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PHOTOS: World Vision helps to stem open defecation at Tong

World Vision Ghana has assisted several homes at Tong in the Karaga District of the Northern Region to construct enclosed pit latrines, leading to...

Eastern corridor roads to be completed before end of 2020 – Roads Minister assures

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Hon. Kwasi Amoako-Atta, has assured the Chiefs and people of the Volta Region that, by the end of...

Rawlings, Otchere-Darko laud Ibrahim Mahama on African Industrialist award

Former President Jerry John Rawlings and New Patriotic Party (NPP) big shot, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, have joined hundreds to congratulate Ibrahim Mahama on winning...

Flee from corruption – Chief Justice warns judges, judicial staff

The Chief Justice, Ms Sophia Akuffo has issued a strong warning to judges, magistrates and staff of the judiciary to “flee” from corruption because...

FABEWOSO: Captain Smart, Ambulance man clash on live radio over “defected” ambulances (VIDEO)

Adom FM’s studio nearly caught “fire” when one, Mr Richard Dzapka, contracted to supply the country with ambulances sat on Adom FM’s flagship morning...

Over 100 houses sited in the catchment of Owabi Dam face demolition

The Ghana Water Company is to demolish over 100 houses encroaching on the catchment area of the Owabi Dam and the company’s lands at...

 PHOTOS+VIDEO: High electricity cost crippling Odupong Ofaakor orphanage

  The high cost of electricity at the Good Shepherd Child Care, an orphanage at Odupong Ofaakor in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the...

AUDIO: Recruit more health professionals – Government told

Government has been urged to recruit more trained nurses and doctors to support Ghana’s ailing health system.National Chairman of Ghana Coalition of NGOs in...

Young Ghanaian Gov’t officials to benefit from $1.73m Japanese scholarship

Republic of Ghana and the Japanese Government have signed a 1.7 million dollar grant that is targeted at supporting the human resource development of...

Audio: Car crashes man; divides body into two at Nkrumah Circle

A middle-aged man was crushed to death by a commercial vehicle at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra on Wednesday afternoon.According to reports, his...

Mobile Money vendor with 14 dependants putting up 4-bedroom house

Mobile Money has become the easiest way for people to access money anytime any day and has also become a source of livelihood for...

AUDIO:  There is nothing like ‘Doctor Motivation fee’ – GMA

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has described as unfortunate circumstances that led to the death of a 30-year-old pregnant woman and her unborn baby...

Accra International Book Festival hosts multi-Burt award winner Ruby Goka

The Accra International Book Festival (AIBF) and Accra Writers’ Forum (AWF) will host multi-award winning Ghanaian author, Dr Ruby Yayra Goka at the second...

Audio: Inhaling spouse fart a sign of love – Doctor reveals

It has emerged couples who inhale each other’s fart stay much longer in their relationship.According to Dr. Duah Danso of Valley View University Hospital,...

Homosexuality is sexual pollution – Former GEC Moderator

The Very Reverend Professor Emmanuel Komla Gbordzoe, former Moderator of the Global Evangelical Church (GEC), has described homosexuality as sexual pollution and it must...

Kelni GVG: Court dismisses injunction application

A Human Rights Court in Accra has dismissed an interlocutory application seeking to stop government from going ahead with the implementation of the common...

Gov’t sets-up cattle ranch in Afram Plains to deal with fulani menace

President Akufo-Addo has revealed that his government has set-up its first cattle ranch in the Afram Plains to help deal with the herdsmen and cattle menace.He stated that in...

GAC test 1,030 for HIV at NPP congress

The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has offered free counselling and testing for 1,030 people at the just ended 26th National Delegates Congress of the...

World Vision to end food scarcity in Northern Ghana in 5 years 

World Vision has said it is working to end food scarcity in northern Ghana in the next five years.Gushegu Cluster Food Insecurity officer at World...

