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CSE is a foreign agenda – Education Ministry

The Ministry of Education is assuring parents it will not allow any curriculum which contains explicit sexual information to be taught in schools. It maintained...

KNUST SRC president escapes kidnapping

The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has condemned the recent spate of assault on some...

Man ‘accidentally’ shot dead by officers at Senchi Police station

Nyable Modzifa, a 25-year-old, man who was in the company of a group which stormed the Senchi Police Station in an attempt to free...

Video: Lady causes massive stir; pours ‘akpeteshie’ on road to Jubilee House to pronounce curses

Some Ghanaians have been left utterly alarmed following a video of a lady who was captured allegedly pronouncing curses for reasons unknown. The unidentified lady was...

Photo: Man, 42, drowns in One-Village-One-Dam project dam in Tatale

A 42-year-old man on Sunday drowned in one of the dams of the one-village one-dam project at Tatindo, a farming community in the Tatale...

Sexuality Education curriculum not approved – NaCCA

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says the controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education curriculum has not been approved for schools in the country.According to the Executive...

Audio: MP calls for increased public education on CSE programme

Member of Parliament (MP) for Tema East constituency, Daniel Nii Kwatei Titus-Glover, is calling for increased public education on the planned introduction of Comprehensive...

Audio: ‘CSE programme won’t promote homosexuality’

Dr Naa Adjeley Sakyi, Gender Consultant and Facilitator of Trainer of Trainers programme for the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) Curriculum, has allayed the fears...

Audio: CSE is Comprehensive Satanic Engagement – Rev. Prof Frimpong- Manso

President of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC), Rev. Prof. Paul Frimpong-Manso is threatening to lead a demonstration against the introduction of Comprehensive...

Audio: GES Director a disaster to Ghana, CSE to promote lesbianism – Rev. Prof Frimpong-Manso

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, is not in the good books of many for sanctioning Comprehensive Sexuality Education...

Defence Intelligence busts ring of suspected fraudsters at McCarthy Hill

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has arrested eight persons said to be part of an active ring of fraudsters at McCarthy Hill in Accra. The operation,...

Audio+Photo: How a doctor put oxygen tank in a pickup to save 2-day old baby at Donkorkrom

The worsening  health delivery system at Donkorkrom in the Kwahu Afram Plains district of the Eastern region has claimed the life of a two—day...

Chief urges Zongo youth to promote peace

The Zongo Chief of Asante Akyem Ofoase, Alhaji Iman Abddul Hamid Zamzeh has called on Zongo youth to eschew violence and comport themselves to...

I don’t mind being killed because of the corruption fight – Martin Amidu

Ghana’s Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu has noted that he is committed to the fight against corruption even if he does this at...

Alavanyo to get international security cameras

Mr. John Peter Amewu, Minister for Energy says government is working towards the installation of international security cameras at Alavanyo-Kpeme in the Hohoe Municipality...

U.S-based Ghanaian physician gets 15 months for passport fraud

A Ghanaian physician residing in Fulton, Maryland in the U.S. has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison, followed by three years of...

Video: Deputy National Chief Imam dies at 103

Sheikh Ahmad Kamaludeen The Muslim community in Ghana is in mourning following the death of one of its revered figures. Sheikh Ahmad Kamaludeen, Deputy National Chief...

NPP secretary in car crash, 8-year-old child killed

The Eastern Regional Secretary of ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP), Jeffrey Konadu, has been involved in an accident at Kwahu Bepong in the Eastern Region...

Kasoa cops killing: Budumburam residents jubilate over release of 6 suspects (Audio)

Some residents of Budumburam in the Central region, following the release of six suspects arrested in connection with the killing of two cops in...

Suame: Thief’s head stuck to death in shop gate after failed break-in

Luck eluded a suspected thief Thursday dawn when his head got trapped on top of a store gate for five hours and died later...

No ‘bastards’ in Ghana: If you call someone ‘bastard’ you can be jailed – Judge

An Appeal Court Judge, Justice Dennis Adjei, has decried the use of the word “bastard” to describe a child who was born out of...

Kelvyn boy begs Stonebwoy, Shatta over ‘real dancehall artiste’ comment [Video]

Kelvyn has denied ever saying anything negative against his former boss, Stonebwoy. He said if he took time to go over almost all his previous...

Man, 24, drowns in river at Breman Brakwa

A 24-year-old man, Kwasi Akyine, has drowned in River Asonsu at Breman Brakwa in the Central region. Information gathered suggested Shatta Wale, as he is...

1V1D: 300 dams 90% complete – Hawa Koomson

About 300 of the 560 dams under the flagship One-District-One-Dam project are 90 percent complete, Minister of Special Development Initiative, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has...

Family of slain Kasoa cop speaks after court frees 6 suspects

Family members of Lance Corporal Awal Mohammed, the police officer who was killed together with his colleague on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 by gunmen...

NAM 1 announces victory in $39m Dubai case

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah aka NAM1, claims he has won the $39m Appeals case in Dubai. This was announced...

Watch: Pathologist breaks silence on Takoradi girls’ DNA test

Anatomic Pathologist, Ernest Adjei, involved in establishing the identity of the remains believed to be those of the four kidnapped Takoradi girls says he...

Special Report: Find out where poisoned water is used to grow vegetables for public consumption (video)

There is a general upsurge in urban farming; particularly, in the capital, Accra. So, such areas as Achimota, Dzorwulu, Kanda and around the Accra...

Video: You don’t need a truck load of weapons to carry out a coup – Security Analyst

Security Analyst, Irbad Ibrahim, reacting to public cynicism following news of weapons and explosives discovery in parts of Accra, says a truck load of...

Photos: Overloaded truck stuck under Tema Motorway bridge

A truck got stuck under the Tema Motorway bridge in the early hours of Wednesday while trying to pass under with a heavy load. The...

Video: Takoradi residents hit streets over missing girls

Hundreds of residents in Takoradi and its environs have joined families of the four Takoradi missing girls to embark on a massive demonstration to...

Ghana loses 140 army officers through UN missions

Major Derek Oduro (Rtd), a Deputy Minister of Defence, has disclosed that about 140 Ghanaian soldiers have lost their lives, as of May 2019, while serving...

Coup plot: I’m not perturbed because I’m innocent – Dr Mac-Palm

"I’m innocent, I’m not bothered, you can take pictures and videos of me and I won’t shy away because I know I’m innocent,” these...

We became ‘poor’ when my husband became president – Former First Lady

Former First Lady of the Third Republic, Fulera Limann, has revealed that her husband, Dr Limann, put his love for Ghana over his personal...

Minister quits

Member of Parliament (MP) for the Tafo-Pankrono Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Dr Anthony Osei Akoto, has announced he will not contest the ruling party’s...

Asantehene given rousing welcome after historic UN General Assembly address

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu the II received a heroic welcome at the Kumasi Airport when he returned from a recent trip to the United...

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...