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It’s a curse to demand money from congregants – Owusu Bempah

A man of God has described as a curse pastors who extort monies from poor church members desperate for spiritual attention. Prophet Daniel Owusu Bempah...

Attorney-General’s Department blamed for increasing road carnage

The Attorney-General’s Department must take the blame for high accident rate on the country’s roads, according to Chief Executive of a road safety campaign...

Auditor General’s power to prosecute long overdue – Ace Ankomah

Legal practitioner, Ace Ankomah has backed the Auditor-General’s call for prosecutorial powers. In his view, the request should not be difficult to grant by a...

YOLO girl donates bags of cement to her community

Ghanaian actress Fella Makafui has donated bags of cement towards the building of a community center in her hometown, Anfoega Akukome in the Volta...

Use lithium to develop Volta Region -PIAC urges gov’t

Vice Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Kwame Jantuah has urged government to use the newly discovered mineral, lithium, to develop...

Gender Ministry condemns FGM; proposes prosecution of culprits

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is recognized internationally as a human rights violation of girls and women. It results in deep rooted inequality between the sexes...

Read what Abdul Malik Kweku Baaku Jr remembers about his arrest and incarceration 36 years ago

Read full text of his post below as narrated unedited by him: Exactly 36 years ago today, I was arrested for being part of a...

PHOTOS: Chief builds road, school, water and sanitation facilities for his people

For years, their repeated appeal to successive governments for basic amenities and other development projects have gone unheeded. Tired of waiting, their chief is spearheading...

HOT AUDIO: Man dies in Akpeteshie drinking contest

Thirty-two-year-old Kwame Asirifi has ended his life after drinking two bottles of locally distilled gin, ‘Akpeteshie’ at Asuakoso, a suburb of Akyem Hemang in...

Auditor General applies for prosecutorial powers

Barring any hitches, the Auditor General’s Department may soon be prosecuting persons who they find to have engaged in any illegality. Auditor General, Daniel Domelevo,...

Dead body exhumed, raped

The farming community of Wassa Saaman in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western Region was thrown into a state of shock last...

Late Ghanaian Coach Herbert Addo’s children forced to spend weekend in cells

Five sisters, all daughters of the late Ghanaian Coach, Herbert Addo, were detained at the Adenta Police Station over the weekend following a family...

Murdered Police officer Kwaku Ninja reincarnated?

The son of the late martial artist and Police Officer, Owusu Sekyere, widely known as Kwaku Ninja, is displaying traits that lead his family...

PHOTOS: Multimedia holds remembrance service for late Sales Manager, George Hansen

Management and Staff of The Multimedia Group have held a solemn memorial service in honour of late Sales Executive, George Augustus Nii Lante Hansen. George...

There are more drinking spots in Ghana than churches – Agyinasare

The founder and leader of Perez Chapel International, Bishop Charles Agyinasare has diffused claims that Ghana is religiously being controlled by Christians following the...

Tanker explosion kills two at Atuabo

At least two people have perished at Baku, a community near the Atuabo Gas Processing Company in the Western Region after a tanker truck...

PHOTOS: Lake Bosomtwe gets safety and emergency services team

The Bosomtwe District Assembly is to set up a standing emergency services team to protect holidaymakers and other visitors to Lake Bosomtwe. U.S-based Global Mission...

WFP commend Ghana for working to end hunger and malnutrition

The World Food Program is commending government of Ghana for prioritizing food security and nutrition and its determination to achieve zero hunger in Ghana. In...

PHOTOS: Violent clashes in Kwabre East leaves scores injured

Violence has broken out at Ahwiaa, a community in the Kwabre East district of Ashanti region between some youth in the Zongo community and...

Teachers who date students should be jailed – Majority Leader

Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has called on the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to sack and revoke certificates of...

VIDEO: Your ‘car’ should be driven by only one man, not mate – Agyinasare to married women

Presiding Bishop and Head Pastor of Perez Chapel International, Charles Agyinasare has advised married women to allow their ‘cars’ to be driven by only...

President leaves for Senegal

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Friday, to attend the Third International Global Partnership for Education conference in Dakar, Senegal. The conference, a...

HOT AUDIO: 5 drivers suspended for drunk-driving and fornication

Five commercial drivers in Agona Swedru in the Central region have been suspended by the Progressive Transport Owners Association for drunk driving. The drivers, who...

Hot video: 99% of prophets in Ghana use psychology- Pastor

A man of God has asserted that 99 percent of prophets in the country are fake. Rev Isaac Opoku, Head pastor of In Him is...

VIDEOS+PHOTOS: Watch these NPP members as they invoke river deity to kill executives

A video has surfaced of some New Patriotic Party (NPP) members in the Awutu Senya East District in the Central Region cursing party executives...

HOT VIDEO: Family of 14 perish in Anyinam accident

Fourteen (14) people belonging to the same family have been feared dead in a gory accident at Anyinam on the Kumasi-Accra Highway. According to the...

UPDATE: Four picked up in connection with Dome Market fire

Four People have been picked up in connection with the fire outbreak at Dome Market in Accra. The suspects who have all been granted bail...

Philip Osei Bonsu is new Eko Sii Sen host on Asempa FM

Western Region’s celebrated radio talk show host, Philip Osei Bonsu, is now host of Asempa FM’s late afternoon programme, Eko Sii Sen. Philip, a former...

HOT VIDEO: Stop sharing my husband’s sex tape – Wife of bonking headmaster begs

AT A GLANCE The woman whose husband was involved in the "kitchen stool sex tape" has been named as Madam Diana Krofie She has...

James Town gets new Chief

Kingmakers and heads of the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Area have customarily installed and enstooled Dr Prince William Ashely Bruce-Quaye as the James Town chief. His...

Pigs attack 4-year-old; in critical condition

A 4-year-old girl was nearly killed when she was mysteriously attacked by pigs Thursday. According to reports, the pigs nearly chewed off her head when...

HOT AUDIO: School Feeding Programme: Pupils fed with maize in Salaga

Pupils of Sisipe D/A Primary School in the East Gonja District of the Northern Region have in the last couple of weeks been fed...

PHOTOS: Police eject Kaiser Flat occupants

Dozens of heavily armed policemen and taskforce of the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) early Friday morning stormed the Kaizer Flats in Tema Community 4...

PHOTOS: Dome market fire, MCE says it's arson

MCE of Ga East Municipal, Janet Tulasi Mensah, says information gathered so far indicates someone intentionally set the market ablaze. She told Adom News Kwame...

HOT AUDIO: Witch doctor explains why men are not allowed into witch camps

Several witch camps in the Northern Region have refused to accept men into their care for fear of being beaten or over powered. Read more:...

AMA sacks 11 taskforce members

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has dismissed eleven members of its task force for   failing to discharge their duties. They are Theophilus Amar Kwasi, Samuel...

Over 400 residents face eviction from Kaizer Flats

AT A GLANCE A High Court in Teman has granted the TDC an eviction order to evict 187 residents Four of the Flats have failed...

PHOTOS: Fire guts Dome Market

The Dome Market in Accra is in ruins after a devastating fire, Wednesday evening. Market stalls, shops and other structures have been consumed by the...