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Policeman arrested, detained for alleged rape

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has announced the arrest and detention of a police Chief Inspector who allegedly raped a woman at the Manso...

Hawa Koomson commissions durbar grounds for Odupon-Ofakor

The Minister for Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson has commissioned a new Durbar Grounds at Odupon- Ofaakor in the Awutu Senya East Municipality.  The...

Accreditation Board to ban use of honorary degree titles

The National Accreditation Board (NAB) has said it is working on a legislation to ban the use of honorary degree titles. NAB boss,...

Photos+Audio: Lives at risk as Dambai ferry poses death trap

Travellers who use the Dambai ferry in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti Region are said to be risking their lives daily as...

How Ghanaians are reacting to BoG’s new GH₵ 2 coin, 100, 200 Cedi notes

Following the release of GH₵ 2 coin, 100 and 200 Cedi notes into the circulation by the Bank of Ghana, a number of...

Ghana Bar Association eulogizes Chief Justice

Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has eulogized Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo for her strong advocacy in upholding and maintaining dignity and integrity of the legal...

Bank of Ghana releases GH₵ 2 coin, 100, 200 Cedi notes

The Bank of Ghana has released specimen of new GH₵ 100 and GH₵ 200 Cedi notes that are expected to be in circulation soon. The...

Supreme Court dismisses contempt application against Akufo-Addo

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a contempt application against President Akufo-Addo over the National Cathedral. The Supreme Court in its ruling held that per...

Mahama turns 61 today

The flagbearer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) former President John Dramani Mahama turns 61 today, Friday, November 29, 2019. Mr Mahama was...

87-year-old coronated as new Upper West regional Chief Imam

Eighty-seven-year-old Alhaji Osman Mahama Kanihi has been coronated as the new Upper West regional chief Imam.   He is the 32nd Chief Imam to be coronated...

Akua Donkor heads to ICJ over case against Akufo-Addo, Bawumia

Founder of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) Akua Donkor has said she is heading to the International Court of Justice over the violation of...

Kotoka International Airport ranked best airport in West Africa

Ghana’s Kotoka International Airport has been adjudged the best airport in West Africa and the fourth-best in the World by the Airport Council International...

Sad story of 200 babies abandoned by wicked mothers

Sensing it from afar as fate may have it, one hears the voice of these innocent kids at the Royal Seed Orphanage Home at Kwoa...

Watch: Countryman Songo loses ‘spirit’

Host of popular sports show, Fire4Fire on Adom TV, is broken-hearted following the sudden demise of his grandmother, Eno Ama Serwaa. Patrick Osei Agyemang, popularly...

Footballer remanded in custody for possessing narcotic drug

A Kumasi Circuit Court has remanded into custody, a 27-year-old man, who without lawful authority, was in possession of 23 wrappers of dried ...

Ghana’s local rice to be listed on Ghana Commodity Exchange

Ghana's local rice will soon be listed on the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX), Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GCX, Dr Kadri Alfah,...

Video: Robbery plan backfires for employee who attempted to rob employer in Accra

The decision by an employee who planned to recruit people he thought were into armed robbery to rob his employer in Accra, Ghana, has...

Aliu Mahama to renovate Yendi Hospital mortuary

Construction works are to begin this week on the Yendi Government Hospital mortuary in the Northern Region to keep it in good shape to better serve...

Agric Ministry to launch ‘Planting for Export and Rural Development’

Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, Kennedy Osei Nyarko, has hinted of the Ministry’s plan to introduce a new initiative to boost crop production...

Anas leads 32 West African journalists to visit Ahmed Suale’s grave site

Some 32 journalists from across West Africa, on Wednesday, visited the burial site of Ahmed Husein Suale, the undercover journalist with Tiger Eye P.I...

Listen: 40 in court over failure to use Adentan-Madina footbridges

The Adentan-Madina Police on Wednesday arraigned about 40 people before the Madina court for failing to use the Adentan-Madina footbridges. The court charged the offenders...

3 Ghanaians pick awards for outstanding performance at Gambia School of Law

The Ghana National Association of Law Students has congratulated three Ghanaian students who were recently honoured by the Gambia School of Law. According to the...

Akufo-Addo confers Ghanaian citizenship on 126 diasporans

President Nana Akufo-Addo conferred Ghanaian citizenship on 126 Diasporans, who have lived in Ghana for many years.  Speaking after the conferment ceremony on Wednesday, he said, “I am...

Non-Ghanaians, non-journalists can apply for information under RTI Law

Non-Ghanaians, citizens and journalists can apply for information at public and private offices that undertake public functions or are funded by the public purse...

Driver’s mate battles for his life after speed race

A driver’s mate is in critical condition after he sustained serious injuries in an accident at Asomdwee, a suburb of Mankessim in the Mfanteman...

Owners of land behind Trade Fair excited by latest Supreme Court ruling

The family which owns vast tracts of land behind the La Trade Fair in Accra is celebrating as gratifying, a Supreme Court judgment last...

Audio: Man stabbed in the scrotum over land dispute

A 40-year-old man is fighting for his life after being stabbed in the scrotum over an alleged land dispute. READ: Y’asem Nie: Over 400 trained...

Audio: Akua Donkor reacts to Supreme Court ruling

Leader of the Ghana Freedom Party, Akua Donkor, is dissatisfied with the Supreme Court's decision to dismiss her writ against President Nana Akufo-Addo and...

EOCO’s GH¢ 550,000 share of GH¢ 2m donation not well thought out – GNPC Board Chair

Board Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Freddie Blay, says the GH¢550,000.00 budgeted by the Corporation to be given to the...

We never beat up TWMA staff – Obofuor’s church

It is not true that some members of the Anointed Palace Church attacked officials of the Tema West Municipal Assembly (TWMA), including the...

Salary publication of bank CEOs to fight cronyism – Economist says

Dr Lord Mensah, a senior lecturer at the Department of Finance of the University of Ghana, has commended the Bank of Ghana’s decision to...

South Africa visa-free starts in 6 countries except Ghana

Out of seven countries that South Africa announced that it was granting visa-free status to, Ghana is the only country that is yet to...

Steve Harvey meets ex-president Kufuor, Asantehene Otumfuo

American TV star and comedian, Steve Harvey, is back in Ghana after he was in the news recently for visiting the West-African country in...

Woman survives after lorry lands on her car

A 26-year-old woman is being treated for serious injuries after a lorry landed on top of a car in the coastal town of Port...

Power restored to most areas after Tuesday blackout – GRIDCo

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) says power supply has been restored to most areas, after Tuesday’s blackout while efforts are currently underway to...

Listen: Why police officers still take bribe: IGP’s take

Inspector-General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, has given a diagnosis of the growing police unprofessional conduct on the road including the acceptance of bribes. READ:...

Couple found dead in their matrimonial home

A shoemaker, Kweku Barfo, 34, and his trader wife, Rosina Arthur 26, were last Thursday found dead in their matrimonial home at Winneba. Chief Superintendent...

Western Togoland brouhaha is recipe for tribal war – Antwi-Danso warns

The Director of Academic Affairs of the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Dr Vladmir Antwi-Danso, has said the secession campaign ...

Rev. Obofuor’s church members arrested!

Five members of the Anointed Place Chapel, a church founded by Francis Antwi, popularly known as Rev. Obofuor, have been arrested after they attacked...

Listen: IGP breaks silence on ACP Agordzo’s coup case

Inspector-General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, has spoken for the first time about the treatment meted out to senior police officer ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzo. READ:...