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Watchman jailed for assaulting third wife

A 51-year-old watchman has been sentenced to one month imprisonment by the Tepa District Court for assaulting his third wife at Tepa, in the Ahafo Ano...

Audio: GES holds stakeholder consultations on Comprehensive Sexuality Education

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has held a stakeholder engagement on the controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in Accra. ALSO READ: Parliament summons Health Minister over...

Photos: Oppong Memorial SHS petitions chief over burnt dormitory

Days after fire gutted the boys’ dormitory of Oppong Memorial Senior High School (SHS), management has appealed to the Omanhene of Kokofu to use...

Coronavirus: GMA demands hotline to tackle emergencies

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is asking for the establishment of hotlines for the public to report any case of the deadly...

Jubilee House to go solar by June

Jubilee House, the seat of Ghana's Presidency, will from June this year be powered by Solar Energy as part of measures to change energy...

You cannot afford to disappoint Ghanaians – Mahama to Peace Council

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress has called on the Peace Council not to disappoint Ghanaians in its quest to help fight vigilantism...

Help LEAP beneficiaries to be self- reliant – IMANI tells govt

IMANI Centre for Policy and Education has advised the government to aid beneficiaries of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme to be self-reliant. IMANI...

Laws on vigilantism useless – Kwesi Pratt (Watch)

Editor-In-Chief of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has described as ‘useless’ laws on vigilantism in the country.   SEE THIS: NDC commemorates 1 year of...

Lebanese accused of raping house girl freed

The Accra High Court has acquitted Rabih Haddad, a Lebanese man who was accused of raping his 19-year-old house help. According to the prosecution, the...

Middle-aged woman dies in Abukari Kura bus accident [photos]

A middle-aged woman has died in a motor accident involving a 65-seater Neoplan bus at Abukari Kura, a suburb of Busunu in...

AWW Violence: Mahama condemns police boycott of commemoration

Flag-bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has condemned the decision by the Ghana Police Service to boycott the commemoration of...

Ghana slowly sliding down the path of chaos – Kwesi Pratt [Watch]

Editor-In-Chief for the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has said current happenings in the country indicate that Ghana is slowly but surely sliding into...

Otumfuo lauds Akufo-Addo

Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has showered plaudits on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his instrumental role in the revamping of the Obuasi...

NDC commemorates 1 year of Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence [video]

National Democratic Congress (NDC) has today, Friday, 31st January, 2020 commemorated one year of the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence which saw some members...

AWW violence anniversary: Sam George recounts ordeal

National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s MP for Ningo Prampram believes the violence that marred the Ayawaso West Wuogon gave Ghanaians a collective power to speak to truth. According...

NDC to file suit against Akufo-Addo

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has announced plans to sue President Nana Akufo-Addo over the White Paper on the Emile Short’s Commission report...

Foreign Affairs Ministry announces service price reviews

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has announced price reviews for passport applications in Ghana. A statement from the ministry noted that the new prices will...

Ketu North MP, Avedzi, loses wife

The Ketu North legislator and Chairman of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has lost his wife, the NDC Volta regional communication officer has confirmed.  Fortune Abla...

Free SHS food suppliers threaten to withdraw services over non payment

Suppliers of foodstuff to the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) for the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) feeding programme are threatening to...

Fire guts boys’ dormitory of Oppong Memorial SHS

Over 300 students of Oppong Memorial Senior High School at Kokofu in Ashanti Region have been displaced as fire ravaged the school’s boy's dormitory...

Sunyani Traditional Council announces burial date of late ‘Omanhemaa’

The Sunyani Traditional Council (STC) has announced Friday, February 28, 2020 for the burial of the late Nana Yaa Nyamaa Pudoo II, Paramount Queen of...

Listen: Testimonies as ‘miracle water’ cures blind at Mankesim

Some visually impaired persons are claiming to have been healed after staring into ‘miracle water’ for days. ALSO READ: Visually impaired people troop to Mankesim as...

Regents of Dagbon meet to resolve chieftaincy disputes

The two immediate past regents of Dagbon, the Bolin Lana Mahamadu Abdulai and the Kampakuya Naa Abdulai Yakubu Andani and other chiefs in...

Disability Group appeals for SME support and job quota at MMDAs

The Federation of Persons with Disability is calling on the government to inject substantial capital into existing businesses of its members to enable them...

Two men killed in galamsey pit

Two men have reportedly been killed in a galamsey pit near Kyeremasu in the Dormaa East District in the Bono Region. Reports indicate the incident...

UCC, UG lecturers clash over Moody’s rating

Two lecturers from Ghana’s two reputable institutions of higher learning have clashed over the credibility of Moody’s Investors Service rating of Ghana’s economic outlook from stable...

Federation of Muslim Councils appeals to EC to review voters’ registration exercise date

The Federation of Muslim Councils has called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to review the date for the new voters’ registration exercise. Calls by the...

Tributes pour in for Alex Mould’s daughter

Tributes have begun pouring in for former Ghana National Petroleum Corporation boss, Alex Mould’s daughter, Elvina Mould. Elvina, a former worker of Springfield Exploration and...

Alex Mould’s daughter would have turned 28 today

Elvina Naa Densuah Mould, daughter of former Chief Executive of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Alex Mould would have celebrated her 28th birthday today, January...

NaCCA holds review workshop on draft subject curricula

The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has organised a workshop in the Eastern region to review the draft JHS to SHS1subject curricula...

Visually impaired people troop to Mankesim as man claims cure for blindness [watch]

Dozens of visually impaired persons have rushed to Mankesim in the Central region to seek treatment for their visual disorders. Their decision follows claims by...

Check out number of prank calls received by Ambulance Service in an hour [audio]

Officials of the National Ambulance Service Dispatch Centre have sent a strong warning to prank callers who interrupt the work of the emergency...

Official: New way to check validity of your vehicle insurance

The National Insurance Commission (NIC) has rolled out a new Motor Insurance Database (MID) that makes it possible for people to check the validity...

Alex Mould reveals deep things he shared with daughter in emotional tribute

Alex Mould, a former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), has paid an emotional tribute to his deceased daughter. The grieving...

Details: How man who attempted to defraud National Security Operative was arrested [Watch]

A National Security Operative, Hopeson Adorye, has narrated how one Jonas Awuah and some two Indians defrauded him to the tune of GHS 5,000. The...

Why Voltarians are called number 9

Monica Amekoafia, the winner of the first edition of the Miss Ghana contest in 1957 while representing the Trans-Volta Togoland was contestant Number 9. It...

Ghana Association of Anesthetists to withdraw services

The Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anesthetists has announced plans to withdraw services for all forms of surgery till further notice. According to the Association,...

Alex Mould buries daughter [photos]

Alex Mould, a former CEO of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and family, on Thursday January 30, 2020 laid to rest daughter, Elvina Nah...

This is how your new motor insurance sticker looks like

The National Insurance Commission has rolled out its novel Motor Insurance Database (MID), to replace the manual system. The new policy which took effect on...

Truck crashes into building at Aboabo in Kumasi [photos]

A 28-year-old man is receiving medical attention at the Manhyia Government Hospital in Kumasi after the articulated he was driving, crashed into a storey...