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Laboanu residents share water with animals

Residents of Laboanu, a community in the Nkwanta South District of the Volta Region say they feel neglected due to a myriad of challenges...

VIDEO: Breakout of confines; conquer the world- Otabil charges Africans

The only way for Ghana and Africa to develop and be counted amongst the league of powerful nations or continents is to break out...

Prince Amoabeng breaks silence on the collapse of UT Bank a year after

Prince Kofi Amoabeng has broken his silence on the collapse of UT Bank and said he was quiet and refrained from commenting on the...

Pastor, deceased’s family clash over who buries body

A pastor is in the grips of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) District Police Headquarters for abandoning the body of...

Pattern of poverty in Northern Ghana changing – UNDP report

Pattern of poverty in Northern Ghana is changing, a report by the United Nations Development Programme has said. The report entitled “Bridging the Poverty Gap...

AUDIO: Parents of KNUST students express worry over halls conversion

Some parents of newly-admitted female students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have expressed fear for their wards following the...

Photos: NDC supporters pelt stones at Health Minister; injures Multimedia cameraman

Some irate supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have allegedly injured a cameraman of the Multimedia Group in an attempt to stop...

PHOTO: Ringleader of Tamale Hospital CEO attackers arrested

Police in the Northern region have arrested a member of the governing NPP, Baba Alhassan, for being the brain behind the attacks on the...

Kandahar attack, a snowball effect – Policy Analyst says

Policy Analyst for the People's National Convention (PNC) party, Atik Mohammed, says the attack at the Tamale Teaching Hospital by a group suspected to...

 NSS personnel stranded at registration centres [Audio]

Students undergoing National Service registration at the Accra Metropolitan Centre Zone 1, specifically at the Ministry of Information, have been left stranded after long...

PHOTOS: 2-year-old girl drowns in Assin Breku

A 2-year-old girl has drowned in a well at Assin Breku, the capital town of the newly created Assin North District. Circumstances surrounding her death...

OccupyGhana wants directors, shareholders of collapsed banks jailed [Audio]

Pressure group, OccupyGhana has joined a growing list of individuals and institutions calling for the prosecution of directors and shareholders of the seven collapsed...

Dery justifies GHC26,000 expenditure for private security

The Interior Ministry has justified spending GHS26,100 on private security. According to the 2016 Auditor General's report, the Ministry paid the amount to Magnum Force...

Deal with your hooligans; Ghanaians need peace – NDC man to Akufo-Addo

Greater Regional Organizer for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Anthony Nukpenu has called on President Akufo-Addo to call the “hooligans” in the New...

Economy to suffer if population is not checked – NPC

The National Population Council (NPC) says Ghana's economy is heading towards a meltdown if urgent steps are not taken to control population growth . Experts...

Only 66% of Rural Banks have met BoG’s minimum capital requirement – Apex Bank

The ARB Apex Bank is urging all Rural and Community Banks (RCB’s) that have not met the Bank of Ghana’s minimum capital requirement of...

C/R: Siblings give birth to two and expecting another at Broyibima

News emanating from Broyibima in the KEEA District of the Central Region says two siblings who have been having carnal knowledge each other have...

VIDEO: Otabil, others would’ve been cooling off in jail if this happened in Nigeria – Expert

A banking Expert, Dr Richmond Akwasi Atuahene, says persons found to have breached prudential or banking regulations should not be left to go scot-free. According...

Akufo-Addo welcomes calls to sanitize gospel ministry

President Akufo-Addo has endorsed calls to maintain the purity of Christian doctrine. He observes growing public concern about widespread and strange statements made in the...

GMA calls for arrest and prosecution of hoodlums who attacked Tamale Hospital

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has described the attack on Dr David Kolbila, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) as...

AUDIO: Men beaten by their wives should ‘speak up’ – Otiko

Outgoing Minister for Gender and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Dzaba has said most Ghanaian men do not have the ‘emotional energy’ to report cases...

Tamale Hospital: Doctors, nurses strike in support of CEO

Doctors, nurses and other paramedics at the Tamale Teaching Hospital have withdrawn all OPD services in protest over an attack on their Chief Executive...

Audio: We don’t need your sympathies, Capital Bank staff tell Otabil

The General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church, Pastor Mensa Otabil has incurred the wrath of the staff of defunct Capital Bank for...

We’re addressing shortage of passport booklets – Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has apologised to the public for the inconvenience being caused by the delays in the issuance...

UEW Vice Chancellor, four others dismissed

The governing council of the University of Education, Winneba, has dismissed five principal officers of the institution following an emergency meeting on Monday. One other...

Collapsed Capital Bank staff now grills pork to survive

The staff of defunct Capital Bank are still struggling to come to terms with the collapse of the once vibrant bank. According to them, months...

All you need to know about clash between Ghanaian, Nigerian traders at Circle [Video+Photos]

Several shops were shut down today at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra after people suspected to be of Nigerians descent allegedly ransacked and...

Afforestation programme a bold initiative but … – Agyarko

Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency, Emmanuel Kyeremanteng Agyarko says the recently launched afforestation program by the government is a good...

Corpse stolen from morgue

Family members of late Solomon Korang from Sunyani Newtown in the Brong Ahafo Region are looking for the corpse of their father which was...

AUDIO: Otabil’s statement on Capital Bank collapse needless – Banking expert

A banking consultant and finance expert, Dr Richmond...

71 students duped in fake US confab; Visas revoked by embassy

Seventy-one students who paid various sums of money to secure visas and other travel documents to participate in a model United Nations Conference in...

Don’t accept marriage proposals of men who don’t have toilets in their homes – MCE

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abbrem (KEEA) Municipality, Nana Appiah Korang has advised women not to accept marriage proposals of men who...

Otabil speaks on Capital Bank collapse

Founder and General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Dr Mensa Otabil, has broken his silence on the controversies in the banking sector,...

Pastors not supermen; we need bodyguards – Owusu Bempah

Founder and leader of the Glorious Word Power Ministry, Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah has justified why men of God must have bodyguards. He explained that,...

Hot audio: Pastors showing off cars; houses poorest in Ghana – Owusu Bempah

Founder and leader of the Glorious Word Power Ministry, Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah has said pastors showing off their wealth on social media are...

Ghana Post GPS charging GHC50, GHC100 to tag properties

Ghana Post has embarked on a nationwide digital property address generation and property tagging exercise. Its field agents are moving from house to house with...

FABEWOSO: Shareholders caused collapse of UT bank – Captain Smart (VIDEO+PHOTOS)

Adom FM's "Dwaso Nsem" host, Captain Smart on Monday's edition of Fabewoso disclosed how shareholders of UT Bank Limited collapsed the financial institution. According to...

PHOTO: Completed Okaikrom Health Centre left to rot

A fully completed clinic and maternity centre at Okaikrom in Sekyere East District of the Ashanti Region has been left to rot, while patients...

Retraction and apology to John Mahama

Our attention has been drawn to certain inaccuracies in our online story of August 12 captioned Don't Interfere in Church Business, Mahama tells Akufo-Addo,...

Mahama legitimized corruption in govt – Kamal Deen

Former National Nasara Coordinator of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kamal Deen Abdulai says ex-President John Dramani Mahama's administration was characterised by thievery and...