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Cost of 307 ambulances revealed [Audio]

Minister for Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has pegged the cost of each of the 307 new ambulances procured at $133,000. According to...

Curfew on Bole township lifted

The Ministry of Interior has lifted the curfew imposed on Bole and its environs in the Savannah region. This follows the resolve by the chiefs...

Fire engulfs Metro Mass bus on Tema Motorway [Video]

Fire has engulfed a Metro Mass transit bus on the Accra-Tema Motorway near the Ashaiman under-bridge. Though the cause of fire is yet to...

Good news for businesses, as RGD reviews two key requirements

The Registrar-General’s Department (RGD), in its quest to improve the ease of doing business in Ghana, has abolished some two key requirements before a...

Y’asem Nie: How a bank manager duped doctor to the tune GH¢92,000

A medical doctor has narrated how a branch manager of a reputable bank in Ghana duped him of GH¢92,000.00 in seven days. According to...

Y’asem Nie: Doctor narrates how a pregnant woman died due to lack of beds [listen]

A medical practitioner (name withheld) has narrated how a seven-month-old pregnant woman died as result of lackadaisical attitude portrayed by some health professionals in...

Ghana needs land cruiser-type ambulances, not these – ACHP [listen]

Executive Director of health policy think tank, the Africa Center for Health Policy, Research and Analysis, Dr Thomas Anaba, has described the new ambulances...

Court stops Opuni’s lawyer

Attempts by lawyer for the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr. Stephen Opuni, to cite a witness...

Akufo-Addo asks Diplomatic Corps to report corrupt officials

President Akufo-Addo has asked members of the Diplomatic Corps to report any of his appointees who engage in acts of corruption for the necessary...

Over 10,000 government employees to have their salaries stopped

A payroll audit by the Auditor General has uncovered that over 10,000 employees have either no justification or sufficient information to continue drawing salaries...

Ghana announces 112 as new general emergency number

Ghana has launched a new general emergency number to replace the current emergency numbers for the various emergency service providers in the country. Effective today,...

Accra Academy on fire again

Parts of the Accra Academy School near Kaneshie has been engulfed in fire. The fire started at Alema Hall, is reported to have started around...

Listen: It’s impossible to mix marijuana with faeces – Rastafarian debunks NACOB’s claim

A Rastafarian has debunked claims by the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) that some youth smoke marijuana mixed with dried faeces. ALSO READ: Kobe Bryant’s fans petition...

Audio: Chief to fine parents whose teenage girls get pregnant

The chief of Ayensu Adze in Gomoa Central, Nana Akyirpanyin IV, has introduced a fine as a measure to end the increasing rate of...

Ministry of Finance gives clearance for ambulance service recruitment

President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced the Finance Ministry has given clearance for the recruitment of 1,477 Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs). According to President Akufo-Addo, the...

Avoid excessive partisan debates ahead of December polls – Speaker to MPs

Speaker of Ghana's Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye, has urged Members of Parliament to refrain from excessive partisan debates in the run-up to the 2020...

Dompoase accident: Family members fall on psychologist to break news of death of parents to children [Listen]

Family members of a man who died with his wife and eight months old baby in the Cape Coast-Takoradi Highway accident say they will...

Measures put in place will keep Ghana safe from coronavirus – GHS

Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Franklin Asiedu Bekoe, has described measures put in place to avert the spread...

Oil prices fall by 10% as coronavirus raises fears for global growth

China's coronavirus outbreak has rattled oil markets, sending prices sharply lower as investors worry that efforts to prevent it from spreading will harm the country's...

AMA arrests man for open defecation

A man in his mid twenties, identified only as Lukeman, has been arrested by the public health officers of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA)...

Coronavirus: Ghanaian students in China bemoan living conditions

Ghanaian students in China, following the outbreak of Coronavirus in the country, are lamenting about how the epidemic is affecting living conditions. Ghanaian students in...

307 ambulances Commissioned [Photos]

The 307 ambulances, procured by the Akufo-Addo-led government, have been commissioned at the Black Star Square in Accra. This is in fulfillment of the Akufo-Addo-led...

Coronavirus: Ridge, Tema General Hospitals named management centres

The Ministry of Health has announced the Ridge Hospital and the Tema General Hospital as centres to manage possible cases of coronavirus in Ghana. The move, according...

Railway service bounces back in Takoradi/Tarkwa after 12yrs break

For the first time in 12 years, a passenger train from Takoradi to Tarkwa has commenced operation. The transport service has been out of operation...

Today in history – Achimota College was formally opened

Prince of Wales College and School, later Achimota College, was founded in Achimota, Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1924 by Dr James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, Rev....

Provide Ambulance bays or we’ll deny you – Minister to MMDCEs [listen]

Minister for Special Development Initiative, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has threatened the possible retainment of ambulances from constituencies with no ambulance bays. The Minister’s threat follows observation by...

Coronavirus: Ghanaian students in China demand evacuation

Ghanaian students in Wuhan in China, are calling on government to evacuate them from the country since there is an outbreak of coronavirus in the...

We’ve not created a vaccine for coronavirus – KNUST responds to fake news

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has described as false media reports that, its Pharmacy Department, has created a vaccine for...

Report: Dr Adutwum has deep understanding of Ghana’s education system

A report by two research firms, Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) and FAKS Investigative Services, has revealed that Deputy Education Minister,...

Man dies in fire he set to his father’s house

A 50-year-old man has died in a fire that ravaged a residential apartment at Achiase, in the Nwabiagya North District of the Ashanti region. The...

Exhumed corpse dumped at chief’s palace near Nkawkaw [Audio]

The coffin containing the body of a woman named Adwoa Antwiwaa has been exhumed by some persons who are yet to be identified and...

Fabewoso: Auditor-General’s report exposes rot at AMA [Video]

The Auditor-General’s report has revealed millions of waste revenue collected by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) cannot be accounted for. The report, dated March 31,...

Govt protects eight cement companies with new ban

Government, through the Ministry of Trade and Industry, has banned further issuance of permits to companies that want to set up cement processing plants...

Captain Smart honoured in France

Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem host, Captain Smart, born Blessed Godsbrain Smart, has been honoured by the Organisation of Ghanaians Abroad, headquartered in France. Captain...

LEKMA Road: Residents disappointed in slow pace of work

Today marks exactly six months since government promised residents of Ledzokuku of fixing a road that stretches from Teshie to the Spintex Road within...

Alex Mould to bury daughter on January 30

Alex Mould, a former CEO of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), will on Thursday, January 30, lay his daughter, Elvina Nah Densua Mould, to rest. A burial Mass...

Cargo truck falls at Moree tollbooth [watch]

A DAF CF Cargo transporting dairy products and canned drinks to Cote D’Ivoire has fallen close to the Moree tollbooth in Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese district in...

Nominations open for Article 19 Press Prize

African Heights Foundation in partnership with Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) has opened nominations for the maiden edition of Article 19 Press...

Some Ghanaian youth smoke dried feces – Narcotics Control Board

Some young people in the country now smoke dried feces and soak sanitary pads to drink for vitality. This shocking revelation was made by the...

Ambulance distribution starts tomorrow

The commissioning and distribution of 307 Ambulances to all the 275 constituencies nationwide as part of efforts to improve emergency healthcare delivery in Ghana...