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PHOTOS: First Lady tours lavender hill project

First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo today visited the Lavender Hill Sludge Treatment Project in Accra to familiarize herself with the level of work and...

Police caution public sector workers against fraudsters

The Police has warned the general public especially public sector workers to be wary of fraudsters parading themselves as staff of Controller and Accountant...

22 declared dead in Prestea-Nsuta disaster as rescue efforts come to a close

The number of persons feared dead in the Prestea-Nsuta mining pit collapse is estimated be at least 22, eight more than the 14 initailly...

ECG investigates outages during downpours

Electricity Company of Ghana has commissioned a team of engineers to investigate incessant power cuts during downpours. ECG Managing Director, Samuel Boakye-Appiah, who describes the...

Lawyer urges LLB students denied admission to sue General Legal Council

US-based Ghanaian law Professor Kwaku Asare is urging all LLB students who were denied entrance into the Ghana School of Law to sue the...

VIDEO+PHOTOS: Farmer, 22 welcomes quadruplets; calls for support

A 22-year-old farmer, Amadu Razak and his 19-old wife Amina Razak from Bodada in the Jasikan District of the Volta region have welcomed a...

Photos: Man holds crusade at Denkyira-Obuasi

At a time when the nation was a bundle of furious judgment, heaven was a bundle of generous mercy over a crime in Denkyira-Obuasi. One...

50-year old farmer sentenced 20 years for impregnating 13-year old

The Techiman Circuit Court has sentenced a 50-year-old farmer to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling, impregnating and eloping with a 13-year-old. Father...

PHOTOS: Akufo-Addo commissions 3rd FPSO

President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned Ghana's third oil Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel named after former President John Agyekum Kufuor. Watched on by...

17 Nkrumah Circle prostitutes nabbed

About 17 women suspected of engaging in prostitution have been nabbed by the Police in Accra. The number includes two nursing mothers and some other...

Audio: Lab technicians threaten strike

The Coalition of Cheated Medical Laboratory Technicians has issued a two-week ultimatum to the Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Health to rectify...

19-year-old delivers quadruplets

A 19-year-old subsistent farmer from Bodada in the Jasikan District of the Volta region has been delivered of a set of quadruplets at the...

Akufo-Addo’s African wear fake – Abraham Koomson

General Secretary of the Textile, Garment and Leather Employees Union (TEGLU) has claimed the African print shirts won by President Akufo-Addo are fake. Abraham Koomson...

Audio+Photos: Awutu Senya Assembly members angry over GHC 300,000 toilet project

Concerned Assembly Members in the Awutu-Senya West District of the Central Region have accused erstwhile National Democratic Congress government of squandering GHC 300,000 on...

MFWA Unveils Journalist of the Month

In recognition of his compelling television documentary that raised alarm and prompted action on the devastating maternal and child mortality situation in Ghana’s second...

Fetish priest forewarned perished galamseyers

It has been revealed that a fetish priest in the Nsuta area of the Western Region forewarned illegal miners (galamseyers) in the community not...

Photos: One in critical condition after head-on collision at Akosombo

One person is said to be in a critical condition after a head-on collision at Akosombo Textile Ltd junction. The incident left the five occupants...

Child beggars invade Accra

Some children from slum communities in Accra and some West and Central African countries have invaded the streets of Accra, begging for alms to...

Trainee Nurses, teachers involved in fatal accident en route to excursion

Trainee Nurses and lecturers from the Afua Kobi Nursing Training School at Tafo Nhyiaeso in Kumasi have been involved in a serious accident near...

Rescue efforts suspended at Prestea-Nsuta collapsed mining pit following heavy rains

Rescue efforts to rescue illegal miners trapped in a pit at Prestea-Nsuta in the Western Region have suspended operation following heavy rains in the area. The...

19-year old teenager delivers quadruplets

A 19-year old subsistent farmer from Bodada in the Jasikan District of the Volta region has been delivered of a set of quadruplets at...

Man commits suicide at Aplaku Israel

A 40-year-old man last Friday committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling at Aplaku Israel, near Weija in Accra. Neighbours claimed they saw the...

GH¢26M Military Barracks project underway

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cut sod for the commencement of the National Barracks Regeneration Project, in fulfillment of the pledge the NPP...

Video: Lady crippled after abortion

A middle aged woman is now a cripple after she aborted a five months old pregnancy. Patricia Boamah’s dream in life was shuttered when she...

Hot audio: Girl, 15 gang-raped by four boys

A 15-year-old girl has allegedly been assaulted sexually by four school boys at Awutu Bontrase in the Central region Tuesday. According to reports, victim was...

5 bodies sighted in Nsuta-Prestea mining pit

Rescue workers in the Prestea-Nsuta mining disaster have sighted five more bodies as the hope of rescuing survivors in the 80-feet pit turns into...

Hot Audio: Chinese galamseyers taking over jackpot operations in Asikuma

The Presiding Member of the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa District Assembly in the Central Region, Isharck Kwasi Anakwa is claiming some Chinese illegal miners in...

Jehovah’s Witnesses welcome all to 2017 “Don't give up!” convention

Jehovah’s Witnesses will soon hold their annual regional conventions at the Accra Assembly Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baatsona, Spintex Road. They extend an open...

PHOTOS: Tema Flour Mills staff protest over unpaid salaries

Workers of Tema Flour Mills on Wednesday 5 June demonstrated over unpaid salaries and other incentives. According to the workers, they have not been paid...

My wife applies for UK visa too – Jon Benjamin

Outgoing British High Commissioner to Ghana Jon Benjamin has said that immigration rules by the British government cannot be circumvented to favour any individual...

COCOBOD suspends ‘cocoa roads’ projects

COCOBOD has suspended the much criticized construction of cocoa roads after an interim audit revealed a lot of discrepancies in the project, its Chief...

I have never pointed a gun at any human before – father of late Major Mahama.

Father of the late Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, Captain Dennis Mahama (Rtd) has disclosed that, he never pointed a gun at any human to...

Anas awarded for anti-corruption crusade

Ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, was awarded at the just ended maiden Ghana Shippers Awards for his outstanding work in crusading against corruption. His...

How 17 miners died in Nsuta; The inside story by a survivor

More than 17 illegal miners, popularly known as ‘galamsey’ operators, have been confirmed dead in a mining pit at Nsuta, a gold mining community...

One body retrieved from collapsed mining pit at Prestea-Nsuta

One body has been recovered from the pit which caved in trapping seventeen illegal miners underground at Nsuta near Prestea in the Western...

Revive NHIS – Bawumia tells new board

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has tasked the incoming board of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to use their experience and expertise to...

Parliament to probe how 86 vehicles were abandoned

Parliament has given indications it will investigate how for over 16 years, some 86 cross country vehicles imported by the government, have been left...

Hot audio: 'NDC bigwigs 'bribing' me to defend BOST MD'

Chairman of the Peoples National Convention (PNC) is claiming both the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are ‘trying...

Boy, 7 drowns while playing hide-and-seek

A family is grieving the loss of their 7-year-old boy who drowned while playing hide-and seek known in local parlance as ‘pilolo’. The deceased, Richmond...

Ghanaian chef to cook ‘waakye’ for Queen Elizabeth

Ghanaian chef, Chef Elijah Amoo Addo has accepted a request by Queen Elizabeth to cook for her. Elijah Amoo Addo, a food stylist, was in...