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Compassion Ghana holds capacity building seminar for child advocates

To foster learning and development among their staff and child advocates in the country, Compassion International Ghana (CIGH), a non-governmental organisation, held the maiden...

Police to launch technology to capture road traffic offenders in real time

The Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service has hinted of introducing an automated system,Traffitech-GH, to enforce road traffic laws. Traffitech-GH...

I could’ve vanished when I got arrested – Fetish priest cries out after demolition fiasco

A fetish priest who stormed Nima to stop a demolition exercise but got arrested has opened up about the incident which occurred on Tuesday, August...

Rt. Rev. Dr Abraham Nana Opare-Kwakye elected new Presby Moderator

Rev. Dr. Abraham Nana Opare-Kwakye has been elected as the next Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG). The new moderator will lead the...

Father of two jailed, fined for child neglect

The Awutu Bereku Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a 46-year-old mason, Nicholas Kofi Owusu, to two weeks imprisonment and a fine of GH₵300 for failing...

Niger Coup: Over 45 million cedis lost as trucks delivering onions to Ghana are blocked at Benin border

Over one hundred trucks loaded with onions are locked up in the border town between Benin and Niger following the border closure. Each truck is...

Vodafone cash subscribers to benefit from new partnership with Remitly

Vodafone Cash has announced a strategic partnership with Remitly Inc., a Seattle-based international money transfer company recognized on the Top 100 Cross-Border Payment Companies...

How to acquire Ghana Passport under emergency circumstances

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has instituted measures to help clear the backlog of Ghanaian passport applications. In a press statement dated...

No one should pay more than GH¢300 for a passport – Foreign Ministry

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has disclosed new guidelines for obtaining Ghanaian passports, aiming to simplify the process and eliminate excessive...

Prof Gyampo elected UTAG-UG President

A Senior Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, was on Thursday, August 17, elected as the President of the...

Court sentences ‘Shepherd’ for rearing cattle, sheep, and goat on premises

The Hohoe Magistrate Court has sentenced Jibril Awal, for rearing 16 cattle, some goats, and sheep on his premises and in an insanitary condition...

Cecilia Dapaah just found out her husband is under arrest

The husband of former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Dapaah, Daniel Osei Kuffour, is being held under arrest as part of ongoing investigations into alleged corruption...

19-year-old lady arrested for dumping newborn baby at Akatsi

A 19-year-old mother has been apprehended by the Akatsi police for allegedly abandoning her newborn baby girl at Zutaga, a suburb of Akatsi in...

Pregnant women lead demonstration at Assin South over bad roads

Some residents in the Assin South Constituency in the Central Region thronged some principal streets to protest over bad roads. Pregnant women led the demonstrators...

Tricycle operators comply with KMA’s restriction order in CBD

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has expressed confidence the restriction on the operations of tricycle riders in the Central Business District (CBD) will be...

Agenda 111: Akufo-Addo’s advisor on health inspects projects in Western North region

The Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has visited and inspected the progress of work on the Agenda 111 projects ongoing in the...

PPP petitions Parliament to investigate BoG losses

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has petitioned Parliament to summon and investigate the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Ernest Addison, and...

Check out polling stations for NPP’s special delegates conference

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has announced 17 polling stations where the Super Delegates Conference for its flagbeareship election will be held on August...

Obiri Boahen sues IGP Dampare, 8 other police officers

A private legal practitioner, Nana Obiri Boahen, has filed a writ at the Sunyani High Court in the Bono Region, praying the court to...

Illegal miners shoot forestry commission staff in the head, back

A staff of the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) of the Forestry Commission (FC), John Baba Konlan, has been shot in the head and back...

Fetish priest arrested in attempt to stop demolition at Nima [Video]

It was a dramatic turn of events after a yet-to-be-identified fetish priest attempted to stop a demolition exercise by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA)...

