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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...

AMA jails five food vendors, closes restaurant

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) in the last six months jailed five food vendors and closed down a restaurant for flouting food safety regulations....

Auditor-General uncovers GH¢15.1bn financial irregularities in public boards, corporations

More than GH¢15.1 billion irregularities have been uncovered in the operations of public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions for last year, the 2022...

Coalition of Aggrieved Menzgold customers calls for NAM1’s arrest

The Coalition of Aggrieved Customers of Menzgold is calling on the government to arrest the Chief Executive Officer of the defunct gold dealership company,...

Closed Season: The woes of women and children in fishing communities

The din of brisk fishing activity greets anyone who ventures onto the landing beach at Jamestown the Greater Accra Region and in coastal regions...

9-year-old boy slips, drowns in well while fetching water

A nine-year-old boy, Dodovi Sampson, has lost his life after falling into a well while trying to fetch water for his household at Akyem...

Latest on accident involving Kwabena Minta Akandoh

The driver and bodyguard of Juaboso MP, Kwabena Minta Akandoh, are said to be in critical condition after a Toyota Land Cruiser they were...

NAM 1 gives update on Menzgold’s transaction validation and payment

Management of defunct gold trading organisation, Menzgold, has provided a promising update regarding the payment process. In a press release, Menzgold said it is strictly...

3 suspected armed robbers arrested at Kankanfranse

The Obuasi police have successfully apprehended three suspected armed robbers in the town of Kankanfranse, located within the Amansie Central district of the Ashanti...

Prampram chief Nene Tetteh Wakah III calls for unity as Homowo is launched

The Paramount Chief of Prampram Traditional Area and President of the Traditional Council, Nene Tetteh Wakah III has appealed to indigenes of Prampram to...

Akosua Manu, a believer in education donates books to Otanor Presby school

Akosua Manu, aspiring parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Adentan Constituency, has donated books worth thousands of cedis to...

Potsin: 15-year-old boy fights for life as two motorbike riders inflict cutlass wounds on him

A 15-year-old schoolboy, Philip Dadzie, is in critical condition after being attacked by two individuals on a motorbike on the road between Gomoa Dominase...

Ghana Police join retired detective to celebrate 90th birthday [photos]

Members of the Police Management Board, led by the Inspector-General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, Friday joined one of its retired detectives,...

Scrap dealer jailed 10 years for stealing car gearbox

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 25-year-old scrap dealer for stealing a Renault gear box and its housing belonging to a driver. Mohammed Mansur...

Yendi court remands man for stabbing his friend with scissors

The Yendi Circuit court, presided over by his honour Anthony Aduku-Aidoo, has remanded into police custody a suspect who allegedly stabbed his friend with...

NDC MP involved in ghastly accident [Photos]

Outspoken Member of Parliament (MP) for Sehwi Juaboso constituency, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has been involved in a tragic accident on the Nyinahin-Kumasi road in...

17-year-old girl found dead at Hweremoase

A 17-year-old girl, Sandra Anokye, has committed suicide at Hweremoase in the Adansi Asokwa district of the Ashanti region. The first-year student of Ghana International...

You can’t call anyone witch in Ghana; it’s a crime – Parliament

It is now an offence to accuse any person of being a witch in the country. This follows the passage of the Criminal Offences...

Anglogold Ashanti distributes 30,000 oil palm seedlings to reclaim destroyed lands

Mining giants AngloGold Ashanti, Obuasi Mine has distributed 30,000 oil palm seedlings to over 2,500 existing oil palm farmers across its host communities. The...

29-year-old bride dies in tragic accident just two weeks after wedding

The untimely demise of Portia Owusuaa Asante, a young Ghanaian bride, has shocked and saddened many on social media. Portia, who was only 29 years...

Dadease residents demand action from IGP after viral video of police brutality

Inhabitants of Dadease in the Sekyere Kumawu District of the Ashanti Region are calling on the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to take drastic measures...

Court fines 24 commercial sex workers for sex soliciting

The La District Court has penalized 24 Nigerian commercial sex workers for soliciting sex in Osu, Accra. They are Favour David, 20, Nancy Victor, 23,...

Stop engaging illegal engineers – Ghanaians told

To help address the recent spate of building collapse in the country, Ghanaians are being urged to stop engaging unlicensed engineers for their engineering...