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Vice President advocates positive discrimination for PWDs

Government is undertaking positive discrimination in favour of women, youth and persons with disabilities (PWDs), as part of measures to enhance their sources of...

Audio: Fear grips Asensesu residents after military attack

Residents of Asesensu, a farming community in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western region have been forced to hold a vigil for...

Ghanaians are friendly but not efficient

‘’One thing everybody wants and needs in this world is FRIENDLINESS’’ - William E. Holler. Before you start getting heated up if you are a...

Major Mahama’s family visits Denkyira Obuasi lynching site

The family of the late Major Maxwell Adam Mahama has visited Denkyira Obuasi to see where the Army officer was killed one month ago. Among...

Woman ‘kills’ husband; locks up body for 3 days

The Police in Akyem Old Tafo in the Eastern region is hunting for a woman who allegedly poisoned her husband to death. The woman, after...

Broken down vehicles kill 22

About 22 people have lost their lives in three separate accidents within the last five days reportedly due to broken down vehicles. Available statistics indicates...

Teachers, lawyers impregnating teenagers in Central Region – MPs

Members of Parliament (MPs) have bemoaned the increasing spate of teenage pregnancy among some students by their teachers and other professionals including lawyers and...

Ghana’s population rate not to influence world statistics in 2050 – UN report

Ghana will definitely not be part of African countries with high population rates come 2050. This is according to a report by the United Nations...

We can’t stop fake products from coming to Ghana – FDA

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Mrs. Delese Mimi Darko, has said it would be impossible for Ghana...

Rabid dog kills four-year-old boy in Western Region

A four-year-old boy has died of human rabies at the Tarkwa Nsueam Municipal Hospital in the Western Region. Benard Bentum was attacked a month and...

Hot audio: Trotro drivers save journalist from lynching

A Journalist with Kumasi-based Otec FM in the Ashanti region has escaped death following the timely intervention of some trotro drivers. The victim, Isaac Nsiah...

Photos+Hot audio: ‘Immigration officers keeping stowaway girls as sex slaves’

Some Immigration officers in the Central region are reportedly keeping ladies who were arrested attempting to leave Ghana to Saudi Arabia as sex slaves. The...

Fireman caught having sex with a woman in a fire engine

A photo of a couple having sex in a fire engine has sparked outrage and led to an investigation to find the culprits. In...

PHOTO: Two teenagers arrested with 30 parcels of ‘wee’

Two teenagers are in the grips of the Eastern Regional Police Command for possessing narcotic substances, believed to be marijuana. The two, Evelyn Adade Korkor,...

Energy Ministry set up Committee to investigate BOST contaminated oil saga

The Ministry is Energy has set up an eight member committee to investigate the over 5 million litres of contaminated oil sold to Zupoil. This...

VIDEO + PHOTOS: Ghanaian engineering student drowns in America

A Ghanaian undergraduate student, Francis Manu, at Colorado School of Mines (CSM), USA passed on Wednesday, June 21, during the school's organized field session. He...

PHOTOS: Collapsed storey building kills one in Techiman

One person was confirmed dead on Wednesday after a storey building under construction collapsed in Techiman. The structure which is part of several construction projects...

Ghana ranked 3rd highest cocaine transit point in Africa

Ghana has been ranked the third cocaine transit destination in Africa behind Nigeria and South Africa respectively. According to the 2016 World Drug Report by...

Kumasi: Boy, 15, shot dead during Eid-Ul-Fitr celebration

A 15-year old boy, was shot in the head by unknown assailants on Tuesday night at an event to mark the Eid-Ul-Fitr in Kumasi. Unconfirmed...

Armed fishermen attack taskforce on sea

A group of fishermen from Akplabanya and its environs in the Ada West in the Greater Accra Region on Monday dawn allegedly attacked members...

US Embassy clears air on visas

Ghana’s three living former presidents would not have to queue up with fellow citizens seeking American visas for non-official purposes. This is according to Press...

Armed fishermen attack taskforce on sea

A group of fishermen from Akplabanya and its environs in the Ada West in the Greater Accra Region on Monday dawn allegedly attacked members...

Narcotics use highest in La Dade-Kotopon Municipality

The La Dade-Kotopon Municipality has been identified by the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) as having the highest prevalence rate of narcotics use in the...

Hot audio: We are now aggressive marketers – Popular fetish priest

Popular fetish priest has mounted a spirited defense against attempts to ban them from advertising on television, radio and social media. According to Nana Agradaa,...

Regent of Dagbon appeal for completion of Tamale International Airport

The Regent of Dagbon, Kampakuya Naa Andani Yakubu Abdulai has appealed to government to complete the construction of the second phase of the Tamale...

Akufo-Addo can make a huge difference for Africa – Kenneth Kaunda

The first President of independent Zambia has urged the President Nana Akufo-Addo to continue to shine the torch of Africa, and help deliver the...

Ghana needs political will and leadership to fight corruption

Madam Gloria Afua Akuffo, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, on Tuesday, said the establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor is a...

Law Student dares Akufo-Addo to return Gitmo detainees

President of the Students Representative Council at the Ghana School of Law is daring President Akufo-Addo to return the two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees who...

Hot Audio: Police ordered to arrest  Assin Dansamea chief

The Assin North Municipal Chief Executive, Nicholas Fifi Baako has directed the Assin Fosu Divisional Police Command to immediately arrest the Chief of Assin...

No plastic eggs on Ghanaian market – FDA

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has assured Ghanaians there are no plastic eggs on the market. The assurance comes days after the regulator also...

2 die in police station protest

Two young men from Yorogo, a suburb of the Bolgatanga Municipality, lost their lives as a result of gunshot wounds they sustained during a...

‘Set up a national fund to campaign against drug abuse’

The Executive Director of Creg Afful Foundation (CAF), a Tema-based anti-narcotics organisation, is advocating for the establishment of a national fund to campaign against...

Photos+Audio: 4 dead in Winneba accident

Four (4) people have been confirmed dead in a fatal accident on the Winneba – Cape Coast highway in the Central region. Nine others who...

Dog chews 6-yr-old boy to death

Residents of New Amanful, a fishing community in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region, were dumbfounded when news broke that a six-year-old...

Revealed: Assin Dansame corpse was exhumed over GHC 500 debt (PHOTOS + VIDEO)

The Chief of Assin Dansame, Okofo Twum Berimah IV, has revealed that he ordered the exhumation of a corpse buried at the public cemetery...

Government yet to clear Accra Psychiatric Hospital’s 3-year debt

Almost a year after the government released about GHc 500,000 to offset part of a GHc4 million debt owed suppliers of the Accra Psychiatric...

Foreign prostitutes invade Ashanti – Minister

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, has raised concerns about the invasion of the region by foreign sex workers. He also cited the activities...

Why rotten plantain used to prepare ‘kakro’ can give you cancer

A former dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor George Tawia Odamtten has cautioned the public against eating...

Small scale miner in court for assaulting lover

A small scale miner, Quashie Dzumako, has appeared before the Tarkwa Circuit Court for unlawfully causing harm to his lover Sabina Aba Arthur. The accused...

We can’t fight fire above 5 floors – GNFS

The Ghana National Fire Service is currently incapable of dealing with fires in high-rise buildings. The modern equipment of the service cannot fight fires beyond...