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GES investigates teacher’s assault of pupil over ‘sobolo’ drink

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it has started investigations into the case of a teacher assaulting a nine-year-old pupil who criticised the taste...

Police to quiz managers of Silicon Hotel after student’s drowning

The police at the Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi are set to quiz managers of Silicon Hotel over the death of...

New Voters Register: Independent body offers to resolve impasse between EC, parties

The Gamey & Co Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre has offered to mediate to resolve the ongoing impasses between the Electoral Commission (EC) and opposition...

19-year-old arrested for kidnapping 9-year-old

A 19-year-old boy has been arrested for kidnapping a nine-year-old boy at Akim Asuboa in the Oda District in the Eastern Region. The victim,...

Former Enquirer newspaper editor loses factory in Trade Fair demolishing

Former editor of the Enquirer newspaper, Raymond Archer, has lost his factory in a demolishing exercise by the Ghana Trade Fair Company. ALSO READ: Angry youth...

Africans face most expensive internet charges in the world; new report says

Consumers in African countries are paying some of the highest rates in the world for internet access as a proportion of income, according to...

NPP Constituency chairman collapses after being chased by party youth

New Patriotic Party (NPP) chairman for Asante-Akim Central in the Ashanti Region, George Kyei Baffour, has reportedly collapsed after some angry youth of the...

Angry youth chase constituency chairman for withholding nomination forms [video]

Angry party youth and executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Asante Akyem Central, have expressed exasperation at the constituency chairman's decision to...

Fabewoso: ‘Galamsey still on the rise despite Akufo-Addo’s fight’ [Video]

It has emerged that galamsey is still on the rise despite efforts by the Akufo-Addo-led government to fight the menace. The new revelation follows a...

Transport-related incidents revealed as major cause of deaths in Ghana

A report from the Bureau of Public Safety (BPS) has revealed the roads across Ghana as the most dangerous place for Ghanaians to be....

U/W Regional Police cautions against mob action on suspected criminals

The Upper West Regional (UWR) Police Command is entreating the general public to exercise restraint in jungle justice and have confidence in the police in matters...

Rosewood Investigations Report: Deputy Lands Minister clashes with Apaak over ‘exclusion’ claims

Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural resources, Benito Owusu Bio, has refuted claims by Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Clement Apaak on the...

Galamsey: Akufo-Addo must discipline faceless people – Deputy Minister

Deputy Minister of Transport, Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus Glover, has called on President Akufo-Addo to, as a matter of urgency, discipline the faceless people...

Mother of man whose rival inflicted cutlass wounds on him speaks [Audio]

Gifty Abbey, mother of a middle-aged man whose rival inflicted cutlass wounds on him has lamented about how the son's condition may cost her...

Pupil subjected to severe beatings for criticising teacher’s ‘sobolo’ [video]

A nine-year–old-pupil in the Nkwanta South M/A Redeem Basic School in the Oti Region, Beauty Adzadi Selase, has been physically assaulted by her class...

Man arrested for causing harm to his girlfriend’s husband [Photo]

A middle aged man has been arrested by Awutu Breku police for inflicting cutlass wounds on the husband of his girlfriend at Gomoa Nkwantanan in the...

20 homeless after fire at Kayame in Ketu South Municipality

Kayame, a farming community in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta Region, has been gutted by fire rendering about 20 residents homeless. The fire...

Atonsu-Kuntenase drivers threaten to block road after death of colleague

Drivers plying the Atonsu-Kuntenase road in Kumasi are threatening to block the road to traffic after a colleague was crushed to death in an...

Duncan Williams ‘arrests’ coronavirus

Founder of the Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams prayed ceaselessly against the deadly coronavirus which has claimed many lives especially...

Police investigates accident involving Muntaka, Ibrahim

Police have opened an official probe into the near-fatal road accident involving two Members of Parliament, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak and Ahmed Ibrahim. The two parliamentarians were...

