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Video: PPA saga a test case for Akufo-Addo – GII

President Nana Akufo-Addo is being challenged to use the corruption exposé at the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) to reinforce his commitment to fighting corruption. This...

Corruption Watch: What I would have done if I were head of an institution – Emile Short (Video)

Former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has explained what he would have done if he were the head...

Six immigration officers honoured for rejecting bribe, arresting fertilizer smugglers

The Comptroller-General of Immigration (CGI), Mr. Kwame Asuah Takyi, on Wednesday, honoured six officers of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) at a staff durbar...

UEW impasse: We were naïve – Avoke apologises, begs for Napo’s intervention

The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Prof. Mawutor Avoke has apologised to the Education Minister for undermining the process of...

Man jailed 20 years for defiling own daughter

The Juaso Circuit Court presided over by Mrs. Veronique Manfort, has sentenced a 46 year-old man to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling his...

Akufo-Addo asked to suspend entire PPA Board

The CSO Coalition working against corruption has welcomed government’s prompt action to suspend embattled CEO of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Adjenim Boateng Adjei.  However, ...

Video: Mahama reveals why Radio Gold and Radio XYZ were shut down

Former President John Dramani Mahama says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should feel embarrassed over the closure of Radio Gold and Radio XYZ under the cloak...

Adom FM gets results; Boy, 15, gets help to undergo hernia surgery

Noah Nartey, a 15-year-old boy of Dampong Salvation Army School in the Asante Akyem South Municipality of the Ashanti region, has received GH¢ 1,000.00...

Audio: We are thinking and changing lives – GRASAG slams Senyo Hosi over UG outburst

The University of Ghana Chapter of the Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) has described as unfortunate the recent outburst by the Chief Executive...

‘Year of Return’ marked at James Town

Hundreds of African Americans and Africans in the Diaspora yesterday joined the chiefs, elders and people of James Town in Accra to mark the ‘Year of...

Checkout social media reaction to Manasseh’s #ContractsForSale investigation

Investigations by freelance investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni, has revealed that Talent Discovery Limited (TDL), a company incorporated in June 2017, has won a...

AG advises NAM1 to write for assistance to claim $39m judgment

The Attorney-General’s Office has advised the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, to officially write to seek assistance to claim a...

Akufo-Addo appoints second female Brigadier General of the Ghana Armed Forces

For the second time, the Ghana Armed Forces has had a female Brigadier General in the person of Felicia Twum-Barima. Having served in the army...

Otumfuo To Address UN General Assembly

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has been invited by the United Nations (UN) to address the General Assembly on September 13, The...

Church of Pentecost Apostle donates entire retirement package

The Ashaiman Area Head of The Church of Pentecost, Apostle Patrick Kingsley Ennin, on Sunday, August 18, 2019, left many people dumbfounded, shocked and...

Avoid social media if you want to be successful – Duncan-Williams

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has cautioned the youth against spending too much time on social media. According to him, every young person needs to avoid excessive...

Jeremy Corbyn cancels trip to Ghana

The BBC is reporting that the Leader of UK’s Labour party Jeremy Corbyn has cancelled a trip to Ghana later this week, urging opposition MPs’...

Full video: How Manasseh busted PPA boss’ company selling gov’t contracts

Investigations by freelance investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni, has revealed that Talent Discovery Limited (TDL), a company incorporated in June 2017, has won a...

Manasseh exposé: PPA boss’ company busted selling gov’t contracts

The question was direct. And the denial was categorical. “Is it your company?” “No!” “Then how do you know the company?” “It’s my cousin,” said A.B. Adjei, the...

Video: How we get contracts, information for operations – Ex robber reveals

An ex-robber has given operational insight into the world of armed robbery in what is both intriguing and sometimes, frightening. While his account of how...

Photos: Senya Bereku Youth ‘chase’ chief over University construction

A group of angry youth of Senya Bereku in the Awutu Senya West District of the Central region are accusing and protesting against the...

Y’asem Nie: Visually impaired woman defies odds to become a State Attorney (video)

Evelyn Appiah, a 51-year-old visually impaired woman, has shared an emotional but motivational story of how she defied all odds to become a State...

Audio: Seize NAM1’s $39m when it’s retrieved from Dubai – MP to govt

Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini, wants the government to, as a matter of urgency, seize Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of...

NAM1’s call for govt’s intervention in $39m retrieval reasonable – Martin Kpebu

Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has described the call by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, known variously as NAM1, on...

Gov’t introduces ‘One -Pupil-One-Cocoa Drink’ policy

Government of Ghana is implementing policies that will help instill the habit of cocoa consumption in the populace and will, in the long run,...

Asantehene hurt by Asamponhene’s murder

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is hurt by the tragic killing of his sub-chief and war marshal, Asamponhene Nana Kwadwo Afuduo. That’s how Monarchical Historian,...

New curriculum: Critical thinking children can now challenge teachers – NaCCA boss

Executive Secretary of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment says one of the purposes of the new curriculum for basic schools is to...

Video: Check out 3 key lessons Nam1 says he’s learnt after arrest

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah has revealed three key lessons he has learnt after his release from police custody on...

Breaking News: Another police officer shot dead

A police officer has been found dead at his duty post in what is suspected to be an unnatural death, barely 24 hours after...

NIA extends Ghana card registration in Volta Region

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has given a three-week extension of the Ghana card registration exercise in the Volta Region. The Volta Region became the...

How I feel about fraud tag – NAM1 (Audio)

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the defunct gold dealership firm, Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM1, says he is not worried about...

Adom Praiz to celebrate 10-year anniversary with 10 top gospel musicians on Sept. 6

Yes it’s a year already and Adom Praiz is here to thrill gospel patrons to the max with a decade celebration of the massive...

Audio: Don’t defreeze NAM 1’s accounts – Menzgold customers appeal

Customers of defunct Menzgold are warning that defreezing the account of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Nana Appiah Mensah, also known as NAM 1, will...

Police Hospital to hold mass burial for 160 unidentified bodies

The Police Hospital has announced that it will hold a mass burial for 160 unidentified bodies as part of routine measures to decongest the...

Photos: IGP commissions elevator for CID

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, on Monday, August 19, 2019, commissioned an elevator for the six-storey headquarters of the Criminal Investigations...

TV presenter Bridget Otoo insists NAM1 runs Ponzi Scheme

A television personality in Ghana, Bridget Otoo, thinks Nana Appiah Mensah, Menzgold boss, runs a Ponzi Scheme. According to her, though some Menzgold customers have...

Trader in court for biting ex-lover’s cheek

A 22-year-old trader was on Monday granted GH¢10,000.00 bail with three sureties by an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly biting the left cheek of his ex-lover,...

98.5% of govt funding to mental health spent on emoluments

About 98.5 per cent of government funding and resource allocation to mental health services in 2018 was spent on payment of staff emolument, a research finding...

Anglican Bishop sends message to investigative journalists

The Anglican Bishop of the Koforidua Diocese in the Eastern region, Rt Rev Felix Odei Annacy says Ghana's failure in corruption fight is affecting...

Danger: Independence Square faces collapse, cracks everywhere (Video)

Residents living at Osu in Accra have expressed worry about the bad state of the Independence Square, otherwise known as the Black Star...