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More trouble in C/R NPP as committee chair affirms Ekow Ewusi

Kojo Addo, the Central regional consistency committee chairmen of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is outraged at the decision to suspend the Central Regional...

Missing Takoradi girls: Two families agree to DNA test

Family members of two of the three missing Takoradi girls have agreed to assist the police to conduct the forensic examination to...

Audio: Reagent for T’di girls’ DNA test to be imported – Forensic expert reveals

Head of Forensics Department at the University of Cape Coast, Dr Richmond Afoakwa is shocked at the four weeks deadline given to conclude the...

Video+Photos: 28-year-old man killed in inferno

A 28-year-old man has been burnt to death in his room at Kasoa in the Central region, Thursday. The fire is believed to have started...

2 arrested with AK47 in Bunkpurugu

Police in the Bunkpurugu District of the North East Region have arrested two persons with an AK 47 rifle and a magazine with...

NPC, unperturbed by vile politicization of activities – Rev Prof Asante

Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante, Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC), has stated that the Council remained unperturbed by incessant unsavoury comments and vile political colouration of...

Photos: Thieves snatch car in front of IGP

Four suspected car snatchers were on Wednesday arrested at Gomoa Okyereko in the Central region. The four were apprehended when they threw out the driver...

Kumasi: REGSEC clamps down on prostitutes, patrons

The Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) is embarking on an exercise to clamp down on prostitutes and their patrons because it is illegal...

Convict remanded for escaping from prison

A 20-year-old convict who escaped from prison has been remanded into prison custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court, presided over by Mr Michael Johnson Abbey. Thomas Frimpong,...

Menzgold CEO to address expectant customers after ‘needed rest’

Customers of defunct gold dealership Menzgold have been assured that they will soon hear from the embattled Chief Executive Officer of the company following...

Just in: Police discover 4th set of human remains in T’di

Police investigators have discovered a fourth set of human remains in a well at Nkroful new site at Takoradi in the Western Region, online...

PBC demo: Staff call for resignation of CEO and Board chairman (Video)

Some staff of Produce Buying Company (PBC) Limited on Tuesday demonstrated at the head office of the company to demand the resignation of the...

Multimedia journalist, 31 others awarded for campaign against filth

Multimedia journalist, Kodwo Mensah Aboroampa, was awarded for his efforts in campaigning against filth and ensuring environmental sustainability at the just ended Africa Clean-up...

Audio: Ken Agyapong breaks silence; vows to demolish Badu Kobi’s church

New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand and Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Agyapong, is incensed about the tribal comments made by Prophet Emmanuel...

Families of T’di missing girls need psychological help – Child Rights Int’l

The Executive Director of Child Rights International, Bright Appiah is appealing for psychological support for the families of the three Takoradi kidnapped girls. He said...

Man in court for groping Ghanaian air hostess

A 31-year-old man, who was on a flight from Los Angeles to Dubai when he assaulted a Ghanaian air hostess and behaved ...

Nam 1’s bail conditions reviewed

An Accra Circuit Court has ruled that persons who have pledged to take responsibility if Menzgold Chief Executive Officer, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known...

Audio: Former CID boss defends Maame Tiwa Addo-Danquah

A former Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, COP Bright Oduro (Rtd.) has described as premature calls...

Audio: T’di kidnappings: Police may lose credibility if… Former CID boss

A former Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, COP Bright Oduro (Rtd.) has warned the police service...

Police brief families of missing girls on latest findings

The police have formally informed the families of the three missing girls from Takoradi about their latest finding with regard to the investigations they...

Murdered police woman to be buried August 24

The family of the murdered police woman Corporal Agatha Nana Nabin, who was shot dead by suspected armed robbers at Malshegu in the...

Churches asked to invest in security

Mr Michael Kweinor Kweto, Ho Municipal Police Commander has called on churches in the country to invest in security gadgets to secure...

Forgive Badu Kobi – Prophet One appeals to Ghanaians

Founder and Leader of Ebenezer Miracle Worship Center, Rev Opambour Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom has condemned Prophet Badu Kobi for generalising his description...

More people convicted for human trafficking offences

Ten people were sentenced to prison for human trafficking offences in 2018, statistics from the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social...

Prophet Badu Kobi replies protestors

Founder and leader of Glorious Wave Church International is unfazed about pressure on him to apologise for making comments some deemed tribalistic. "I’m an institution more than...

Assemblies of God begins post trauma counseling for Senchi boat accident victims

Akosombo district of Assemblies of God Church has began post trauma counseling for six survivors, families and church members after the Senchi marine accident...

T’di kidnappings: Families want DNA test done abroad

Families of the three girls missing in Takoradi are demanding an independent forensic analysis of human remains retrieved by the police from a cesspit...

17 inmates freed from Koforidua prisons under ‘Justice for All programme’

Seventeen remand prison inmates at the Koforidua Central Prison, in the Eastern region have been discharged through the 'Justice for All programme.'...

Ghana Marks Founders’ Day

Ghanaians across the country and the world are observing the 2019 edition of Founders’ Day. Founders’ Day is a statutory public holiday celebrated on...

Man, 96, marries lover 93, after 50 years relationship

Congregants of Dansoman Central Assembly of the Church of Pentecost on Saturday 3 August gawked with amazement a marriage ceremony between two ...

Ghana’s First Lady installed as Development Queen mother of Ada

The First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Odakor Akufo Addo has been installed as the Development Queen mother of Ada Traditional Area with the stool name, Naana Ode...

Government justifies expenditure on Free SHS

Debates over the use of oil money to fund the government’s flagship programme, Free Senior High School (SHS), have surfaced once...

REGSEC commends Securities for the discovery of the human remains

The Western Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has commended the Regional Police Commander and all the securities for not relenting on their efforts...

Attorney General bounces Woyome

Embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome appears to have finally accepted defeat in his unsuccessful legal battles to avoid or at least ...

Audio: Badu Kobi’s junior pastor ‘slaps’ protestor

A junior pastor of controversial man of God, Prophet Badu Kobi allegedly slapped a protestor at the church premises, Sunday. The incident happened when the...

4 Dead in Senchi boat accident

Four persons who were said to be on evangelism have died after their boat capsized on the Volta Lake Saturday. Officials of the National Disaster...

Photos: Group storms Badu Kobi’s church

The pressure on embattled man of God, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi is far from over as a group on Sunday stormed his church at...

Volta GNAT to go on strike over “illegal deduction”

The Volta Regional branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) would embark on an industrial action should the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the...

Police urges public to be calm pending lab exams in Taadi girls’ kidnapping

ACP David Eklu, Director General for Public Relations of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) has urged the public to remain calm as laboratory investigation...

Photos: 4 drown in canoe disaster at Senchi

Four persons drowned when a canoe capsized on the Volta Lake at Senchi, in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern region. The four were among...