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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...

Photos: 38-year-old accountant enstooled Nkoranza Paramount Chief

The kingmakers of the Nkoranza Traditional Council in the Bono East region on Friday enstooled 38-year-old accountant, Prince Kwaku Soror, as the new Paramount...

Audio: Compensation in Emile Short report good news – beneficiary

One of the people to benefit from the government's compensation package for property destroyed during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election has described the decision...

DCE in car crash hours after campaign manager dies in accident

The District Chief Executive for Upper West Akyem, Eugene Sackey, has been hospitalised after he was involved in a near-fatal accident on the Suhum...

Maame Yaa Tiwaa touted the best to head CID

A security analyst, Adams Bonaa, has challenged critics to name a better senior police officer aside Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah to head the Criminal...

Prof Stephen Adei sworn in as new GRA Board Chair

Former Director-General and Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Prof Stephen Adei, has been sworn in as the new...

377 females deported from Gulf States in 2017 – GIS Report

The Migration Information Centre (MIC) of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) said 377 female Ghanaians were deported from the Gulf States in 2017. This was...

Special report: Accra roads to avoid to dodge the ‘crazy’ traffic jam (Video)

For over 120 years, successive governments have constructed hundreds of roads in Ghana’s capital city, Accra, to ease the flow of traffic. But, that...

Audio: Peace Council speaks on kidnappings in Ghana

The Chairman of the National Peace Council, Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, says the recent kidnappings, murders and political vigilantism in Ghana must be...

Watch: How a lady escaped after robbing a bank

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2n5GaWgKYU/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again A lady has been spotted in a viral video jumping from the window of a bank in Kumasi after robbing the bank.  READ: Photos+audio: NPP...

Man dies in galamsey pit

The body of a man has been recovered from a water-filled pit at a gold mining site in the Manso-Aboabo community in the Amansie...

Photos+audio: NPP MP, party executives beaten at Breman Asikuma

A constituency Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is fighting for his life after he, together with the Member of Parliament (MP)...

16 arrested in military and police exercise at Yeji

A joint police and military team has busted 16 suspects at Yeji in the Bono East region during a special exercise conducted to clamp...

I can help families of kidnapped girls retrieve their bones – Maurice Ampaw

Dr Maurice Ampaw, a private legal Practitioner, has said that he is capable of helping the families of the kidnapped Takoradi girls recover the...

Video: Konongo artisans threaten to burn police station

Hundreds of angry artisans at Konongo in the Ashanti region have besieged and threatened to burn the Konongo Police Station over the arrest of...