Upper East Region records highest case of elephantiasis

The Upper East region of Ghana has recorded the highest number of cases of elephantiasis, also known as lymphatic filariasis, in the country. According to...

GES Accountant in court over alleged GHc500K fraud

An accountant said to be with the Ghana Education Service (GES) has been arraigned at the Circuit Court in Accra and slapped with 33...

KsTU TUTAG resists attempts to impose ‘foreign’ Vice-Chancellor

Members of the Technical University Teachers’ Association (TUTAG), Kumasi Technical University (KsTU) chapter, are resisting attempts by the university’s governing board to impose what...

Court releases Ato Forson’s passport

The High Court in Accra has released to the Minority Leader and former Deputy Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, his passport to...

Ex-convict, driver remanded over burglary at Tesano

An Accra Circuit Court has ordered the remand of a 25-year-old unemployed man, Adolph Kosah, who broke into a residence at Tesano, making off with a television, laptop, and...

Fuel prices go up; petrol now selling at ¢13.50, diesel ¢13.90

Some oil market companies have started increasing prices of petroleum products at the pumps. TotalEnergies has increased the price of petrol to ¢13.50 from...

NDC to picket parliament, occupy gov’t agencies over 10% betting tax

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) youth wing has announced series of actions to express their displeasure with the government's 10% betting tax. A statement, signed...

Check out how much GRA will make from gaming tax

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is hoping to rake in some GH¢400 million from the new gaming tax.  The new tax seeks to charge 10...

Ex GN savings & loans employees send emotional message to Akufo-Addo

Concerned ex-employees of defunct GN Savings and Loans have appealed to President Akufo-Addo to issue an executive order for the Governor of the Bank...

Mahama speaks on 10% tax on betting [Video]

Ex-President John Dramani Mahama has touched on the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) imposing a 10 per cent tax on betting (cash-outs) in Ghana....

There was zero corruption in Agyapa deal – Gabby

A New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart, Gabby Otchere Darko, has asserted that the government's Agyapa deal was free of corruption and corruption-related activities. According to him, it is demoralizing and unfounded allegations of some Civil Society organizations(CSOs) that a network of connected individuals was stealing Ghana's gold reserves. He, therefore, finds the silence of Transparency International, Ghana Integrity Initiative, and the CSOs who pursued the Agyapa case before the West Africa regional court in Abuja, Nigeria, interesting. Taking to Twitter,...

NIA dismisses 10 officials over gross misconduct

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has dismissed 10 staff members following investigations into allegations of misconduct, extortion of funds from Ghana Card applicants, and...

Hairdresser jailed 15 years for human trafficking, to pay GH₵10K compensation to each victim

A Nigerian hairdresser who trafficked seven victims from Nigeria to Ghana to engage in prostitution has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.  Promise Obianu...

Galamsey devours Asarekrom; community deity not spared

Asarekrom, a farming community in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region, is literally bleeding as the community has been completely taken over...

Energy Ministry staff arrested for allegedly stealing over GH¢287k from ADB

A Secretary at the Energy Ministry has been brought before the Accra Circuit Court on charges of allegedly embezzling an amount of GH¢287,775.47 from...

Ambulance driver, 2 others arrested with 250 bags of smuggled fertiliser [Photos]

Three people have been arrested for allegedly smuggling 250 bags of government-subsidised fertiliser meant for cocoa farmers. The three suspects are Seth Yeboah, driver; Smaila...

Court grants bail to frozen chicken alleged thieves  

The Tema Circuit Court B has granted bail to Eric Asante, Kojo Essuon and Theophilus Mensah in the sum of GH₵250,000 with three sureties.  They...

NaCCA introduces QR codes to combat unapproved textbooks

In a progressive step towards enhancing the quality of education in the country, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has unveiled a...

Don’t send troops to Niger – Presby Church

There is growing public disapproval of Ghana’s involvement in contributing troops to the West African Standing Force to fight the military junta in Niger. Various...