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OSP chases ‘ghost’ names, others on govt payroll system

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) says it has commenced an investigation into ghost names on the government’s payroll system. The investigations seeks...

Fire outbreaks in Eastern Region decline in 2023

Annual fire outbreak statistics of the Eastern Regional Command of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) in 2022/2023 show a 10.77 per cent decrease...

John Jinapor questions Minerals Commission’s exclusion from GRA-SML deal

Ranking member of Parliament's Mines and Energy Committee, John Abdulai Jinapor has questioned how the Minerals Commission will be excluded from the contract awarded...

Disregard 20% fare increment – Transport Ministry

The Ministry of Transport has asked the public to disregard reports of a purported transport fare increment nationwide. The Ghana Private Road and Transport Union...

Gory accident on Adenta-Dodowa road [Video]

https://youtu.be/jVB1pgVUWO4 Many are feared in a gory accident on the Adenta-Dodowa road in the Greater Accra region. Several others have also sustained various degrees...

OSP half-year report: 152 cases under investigations

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is currently investigating 152 corruption and corruption- related cases.  The details of the cases according to the OSP...

Broadcasting Bill under review – Oppong Nkrumah

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says the Broadcasting Bill is not before Parliament yet because portions of it are currently under review. According to...

Cocoa Bills Exchange Programme: Customers demand full payment of funds

Some holders of cocoa bills who did not participate in the Government of Ghana Cocoa Bill Exchange programme are asking Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD)...

OSP probes SML-GRA deal

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) says it has commenced probe into the controversial contract between Strategic Mobilization Ghana Limited (SML) and the...

Why I have no opinion on anti-LGBTQ Bill – Nana Kwame Bediako [Video]

https://youtu.be/3pB8Ku_i-5g Presidential hopeful, Nana Kwame Bediako, has refused to comment on the anti-LGBTQI+ Bill which is before Parliament for consideration. The founder of the New...

Over 137K SHS students yet to report to school in Western North

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) in the Western North Region has revealed that a significant number of Senior High School(SHS)...

Students evacuated from Sudan demand integration into Ghanaian universities

Some Ghanaian students who were evacuated from Sudan have petitioned Parliament to support their request for integration into tertiary institutions in the country. The...

Headmaster begs govt, GES to make Worawora SHS a STEM center

The headmaster of Worawora Senior High School (SHS) in the Biakoye district of the Oti Region, Michael Damesi, has appealed to the government and...

Senior Staff Association of Universities declares indefinite strike

The Senior Staff Association-Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG) and the Federation of Universities Senior Staff Association of Ghana (FUSSAG) have declared a nationwide strike. The...

Gomoa Dominase residents demand dismissal of Potsin Polyclinic staff over alleged medical negligence

Some residents of Dominase in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region took to the streets to demonstrate over what they say is...

Let’s put our house in order – Awingobit appeals to PNC ‘feuding’ factions

Flagbearer aspirant of the People's National Convention (PNC) Sampson Asaaki Awingobit, has called on the national executives to put its house in order and...

Driver convicted for offering car owner’s vehicle for sale

A Tarkwa Circuit Court has sentenced a 33-year-old driver accused of offering his car owner’s vehicle for GH¢80,000 without his approval to seven years imprisonment in...

Disregard GES guidelines on PTA – National Council to members

The National Council of Parent-Teacher Associations (NCPTA) has called on its members to disregard any directive from the Ghana Education Service (GES) on operational...

Create new Cantonments, don’t overburden old site – Kwame Gyan

Private legal practitioner and land expert Kwame Gyan says government should end its obsession with Cantonments in Accra and instead spearhead the development of...

Some roads lack good mapping, affecting safe driving – NRSA

The Director of Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation at the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) says some roads lack basic safety elements such as road...

Council rejects Parents Associations; wants PTA maintained

The National Council of Parent-Teacher Associations (NCPTAs) has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to immediately reverse the name Parent Association (PA) imposed...

Chiefs fight over who qualifies to be Otumfuo’s chief palmwine tapper

Goaso in the Ahafo Region is 'boiling' with a war of words over royalty as the current Omanhene is insisting the immediate past Omanhene ...

Government land redevelopment policy most abused – Ablakwa

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has called for an end to the Accra redevelopment policy. According to him, the policy has...

Lawyer gives update on Charles Bissue’s application to stop OSP from arresting him

Private legal practitioner, Nana Agyei Barfour Awuah has denied media reports that the former Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles...

Minerals Commission distances itself from questionable SML contract

The Minerals Commission says it “did not play any role in the award of the contract” to Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML), an offshoot of a timber...

Sabronum: Angry residents set ablaze truck allegedly transporting excavator to forest

Some angry residents of Sabronum in the Ahafo Ano South East District of the Ashanti Region on Monday, January 15, 2024, blocked and set...

Akufo-Addo failed to promote the free SHS policy – Atta Akyea

Member of Parliament of Akim Abuakwa South constituency, Samuel Atta Akyea has criticised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for failing to adequately propagate the...

How important the Sabbath is for SDA Church [Read]

The Communication Director for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Solace Safo, has disclosed the significance of the Sabbath. According to her, observing the Sabbath is crucial...

Judicial Service reacts to claims of selling residence of late Justice Samuel Marful-Sau

The Judicial Service of Ghana has rejected claims that it engaged in the sale of government property previously occupied by the late Supreme Court...

I was being a citizen not a spectator – Interdicted TOR worker

One of the interdicted executives of the General Transport Petroleum Chemical Workers Union (GTPCWU) Anthony Joojo Koomson, says he was not wrong to disclose certain information about...

Western North: Over 137,000 SHS 1 students yet to report due to financial challenges

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) in the Western North Region states that about 137,000 fresh Senior High School (SHS) students...

Commercial transport fares to go up by 30% on this date

Commercial Transport Operators in Ghana have declared a 30 per cent increase in transportation fares nationwide, starting from Monday, January 22. The operators justified this...

Nsutam Chief to authorize dog vaccinations after 7 child deaths from rabies in 2023

"Henceforth, I will ensure the rigorous enforcement of dog vaccinations, and non-compliance with the directive will face consequences. To guarantee the effectiveness of this...

Eduwatch condemns ‘inhuman treatment’ of UG student for allegedly being ‘gay’

An advocacy organisation, Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) has condemned the 'inhuman treatment' meted out to a University of Ghana student for allegedly being gay. In a...

Govt must partner private developers to end accommodation crisis in tertiary schools – Nortsu-Kotoe

The Ranking Member on the Education Committee of Parliament, Peter Nortsu-Kotoe is calling for private and public sector partnerships to address the perennial accommodation...

Teacher arrested for allegedly impersonating Akan MP

The Jasikan Municipal Police Command in the Oti Region has arrested Bless Agbenyenu, a teacher, for allegedly impersonating Yao Gomado, the Member of Parliament...

Self-styled fetish priest arrested for duping clients

A self-styled fetish priest, alleged to have duped many people at Osem in the Asante Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region, has been arrested...

We rejected bribes this Christmas ‘by God’s grace’ – Police

Some police personnel on patrol duties during the festive period have disclosed that they rejected bribes from civilians. The revelation was made on Monday, January...

Nana Appiah Mensah, companies failed to honour dividends — Witness

The second prosecution witness in the trial of Nana Appiah Mensah, aka NAM1, has told the Accra High Court that NAM1’s two companies failed...

Latest on JB Danquah’s murder trial

The High Court in Accra has adjourned the case in which Daniel Asiedu is standing trial for the death of the late Abuakwa North...