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Upper East Floods: Graveyards collapse, water sources possibly contaminated [audio]

Heavy and consistent rains in the Upper East region have flooded cemeteries in the area. According to reports, several caskets were lifted out of the...

Policeman dies after falling off operational vehicle

Tragedy struck when a policeman fell off a police operational vehicle and died in an accident involving a civilian vehicle at the Trades Union...

Supreme Court dismisses Woyome’s application to pay judgement debt in installment

The Five–member Supreme Court panel, chaired by Justice Paul Baffoe Bonnie, has dismissed an application by Alfred Agbesi Woyome to pay the Gh¢46 million...

Families of Takoradi girls left stranded at Sekondi High Court

Families of the Takoradi Girls were on Wednesday left stranded for four hours at the Sekondi High Court on a day the court was...

Refer all protocol port clearing to me – Prof Adei

Professor Emeritus Stephen Adei, Board Chairman,  Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has directed customs officials to re-direct all purported protocol clearance of goods to his...

Nurse opens up on being raped six times in a day

The issue of sexual harassment and abuse has become very topical in Ghana over the past few weeks. In the wake of the botched introduction...

Video: Police patrol team accused of beating man to death at Asante Akyem

A police patrol team has been accused of beating to death a 33-year-old man identified as Kofi Ampomah at Asante Adomfe in the Asante...

Video+Photos: Heavy rains leave 20 dead in Upper East Region

At least 20 people have died in floods across the Upper East Region in the last month due to heavy rainfall, the National Disaster...

Water shortage to hit Korle Bu, Dansoman, Gbawe, others – GWCL announces

The Ghana Water Company, (GWCL) has announced that water shortage will hit parts of Accra following a maintenance work scheduled to take place in...

Supreme Court directs AG, Amidu to collaborate in retrieving €47m for state

The Supreme Court has asked the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, to dialogue with the Attorney General to provide the needed information which will help...

Video: Efua Sutherland’s family threatens to withdraw name from Children’s Park

Parks are great places for children to make important connections with their parents, peers, and the environment. And playing outside, in the sands and sun, has...

Listen: Mother of tortured Miss Commonwealth pageant reacts

The mother of 24-year-old Nana Ama Essien who contested in the 2019 Miss Commonwealth pageant and was allegedly taken through 'trial by ordeal' over...

Video: Horrifying snake sacrifice found in front of woman’s shop

Most women would go extra length to protect their marriages from the snares of ‘side lovers’. An unidentified woman allegedly planted a sacrifice with snake...

Egya No. 1: MP to impress upon GHA to construct ramps after death of 4 children [Audio]

Member of Parliament (MP) for Mfantseman constituency is calling for the urgent construction of speed ramps and pedestrian crossing on the Cape-Coast-Accra Highway. Hon. Ekow...

US visa sanctions on Ghana may be lifted soon – Ambassador

The Ghana Mission in the United States of America (USA) has expressed hope that the US government will soon lift the visa restrictions sanction...

Fabewoso: GH₵2 million Ebenezer SHS dormitory left to rot [video]

A two million worth 18 –unit storey building for Ebenezer Senior High School (SHS) at Dansoman in Accra has been left to rot. The project, started by...

Miss Commonwealth juju saga: Fetish priest breaks silence [audio]

The fetish priest at the centre of the trial by ordeal of a contestant in the just ended Miss Commonwealth beauty pageant has described...

Most Ghanaians in US not registered with embassy – Ambassador

Ghana's Ambassador to the United States of America (USA), Dr Baffour Adjei Bawuah, has said most Ghanaians in the United States have not registered...

Video+Photos: Speeding driver kills 4 children at Egya No. 1

Four children have been killed by a speeding driver at Egya No. 1, a suburb of Anomabo along the Cape-Coast-Accra Highway. One other child, according to...

Man takes ‘a shit’ in front of Flagstaff House

Perhaps the most audacious and insulting act to the presidency, an unidentified man was spotted taking a dump in front of the seat of...

Nduom reacts to demo by Gold Coast Customers

Chairman of Groupe Nduom, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has expressed shock at the demonstration organised by customers of Gold Coast Fund Management over their...

‘Year of Return’ has been successful – Ghana’s Ambassador to US

Ghana's Ambassador to the United States (US), Dr Baffour Adjei Bawuah, says the 'Year of Return' has been a success more especially in the...

Watch: National service person confesses to impregnating neighbour’s maid

A National Service Person identified only as Stephan is in the news for the wrong reasons as he has confessed to impregnating a neighbour's...

Watch: Woman, 38, fights younger lover over child responsibilities

A 38-year-old woman, identified as Yaa Mansah, is fighting her younger lover, 31-year-old Rashid over his failure to cater for their nine-year-old daughter at...

Man, 60, dead over ‘love’

A fisherman cum herbalist said to have been entrapped in a love triangle, has been found dead in what Ningo locals believe to be...

Photos+audio: Miss Commonwealth runner-up tortured in a shrine over missing GH₵500

A contestant in this year's Miss Commonwealth Ghana beauty pageant has narrated a chilling account of how she was allegedly tortured for what organisers...

SHS double-track system difficult to understand – Shatta Wale

Dancehall act, Shatta Wale, says he doesn’t understand the double-track system being implemented at various Senior High Schools (SHS) across the country. According to...

Aggrieved customers of Gold Coast Fund hit street over locked cash

Aggrieved customers of the defunct investment firm, Gold Coast Fund Management, have taken to the streets to demonstrate and present a petition to President...

IGP issues new directives to check extortion, unprofessional conduct in Police Service

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, has issued new directives to guide police traffic duties and highway patrols barrier duties among others in...

Kweku Baako blasts Ghana Police over attack on students

Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, is of the view that the behavior of the police towards demonstrating law...

Missing at sea: Police investigate disappearance of two

Investigations have begun into the disappearance of two Ghanaians in separate incidents at sea, the Marine Police in Tema have said. The missing include a...

Video: People call me wicked witch over CST – Ursula Owusu

Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has revealed that she has been at the receiving end of personal attacks following the mode of implementation of the Communication Service...

SHS Gold track set to re-open on November 12

The Management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has said November 12 is the new date for the re-opening of Senior High School (SHS) Two Gold...

Achiase Health Centre whistle blower summoned by chief

A staff of Akyem Achiase Health Centre in the Eastern region, who complained about the poor state of the facility, was summoned by the...

Roads Minister to crack the whip on contractors

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako Atta, has said he will soon introduce a performance management policy to punish contractors for incomplete...

Dismissed PDS contractor arrested for illegal re-connection

A former contractor of the Volta Regional office of Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited, has been arrested for illegally reconnecting customers who had...

Fabewoso gets results: Achiase Health Centre to get facelift [video]

The Akyem Achiase Health Centre in the Eastern region will see major facelift after a story about the dilapidated structure was aired on Adom FM’s Fabewoso and...

Video: One confirmed dead in accident at Aboabo

A conductor, who is yet to be identified, has been confirmed dead with the driver in a critical condition in a cargo truck accident...

More rains expected till November – Meteo Agency

The Ghana Meteorological Agency is predicting more rains as the country is in the minor rainy season. The agency said the volume of rain being...

Photos/video: 15 sustain severe injuries after accident at Ofankor Barrier

Some 15 people are in critical condition at the 37 Military Hospital following an accident on the Ofankor Barrier overpass on the Accra-Kumasi road.  The Monday morning...