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Photos: Suspects abscond after police discover 75 slabs of wee in their room

About five people are currently at large after the Mankesim Divisional police Command discovered 75 slabs of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp...

Ablekuma drivers protest over ‘Azonto’ road

Angry drivers at Ablekuma in the Greater Accra region have blocked the main highway in a protest over bad roads in the area. The road dubbed...

President’s dismissal of gov’t CEO improper – Audit Service

Internal auditors have described President Akufo-Addo’s dismissal of the former Executive Secretary of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority, Gifty Klenam as “irregular and improper”. Referring...

Class six pupil drowns in Densu river

A search party put together by the assembly member of Brong Densuso near Akwadum in the New Juaben North Municipality, is yet to retrieve...

Balungu-Nabiisi School pupils learn on bare floor

Most pupils at the Balungu-Nabiisi School in the Bongo District sit on bare floor to learn due to lack of furniture. A Ghana News Agency...

Akim Oda residents threaten to block collapsed bridge in 2-weeks

A group calling itself Akim Oda Concerned Citizens Association has threatened to block and prevent vehicles from using the Jubilee bridge in the area...

GES storekeeper caught stealing free school uniforms

Residents of Bolgatanga were struck with a raw shock on Saturday when the Upper East Regional Storekeeper of the Ghana Education Service (GES) was...

Christian Atsu rescues mother, 2 daughters jailed for stealing corn worth GHC10

A mother and her two daughters were set to spend three months in prison for taking some leftover corn estimated at GH¢10 which did...

Four killed in Niifio car crash

Four persons died in an accident that occurred on Thursday dawn at Niifio, a community near Suhum in the Eastern Region along the Accra-Kumasi...

Bizarre: Marijuana found in Methodist Church (audio)

Members of one of the Methodist church branches in the Eastern Regional capital, Koforidua were shocked to find a bag of herbs suspected to...

If I wanted the judges dead I would have done that in 1979, not 1982- Rawlings

Ex-president John Rawlings claims the recent documentary by Joy News on the chilling account of the murder of three High Court Judges and a...

Defence Counsel for Obengfo takes a swipe at state

Defence Counsel for Dr Dominic Obeng-Andoh aka Dr Obengfo, proprietor of Obengfo Hospital at Weija took a swipe at the police state, when the...

Pastor drowns whiles chasing offering bowl

A pastor by name Rev. Issac Assiamah Arthur has been drowned by the heavy down pour in Apapam a town in Kyebi in the...

PHOTOS+AUDIO: Teacher dead, 48 students injured in fatal accident

A male teacher has been confirmed dead whilst 48 students of Mangoase senior high school have been admitted at the Atua Government hospital in...

Photos: Military to continue collaboration with police to provide security

Commander Rear of 1st Infantry Battalion of the Ghana Army at Michel Camp, Major Daniel Ampadu has stated that the military will continue to...

“We need very brave, aggressive youth to compete with the NPP” – Brogya Gyamfi

National Youth Organiser aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Brogya Gyamfi says for his party to win power in 2020, young men and...

I heard wonderful news – Man rejoices at news of father’s death

A Nigerian man, Darren Idongesit, has described the news of his father’s death as wonderful news. According to him, his father who was a...

Central Region: Hundreds homeless after 4-hour-long rain

A heavy rainstorm that broke out in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem (KEEA) municipality in the Central Region on Thursday, has left hundreds homeless. The rains started around...

NADMO declares Accra Mall safe for use

The National Disaster Management organization NADMO has declared the Accra Mall as safe for business. Panic gripped shoppers and workers at the shopping mall when...

Prophet shoots himself dead at Subinso II

Head Pastor of the Evangelical Christ Apostolic Church at Subinso II, a business and farming Community in the Wenchi Municipality has shot himself to...

Sex party adverts rife on social media

Many businesses are taking advantage of social media to reach out to prospective customers and similarly, some individuals who 'sell' sex are also making...

Akufo-Addo ‘disturbed’ by Accra Mall accident

President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he is disturbed by a ceiling collapse at Accra Mall, Thursday. In a tweeted reaction to the accident, the president called for...

UNTACD Trip: Bawumia’s delegation list was 16, not 21 – Veep’s Spokeperson

Dr Gideon Boako, Spokesperson to the Vice President, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia has dismissed concerns about the alleged bloated list of a 21-member delegation that accompanied the...

Photos: Sowutuom landlord rips roof to force tenant out

39-year-old Philomena Agyarko and her family had the shock of their lives when they returned home from work to the spectacle of their landlord...

Photo+Video: Accra Mall ceiling collapse; three reportedly injured

Three people are reportedly injured after the ceiling of Ghana’s biggest shopping mall at the Tetteh Quarshie Roundabout caved-in. A source who spoke to Adom...

Must-Read: Chilling account of mother, daughters languishing in jail for stealing corn

A woman in her mid-thirties has narrated a chilling story of how four of them from the same family, including a breastfeeding baby, are...

Audio: Afram Plains North MP clashes with NPP executives over school feeding

Tension is said to be brewing in Kwae Kesse, a town in the Afram Plains North constituency after the Member of Parliament for the...

Just in: Ken Agyapong loses round one in Anas defamation case

An Accra High Court has declined an application by Kennedy Agyapong seeking to dismiss the 25 million defamation suit against him by Anas Aremeyaw...

Some media houses turning girls into prostitutes – GJA

The President of Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Roland Affail Monney has accused some media houses in the country for contributing to high phenomenon of...

Stealing of litter bins in Accra reaches alarming levels

The rate at which public litter bins placed at vantage points in the capital are being stolen is thwarting efforts by public-spirited individuals, civil...

Obuasi SHTS scandal: “GES official coached me to deny sexual assault story”

The 17-year old girl who is a victim of an alleged sexual assault at Obuasi Senior High Technical School in the Ashanti region has...

Photos: Avenor Junction footbridge abandoned; people risk lives crossing road

Pedestrians and passersby have abandoned the use of the footbridge at Avenor Junction and risk their lives by crossing the road at unapproved areas. It...

Audio: There was no sign of incompetence in Mahama’s administration – Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah

National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer aspirant, Dr Ekwow Spio0-Garbrah, says there was no sign of incompetence in ex-President Mahama’s administration. The politician, in an interview...

Sefwi chiefs willing to forfeit royalties to support anti-logging campaign

Chiefs in Sefwi Wiawso Traditional Area say they are prepared to forfeit royalties due them in order to support military anti-logging activities in forest...

Vice-Chancellor of UG calls for Ivy League-style categorisation of Ghanaian universities

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, has called for the classification of universities in the country into tiers to...

Obuasi Sec Tech sex scandal – MP vows to crack the whip

Member of Parliament for Obuasi East, Hon. Dr Patrick Boakye-Yiadom has vowed to seek justice for a 17-year-old girl who has been allegedly molested...

UBS rogue trader Kweku Adoboli released on bail

The convicted former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli has been released from detention at an immigration removal centre near Heathrow while he awaits a judicial...

Rawlings launches attack on ‘Who Killed the Judges?’ documentary

READ: Woman wants ex-lover punished for sharing her nude pictures Former President Jerry John Rawlings has launched an attack on a Joy News’ documentary, ‘Who...

Woman wants ex-lover punished for sharing her nude pictures

A 28-year-old woman wants her ex-boyfriend punished for sharing her nude photos on social media platforms. She alleges that her ex-lover leaked the photos...

Komenda sugar factory: 35 million dollars metal plates left to rot

The non-operational Komenda Sugar Factory that has been left untouched for months remains in a very worrying condition which continues to cause losses to...