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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...

‘Justice for All’ programme to be decentralised

Starting from October this year the 'Justice For All Programme', an initiative aimed at decongesting prisons through setting up special court sittings to adjudicate...

23-year-old man allegedly commits suicide in Koforidua

A 23-year-old man has been found dead in a bush at Nkubem, a suburb of Koforidua in the Eastern Region, in what is suspected...

Video: Tadi missing girls: Retrieved skeleton report a nightmare – Family

Families of the three missing Takoradi girls have described reports of the body parts, two skulls that were exhumed by the police investigating the...

Tadi missing girls: We know God will expose suspects – Family (Video)

Family members of the three Takoradi missing girls, following police reports of retrieval of human remains from the house of one of the suspects,...

Swedru: Pupils drown at Cottage Na-Grill Hotel

Two pupils of Swedru AME Zion (B) Junior High School in the Agona West Municipality met their untimely death when they went swimming at...

Missing T’di girls: Retrieved skeletons not our girls’ – Family

Families of the three missing Takoradi girls have said that the human body parts, two skulls that were exhumed by the police investigating the...

It’s official: Police confirm discovery of human remains in home of suspect in Taadi kidnapped girls

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has confirmed in a statement that a special operation it carried out with the...

Just In: Police operation involving key suspect in Tadi kidnapped girls leads to discovery of body parts

Your authoritative Adomonline.com can report that a special police operation involving the key suspect in the Takoradi kidnapped girls case, Samuel Udoetuk-Wills, has led...

World Vision invests $400,000 in Krachi East annually to improve standard of living

Non-Governmental Organisation, World Vision, Ghana is embarking on series of intervention programmes in Krachi East Municipality to help improve standard of living in the...

Sagnarigu cop ‘killer’ arrested

The Police command in Tamale in the Northern region has arrested one person in connection with the murder of a female police officer. The suspect,...

NAGRAT threatens to go on strike over salary arrears, other concerns

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) says its members will withdraw their services from the start of the next academic year if a number...

Funeral ‘Criers’ increase charges following hikes in petroleum products

You may have seen a social media notice of an impending increase in funeral wailing fees by 'professional criers'. Well, it is true. Potential patrons...

NMC appoints Director-General for GBC, MD for New Times Corporation

The National Media Commission (NMC) has, in consultation with President Nana Akufo-Addo, appointed Professor Amin Alhassan as Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). The Commission has...

World Vision builds $66,624 worth CHPS compound at Cement in Krachie East

The chief and people of Cement, a community in the Krachie East Municipality in the Oti region, made merry after receiving a Community-based Health...

Govt declares Monday, August 5 as public holiday

President Nana Akufo-Addo, through the Minister for Interior, Ambrose Dery, has declared Monday, August 5, 2019 as a statutory public holiday. A statement signed by...

Photos+Audio: Boy, 13, narrates how he escaped from a kidnapper at Gomoa

A 13-year-old boy, in an interview with Adom News, has narrated how he mistakenly helped a kidnapper at Gomoa in the Central region and...

Supreme Court quashes High Court decision on Exton Cubic

The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the decision by an Accra High Court in the case between the mining company, Exton Cubic and the state. The Supreme...

Social Studies in new curriculum- NaCCA

The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has responded to claims that it has axed Social Studies subject at the basic level in...

Audio: Badu Kobi’s type of research led us into slavery 400 years ago – Ursula

Member of Parliament for Ablekuma North constituency, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has condemned the ethnocentric comments by Head Pastor of Glorious Wave Church International, Prophet...

Audio: Man who forged PDS concession deal suspended

“The gentleman, who signed the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS), has already been suspended,” this is according to Energy Minister, John Peter...

Agona West Assembly members disassociate themselves from attempt to remove MCE

Majority of assembly members of the Agona West Municipal Assembly (AWMA) have disassociated themselves from attempts by few of their colleagues to remove Mrs...

Y’asem Nie: Taxi driver loses eye in attack by city guard [Audio]

The right eye of a 35-year-old taxi driver popped out when a city guard hit him with a pavement block at Kaneshie in Accra. His only crime,...

Audio: Energy Minister cites fraud as reason PDS contract was suspended

It has emerged that fraud was suspected in the concession agreement government entered into with Power Distribution Services (PDS). Energy Minister, John Peter Amewu, who...

Audio: What is the relevance of your research to society? – Adomako Baafi asks Badu Kobi

Former acting Director of Communications for the ruling New Patriotic Party, Yaw Adomako Baafi has descended heavily on the Leader and Founder of Glorious...

Audio: Man shoots nephew dead during bush hunting

Kwadwo Duku, believed to be in his late forties, has allegedly shot dead his nephew identified as Kennedy Asi during a bush hunting. Information gathered...

Audio: I’m trending – Prophet Badu Kobi mocks critics

Embattled man of God, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi, is thankful to critics for making him an international man after his infamous ethnocentric comments. "Today Badu...

Pastors should stop making divisive, ethnocentric comments – Rev Opuni-Frimpong

Rev Dr. Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, a Lecturer at the Department of Religious Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, has urged Ghanaians, especially, ...

N/R: Robbers attack police at checkpoint, kill one and steal their weapons

A female police officer has been shot dead by suspected armed robbers at a checkpoint in the Sagnarigu Municipality of the Northern Region. She was...

Pastor arrested for allegedly raping three women

The Asunafo South District police command in the Ahafo Region has arrested a 29-years-old self-styled man of God for allegedly raping ...

Breaking news: Gov’t suspends PDS contract

The government of Ghana has suspended the concession agreement it has entered into with Power Distribution Services (PDS), a statement by the Minister of...

Full Statement: Minority predicts IMF “bailout” for Ghana

The Minority caucus of parliament has predicted that it would not come to them as a surprise if the government sought an International Monetary...