now’ campaign

Multimedia Group Limited’s Asempa FM has successfully launched an anti-galamsey campaign to help in the fight against the menace. The campaign dubbed #End Galamsey Now, will...

Rawlings, Nana Konadu mourn late Kumasi Mayor [Photos]

Former President Jerry John Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings joined hundreds in Manhyia, Kumasi on Monday to pay their last respects to...

NDC man defends GetFund’s scholarships to Napo, Adwoa Safo, others [Video]

Former Ghana’s High Commissioner to India, Sam Pee Yalley, is of the view that scholarships awarded to some government appointees are in the right...

Revealed: NDC foot-soldiers angry over scholarships awarded to Ministers and MPs [listen]

It has emerged that there are some agitations among party foot-soldiers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The agitations among party foot-soldiers of the NDC...

GETFund scandal: GRASAG calls for prosecution of public officials involved

The Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) has called for the surcharging and prosecution of public officials who have been named among beneficiaries...

How GetFund turned down my scholarship application – NDC’s Namoale recounts [listen]

Following an Auditor-General’s performance report at the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GetFund) on the administration of scholarships, Nii Amasah Namoale, has shared a hilarious...

Audio: This man was the first to arrive at the scene of Ebony’s tragic accident

Kojo Ntim is a resident of Nyamebekeyre, a town on whose outskirt dancehall songstress Ebony Reigns and her colleagues died on February, 9, 2018. According...

GETFund Director clears air on scholarship brouhaha [Audio]

A former Director of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), Sam Gariba, has denied any wrongdoing in the manner in which scholarships were administered...

By God’s grace I don’t need GetFund scholarship – MP says

Member of Parliament (MP) for Akim Swedru in the Eastern region, Kennedy Osei Nyarko, has reacted to his name being included in a Ghana...

MP chides colleague GETFund scholarship recipients over ‘insincerity’

Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu Constituency, Ras Mubarak, has jabbed fellow MPs who benefited from the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GetFund) scholarship scheme....

Adom News’ Isaac Normanyo honoured

The Ministers Manna International has honoured Adom News' Obuasi correspondent, Isaac Kofi Normanyo. The excellence award held at the Redemption Bibleway Church in Obuasi on...

Police clamp down motorbikes to minimise indiscipline

Police from the Dansoman Divisional Headquarters have embarked on an operation to clamp down on the use of motorcycles for criminal activities within the...

Family locks up son for 19 years over health condition [Video]

A family in the Nkwanta South District of the Oti region has for over 19 years locked up their 26-year- old son, Abass Basty,...

Mourner perishes in motor accident

The display of motor bike riders during funeral activities have left one dead and another hospitalised at the Ho Municipal Hospital. Mr Harry Nonu, 40,...

Listen: Auditor of controversial GETFund scholarship breaks silence

Principal Auditor, who led the audit of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), has spoken after their report went viral. RELATED STORIES: Napo reacts to his...

Adwoa Safo breaks silence on GETFund scholarship debacle

The Minister of State in-charge of Public Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has justified the decision by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to...

GETFund exposé: I fund education of strangers why not mine – MP fumes [audio]

A Member of Parliament (MP) named as one of the beneficiaries of a Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) scholarship has denied receiving any such...

What man did to lady who turned down his proposal [Watch]

A man, believed to be in his twenties, who was angered by a lady after she refused to accept his proposal took away food...

Niger National jailed for attempting to register for Ghana card

The Ofaakor Circuit Court, presided over by his Lordship Ebenezer Osei Darko, has jailed a man from Niger who allegedly attempted to register for...

Audio: Fetish priest, pastor clash over leaked nude photos

A pastor, identified as Owusu Kwaakye, is in a banter with one Okomfo Sakumba, a fetish priest who allegedly leaked his nude photos for...

Land guards lock classrooms at Gomoa Sinbrofo

Classrooms of the various basic schools at Gomoa Sinbrofo in the Central region are reported to have been locked by land guards in the...

Gambia Massacre: Survivor casts doubts about reburied Ghanaian bodies

Martin Kyere, a Ghanaian who survived the massacre of 44 Ghanaians in Gambia, doubts whether the eight bodies that were reburied in 2009 at...

Gomoa Sinbrofo residents flee from land guards

Gomoa Sinbrofo, a farming community with a population estimated to be a little over 1,000 in Gomoa West in the Central region, is reported...

Ras Mubarak takes on Napo; here is why

Member of Parliament for Kunbungu, Ras Mubarak, has described as pathetic, the attempt by the Education Minister, Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, to explain himself away from...

Today in history – Kwame Nkrumah overthrown

Today in History exactly 54 years ago, President Kwame Nkrumah was unconstitutionally ousted from office through a military coup. The Coup was launched by...

Prof Gyampo wades into government appointees benefiting from scholarships

Embattled senior political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has shared his thoughts some ministers in the Akufo-Addo government and other...

Napo reacts to his name appearing on list of GETFund beneficiaries

The Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, has reacted to a report in which he was listed as beneficiary of government scholarship programme for the...

GETFund denies awarding scholarships to Ministers, NaCCA boss

The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) says its current administration has not awarded scholarships to three prominent government personalities. According to GETFund, in a statement...

Ako Adjei Interchange sparkling with beautiful artworks [Photos]

One of Ghana’s most used flyovers, the Ako Adjei Interchange, has witnessed a face-lift as part of plans to make Accra the beautiful city...

Man kills brother and hangs himself

A man has allegedly killed his elder brother at Kanyini in the Nadowli-Kaleo District of the Upper West region after which he has committed suicide. The...

Meet the prisoner who lost his teeth from his wife’s slaps [Video]

A prisoner at the Sekondi Central Prison, identified as Enoch Baidoo, has narrated how he lost three of his front teeth from a slap...

Hawa Koomson challenger risks disqualification as he’s accused of ‘deceit’ of delegates

Delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Awutu Senya East, have petitioned party executives of the constituency to withdraw their endorsement of parliamentary...

UCC’s Oguaa Hall week celebration turns into another blood bath (VIDEO)

A hall week celebration at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Saturday dawn turned bloody and led to the destruction of some property. According to...

Ghanaian boxers are not serious – Former world boxing champion

Former IBF Welterweight champion Joshua Clottey has descended heavily on Ghanaian boxers describing them as unserious and lovers of alcohol and parties. “Ghanaian boxers are not serious;...

President Kufuor leads delegation to Amematekpor’s funeral at Agbozume

Former President John Kufuor has led dozens of past and current government officials and members of Parliament to attend the final funeral rites...

Guess who Funny Face calls his guardian angel

Ghanaian comedian and actor, Funny Face has described his best pal Emmanuel Adebayor as his guardian angel. This follows a day after the Togolese football...

GES begins investigations into teachers promotion exam leakage

The Ghana Education Service (GES) in a press release dated February 22, 2020, stated it has began investigations into reports of examination papers leakage...

Adebayor is my manager – Funny Face says after car gift

Popular Ghanaian comedian, Funny Face, has been over the moon since his best friend Emmanuel Sheyi Adebayor gifted him one of his luxurious cars. Funny Face...

Two women, one pregnant, killed in accident at Kintampo

Two women, one pregnant, have been confirmed dead at Kintampo in the Bono East Region on Friday, February 21, 2020, when a...

Hopeson Adorye reveals people behind death threats

New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Kpone-Katamanso constituency, Hopeson Adorye, has given a hint about the people he believes are responsible for...