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Photos: US soldiers eating python meat in Ghana

Some soldiers from the U.S Army were captured on camera while queuing to feast on python meat. The U.S soldiers who were being trained by...

Lotto Agent dies in a football match at Krofrom

A 28-year-old Lotto Agent, Kwasi Bonsu, met his untimely death during Christmas Inter Community football gala games at Serwaa Nyarko Park at New Tafo...

Hohoe: MCE laments springing up of Illegal structures

The Municipal Chief Executive for Hohoe in the Volta Region, Andrews Teddy Ofori, has expressed concern about the development of illegal structures in parts...

Man claims to use 30 virgins for money rituals

A 46-year-old man, Stephen Nortey, has claimed that he sleeps with virgins in order to make money. Nortey claimed on Koforidua-based Byte FM that he...

Kpando: One dead, six hospitalised after eating poisonous fish

One person has been confirmed dead and six others hospitalised in Kpando in the Volta Region after consuming the highly poisonous puffer fish. This will...

NHIA considers tax on sugar, cigarette to fund collapsing health insurance scheme

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) may impose taxes on sugar in order to deter people from taking the product and raise funds to support the...

Tap water cleaner than most sachet waters

The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Stanley Martey has claimed that the water produced and sent to homes...

TV License: NMC to meet GBC Boss

The National Media Commission (NMC) is expected to meet the Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Dr Akuffo Annor-Ntow over the controversial...

TV Licence Fee will help GTV do better – Gabby

A member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has asked Ghanaians not to oppose the payment of the TV licence...

Halt TV license court now or jail all Ghanaians – AFAG

The Alliance for Accountable Governance(AFAG) is demanding for the suspension of the roll out of the TV license court which is set to begin...

Water Company shuts down Teshie Desalination Plant

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has shut down the Accra Desalination Plant which supplies water to residents within Teshie, Nungua and surrounding communities. The...

PHOTOS: Two die in fatal accident at Enchi

Two people, including an unidentified child have been killed in gory motor accident involving a Metro Mass Transit bus on the Asankragua-Enchi road of...

Ankaful prisons Director Calls for non-custodial sentences to reduce pressure on Nat’l purse

The Assistant Director of Ankaful Main Camp Prison, ACP Patrick Adzah is urging government to introduce non-custodial sentence system of punishment for law breakers...

Ghanaian woman learns days later of husband’s death in Bronx fire

Joyce Sarkodie, after eagerly awaiting her husband’s nightly call, never heard the phone ring when he dialed their home in Ghana for the last...

How BBC reported the raging TV license controversy in Ghana

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) pidgin appears to have taken keen interest in the raging controversy in Ghana about paying of TV license or...

‘Galamsey’ operators storm Upper West Region

The Upper West Regional Police Command says it has picked signals that groups of illegal miners from the southern part of the country have...

Those who will refuse to pay TV license are ‘foolish’ – Maurice Ampaw

Controversial private legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw has stated that it smacks of foolishness for one to take an entrenched stance he or she will...

Mad rush for 2018 car number plates

Car owners and drivers are in a mad rush to register their vehicles and obtain the 2018 number plates at the Ashanti Regional Office...

Prophet cautions Sex workers

Prophet Kwabena Tawiah, Founder and Leader of the Church of Rabi, Ofankor, has predicted that more sex workers in the country would be use...

5 reasons GBC mustn't get a cedi from TV licence fees – Bright Simons

Even if we are to pay for TV licences, there are at least 5 reasons why GBC mustn't receive a cedi until it fully...

I’m ready to go to jail – A Plus vows never to pay TV license fees

Controversial rapper A Plus, known in real life as Kwame Asare Obeng, has declared that he is ready to go to jail because of...

Prez Akufo-Addo signs Special Prosecutor Bill, 4 others into law

President Nana Akufo-Addo has given Presidential Assent to five Bills, including that which establishes the Office of the Special Prosecutor. That completes the legal requirement...

Hot audio: '2018 will be a difficult year for Akufo-Addo'

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Akuapem Chiefs urged to resolve the Akropong Chieftaincy problem

The Member of Parliament for Okere and Minister for Regional Re-organization and Development, Mr Daniel Kweku Botwe has called on the Akuapem Traditional Council...

HOT AUDIO: Prominent chiefs, police officers, lawyers to die in 2018 –Prophet Kwabena Tawiah predicts

Leader and Founder of Church of Rabi, Prophet Kwabena Tawiah has predicted the passing of some prominent Ghanaians in 2018. In a 31st December 2017...

HOT AUDIO: ‘Rapists must be castrated’ – KEEA MCE Asserts

The Municipal Chief Executive for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem, Nana Appiah Korang is advocating castration of men who defile or rape minors. He says such form of a...

Ghanaian-born soldier dies a hero after saving neighbours in deadly Bronx fire

Ghanaian-born soldier Emmanuel Mensah has been declared a hero after losing his life while saving his neighbours during Thursday night’s New York City fire...

I will collapse Prophet Kobi’s church – Owusu Bempah threatens

Founder and leader of the Glorious Word Ministry International, Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah has angrily stricken at the founder of Glorious Wave Ministry, Prophet...

PHOTOS + VIDEO: Ghanaians bid farewell to 2017; ushers in 2018 in grand style

Prayers, fireworks and all forms of jubilation climaxed the celebration of the New Year in various cities, towns and villages across the West African...

3 killed in motor accident on Sogakope-Adidome road

At least three people have died when the car they were travelling in crashed at Bakpa Adzani on the Sogakope-Adidome road after one of...

Tema MTTD to crack whip on recalcitrant drivers

Tema Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service says more recalcitrant drivers will be prosecuted in 2018. Tema Regional MTTD Commander,...

Special TV License Court set up to prosecute defaulters

Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo has set up a special court to prosecute individuals who default in the payment of their TV License fee. This follows a request...

Tema MCE bans tricycles from using motorway

The Tema metropolitan assembly has with immediate effect ban tricycles known in local parlance as aboboyaa from using the motorway. The development follows recent increase...

VIDEO: Help us build a museum to showcase our ancestral artifacts’ – Chief to Tourism Ministry

Nana Saforo Okoampa III Omanhene of Akuapem Apirede in the Eastern region has pleaded with the Ministry for Tourism, Arts and Culture to help...

Ensure children see the end of 2017 – Otiko tasks parents

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba has demanded from parents to ensure children are protected from any form of...

Photos: Multimedia staff end 2017 by undergoing thorough medical examination

In order to start the New Year 2018 on a clean bill of health, staff of The Multimedia Group have undergone thorough medical examination...

Dad fined GH₵3000, sheep for sleeping with daughters

A 43-year-old farmer has been fined a sum of GH₵3000 and some items including a full-grown sheep, one crate of soft drinks, one bottle...

HOT VIDEO: Anas chases ‘corrupt police officers’ in latest expose'

Ace undercover investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has once again released an explosive investigative piece implicating some corrupt police officers in Ghana. The “Bad Cops”,...