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Togbe Afede XIV backs individual bondholders’ call for exclusion from Domestic Debt Exchange

The Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State, Togbe Afede XIV, has supported the position of individual bondholders who are crying for an exclusion from the...

NaBCo beneficiaries petition Special Prosecutor over arrears

The Aggrieved Nations Builders Corps (NaBCo) Trainees Association wants Special Prosecutor (SP) Kissi Agyebeng’s intervention to enable them to claim their nine-month arrears from...

Nkwanta drivers unite to fix deathtrap road with boulders

After countless futile attempts to get the government to fix the terrible Nkwanta-Kpassa stretch of the Eastern Corridor road, drivers from Kpassa in the...

36-year-old woman convicted for stealing

The Accra Circuit Court has deferred the sentence of a 36-year-old woman who admitted to stealing GH¢50,000.00 belonging to her employer. The Court presided over...

Rat hunters set ablaze market [Photos]

Shop owners at Nyankomase Ahenkuro in the Assin South District of the Central Region are counting their loss after their shops were engulfed by...

Outdoor activities banned in Aowin over chieftaincy disputes

The Western North Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has announced a ban on all outdoor activities in the Aowin traditional area following chieftaincy disturbances. The...

Govt defaults payment of teachers Tier 2 for 9 months, pensioners in a big mess

Four teacher unions have accused the government of defaulting in the payment of their Occupational Pension Scheme (Tier 2) contributions to the Ghana Education...

AMA to roll out digital revenue collection system in March 2023

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has announced plans to introduce a new digitise revenue collection system in March this year to improve on and...

Pope Francis appoints Rev Fr Samuel Nkuah-Boateng as Bishop of Wiawso Diocese

His Holiness Pope Francis on Thursday appointed Reverend Father Samuel Nkuah-Boateng as the new Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wiawso in the Western...

Beautiful snake causes ugly scare at Ngleshie Amanfro

In recent times, intensive awareness created by conservationists has significantly improved the relationship between humans and animals. This includes both wild species and domestic animals,...

Akufo-Addo appoints new Chief of Air Staff

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Air Vice Marshal Frederick Asare Kwasi Bekoe as the new Chief of Air Staff. A statement issued by...

Financial crisis has affected my GH¢106k investment – Agyinasare

It is now dawning on many, the harsh nature of the current crisis. The phenomenon appears to be no respecter of persons as a spiritual...

Four cars involved in ghastly accident on Accra-Kumasi Highway [Photos]

Four persons including a Reverend Minister are currently receiving treatment at the Kibi Government Hospital in the Abuakwa South Municipality of the Eastern Region...

Murder of GPHA staff: 2 accused persons discharged and re-arrested

The two accused persons in the murder case of Mrs Josephine Asante, a former Marketing and Public Affairs Manager of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority...

Cost of Akufo-Addo’s private jet rentals can’t be made public – RTI Commission

The Right to Information (RTI) Commission has ruled that information on President Nana Akufo-Addo’s travels on both private and state-owned presidential jets, and the...

All you need to know as WAEC releases 2022 BECE results

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the provisional results of candidates who sat for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for both...

EOCO hunts for Lebanese national jailed for fraud

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has launched a manhunt for a Lebanese national who was sentenced to jail for five years over...

Ankaful-Saltpond gets first public basic school in 600 years

Ankaful-Saltpond, a fishing community in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region, has received its first-ever public basic school after it was founded some...

1 dead, others injured as ‘trotro’ runs into traders

Some traders at Suame roundabout in the Ashanti Region have been crashed by a commercial vehicle, killing one in the process.  Two others, according to...

Encroachment of Trassacco lands

Empire Builders has observed with shock the defiance of management of Top Kings even when the Supreme Court of Ghana in its judgment ruled...

Court threatens to strike out Agradaa’s case

An Accra Circuit Court has threatened to strike out the criminal charges against founder of Heaven Way Champion International Ministry, Patricia Asiedua Koranteng, aka...

Kwesi Pratt likens Debt Exchange Programme to George Floyd’s ‘can’t breathe’ situation

Seasoned journalist and Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has said the Debt Exchange Programme is not the ultimate solution to...

Concerned Second Hand Dealers Association bares teeth over ban

The Concerned Second Hand Dealers Association of Ghana is breathing on the neck of government over government's decision to ban the importation of used...

Robbery ‘victims’ granted GH¢2 million bail

Two persons who allegedly orchestrated the robbery of GH¢900,000 cash at Maamobi, a suburb of Accra, have been granted bail. George Ayitey Mensah, a 32-year-old...

New Minority leadership will succeed – Franklin Cudjoe

The Founding President of Imani Africa has added his voice to the ongoing debate on the shake-up in the parliamentary leadership of the National...

Farmer jailed for stealing from Police Commander’s bungalow

The Bole Magistrate Court in the Savannah region on Friday sentenced a farmer, Kwabena John, to four years of im­prisonment with hard labour for...

Court orders arrest of 2 in $100k gold scam case

An Accra Circuit Court has ordered the arrest of two persons allegedly involved in a $100,000 gold scam case. The Court presided over by Samuel Bright Acquah...

Nigerian jailed for attempting to obtain a Ghanaian Passport twice

A Madina District Court has sentenced Peter Michael Ifaenyi, also known as Peter Yaw Asare, a Nigerian Computer Engineer, to 450 days imprisonment for...

Three NDA officers, A&QS Consortium boss before court 

Three officers of the Northern Development Authority (NDA) and Mr Andrew Kuundaari, the Chief Executive Officer of A&QS Consortium, have been arraigned before court...

Man, 80, remanded over alleged murder of 43-year-old

The Nkwanta South Magistrate Court has remanded into police custody an 80-year-old man, Tibrum Wakam, for the murder of a 43-year-old over a parcel...

Galamsey equipment in Oda Forest Reserve set on fire

The Forestry Commission (FC) has burnt some mining equipment seized from illegal miners operating within forest reserves in the Ashanti Region. The equipment include 12...

Police investigate drowning of 8 children on Volta Lake

The Sene East District Police command is investigating circumstances that led to the drowning of eight school children on Volta Lake on Monday. The eight,...

2022 BECE results out; results of 73 candidates cancelled

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the provisional results of candidates who sat for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for both...

Why work on Obetsebi Lamptey Interchange will not meet March 2023 completion timeline

Work on the Obetsebi Lamptey Interchange will not meet the March 2023 completion timeline in the wake of constraints that have compelled construction engineers...

Man, 30, mysteriously slumps and dies after alighting from motorbike

A 30-year-old man has mysteriously died on the street of Sehwi Kwasikrom in the Bodi District after he alighted from a motorbike. According to...

Provide life jackets to pupils in island communities – Eduwatch to govt

An education advocacy group is calling on government to provide life jackets to pupils and staff in island communities who commute by water. The call...

GRNMA allays fears of nurses on security of their pensions

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association has assured its members of the safety of their contributions to the health sector occupational pension scheme. President...

Finance Ministry to respond to Covid-19 expenditure in Auditor-General’s report

The Ministry Finance has assured that it will address all issues raised in the audit of the government’s Covid-19 expenditure Report released by the...

Dr Afriyie Akoto hands over Agric Ministry to Hawa Koomson [Photos]

Former Agric Minister, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has officially handed over the sector to caretaker minister, Mavis Hawa Koomson. This follows a directive from the...

Zipline commissions drone delivery center in Cross River State of Nigeria to improve UHC

Zipline has commissioned yet another facility in Nigeria to support the Cross River State government in delivering on its mandate to improve access to...