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Man, 24, drowns in river at Breman Brakwa

A 24-year-old man, Kwasi Akyine, has drowned in River Asonsu at Breman Brakwa in the Central region. Information gathered suggested Shatta Wale, as he is...

1V1D: 300 dams 90% complete – Hawa Koomson

About 300 of the 560 dams under the flagship One-District-One-Dam project are 90 percent complete, Minister of Special Development Initiative, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has...

Family of slain Kasoa cop speaks after court frees 6 suspects

Family members of Lance Corporal Awal Mohammed, the police officer who was killed together with his colleague on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 by gunmen...

NAM 1 announces victory in $39m Dubai case

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah aka NAM1, claims he has won the $39m Appeals case in Dubai. This was announced...

Watch: Pathologist breaks silence on Takoradi girls’ DNA test

Anatomic Pathologist, Ernest Adjei, involved in establishing the identity of the remains believed to be those of the four kidnapped Takoradi girls says he...

Special Report: Find out where poisoned water is used to grow vegetables for public consumption (video)

There is a general upsurge in urban farming; particularly, in the capital, Accra. So, such areas as Achimota, Dzorwulu, Kanda and around the Accra...

Video: You don’t need a truck load of weapons to carry out a coup – Security Analyst

Security Analyst, Irbad Ibrahim, reacting to public cynicism following news of weapons and explosives discovery in parts of Accra, says a truck load of...

Photos: Overloaded truck stuck under Tema Motorway bridge

A truck got stuck under the Tema Motorway bridge in the early hours of Wednesday while trying to pass under with a heavy load. The...

Video: Takoradi residents hit streets over missing girls

Hundreds of residents in Takoradi and its environs have joined families of the four Takoradi missing girls to embark on a massive demonstration to...

Ghana loses 140 army officers through UN missions

Major Derek Oduro (Rtd), a Deputy Minister of Defence, has disclosed that about 140 Ghanaian soldiers have lost their lives, as of May 2019, while serving...

Coup plot: I’m not perturbed because I’m innocent – Dr Mac-Palm

"I’m innocent, I’m not bothered, you can take pictures and videos of me and I won’t shy away because I know I’m innocent,” these...

We became ‘poor’ when my husband became president – Former First Lady

Former First Lady of the Third Republic, Fulera Limann, has revealed that her husband, Dr Limann, put his love for Ghana over his personal...

Minister quits

Member of Parliament (MP) for the Tafo-Pankrono Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Dr Anthony Osei Akoto, has announced he will not contest the ruling party’s...

Asantehene given rousing welcome after historic UN General Assembly address

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu the II received a heroic welcome at the Kumasi Airport when he returned from a recent trip to the United...

Watch: Hundreds await Otumfuo’s arrival at Kumasi Airport

The Kumasi Airport has been besieged by hundreds of indigenes of the Ashanti Region, who have come to welcome their overlord, Otumfuo Nana Osei...

Over 20 Ghanaians deported from Germany, UK

Seventeen Ghanaians deported from Germany have arrived on a chartered flight CT3721 at the Kotoka International Airport, the Regional Command of the Ghana Immigration Service has said.  The deportees - all males aged...

It doesn’t take a battalion to stage a coup – Security expert

A security expert is worried about the lack of seriousness being attached to the alleged coup plot in the country. Paul Boateng described as worrying...

Orphanage advocates for special educational policy

Save Them Young Mission, an orphanage at Bethlehem in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality believes it is high time the government introduced a special educational policy...

How can you plot a coup with knife used to chop tomatoes? – Allotey Jacobs wonders

Former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is recommending psychological examination for three persons arrested for attempting to topple the government. Bernard...

Kumasi: 1 confirmed dead in Roman Hill accident

One person has been confirmed dead in Monday’s accident in which a commercial van ran over traders and pedestrians at the busy commercial hub...

Bawumia commends MTN for cutting sod for Girls Dormitory at Tamasco

The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has commended MTN Ghana Foundation for cutting sod for the construction of a 600-bed dormitory at the Tamale...

Man battles for life after cops allegedly rub his p3nis in scuffle

A 29-year-old man, identified as Laar Caesar, is currently battling for his life after two policemen allegedly rubbed his penis in a scuffle during...

Audio: Coup attempt will only be a recipe for similar thoughts – Bureau of Public Safety

The Bureau of Public Safety has rejected the government’s claim of foiled attempt to destabilise the country. Describing the government’s release as worrying and disappointing,...

Foiled coup plot: Military officers arrested (Audio)

It has emerged that some military personnel involved in the recent bust of alleged coup plotters have been arrested. Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, disclosed...

Govt’s claim on foiled coup plot laughable – Security expert

Nana Yaw Akwada, a security expert, is finding it difficult to believe the government’s claim that it has neutralised an elaborate plot targeted at...

How BBC reported on foiled coup plot

Ghana’s security forces have foiled “an elaborate plot” to target the presidency “with the ultimate aim of destabilising the country”, the information ministry says. A...

Machine ‘chops’ operator’s arm off at Anwiankwanta

A 22-year-old factory worker at Anwiankwanta in the Bekwai Municipality of the Ashanti region, Felix Frimpong has lost an arm in the line of...

OccupyGhana chides Akufo-Addo over Aisha Huang deportation

Pressure group, OccupyGhana has expressed worry at how long it took government to realise that Chinese ‘galamsey queen’, Aisha Huang should not have been...

Chain-saw operator gets 15 years for defiling step daughter

Daniel Owusu, a 26 -old -year chain-saw operator who defiled his 12-year-old stepdaughter has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in hard labour by the Cape...

9-year-old boy missing for 2 months in Tamale

Residents of Tamale have mounted a search for a nine-year-old boy who has been missing for two months in the Changli suburb. Abdul Busobur, is...

Gov’t gives details about foiled attempts to create instability

Joint security operation on Friday led to the retrieval of several arms, explosive devices and ammunition from locations in Accra and Kpone Bawaleshie in...

Floods kill 7 children in Kumasi

A total of seven children have lost their lives through flood-related incident within the past two weeks in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Three of...

Video: Five injured after bus runs over them

At least five people have been injured after a bus run over them at Roman Hill, a crowded market centre near the Kumasi Central...

Listen: George Lutterodt replies Psychological Council on ban

Pastor Cyril George Carstensen Lutterodt, who was recently banned from counselling on either radio or television by the Ghana Psychological Council (GPC), has hit...

One dead, others injured as vehicle runs into drinking spot

One person has been confirmed dead with four others severely injured after a Toyota Highlander run into a drinking spot near the Effiduase major...

Stop illegal mining; take advantage of govt’s employment programs – Okyenhene to galamseyers

The overlord of Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area, Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panyin, has condemned individuals and groups who still engage in illegal mining in...

Nhyira FM’s Evangelist Oduro passes on

Popular resident preacher on Nhyira FM in Kumasi , Evangelist Stephen Oduro is dead. He died on Saturday at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in...

Otinibi residents ‘traumatised’ by presence of armed military personnel

Residents of Otinibi Hills in the La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly iof Accra, are calling on the Ghana Army to withdraw its armed personnel from the...

GRA boss Kofi Nti to retire on October 1

The Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr Kofi Nti will effect from October 1, 2019, retire from the revenue collection agency. In his...

Video: Prophet Badu Kobi speaks on alleged Interpol arrest

The Founder and Leader of Glorious Wave Ministry, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi, has reacted to the allegations leveled against him about a stolen car...