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KTI students sell school gate to scrap dealer

Some students of Kumasi Technical Institute have dislodged their school’s gate and deposited it with a scrap dealer for a bargain, Ghanaweb reports. The metal...

Late Council of State member laid to rest

The Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday, 23 October 2019 represented President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the people of Ghana at...

Rawlings applauds $1m penalty against fishing company

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has commended the fisheries authorities for slapping a whopping $1 million penalty on a fishing company for contravening Ghana’s fishing laws. The...

Audio: Miss Commonwealth Ghana not affiliated to us – Commonwealth Society

The Royal Commonwealth Society Africa has disassociated itself from Miss Commonwealth Ghana beauty pageant. READ: Watch: Man introduces lover as sister, loses her to friend It...

Photos: Fire guts container shops at Odorkor

Fire Wednesday morning gutted a number of container shops at Odorkor in Accra with residents and other shop owners running helter-skelter to put out the...

Photos: Five dead, 22 injured in Gomoa Odumasi accident

Five people were on Saturday confirmed dead in a fatal accident at Gomoa Odumasi on the Winneba Cape Coast highway. About 22 others sustained various...

NPP man blasts MCC over $190m withdrawal after PDS deal abrogation

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Constituency Chairman for New Juaben North in the Eastern Region, Kwadwo Boateng-Agyemang, has chided the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) over...

Y’asem Nie: Barber recounts terrifying experience with a wizard [video]

An experienced barber has recounted a terrifying experience he had while shaving a 60-year-old man. Yesu Adom, who has been in the business since 1988, said...

I was not worried about controversial chalk reportage – Matilda Amissah-Arthur

Matilda Amissah-Arthur, wife of late Former Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, reacting to her controversial chalk comment at the Kukurantumi Presby Primary School in...

Bui Power Authority to spill dam

The Bui Power Authority (BPA) says there will be a controlled spillage of the Bui reservoir on Wednesday, October 23, 2019. As a result, the Authority...

‘Akufo-Addo must be held responsible for any financial loss in PDS mess’

Eric Adjei, the Deputy Brong Ahafo Regional Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), says President Nana Akufo-Addo is responsible for the...

2018 trained teachers to be posted by November – GES

The Ghana Education Service says it has commenced the process of posting teachers who completed Colleges of Education in 2018. Only trainees who have written...

Fate of first year university students hangs as WAEC cancels Maths paper

The fate of over 1,000 graduates of Ken Hammer Senior High School (SHS) at Goaso in the Ahafo Region hangs in balance after their...

Mine workers union honours Rawlings, others at 75th anniversary

The Ghana Mineworkers Union, as part of its 75th Anniversary celebration, has honoured former President Jerry John Rawlings for his contribution to the development...

The Holy Spirit led me to ‘rant’ at my husband’s funeral – Matilda Amissah-Arthur

Matilda Amissah-Arthur, wife of late Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has said the Holy Spirit was responsible for her unusual rant at her husband’s...

Angry residents give govt a two-week ultimatum to fix roads

Residents of Manhean and its adjoining communities have given the government a two-week ultimatum to fix their deplorable roads or they will embark on...

Photos: Multimedia journalists win big at West Africa Media Excellence Awards

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) at the weekend organised its annual media awards to celebrate journalists in the sub-region who have distinguished themselves in...

Watch: Amissah-Arthur was not put in pickup bucket – Wife

Matilda Amissah-Arthur, wife of late Vice-President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, has dismissed claims that his late husband was conveyed to the 37 Military Hospital...

Watch: Man introduces lover as sister, loses her to friend

A young man, identified as Paul, has failed in his attempt to play the character of Abraham who introduced Sarah as his sister in...

Most dangerous reptiles in Ghana

Every year on October 21, nations across the world celebrate National Reptile Awareness Day. Apart from the day being observed, it also promotes education...

You’ll never believe how these African countries got their names

Almost every country in the world is named after either a feature of the country, an influential person or tribe, or a directional description...