Tourism Authority distributes chocolates at children’s ward

The Ghana Tourism Authority has distributed chocolates to the children’s ward of the Eastern Regional hospital I’m Koforidua with a call on parents to...

Ruth Eshun’s Murder: Nurses threaten to withdraw services in Ashanti region

Nurses in the Ashanti region have given the police a two-week ultimatum to find the killers of Ruth Eshun Arhin, a community health nurse who was...

Lack of funds forces 21 schools out of 2020 Math & Science Quiz

The 2020 edition of National Science and Maths Quiz (NMSQ) competition has suffered a setback in the Upper West Region as 21 out of...

Upper West miners say Frimpong Boateng not culpable in missing excavators

The Upper West Miners Association of Ghana has jumped to the defence of Minister for Environment, Science and Technology Innovation (MESTI), in the raging issue regarding...

Cobbler jailed 15 years for having sex with minor

A Circuit Court in Accra on Friday handed down a 15 year jail term to a Cobbler, Ebenezer Otoo, for having sex...

Muntaka, Ahmed Ibrahim responding to treatment after road accident near Konongo

Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak and his deputy, Ahmed Ibrahim are responding to treatment after they were involved in an accident at Kubease near...

Augusco whips Mfanstipim School in NSMQ regional showdown

Mfanstipim School failed when handed an opportunity to exact its first revenge over city rivals St Augustine’s College (Augusco) in National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ)...

Parliament calls for swift justice for murdered nurse, Ruth Eshun

Parliament has called for swift justice and intensified investigation into the gruesome and dastardly death of a nurse, Ruth Ama Eshun of the Sewua Health Centre. The late nurse,...

Only 34% of Nigerians use condoms during sex

Only 34% of adult Nigerians surveyed in a national poll use condoms during sex. According to the survey carried out by NOIPolls, the results show that...

Akufo-Addo calls for non-partisan debate on death penalty abolishment

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has called for a non-partisan debate on the proposed abolishment of the death penalty as his government prepares to...

Galamsey fight hasn’t been a total failure – Dr Boako defends

Spokesperson to the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has parried allegations that President Nana Akufo-Addo’s fight against illegal mining has been a failure. Dr Gideon...

Tears flow as nurse murdered at Sewua is laid to rest [Video]

Ruth Arhin, a 37-year-old nurse murdered few metres from her house at Sewua, a suburb in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital, has been laid...

Apam Chief calls for strict policy on environmental pollution

Chief of Apam in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region, Nana Edu Ephraim X, has charged President Nana Akufo-Addo and policy makers...

Seek redress in court – Opuni-Frimpong to anti-new register group

Former General Secretary of the Ghana Christian Council, Reverend Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, has urged the group opposing the compilation of a new Voters Register...

2020 Election: Presidential aspirant to select Mallam as running mate

 Independent Presidential candidate for the Ghana Union Movement, Reverend Christian Kwabena Andrews, has revealed he will prefer to contest the election with a Mallam...

Fire destroys dozens of structures at Dagomba Line in Kumasi [Photos + Video]

Fire has gutted tens of make-shift residential structures, amid unconfirmed reports of missing children, at Aboabo Dabgomba Line in Kumasi, the Ashanti Region capital. ...

Wa GES Director dies a day after taking over from interdicted Regional Director

The Wa Municipal Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Theresa Ninang Sung-Abo, appointed as the interim Regional Director following the interdiction of...

NDC has poor understanding of Petroleum Act – Dep. Energy Minister jabs

Deputy Minister for Energy, Dr Amin Adam, has jabbed the National Democratic Congress (NDC), asserting members of the party lack adequate understanding of the...

Teacher Unions reject new pre-tertiary management structure

Four teacher unions have rejected a newly parliamentary proposed management structure of pre-tertiary education in the country. SEE THIS: NPP China branch warns Okudzeto Ablakwa, MinorityNDC...

PIAC fights for restoration of cut-off grading system in SHS admission

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) is pushing for the restoration of the cut-off grading system previously used for admission into Senior High...