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UEW staff write to Akufo-Addo to remove Governing Council Chair

Some staff of the University of Education, Winneba, are appealing to President Akufo-Addo to as a matter of urgency, withdraw the appointment of Nana...

Savannah Traditional Council working to resolve Gonja-Mamprusi conflict

The Savannah Traditional Council is collaborating with interest groups to facilitate dialogue between the feuding factions, following clashes in the Lukula and Mempeasem communities...

Parents urged to invest in education rather than clothing

The Catholic Priest at Jasikan Diocese, Reverend Father Ernest Backus Bempong, has advised parents to be more responsible and desist from wasting money on...

Drama at Amanfrom as traditional leaders force family to exhume body back to mortuary

Drama was witnessed at Ngleshie Amanfrom in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region when a family was forced to exhume a...

Ajagurajah wades into Agyinasare and Nogokpo saga

Controversial spiritualist Ajagurajah, also known as Kwabena Asiamah, has commented on Archbishop Charles Agyinasare's remarks about Nogokpo being demonic headquarters during one of his...

Five bills expected to be laid as Parliament reconvenes tomorrow

As Parliament reconvenes on Tuesday, June 6, series of financial bills, including the Revenue Administration Regulations, 2023, will be presented for consideration. In addition to...

Bail granted to 21 suspects arrested in connection with Lukula clashes

The Tamale District Court has decided to grant bail to 21 individuals who were apprehended in connection with the recent communal clash in Lukula,...

R.K Atikpo Foundation donates medical equipment and supplies to health facilities in Oti Region

R.K Atikpo Foundation (RKAF) under the auspices of the Member of Council of State, Richard Atikpo, in partnership with German Agency for International Cooperation...

Galamsey: Operation Halt II arrests 26 illegal miners at Patase

The Operation Halt II team has on Monday arrested 26 suspects, found operating at an illegal mining site, popularly known as galamsey, and also...

School Feeding Programme: Caterers’ arrears to be paid next week – Gender Minister

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Lariba Zuweira Abudu, has assured that the caterers working under the School Feeding Programme will receive...

Nogokpo saga: Perez Chapel Bishop declares week-long fast over controversy

The Presiding Bishop of Perez Chapel International, Benjamin Ohene Aboagye, on Sunday, June 4, declared a one-week fast with prayers for all members across...

NPA impounds 181,000 litres of crude oil, diesel in Western Region

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has confiscated 73,000 litres of crude oil and 108,000 litres of diesel from smugglers on the high seas in...

Police arrest 2 friends of suspect in SHS girl murder

Authorities from the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service have taken into custody two individuals who are friends of Osei Michael, the...

Best teacher in Tarkwa-Nsuaem constituency goes home with $14,500 vehicle

As part of the agenda to encourage teachers, the Member of Parliament for Tarkwa-Nsuaem constituency and a Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources,...

Stop giving cash to child beggars – Minister

The growing numbers of child beggars on the streets of Accra and other major cities in the country could be minimised if the public...

Daboya unrest: 49 suspects granted bail, others to appear in court on Monday

The Savannah Regional Police Command has granted bail to some 49 suspects who were arrested at Daboya in the Savannah Region following unrest in...

Newborn babies, pregnant women share same bed at Akyem CHPS compound

Pregnant women who are due for delivery and newborn babies share beds with men at the maternity ward at the Community-based Health Planning and...

50 church members injured in accident involving four cars

About 50 church members of Resurrection Power New Generation Church have sustained various degrees of injuries in an accident involving four cars. The incident happened...

COCOBOD, police intercept cocoa concealed in 35 oil drums, one arrested

Quantities of bags of cocoa beans concealed in 35 oil drums and being smuggled have been intercepted through a joint operation of Ghana Cocobod...

Suspected thief lynched at Sehwi Hwenampori after failed mission

A man, believed to be in his late thirties, has met his death at Hwenampori, a suburb of Bibiani in the Bibiani Anhweaso Bekwai...

