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Eastern Region GJA awards launched

The Eastern Regional Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) awards has been launched at Koforidua over the weekend. This is to reward and motivate journalists who produce...

Photos: One week memorial held for slain Kwabenya police officer

One week memorial service and commemoration is currently underway for the slain police officer, Inspector, Emmanuel Ashilevi. It was a day of sorrow when mourners...

Curfew hours on Alavanyo and Nkonya renewed

The Ministry of the Interior has renewed the curfew hours imposed on Alavanyo and Nkonya townships from 1800 hours to 0600 hours, effective Sunday,...

One week memorial held for slain Kwabenya Police officer

One week memorial service and commemoration is currently underway for the slain police officer, Inspector, Emmanuel Ashilevi. It was a day of sorrow when mourners...

Chief to release more teacher-student sex tapes

Nana Kofi Opoku, the Nkosuohene of Ejisu traditional council, is threatening to expose more teachers who are having sexual affairs with their students. According to...

Court remands two for fraud

An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday remanded two persons into police custody for conspiring to commit a crime, defrauding by false pretence, money laundering...

VIDEO: Bishop Charles Agyinasare prays for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia

Founder and leader of the Perez Chapel, Bishop Charles Agyinasare has prayed for speedy recovery for vice president Bawumia. Read also: Photos/Video: Bawumia and wife...

Four die in accident at Biahu

our persons were killed and two others sustained injuries when an ambulance belonging to the Ghana Ambulance Service was involved in an accident at...

We are suffering – KATH mortuary assistants cry

Mortuary Assistants at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have decried what they describe as poor conditions of service. According to them, the meagre nature...

Tell Birth and Death Registry that 'people are paid to think' – Kweku Baako

The Registrar of the Death and Birth Registry should be told civil servants are paid to think and to act according to law, the...

Ghana’s underdevelopment self-inflicted – Prophet

The Founder and Leader of Bread of Life Ministries, Prophet Joshua Adjei has attributed Ghana’s underdevelopment to some evil traditional practices in the country. In...

Video: Two suspected robbers nearly lynched at Kwabenya

Some suspected armed robbers have attempted breaking into a shop at Kwabenya in Accra, few days after a police officer was shot dead during...

Parliament summons Local Govt Minister over Births and Deaths registry’s directive

Members on both sides of the house are not satisfied with the Birth and Death Registry's fatwa for the non-registration of some local...

AUDIO: Stop foreseeing death and pray for us – police to prophets

The Ghana Police Service has called on prophets in the country to make praying for service members a priority. Public Relations Officer at the Police...

PHOTOS: 60,000 cattle evacuated from Agogo, 40,000 more to go

Local farmers at Agogo in the Ashanti Region are excited about progress made in the eviction of nomadic herdsmen and their cattle from the...

OccupyGhana threatens to sue births and deaths over names ban

Pressure Group, OccupyGhana has threatened to take legal action against the Births and Deaths registry if the decision not to register some popular Ghanaians...

GH¢200m Judgment Debt looms for Legon

AT A GLANCE The University of Ghana through the University of Ghana Enterprise Limited (UGEL) contracted a loan of GH¢43,000,000 from a consortium of six banks The...

Herdsmen-farmer clashes reach Nsuta; 2 men, 7 cattle killed in renewed attack

Two residents of Jeduako near Nsuta in the Sekyere Central District of the Ashanti Region have been shot dead by suspected nomadic herdsmen. 60-year-old Kofi...

NACOB impounds cannabis worth ¢500K on KIA truck

The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has impounded a Kia truck full of dried leaves suspected to be cannabis at Buokono, near Asesewa in the...

Photos: 10 dead in gory accident at Teacher Mante

Ten people have been confirmed dead in a gory accident on the Suhum/Nsawam road in the Eastern region. According to reports, the accident occurred at...

PURC orders ECG to pay compensation to customers

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has ordered the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to pay compensation to some affected prepayment customers in Achimota,...

Update Ghanaians on Bawumia’s illness to cut rumours – Asiedu Nketia

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has advised government to disclose the doctor’s report surrounding Vice President...

‘Witches’ refusing to go home – Otiko

Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has said alleged witches at the various witch camps in the Northern Region are...

HOT AUDIO: Give our husbands ‘shoot to kill’ powers to fight armed robbers – Police wives to Gov’t

A group calling itself Police Wives Association (POLWA) is appealing to the government to grant their husbands the mandate to shoot and kill armed...

Bawumia will return to work soon – Samira assures

Ghana’s second lady, Samira Bawumia has given the assurance the her husband is recovering and will return to work soon. Mrs. Bawumia in the post...

HOT VIDEO: Prez Akufo-Addo shows dancing skills at George Weah inauguration

The president of the Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, has been spotted in the latest video showing his dancing moves during the inaugural dinner held in...

Births and Deaths Registry blacklists names like Nana, Naa, Junior

The Births and Deaths Registry has said it does not allow certain prefix and suffixes deemed as titles to be registered as part of...

Addo-Danquah confirmed CID boss

The Inspector General of Police, David Asante Apeatu, has confirmed DCOP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah as the substantive Director-General of the Criminal Investigation Department...

Video: Foreigners living in Ghana must be checked thoroughly – Kofi Adoma

Adom FM and Adom TV's, Kofi Adoma Nwanwani has urged the security forces and the government to rise up against some foreigners who are...

Koforidua prison unable to account for 10 'galamsey' suspects

The Koforidua Prison could not account for ten suspects remanded by a circuit court for defying the nationwide ban on small-scale mining when JoyNews...

We sleep with our teachers for school fees – Ejisuman female student

A 21-year-old female student of Ejisuman Senior High School (SHS) in the Ashanti Region, has said she and some of her colleagues are compelled...

State to cater for Limann’s wife

President Akufo-Addo has announced that the state will take care of the wife of former President of the Third Republic, Dr. Hilla Limann. According to...

Audio: Gov’t to provide Police with 504 flats – Adwoa Sarfo

Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya Constituency, Sarah Adwoa Sarfo, says government will construct 504 flats for police officers at the Kwabenya in the...

Akufo-Addo to name Wa Poly after Limann

At a glance The Governing Council of the Wa Polytechnic has agreed to re-name the institution after Dr Hilla Limann President Akufo Addo...

Hot Video: Fabewoso: Policeman-on-duty narrates his experience with armed robbers

A Ghanaian policeman who was attacked by three armed men when he was on duty has narrated his unfortunate encounter on Adom FM’s Fabewoso...

Kitchen stool sex tape: Teacher confesses as GES commences probe

At a glance Teacher Mr. Robert Sepey has confessed to being the one in the video The Ghana Education Service has launched investigations into the...

HOT AUDIO: UG Medical Centre saga: Aryeetey says Dep. Minister is ‘illiterate’

Two of the ten personalities accused of registering and offering to manage the $217million uncompleted University of Ghana Medical Centre in their names have...