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Govt only interested in amending Article 243 – MP

Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockon-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has noted that the government is only interested in amending Article 243 and not its related...

Man returns home to meet wife’s lover in his room wearing a skirt

A Kenyan man named Elphas Angulo was on-board a car to another town to attend a funeral but at a point in the journey,...

Audio: Defence Ministry reacts to separatist movement

Deputy Minister of Interior, Major (retired) Derrick Oduro, has described the Homeland Study Group Foundation, a separatist movement as highly dangerous. Slamming the group’s supposed declaration of...

Y’asem Nie: Unable to sit and walk; a harrowing story of a man who received bullets in the waist

How will you feel if you were unfortunately shot in the legs by a stray bullet during a protest by some people? Very broken...

Y’asem Nie: Girl, 18, narrates how police brutality cost her education

An 18-year-old girl has been narrating how her right leg was amputated after she was shot by the police during a protest by residents...

Investigations into Menzgold at advanced stage – State prosecutors

State Prosecutors have told an Accra Circuit court that investigations into the Menzgold scandal is at an advanced stage but will need time to...

Bawumia cuts sod for Hohoe-Jasikan-Dodo Pepesu roads construction

The vice-president, Mahamudu Bawumia on Tuesday cut the sod for work to begin on the 54kM Jasikan-Dodo pepesu road in the Oti region. The sod cutting ceremony...

Mine caves in, killing 2

Two workers of Shaanxi Mining Ghana Limited at Gbane in the Talensi District in the Upper East Region died in an underground mine accident...

Video: Chief goes on knees to beg Akufo-Addo to fix bad roads

Travelling on Ghana’s roads has become a nightmare as the country records more deaths from fatal road accidents. Ghanaians across the country continue to complain about...

Western Togolanders hit back at Information Minister

Leadership of separatist group Homeland Study Group Foundation has taken exception to a statement issued by the Minister of Information over its recent move...

Feud between EOCO and Auditor-General unfortunate – Vitus Azeem

Former Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative has described the ongoing feud between the Economic and Organised Crimes Office and the Auditor General...

Western Togoland: 10 members of separatist movement arrested

The Volta Regional Security Council has arrested 10 members of the separatist movement, Homeland Study Group Foundation. This comes after the group declared parts of...

WAEC withholds results of 753 private candidates

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has withheld the entire results of 753 candidates out of 102, 278 candidates who sat for the 2019...

Referendum: Prof. Prempeh gives reasons why ‘Yes’ vote is good for Ghana

Professor Henry Kwesi Prempeh, Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development Ghana (CID), has said the upcoming December 17 referendum will solve the...

40% Kumasi residents have no toilets – KMA

As the world marks World Toilet Day Tuesday, the Environmental Health Officer at the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has given landlords up to ...

Video: Boy, 17, in critical condition after hit-and-run accident at Dawhenya

A 17-year-old Junior High School (JHS) graduate, identified as John, is in a critical condition after a hit-and-run accident at Dawhenya. According to his mother,...

Show appreciation to Akufo-Addo for Ekumfi pineapple factory – NPP Man

Central Regional Secretary for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Takyi-Mensah, has asked the people of Ekumfi to show appreciation to President Akufo-Addo for...

Education Minister launches Ghana’s bid for re-election to UNESCO Executive Council

The Minister of Education, Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has announced Ghana’s bid for election to the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational,...

FDA cautions public against the patronage of quantum magnetic boxers

James Lartey, Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) Communication Director, has cautioned the general public against the patronage of quantum magnetic boxers. According to him, the FDA has...

Right To Play Ghana celebrates World Children’s Day at Mamfo

Right To Play Ghana will mark this year’s Universal Children’s Day Celebration at Mamfo in the Ahafo Ano district of the Ashanti Region. The organisation would use the...

Four faeces eating men flee town

The Fiapre town in the Sunyani West District, is a state of shock, after four young men were sighted eating faeces at a public...

Volta secessionists declared wanted, police to place them on Interpol red alert

Police are on a manhunt for the leader of a separatist group that declared independence for Western Togoland last Saturday, authoritative source at...

Cape Coast pitch invader recounts scary road to two nights in cell

Awal Sulemana, the 25-year-old Ghanaian, who was apprehended by the police for invading the pitch during Ghana’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier game against...

PUSAG advocates for total reform in Ghana’s legal education

The Private Universities Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG) is calling for a total overhaul of Ghana's legal education system. In a statement copied to...

Govt doing cherry-picking constitutional amendment – Haruna Iddrisu

Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has accused the government of making a one-sided assessment in its attempt to amend article 243(1) which allows for the...

Adhere to your values to restore your traditional dignity – Akwamu queen mother to chiefs

The Paramount Queen of Akwamu Traditional Area, Nana Afrakoma II, has advised chiefs to restore their long lost traditional dignity. Nana Afrakoma says the deeds of...

Presidents’ dispatch rider dumped after accident injury

A dispatch rider, who has served some of Ghana’s recent leaders, has been bedridden for months after an accident. Neither the government he served...

Audio: NALAG schools Ghanaians on referendum

The National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG) has said partisan politics already exists in the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs)...

Fabewoso #MyRoadMyVote: Kpone residents protest over bad roads

Residents of Kpone Katamanso and Atadeka in the Greater Accra Region have embarked on a demonstration to register their displeasure over bad roads in...

5 companies send proposals for Aburi falling rocks

The Ghana Highways Authority (GHA) has received proposals from five slope protection specialized construction companies with the expertise to handle the Peduase falling rocks...

Manhean residents vow to boycott 2020 elections over bad roads

Residents of Manhean in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region have vowed to boycott the 2020 general elections over the bad roads in...

Krobo residents raise funds to support police-shooting victims in the face of state neglect [Audio+Photos]

Residents of Krobo Odumase in the Eastern Region on Sunday have organised a fund-raising exercise to support victims of police clash that killed one...

Audio+Photo: Man narrates how police bullet received in the waist ruined his happiness

A 41-year-old man has narrated how a bullet he received in the waist during a protest by residents of Odumase-Krobo against Power Distribution Service...

Akufo-Addo leaves for UAE, Germany and U.K

President Nana Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Sunday for a visit to the United Arab Emirates, Germany and the United Kingdom. At the invitation of Sheikh Mohammed...

From Agbogbloshie slum to Ghana’s premier medical school; the story of Dr. Olivia Agbenyeke

Just six years ago, this wonderful young sister was stuck in one of Ghana’s worst slums, Agbogbloshie, serving as a bartender in her father's...

Ghanaian family demands whereabouts of missing ‘Observer’ from Chinese vessel

The family of Emmanuel Essien, the missing Ghanaian attached to a Chinese vessel as an Observer, is accusing government and police of failing to...

Beautiful photos of President Akufo-Addo’s enskinment as ‘Dagbon Malti-Naa Abudani I’

The Overlord of Dagbon, Yaa-Na Mahama Abukari II, has conferred the title ‘Dagbon Malti-Naa Abudani I’ on the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The conferment...

More confusion rocks National House of Chiefs position on referendum as Okyenhene enters fray

The President of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs has rejected the “purported” position of the national body on the December 17 Referendum. In a...

Fight for independent Western Togoland enters different gear

The Homeland Study Group Foundation, (HSGF), which has been campaigning for the secession of some parts of Ghana into an independent ’Western Togoland State’...

Man found dead inside his car

A man was found dead inside his car in the early hours of Saturday at No. 6 Ogunsola Street, off Abiola way, along OGD estate,...