Elohim theological college and seminary awards and confers honorary doctorate on George Krobea Asante

George Krobea Asante, Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party, has been honored with an honorary doctorate degree by Elohim Theological College and...

Two police officers injured as ghetto boys escape with handcuffs during arrest at Gomoa Nyanayano

Two police officers were injured when two young individuals from the local neighborhood managed to escape with police handcuffs at Gomoa Nyanayano. The authorities had...

Woman, 55, killed by hit-and-run driver on Asukawkaw-Dambai highway

The Krachi East Motor Traffic and Transport Division (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service is investigating the tragic death of a 55-year-old woman, who...

KNUST tops world ranking for helping to achieve UN SDG 4 devoted to Quality Education

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is number one in the world for helping to achieve the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal...

Tears as former DCE for Nkwanta South is laid to rest [Photos]

The late Joseph Ninkab, former District Chief Executive of Nkwanta South, was laid to rest at his residence in the Nkwanta South area of...

Kumchacha defends Archbishop Agyinasare amidst criticism over Nogokpo remarks

Renowned spiritual leader, Nicholas Osei, popularly known as Kumchacha, has expressed his dissatisfaction over the negative response from netizens following Archbishop Charles Agyin-Asare's apology...

Man drowns with car, body retrieved days later

The body of a yet-to-be-identified man has been retrieved from the Densu River at Nsawam in the Eastern Region after crashing into the river...

Sam George fires back at Nigerian gay pastor over LGBTQ+ comments

Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam Nartey George, has strongly responded to a Nigerian gay pastor who criticised his stance on LGBTQ+ issues...

Gomoa East DISEC, police take action against land guards invading Gomoa Okyereko

The District Chief Executive (DCE) of Gomoa East, Solomon Darko Quarm, along with a team of police officers, has apprehended a group of land...

Fuel tanker overturns and blocks Morso-Kurofa road at Asante Akyem South

A fuel tanker en route from Tema to Morso has reportedly toppled over, obstructing the Morso-Kurofa road within the Asante Akyem South Municipality. Fortunately,...

Construction of Assin Bereku astroturf progressing steadily ahead of bye-election

The Astroturf project at Assin Bereku, the Assin North District Capital, is progressing steadily ahead of the bye-election scheduled for June 27, 2023. The project,...

Rastafarian student nearly rejected by Achimota School may represent them at NSMQ

Social media has been buzzing since a photo of Achimota School’s potential team for this year’s National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) surfaced on...

NYA sensitises pupils on menstrual health at Sehwi Humjibre

The National Youth Authority (NYA) in the Western North Region has held a public sensitisation on menstrual hygiene and teenage pregnancy for pupils at...

Stop illegal mining along Birim River – Sanitation Minister appeals

The Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has called on residents living around the intake point of the Oda Water Treatment...

Accident at Nyinahin leaves 15 people in critical condition

About fifteen people are in critical condition after two Sprinter mini buses collided head-on at Akorabokrom close to Nyinahin in the Ashanti Region. Eyewitnesses say...

Accra West ECG recovers GH¢675k in revenue mobilisation exercise

The Accra West Region of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Limited recovered GH¢675,313 from some customers during its revenue mobilisation exercise from May...

Woman unleashes curses on partner after DNA test reveals he’s not the father

In a shocking incident that unfolded on Mama Efe's show on Nhyira FM, a young woman in her early twenties unleashed a torrent of...

Akufo-Addo receives highest international diplomatic award

In a ceremony held at the Jubilee House in Accra on May 30, 2023, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was honoured with the highest...

World Environment Day: Zoomlion cleans, creates awareness on clean environment

Zoomlion Ghana Limited has organised a massive clean up exercise at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra to create public awareness on environmental sanitation...

Mahama calls for calm over renewed Gonja-Mamprusi conflict

Former president John Dramani Mahama has expressed readiness to assist in any way possible to resolve the ongoing communal rivalry in some parts of...