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279 lawyers called to the Bar

Two hundred and seventy-nine new lawyers have been called to the Bar with a charge on them to respect their clients. Addressing the new lawyers...

LGS donates 11 pickups to RCC for effective monitoring

The Local Government Service (LGS) has donated eleven brand new pickups to the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) to effectively monitor the activities of the...

Bia East losing revenue due to illegal chainsaw operations

District Chief Executive for Bia East in the Western Region has commended the Forestry Commission’s joint operation with the military to clamp down on...

President Akufo-Addo off to UK, Armenia

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Friday, 5th October, 2018, to attend the 5th Edition of the Financial Times Africa Summit taking place in London, United Kingdom...

Witches working against Boankra inland project – Ejisumanhene

Nana Afrane Okese, the Ejisumanhene has chastised the people of Boankra in the Ashanti Region for being backward and revolting against the development of...

VIDEO: Bride-turned-widow on wedding day gives plight to God

Janatil Firdaws Yakubu, the widow who lost her husband Disu Kamaru in less than an hour after their wedding ceremony on Sunday, 30 September...

‘Shame on Akufo-Addo’ -NDC Organizer incites students against prez [Video]

A National Organizer hopeful of the National Democratic Congress, Akamba Joshua Hamidu surprisingly has taken his campaign tour to secondary schools as he is...

Small-scale miners to get insurance, ID cards, uniforms

Al legal small-scale miners in the country will soon be given identification cards and uniforms for their operations. Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee against Galamsey,...

Video: Breakdown of governance cause of corruption in Ghana – Expert

A governance expert has attributed the prevalence of corruption in Ghana to institutional failure. Professor Emmanuel Osei Asiamah said the breakdown of governance, leadership, and...

Video: The Paris park where African women are forced into prostitution

The Bois de Vincennes, a sprawling park on the outskirts of eastern Paris, is home to horse riding schools and a zoo. It has...

Meet Sophia Sulemana, the young midwife who delivered a baby on moving bus

The young midwife whose story took the nation by storm recently for helping a woman to deliver on a moving bus, says midwifery has...

Photos: Dozens displaced, goods worth thousands go waste as heavy downpour hits Assin Fosu

Hundreds of people have been displaced whiles goods worth thousands have gone waste following a heavy downpour in Assin Fosu where many households got flooded...

GH¢15.2m GSA Training School leaks just 2yrs after use, State to cough money again for repairs

A Corruption Watch (CW) investigation has found that the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) Training School, which was constructed at a cost of GH¢...

Tema: 21-year-old man shot twice by man suspected to be police

A 21-year-old man is currently in critical condition at the Tema General Hospital after he was shot twice in the back by a man...

I will not apologise to Sam Korankye Ankrah – Owusu Bempah fires back

The Founder of Glorious Word Power Ministries, Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah has vowed not to retract the words he used against the Apostle General...

V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe laid to rest

Mourners at the burial service of a 94-year old statesman have paid glowing tribute to a jurist whom more than 60% of Ghanaians would...

Fear grips Obuasi after revelation that a god will turn into huge snake

There is fear in the Obuasi municipality after a video of Prophet Reinhard Oduro Gyebi, also known as the Eagle Prophet, went viral that...

You’ll be exposed if you lie to win political power – Mahama tells NPP

Former president John Dramani Mahama has taken a swipe at the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), accusing them of lying their way to power. According...

Now anybody can do poultry thanks to Smart Poultry initiative

The zeal for smart farming and Agriculture, in particular, has seen Eugene Ohemeng and his team at Honex Farms, introduce the Honex Smart Poultry scheme which seeks to bridge the gap...

Retract false allegations against Sam Korankye Ankrah or… – GPCC to Owusu Bempah

The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) have called the founder of the Glorious Word Power Ministries, Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah to retract false...

Why Asiedu Nketia attacks me – Audit Service Chairman

The Chairman of the Audit Service Board is considering suing General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia for defamation. According to...

Touching: First words of bride whose husband died on their wedding day

The widow whose husband sadly died on the day of their wedding has broken her silence for the first time since the traumatic incident...

Pregnant woman arrested for assaulting niece

A pregnant woman is in the grips of Amasaman police for torturing her 7-year-old niece by cutting her fingers with cutlass as punishment. According to...

Photos: Kakum elephants destroying cocoa farms at Assin Abodwesaso

Some Cocoa Farmers at Assin Abodwesaso in the Assin South District of the Central Region, are expressing concern about rampaging elephants destroying their cocoa...

Photos: When Pilot Capt Quainoo made his historic A380 landing at Terminal 3

Captain Solomon Quainoo has become the first pilot to successfully land the biggest passenger aircraft at the Kotoka International Airport in Ghana. Captain Quainoo taxied the...

Open defecation soars in schools

Data released by the coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) has revealed that public schools in the two hundred and...

The baby who will not forget Melania Trump’s hug

The visiting American First Lady, Melania Trump on Tuesday had a historical moment with mothers and babies at the Greater Accra Regional (Ridge) Hospital...

Aged Expert calls on government to build special hospitals for the aged

A Pastoral Gerontologist at the Centre for Aging Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, Rev. Dr Samuel Ayete-Nyampong, has called on the government...

Photo: Don’t blame NDC for KIA’s Terminal 3 flood – A Plus

Ghanaian musician cum politician, A Plus has urged supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to stop blaming former president John Dramani Mahama for...

PHOTOS: GRA confiscates over 20 trucks of Pepsi products

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has seized over twenty (20) trucks of soft drinks they say are without excise tax stamps. The drinks which were...

What was wrong under Mahama can’t be right under Akufo-Addo – A Plus

Musician and political activists, Kwame A Plus, has written a long piece on why he thinks Ghana's development has stalled. The piece also details his...

Fake News: No flooding at KIA’s Terminal 3

The Ghana Airport Company Limited which manages the Kotoka International Airport has rubbished reports circulating on social media that the KIA’s newly-built Terminal 3...

What is China doing in Africa?

Chinese corporations are all over Africa.  In June 2017 a McKinsey & Company report estimated that there are more than 10,000 Chinese-owned firms operating in Africa. What are Chinese...

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah replies Duncan Williams’s “crisis” statement

Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, says Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams’s declaration of a 72-hour fasting and prayer for Ghana won’t affect the incumbent government. Speaking on...

We were promised 1 District 1 Dam, not 1 House 1 Dam – Circle residents cry after Monday’s downpour [Video]

Some residents of Adabraka in Accra have taken a swipe at the government for failing to take steps to prevent flooding in the area...

Hweehwee RC teachers, students engage in open defecation

Both teachers and students of Wheewhee Roman Catholic Junior High School (JHS) in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region engage in open...

Agogo State College shut down ; 22 students arrested over protest

Some 22 students of the Agogo State College in the Asante Akim North District of the Ashanti region, have been arrested by police. The number,...

Video: Fabewoso demo gets results; EOCO retrieves $200m

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) is said to have retrieved about 200 million dollars from individuals and institutions said to have misappropriated...

Plane crash: Titus Glover recounts near-death experience [Audio]

The Member of Parliament for Tema East and Deputy Transport Minister, Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover has recounted his near-death experience when an Antrak airline he...

Samira Bawumia honoured as ‘2018 African Woman of Excellence’

The Second Lady of the Republic of Ghana and Global Ambassador for the Global Alliance for Clean cookstoves, Hajia Mrs Samira Bawumia, has been...