AUDIO: NIA workers threaten to boycott Ghana card over unpaid allowances

Over a hundred workers of the National Identification Authority (NIA) have threatened to boycott the registration of Ghana card over unpaid allowances by the...

AUDIO: Asante Akyem Agogo residents jubilate over reinstatement of Kwadwo Baah

There was excitement within the Asante Akyem North constituency following the exoneration of former MP of the area, Kojo Baah Agyeman, over the case...

PHOTO: Pregnant woman, baby die over GHC500 ‘doctor motivation fee’

A 30-year-old pregnant woman died with her unborn baby at the Suntreso Government Hospital in Kumasi on Wednesday, 4 July 2018 after the health...

Law school exams saga resurfaces

United States of America (USA)-based Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare says his motion to stop the General Legal Council (GLC) from conducting another entrance examination...

PHOTOS: 3 children killed in NKwawie building collapse

The Nkawie Panin Township in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality of the Ashanti Region has been thrown into a state of mourning after a building...

We support CJ, we are suffering – JUSAG

The Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG) says districts courts in the country are not fit for purpose.According to the President of JUSAG,...

Two kids drown at Asutsuare

Two children have reportedly drowned at Asutsuare, in the Eastern on Monday.Local reports say the kids drowned when they were attempting to retrieve their...

UNDP, KAIPTC launch project for African peacekeepers

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with it partners, has launched a project to enhance the capacities of peacekeepers in Africa.The project...

16 prostitutes arrested; fined GH₵300

Police in Accra has arrested some 16 women suspected to be involved in prostitution.They were arrested as part of a swoop conducted by the...

Ghana, Venezuela sign bilateral cooperation

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has urged the Government of Venezuela to partner Ghana on government policy initiatives to...

Kumasi: Armed robbers attack mobile money vendor at Ahodwo Nhyiaeso

Mobile money vendors at Ahodwo Nhyiaeso in Kumasi, the Ashanti Region capital, say they are living in fear over persistent attacks on them.In the...

Pius, Kwadwo Baah reinstated by Akufo-Addo

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reinstated the Deputy Sports Minister, Pius Enam Hadzide and the Chairperson of the National Sports Authority, Kwadwo...

VIDEO: Lack of incubators at Berekum Hospital: Mothers carry babies “kangaroo style” to keep them alive

Pregnant women and midwives at the Holy Family Hospital in Berekum in the Brong Ahafo region are calling on Health Ministry to provide incubators...

Lack of toilets: Magistrate uses chamber pot in her office (AUDIO)

Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo has described the state of districts courts in the country as unacceptable.The Chief Justice who is on a four-day tour...

AUDIO: Enough of talking, lift ban on small scale mining now – Small scale miners to Akufo Addo

National Association of Small Scale Miners is unhappy with the new-twist, as far as the lifting of the ban on small-scale mining is concerned.The...

EXCLUSIVE: NPP National Delegates Conference 2018 in Photos

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$5.7m gold scam case: Ken Agyapong faked court processes – Anas’ Lawyer

Kissi Agyabeng, the lawyer for investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has accused Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Ken Agyapong of faking court processes...

Gov’t gives Bonsa-Benso road to contractor

Kingspok Engineering Limited was on Wednesday, June 27, 2018, officially handed over the site to commence a 20.50-kilometre Bonsa to Benso road at Bonsa.Municipal...

Trainee pastor crashed to death at Madina

A 33-year-old pastor under training at the Trinity Theological Seminary, Benjamin Adu Boateng, met his untimely death on Sunday night when a car hit...

Pastor Otabil protects, prays for me – Akufo-Addo reveals

President Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed the secret of his success in government.According to him, his "special friend" Pastor Mensah Otabil,founder of the International Central...

My suicide threat was a stunt – Former AIDS ambassador

Troubled former AIDS ambassador for the Ghana AIDS Commission, Joyce Dzidzor Mensah who issued what was considered a suicide note on Saturday, now says...