Audio: One burnt to death in fire outbreak at Konongo

One person has been reported dead in a fire outbreak at Konongo Kwakrom in the Asante Akyem Central Municipality in the Ashanti region Saturday...

Video: Fire engulfs bus conveying students of UNER to Kumasi

Fire has engulfed a bus conveying level 300 electrical students of the University Of Energy And Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani to the Kwame Nkrumah University of...

Free SHS giving hope to girls – GES

Benedicta Tenni Seidu, National Director, Girls’ Education Unit of the Ghana Education Service, has observed that the introduction of Free Senior...

Government supports flood victims with GH¢50,000.00

Government has given GH¢50,000.00 cash as initial support to families that were affected by the recent torrential rains in the Upper East Region to enable them...

Accra Psychiatric Hospital demands request folder of Sexy Dondon for safekeeping

The Accra Psychiatric Hospital is demanding from An Accra High Court the return of the folder of Daniel Asiedu, aka Sexy Dondon, one of the suspects...

One burnt to death in fire outbreak at Konongo as F/Service vehicle breaks down

One person has been reported dead in a fire outbreak at Konongo Kwakrom in the Asante Akyem Central Municipality in the Ashanti region. The...

No vigilante group is being trained at Asutsuare – National Security Council

The National Security Council Secretariat says allegations that some party vigilante groups are being trained at the Asutsuare National Security Training School ahead of...

Do not use office computers to watch porn sites – Cyber Security Commission

Government Institutions, Department and Agencies have been encouraged to develop security policies to secure their critical information from getting leaked into the public sphere. Additionally, they must put...

Watch: Passengers fight AMA taskforce for seizing driver’s keys at Achimota

Passengers aboard a 207 bus (trotro) came to the defence of their driver when members of the AMA taskforce seized his car keys for...

French Language to be introduced in upper primary

Professor Kwesi Yankah, Minister of State for Tertiary Education has stated that under the new educational reforms, the French Language is to be introduced in upper...

Ghana-Nigerian couple fight Canada deportation order

A Nigerian husband and his Canadian wife of Ghanaian origin are fighting a deportation order scheduled for next week. Temitope Issac Kayode came to Canada several...

Akufo-Addo charges newly commissioned soldiers to maintain service standards

President Nana Akufo-Addo has charged some 132 newly commissioned officers of the Ghana Armed Forces to take actions that would enhance and maintain the...

Former Deputy Minister loses husband

Former Deputy Minister for Tourism, Culture and the Creative Arts, Abla Dzifa Gomashie has lost her husband. Brigadier General Martin K.G. Ahiaglo (Rtd) died after...

Ghanaians dissatisfied, let’s step up – Akufo-Addo to Public servants

President Akufo-Addo has challenged Public Sector Workers to step up their game in the delivery of quality service to the public. According to the President,...

Videos: Landslide on Aburi road leaves motorists stranded

Motorists using the south-bound lane of the Aburi to Accra road were left stranded Friday afternoon after a heavy downpour caused a landslide. Videos circulated...

Double agony: Mother of slain driver at Adomfe buries husband this weekend (Audio)

Grief-stricken mother of the 33-year-old driver, Kofi Ampoma, allegedly beaten to death by police at Adomfe in the Ashanti region is demanding transparent investigations...

Video: If not for the law I would have shot my father…Actor Yaw Dabo recounts ordeal

Popular Kumawood actor, Samuel Dabo, has revealed how his mother single-handedly raised him and two other siblings after his father abandoned them. According to Yaw...

Alleged police brutality: Blow-to-blow account of how driver, 33, was murdered at Adomfe (Audio)

A Unit Committee Chairman at Adomfe in the Asante Akyem South District of the Ashanti region has been narrating the circumstances that led to...

Richest men ‘killing’ poverty in Ghana

Poverty is something nobody wishes to go through but even some of the world’s billionaires had their low points. Knowing how it feels, most of...