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Smoking marijuana actually kills coronavirus? – Kwesi Pratt stunned by new Study

Kwesi Pratt, Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, is utterly shocked by a new study that indicates nicotine could prevent infection and serious illness from coronavirus. A recent...

Court orders sale of West FM in Ho to settle judgement debt

The Ho District Court has issued an order for the sale of assets of West FM, a private radio station in the Volta Regional...

Over 500 of Ghana’s new Coronavirus cases were recorded at an industrial facility

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says over 500 of the 921 new Coronavirus cases in the country were recorded at an industrial facility. Ghana has...

Covid-19: Viral Ghanaian pallbearers have a message for all [Video]

Viral Ghanaian dancing pallbearers, amid the soaring global coronavirus cases, have urged citizens to comply with the stay at home directive. Taking to Twitter to...

Coronavirus: Recovered patient harassed at Bolga [audio]

A pregnant woman, who has fully recovered from Covid-19, is reportedly being stigmatised by people in her community. The 34-year-old Matilda Agamu said she had...

Barbara Ayisi donates to Abura Gym as she urges public to disregard mischievous video in circulation

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Coast North Constituency and Deputy Minister for Works and Housing, Barbara Asher Ayisi, has donated an undisclosed...

Fire outbreak at Ashaiman Lebanon kills 50-year-old man & his daughter

A fire outbreak at Ashaiman Lebanon Zone Two has claimed the lives of a 50-year-old man and his nine-year-old daughter. Three other children, two boys...

Coronavirus: Okudzeto Ablakwa okays Madagascar cure

Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has urged African leaders to take a look at Madagascar’s purported ‘herbal cure’ for...

Coronavirus: Ghana records over 4, 000 cases, 323 recoveries

Ghana's coronavirus cases have shot up to 4,012, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed. However, 20 more persons have recovered bringing the total of...

Woman, lover in court over botched plot to kill husband

There was heavy police presence at the Asokwa District Court on Friday as the court got ready to hear a case involving a woman...

Cedi falls by 1.18% to dollar, trades at GHS 5.93

The Ghana cedi has returned to the depreciation trajectory despite a strong performance in the first three-and-a-half months of this year. As of 6 May...

Mahama’s claim about Ghana topping press freedom ranking in Africa investigated, checkout verdict

In commemoration of the World Press Freedom Day Celebrations on May 3, 2020, former President John Dramani Maham delivered a speech through his social media pages....

COVID-19 Trust Fund: Coffers increase with donations from Okyenhene, others

Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, through his wife Nana Asabea Ofori Atta and some other groups, have made donations to the COVID-19 National Trust...

CCF responds to Prisons Service’ distress call for mattresses

Crime Check Foundation (CCF) has responded to the distress call of the Ghana Prisons Service with a donation of 100 pieces of student mattresses...

Expired goods confiscated at Achiase

The Achiase District Assembly has undertaken an inspection exercise to confiscate expired manufactured products at the main markets to discourage the sale of unwholesome...

ECG to cut power supply to parts of Accra, check out areas affected

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced power cuts in parts of Accra beginning, Friday, May 8, 2020. According to the ECG, the planned...

Fact check: Govt accused of lying to Ghanaians, find out what it is

On April 13, 2020, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a statement approving the disbursement of US$1 billion credit facility to the...

Covid-19: Bono Region first recorded case is Togolese

The first person to test positive for the novel coronavirus in the Bono Region is a Togolese national who entered the country illegally, Regional...

Stan Dogbe reacts to smashing GBC journalist’s recorder

Top aide to former president John Mahama, Stan Dogbe, says he never smashed the recorder of fellow journalist from the radio wing of the...

Covid-19: Deputy Education Minister’s message to hungry private school teachers (watch)

Private school teachers wailing over unpaid salaries will have to watch and pray as President Nana Akufo-Addo considers their plea for a stimulus package. Deputy...

Man remanded over pickaxe attack on wife (photos)

A Wa Magistrate Court has remanded into prison custody, a 35-year-old private security man, Vitus Kundeyiri for an alleged attempted murder of his wife...

Coronavirus: More young people contracting disease in Ashanti region

More young people than adults are getting infected with Covid-19 in the Ashanti region. Statistics from the regional health directorate show 50 percent of 163 confirmed...

Fuel tanker mate killed in gory accident

A driver’s attempt to prevent a collision with a passenger commercial vehicle has led to the untimely death of his mate. The fuel tanker with...

Adwoa Safo cuts sod for the construction of NHIA office, fire service station

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Dome-Kwabenya Constituency on Monday, May 4, 2020, cut sod for two major projects in her Constituency. The...

‘800,000 job losses recorded in hospitality sector’

About eight hundred thousand workers in the hospitality, leisure and tourism sectors are said to have lost their jobs. According to the Ghana Tourism Federation...

This is how much wife offered for husband’s murder [Listen]

It has emerged that a wedded wife, who connived with her lover to murder her husband, offered to pay the assailants GH¢ 1.5 billion. Elijah...

Ghana to take delivery of Madagascar’s anti-Covid-19 drug [Audio]

Madagascar has donated some of her much-touted herbal potion that has become famous for its ability to cure coronavirus or Covid-19 patients to Ghana. Director...

Man remanded for defiling two apprentices

A 41-year-old man, who allegedly defiled two hairdresser apprentices at Amoabeng, in the Atwima-Nwabiagya South Municipality, has been remanded into police custody by the...

Akan drum, the oldest African-American object in the British Museum

The Akan drum is the oldest African-American object in the British Museum, brought from West Africa to the Colony of Virginia as part of the slave...

JHS pupil jailed for breaking into drinking bar to steal alcoholic beverages

A Junior High School (JHS) three pupil, who broke into a drinking bar through the ceiling and took away several sachets of alcoholic beverages,...

Car crashes man, 26, while making video call with girlfriend

A 26-year-old man, Olajide Asade, who was reportedly making a video call with his girlfriend in Siun along Abeokuta-Sagamu expressway, was crashed by a...

New recoveries as Ghana’s coronavirus case count jumps to 3,091, check out details

Ghana’s total coronavirus case count has jumped from 2,719 to 3,091. This means 372 more cases have been recorded. According to the Ghana Health Service...

Ghana to find vaccine for Covid-19 – Prof Alex Duodu

The Director-General of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Professor Alexander Duodu, is optimistic Ghana can help find a vaccine for the deadly novel coronavirus...

Taxi driver electrocuted while plucking pawpaw

Tragedy on Wednesday struck at Wassa Akropong in the Western region when a middle-aged man was electrocuted to death. The deceased, Yaw Owusu, popularly known...

Police partner Zoomlion to disinfect, fumigate facilities

As part of measures to provide a safe environment for police personnel in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the Ghana Police Service...

Esoko predicts continuous increase in food prices

Agricultural profiling and messaging service organisation, Esoko, is predicting a continuous increase in the prices of food items due to uncertainty on the way...

2-year-old dies from fuel tanker fire in Takoradi

The body of a two-year-old boy has been retrieved after two tankers caught fire at Apremdo in Takoradi, Wednesday afternoon. The boy was sleeping in...

Mahama’s touching birthday wish to Otumfuo

Former President John Mahama has wished the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II a happy birthday in a special way as he celebrates his 70th...

Wife and lover arrested after mistaking contract killer’s number for that of police commander

A wedded wife along with her lover have been arrested for conniving to murder her husband. The two were arrested by the Manhyia Divisional Police...

Zoomlion denies buying Live 91.9 FM

Management of leading waste management company, Zoomlion, has denied reports of being the new owners of radio firm Live FM. Live FM is one...