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Chief Justice wades into ‘Ama Governor’ and Law School saga

Chief Justice, Gertrude Araba Essaba Torkornoo, has justified the decision to deny Ghanaian YouTuber, Elorm Ababio aka Ama Governor’s call to the bar. The Chief Justice has questioned whether it will be...

CETAG embarks on strike

The Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG), barring any last-minute change, will effective today, August 1, 2023, withdraw services. Their decision follows the...

Two arrested for selling fake ECG metres at Tarkwa

Two persons who posed as workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have been arrested by the Tarkwa Central Police and charged with...

Mid-Year Budget Review: 1D1F has created 160,000 direct and indirect jobs

More than 160,000 direct and indirect jobs have been created, especially for the youth, who have been mobilised to establish agro-processing factories in 58...

Tamale High Court acquits Savelugu MP

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Savelugu Constituency in the Northern Region, Alhaji Jacob Iddris Wunbenkpan, has been acquitted on both counts he was...

Treason trial: Colonel Gameli slapped with contempt

The Accra High Court trying nine persons for treason has sentenced Colonel Samuel Kwadzo Gameli to sign a bond to be of good behaviour...

MASLOC trial: Court orders Sedinam Tamakloe, another to respond to 78 charges

The Financial and Economic Division of the Accra High Court has ordered “absconded” former Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre...

Two Police officers involved in accident at Gomoa Potsin

Two police officers have been admitted to the Potsin Polyclinic with severe injuries after being involved in an accident on the Kasoa-Winneba Highway. The...

Kitchen scandal: Okudzeto Ablakwa drags Gabby in latest GH¢187m deal exposè

New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart, Gabby Otchere-Darko, is the latest personality to be indicted in North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa's exposè on corruption....

‘First English slave fort in Africa’ uncovered on Ghana’s coast

The exact location of what is thought to be the first English slave fort in Africa may have been found – the BBC has...

How Apple AirPods led to the conviction of a thief

The Police had an easy task of locating an unwitty thief with the aid of an embedded tracking device in an Apple AirPods he...

Unemployed jailed three years for stealing cooking items

A 25-year-old unemployed young man, who stole cooking items valued GH₵1,450.00 has been sentenced by an Accra Circuit Court. Ebenezer Bortey unlawfully broke into the...

NHIA clears debts, arrears now stand at one month

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has made additional payments of GH₵186 million to credentialed healthcare service providers. The payment, which was made on...

Govt installs 37 automated premix fuel machines to curb shortage

The government says it has built 37 of a target of 50 automated premix fuel vending machines to stop the diversion and hoarding of...

Good news for families of Tema fisherman who died in boat incident

President of the Fishermen Association, Joseph Nii Armah Quaye, has assured he will engage the Fisheries Ministry on how to support the families of...

A/R: Patients seek healthcare elsewhere as physician assistants continue strike

Patients visiting health centres in the Ashanti Region to seek healthcare are being directed to major hospitals following the ongoing strike by members of...

Ghana Gas debunks claims of stolen money from staff at Russia-Africa Summit

The Ghana National Gas Company Limited has debunked claims that $500, €590 were stolen from officials of the company during the Russia-Africa Summit. The company...

Judges who comment on cases in court should be held for contempt – CJ

Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo has said judges who comment on cases in court should be held for contempt. Speaking at GIMPA Law Faculty's 7th Annual...

Mid-Year Budget review: All School Feeding caterers’ arrears settled – Finance Minister

"We have settled all arrears owed to caterers under the School Feeding Programme, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said. Mr Ofori-Atta made this...

About 70% of cases thrown out of court are as a result of bad lawyers- CJ

The Chief Justice of Ghana, Her Ladyship Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, says about 70% of cases that are thrown out of the court or are not...

ICGC’s Greater Works conference opens today in Accra

Greater Works 2023, the annual conference of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), opens today, July 31, in Accra.  The five-day conference is held...

Anomabo Fisheries College to be operational by end of 2023

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has revealed works are far advanced on the Anomabo Fisheries College for enrolment to begin. President Nana Akufo-Addo in 2019 cut...

Mid-Year Budget Review: There will be no supplementary budget – Finance Minister

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has announced government will not require a supplementary budget for the rest of the 2023 fiscal year. The decision...

Mid-Year budget review: Finance Minister reveals roads at various stages of completion

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has announced significant progress in enhancing mobility, accessibility, and safety along major trunk roads through various infrastructure projects. During...

59 dead people get over GH¢393K as pension; check out full list

The 2022 Auditor-General’s report on Ministries, Departments and Agencies has raised concerns over pension payments to the sum of GH¢393,315.06 made to 59 dead...

Fuel prices to go up in first pricing window of August – COPEC

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) is predicting a marginal rise in petroleum prices in the first pricing window of the month of August...

2 Airport authorities owe GMet $10m — Auditor General

Two airport authorities are owing the Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) US$10 million in respect of airport passenger tax, landing and en-route charges for the...

Igbo King pledges support for anti-breast cancer campaign

The Paramount King of the Igbo community in Ghana, Eze Dr Chukwudi Ihenetu, has promised to collaborate and support Breast Care International’s (BCI) nationwide...

Full text: Ken Ofori-Atta’s 2023 Mid-Year Budget Review

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has presented the 2023 Mid-Year Budget Review to Parliament for approval. Below is the full statement delivered on July 31,...

Revealed: Tema fisherman who died in boat incident left behind a baby

It has emerged that one of the fishermen in a fishing boat accident at Tema Newtown last Thursday left behind a baby. A family...

2022 was the most difficult year for me – Finance Minister

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said 2022 was the most difficult year for him as a minister. This, according to him, was as a...

Tema Mayor gives new twist to death of fishermen at sea

The Tema Mayor, Yohane Armah Ashitey, has said there were protocol breaches in engagements, leading to the unfortunate death of two fishermen. Speaking on Adom...

Auditor-General cites ECG for over $145m worth of procurement breaches

The Auditor-General has found significant procurement breaches amounting to over $145 million involving the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). These breaches occurred during the...

Trainee nurses, midwives appeal to govt over unpaid allowances

The Ghana Nurses and Midwives Trainees Association (GNMTA) has petitioned the government to urgently address the critical issue of their allowances which have not...

Couple seriously injured in accident involving 4 cars on Kasoa-Cape Coast highway

An accident which occurred at Tonisco junction near Gomoa Potsin junction on the Kasoa-Cape Coast highway in the Central Region involving four cars has...

Akufo-Addo appoints Kofi Adu-Amoateng as new Bosome Freho DCE

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Kofi Adu-Amoateng as the new District Chief Executive (DCE) for Bosome Freho in the Ashanti region. Mr Adu-Amoateng replaces Mr...

Dan Botwe reports Naa Torshie to Akufo-Addo

The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Dan Botwe, has written a letter to President Nana Akufo-Addo in which he has strongly fingered...

447, 204 candidates sit for ‘Ghana Only WASSCE’

The Ghana Only Version of the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates (WASSCE-SC) 2023 begins today in the country with project...

Prison warden promoted for capturing escaped prisoner

A Lance Corporal with the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) has been promoted to the rank of Corporal for capturing a fugitive who escaped from...

2 Urban Roads workers embezzle GH¢1.9million

The 2022 Auditor General report has revealed that two account officers of the Greater Accra Regional Department of Urban Roads embezzled GH¢1.9 million between...