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Ghanaian peacekeepers praised by UN for foiling attack in South Sudan

Ghanaian peacekeepers have been praised by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) for foiling an attack at a United Nations (UN) protection...

Riot in Kwahu-Abene over enstoolment of Prof. Badu Akosa as Chief

There is tension at Kwahu-Abene following the installment of renowned Pathologist Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa as Chief of the town which is the royal...

Asantehene turns 67

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II today, Saturday 6 May, turned 67. The overlord of Asante has been King since 26 April 1999 following the death...

Audio: I will retire in four weeks – Chief Justice

The Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood on Friday May 5, 2017 announced that she will retire in the next four weeks with a promise...

National Security galamsey report against me is fallacy- BT Baba

Member of Parliament for Talensi BT Baba has debunked a national security confidential report accusing him of illegally owning and mining in the Upper...

Chiefs, politicians, others cited in BNI report on galamsey

Some chiefs and political figures in the country have been cited in a report by the Bureau of National Investigations for involvement in illegal...

Family fight Ridge Hospital over missing corpse

The mortuary block of the Ridge Hospital was a scene to behold when grief-stricken family vent their spleen on the mortuary attendants over their...

Science Communication requires collaboration-Director of UNU-INRA

The United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa ( UNU-INRA), the United Nations University Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation...

Chereponi DCE nominee confirmed

The Northern Regional Minister Hon. Salifu Saeed has swear Mr Tahidu Abdul Razak in as District chief executive (DCE) for Chereponi District after all...

Audio: Akatsi chiefs to demonstrate against doctors over death of teacher

Chiefs and people of Akatsi in the Volta Region have threatened to stage a massive demonstration against doctors of Akatsi District Hospital in the...

Chiefs, politicians, others cited in BNI report on galamsey

Some chiefs and political figures in the country have been cited in a report by the Bureau of National Investigations for involvement in illegal...

Why I’m relocating my ministry to Israel – TB Joshua

Nigerian Prophet Temitope Balogun (TB) Joshua has declared his intention to leave Nigeria and relocate his ministry to the nation of Israel. Speaking at his...

Ban on noisemaking starts Monday

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has announced that this year’s ban on drumming and noisemaking commences from Monday 8 May to Thursday 8 June,...

Mineworkers vow to go into robbery after company shuts down

Some displaced mineworkers at Gbani in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region have levelled strong threats to start a new life with...

We’ll cut down our cocoa trees and go into galamsey – Angry Mampong Chiefs threaten

The Chiefs and people of Akwapim Mampong in the Akwapim South District of the Eastern Region are threatening to cut down cocoa trees in...

First Lady, Multimedia raise GHS7.7m to save babies, mothers at KATH

The #SaveThemNow fundraising event jointly held by The Multimedia Group and the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo to save babies and mothers at the Komfo...

Lands minister orders Shanxii mining to stop work following tragedy

Lands and Natural Resources minister John Peter Amewu has directed Shanxii Mining Ghana Limited in the Upper East region to stop work following the...

Gov’t launches diaspora homecoming summit

The government of Ghana says it is ready to host thousands of Ghanaians who will be coming back to the country next month to...

Hospitals beyond KATH need urgent help; First Lady cries

First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has promised to extend a helping hand to health institutions struggling with the infrastructure needed to save the lives of...

KATH’s Fundraising Event: The seed to save Ghana’s future president

Later today, a giant leap will be made towards saving the lives of innocent women and children who are appointed to die at the...

PHOTOS: AMA breaks shops to decongest Kwame Nkrumah Interchange

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Thursday morning undertook a decongestion exercise at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange Thursday morning. The taskforce of about 50 men disrupted...

Audio: Taxi driver attacked, stripped naked by police

A policeman stationed at the Anyaa police station in Accra, Gabriel Tabiri, went berserk Tuesday by physically assaulting a taxi driver for allegedly jumping...

Nationwide blackout pose security threat – Security analyst

A security analyst, Nana Owusu Sekyere says the erratic power supply which hit the nation Wednesday night poses a security threat. According to him, the...

85% power restored across Ghana- ECG announces

The Electricity Company of Ghana ECG says it has restored power to over 85 percent of its customers who were affected by last night’s...

Don’t let African literature die; Samira Bawumia charges youth

The Second Lady Samira Bawumia has called on the youth to make reading and writing an enviable attribute of their everyday life so they can...

20 stopped from joining ISIS in Ghana

A 21-year-old from northern Ghana was last year stopped from joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Executive Director of the...

AUDIO: No return of ‘Dumsor’ – ECG

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has said that there is no return of dumsor despite a nationwide blackout on Wednesday night in some...

VIDEO: I wash my wife’s panties – Manasseh Azure

“I will wash your pants any day. You don’t need to fall sick. I will gladly wash your pants anytime there’s the need to...

Woyome’s judgment debt case: Gov’t promises ‘good news’ next week

The Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah-Dame has revealed that the public will in the next few days be informed about what he describes as...

Nationwide blackout hits Ghana

Majority of Ghanaians went to bed without power Wednesday night after what appeared to be a nationwide blackout hit the West African nation. The lights...

13,800 teachers’ salaries blocked

The April salary of nearly 14,000 teachers have been mistakenly blocked by the Controller and Accountant General's Department. The mistake, according to officials of the...

Hot audio: Catholic Priest fight galamsey with ‘operation touch heaven’ crusade

The fight against illegal mining popularly known as galamsey is just like a spiritual warfare which requires incessant prayers. This is the assertion of the...

NSS personnel ordered to validate names or lose allowances

The National Service Scheme (NSS), has ordered personnel on government payroll to validate their particulars with the scheme or risk forfeiting their allowances. A statement...

Multimedia in 1 employee, Ȼ100 #Savethemnow campaign to help KATH

The Multimedia Group has begun a one employee, one hundred Ghana cedi voluntary donation campaign as part of efforts to raise funds for the...

Woman dies in ‘Galamsey’ pit

A 35-year-old woman, Patricia Morrison, met her untimely death when a taxi she was driving veered off the road and landed in an abandoned...

Audio: Sacked army recruits accuse GAF of sabotage

The over 500 army recruits who were sacked from the Ghana Armed Forces over allegations of tedious training are now accusing the military of...

Audio: Mad man butchers 4 at Abrepo

A man believed to be in his 30s and mentally deranged has attacked four persons at Abrepo Junction a suburb in the Kumasi Metropolis...

VIDEO: Kpando District Assembly blows GHC 7500 on wheel barrows

The Kpando District Assembly is in the news for spending a huge amount of GHC7500 for the purchase of wheel barrows. The action of the...

Akufo-Addo arrives in Togo to rousing welcome

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, arrived in Lome, the capital of the Republic of Togo to a rousing welcome...

Police retrieve 3 bodies from uncompleted building at Nyinahini Kapem

The police at Nyinahini have retrieved three bodies from an uncompleted structure at Kapem in the Atwima Mponua District of Ashanti. The first body was...