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VIDEO: 2 Ex-staff of failed bank die as over 800 languish in poverty

A former staff of defunct Capital Bank has recounted the painful story of how two of his former colleagues lost their lives due to...

PHOTOS: Midland presents two-bedroom house to assaulted woman

Midland Savings and Loans Company Limited has officially presented the two-bedroom semi-detached house as compensation for Ms Patience Osafo's ordeal at their facility. The newly presented house...

Don’t join ‘deliberate misinformation campaign’ – Akufo-Addo tells journalism graduates

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has advised graduating students of the Ghana Institute of Journalism to practice their professions in the most acceptable and...

Angry school feeding caterers demand 5 years unpaid arrears [Video]

Some caterers who worked for five years at Kade Senior High School (KASSTECH) under the school feeding programme are demanding payment of arrears owed...

AUDIO: The church owes no apology for spending millions to worship God – Otabil

General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church has rallied Christians to find great joy in dedicating their best resources into advancing God's kingdom...

TRENDING: Akufo-Addo’s bodyguard punches old man for getting too close to Prez [video]

A video has surfaced on social media showing an elderly man being repelled by a blow from one of the security details of President Akufo-Addo. The...

A/R: Police to hold peace talks over Suame trade ‘war’

Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kwesi Mensah Duku, is set to hold a meeting with traders at Suame Magazine on Friday, 3 August 2018...

‘How useful can you be?’ – Woyome asks youth

MP for South Tongu Constituency, Kobena Mensah Woyome, has challenged the youth, pupils and students of Ghana to take their education or any apprenticeship...

77-year-old beheaded on his farm

A 77-year-old man has been allegedly beheaded on his farm at Kukurantumi in the Eastern region. According to reports, the deceased, Opanyin Owusu Addo popularly...

Abensuo CEO rehabilitates Amrahia roads

Oheneba Kasempa Enterprise, producers of Original Abensuo drink has as part of its corporate social responsibility rehabilitated some roads in Amrahia and its environs...

Ford Escape knocks down 2 sisters, one dead

Police in the Eastern Region have begun investigations into an incident involving a driver of a Ford Escape vehicle who knocked down two young...

National Security operatives turn land guards?

The Chronicle newspaper says its investigations have uncovered an alleged conspiracy by some persons within National Security apparatus, to intimidate a claimant to a...

Gov’t invites proposals for the establishment of Bauxite Refinery

Government is inviting corporate entities and individuals interested in setting up a bauxite refinery to begin talks over the venture. Minister of Land and Natural...

AUDIO: Central Region tops in land Grabbing scandals

The Central Region is currently having the highest land grabbing rates in the country, Director for the Central Regional Lands Commission, Nana Kwampong Aboah...

iMEM Foundation donates incubator to Tema General Hospital

iMEM, a Foundation established to support and advocate for leadership towards transforming and sustaining the fortunes of Ghana has donated an incubator to the...

Accra International Book Festival launches on Tuesday, August 14

The 2018 Accra International Book Festival (AIBF) scheduled for September this year, would be launched on Tuesday, August 14, 2018. The event would bring together...

Probe leaked law exam questions – GBA urges GLC

The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) says it would be a disturbing development for legal education in Ghana if reports that questions for the entrance...

Court frees NCA suspect’s passport

An Accra High Court has ordered the registrar of the court to temporarily release the passport of Nana Owusu Ensaw, a former chairman of...

Why ‘Wise Vagina’, ‘Penis is a Fool’, ‘Testicles are Sad’ became village names

Last week, Members of Parliament in Ghana lost their composure in fits of giggles and horselaughs, when the Member for Abirem in the Eastern...

AUDIO: Man butchers wife for denying him sex, locks her up

A 38-year-old farmer Kofi Abraham has allegedly butchered his wife at Oboum in Assin Fosu of the Central Region. An eyewitness narrating the incident to...

Read my judgements, they prove I have no political bias – William Atuguba tells critics

Retired Supreme Court Justice, William Atuguba, has dismissed allegations that he favoured the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) when he led a nine-member panel...

VIDEO+PHOTOS: First ever Rottweiler and German Shepherd Dog specialty dog show held in Accra

More than 60 dogs of two breeds and different ages were present at the Ghana Trade Fair Centre on Saturday, July 28, 2018, to...

Police man kills 3 robbers, 4 escape with gunshot wounds

A police officer has allegedly killed three of seven armed robbers who attempted to rob some market women at Agosa, a town between Techiman...

Audio: Majority Leader warns police over assault

Majority Leader of Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has charged the Police administration to be professionals in discharging its duties as a law enforcement...

AUDIO: MP to fix broken down street lights with his Common Fund 

Deputy Minister for Transport and Member of Parliament (MP) for Tema East, Daniel Titus-Glover has promised to fix broken down streets lights, especially in...

AUDIO: Sexually suggestive community names won’t be changed – Abirem MP

Member of Parliament for Abirem constituency, John Frimpong Osei, says sexually suggestive names of towns in the Abirem Constituency of the Eastern Region will...

VIDEO: Anas to release video on Illegal child beggars in August

Award-winning investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas will in the month of August release a 10-minute video on illegal child beggars on the streets of...

Two nomadic herdsmen arrested for robbery

Two nomadic herdsmen are in the grips of the Kwahu Mpraeso Police for allegedly engaging in a highway robbery. The two suspect Ibrahim Sambo and...

VIDEO+PHOTOS: Woman delivers strange baby with missing facial features

A strange birth has occurred at Ampiaw-Ajumako in the Ajumako Anyan Essiam District of the Central Region. A woman has given birth to a baby...

Ghana-US military deal in force, 800 troops here – US Ambassador

The outgoing US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson, has stated that nothing untoward has happened in Ghana nearly four months after the opposition...

Midland gives house, fortune to woman assaulted by police to avoid suit

The management of Midland Savings and Loans Company Limited has compensated Patience Osafo, the lady who was assaulted by a police officer, with a...

Her outburst was genuine – Lawrence Tetteh defends Amissah-Arthur’s widow

The Founder and President of the Worldwide Miracle Outreach, Dr. Lawrence Tetteh, has defended the outburst of the late Kwesi Amissah-Arthur’s widow, Matilda Amissah-Arthur...

Young woman perishes in Ashaiman gory accident

Pandemonium hit the Ashaiman Municipality when a KIA truck run through some traders and pedestrians, killing a young lady and injuring six others. The truck...

Payroll audit uncovers widespread use of fake certificates by public workers

The clean-up exercise of the country’s public payroll being conducted by the Auditor General’s Department has revealed widespread use of fake certificates by public...

Water shortage hits parts of Accra

An acute water shortage has hit parts of Accra, with residents bracing through thick shoving crowds, queues and sacrificing their sleep and comfort to...

Amissah-Arthur’s final journey in 100 PHOTOS

The mortal remains of late Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur has been lowered at the newly built Military Cemetery at Tse Addo in...

PHOTOS: Amissah-Arthur’s casket as it is paraded through the streets of Accra

The casket containing the mortal remains of late Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has been marched through some principal streets of Accra before making...

FULL TEXT: Matilda Amissah-Arthur’s tribute to her late husband

Matilda Amissah-Arthur, wife of late former Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, gave an emotional and unusual tribute to her late husband during a state funeral...

Our father was our ‘superhero’ – Amissah-Arthur’s children

Former Vice-President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur’s children, Kwesi Nyan Amissah-Arthur and Araba Amissah-Arthur, have described their late father as the “superhero” they will miss forever. In...