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MP accuses Buffer Stock of dishonesty in dealings with food suppliers

The Ranking Member of Parliament’s Education Committee, Peter Notsu-Kotoe, has accused the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) of dishonesty in its dealings with...

Unemployed jailed for stealing money box

An unemployed man who stole a money box with an amount of GH₵135.00 has been sentenced by an Accra Circuit Court.  Joshua Alarbi, is also...

IGP accompanies three children who run away after seeing personnel to school

The saying "The police is your friend" is often used by law enforcement officers to promote a positive relationship with the community. However, this sentiment...

Carpenter jailed four years for biting off driver’s right ear 

An Adentan Circuit Court has sentenced a 42-year-old carpenter to four years imprisonment for biting off the right ear of a commercial driver during...

MMDAs in Ashanti Region flouting directive to desilt and dredge waterways

Some local assemblies in the Ashanti Region defied a directive by the Regional Coordinating Council to dredge and desilt waterways ahead of the rainy...

Quayson’s application for stay: President Akufo-Addo’s audio played in court

A portion of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's audio recordings capturing his remarks about James Gyakye Quayson during a campaign rally ahead of the...

Akatsi murder: Three suspects arrested over death of motor rider

The Ghana Police Service has arrested three suspects in connection with the recent incident of robbery and shooting that took the life of one...

Gyakye Quayson’s stay of proceedings application adjourned to July 11

The High Court in Accra has adjourned the case involving the Member of Parliament for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson to July 11 to...

Mfantseman: Over 100 goats, sheep arrested

Police in collaboration with the Mfantseman Municipal Assembly have arrested over 100 goats and sheep in some communities in the Municipality of the Central...

Some staff of MMDAs in Ashanti region interdicted over missing general counterfoil receipt books

Some staff of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the Ashanti Region have been interdicted over missing general counterfoil receipt books. Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon...

St Joseph Catholic hospital gets oxygen facility

As part of efforts to improve quality healthcare delivery, St.Joseph Catholic Hospital in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti Region has been provided...

Being in power is transient – Sammy Gyamfi jabs AG

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has cautioned the Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice, Godfred Dame,...

Exodus of health professionals hits Ashanti region

“It’s basically just like a rapture. You meet certain nurses and by the next day, you can’t find them.” These are the worried words of...

Martin Amidu exposes assassination attempts on his life

Former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has revealed he has lived under threats of assassination, armed robbery, and the burning of his house, since 16...

Aggressive media campaign has led to less fire outbreaks – GNFS

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) Command has attributed the consistent drop in fire outbreaks recorded in the country from January 2023 to the...

Respect PAC or face our wrath – Avedzi cautions Adutwum

Chairperson for the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), James Klutse Avedzi, has issued a warning to the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Adutwum, over his...

Suame Interchange: Authorities begin removing structures along streets

Authorities have begun removing structures situated along streets as part of the process to begin the construction of the Suame Interchange Project in the...

Martin Amidu chides Attorney General over gagging citizens

Former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, says the description of some statements as ‘prejudicial commentary’ by the Attorney-General, Godfred Dame, is part of attempts by...

NDC MPs boycott parliament to support Ato Forson, Quayson in court

The Minority in Parliament has announced plans to boycott parliamentary sittings on Thursday, July 6 to accompany two colleagues, Ajumako Enyan Essiam Member of...

Stop double charging for services and medicines – Dr Okoe Boye

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has cautioned health facilities against double charging for services and medicines provided to...

Patient dies at Aflao hospital over ‘cash and carry’ demands

The Central Aflao Hospital in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region and two nurses of the facility are under investigation for alleged...

Ghana must invest in quality school infrastructure to support playful learning

The average classroom in a public school in Ghana is everything but spacious and children can barely stretch their arms either way without hitting...

We feel safer at Buffer Stock office than our homes – Food Suppliers Association

Despite National Association of Suppliers’ picketing and sleeping at the outskirt of buffer stock office over government's inability to pay two years arrears, the...

Two men drown in well while working

Two men died in the wee hours of Saturday shortly after they had been rescued from a well they got trapped in at a...

Bullion van attack: Funeral date for murdered police officer announced

The final funeral rites and burial of Callistus Amoah, the police officer killed in a bullion van attack at Ablekuma in Accra, will take...

93% sexually active university students don’t use contraceptives — Study

A study conducted in three selected public universities in the country has revealed that 93 per cent of sexually active adolescents in public universities...

Sam George hits back at Amnesty International over Anti LGBTQI+ bill

The lead sponsor of the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021, Sam George, has cautioned human rights organisation,...

I don’t want to lose my house – Buffer Stock food supplier cries

A food supplier to the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) is set to lose her house if the government fails to pay her...

2023 Ghana Garden and Flower Show officially launched

Strategic Communication Africa Ltd. (Stratcomm Africa), the visionary driving force behind the Ghana Garden and Flower Movement (GGFM), has officially launched the 2023 Ghana...

Food supplier rushed to hospital over Buffer Stock picketing

A member of the National Food Suppliers Association has been rushed to the 37 Military Hospital after two nights of sleeping at the National...

Truck driver rams into post office after brake failure

A DAF vehicle with registration number GT 327-23, loaded with goods suspected to be either fertiliser or rice, has rammed into a container used...

Bulldogs attack, kill 8-year-old boy in Kumasi

Two bulldogs on Sunday evening attacked and killed an eight-year-old boy in an attempt to feed them at his family’s residence at Abrepo-Broni, a suburb of...

Man found dead in bush with head missing in Oti region

The body of an unidentified beheaded man has been found in a bush at Ntewusae, a farming community in the Krachi West Municipality of...

It’s a case of who the cap fits; I never said Ursula is an LGBTQ practitioner – MP

The Tamale Central Member of Parliament (MP), Murtala Mohammed, has denied describing the Communications Minister, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, as a practitioner of LGBTQ. Speaking...

Memorial Park renovation a tourism ploy, not out of respect for Nkrumah – CPP

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has expressed its dissatisfaction with the renovation of the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, stating that it was primarily motivated...

Anti-gay bill proponents caution schools allegedly condoning LGBTQ+ acts

Proponents of the promotion of Proper Sexual Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, also known as the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill, have issued a stern...

Amnesty International opposes anti-LGBTQI+ Bill

Human rights organization, Amnesty International-Ghana, strongly opposes the ongoing efforts by Members of Parliament to pass the anti-LGBTQ+ Bill. This comes after a unanimous consent...

Let’s leverage on AfDB funding to secure future partners – MASLOC CEO

Chief Executive Officer of MASLOC, Hajia Abibata Shanni Mahama Zakariah, has urged employees, stakeholders, and other aligned bodies to put in their best to...

Security guard jailed 15 years for stabbing woman with fork

A security guard, Alhassan Abdul Rahuf, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for unlawfully entering a woman's home...

Over 540,000 men had sex with other men in Ghana in 2017

Chairman of constitutional, legal, and parliamentary affairs, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, has disclosed that a study conducted in 2017 found that over 540,000 men had engaged...