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Taxi driver found dead with head and vehicle missing [Video]

A 28-year-old taxi driver, Bernard Botwey, has been found dead with his head and vehicle missing at Ajumako Mando in the Central Region. Residents...

NSS boss sets records straight on allowance increment

Despite the upsurge in prices of goods and services, transportation fares and high standard of living, national service personnel will still receive GH₵559.04 as...

NYA commemorates 2022 Africa Youth Day

The National Youth Authority (NYA) has reiterated the role of the youth towards nation-building as it commemorates the 2022 Africa Youth Day. The...

Man involved in Police recruitment scam granted bail

The Accra Circuit Court has granted GH¢150,000 bail with three sureties to Samuel Yeboah, 38-year-old unemployed, for alleged abetment of crime. The court said one of the sureties...

Convict gets additional 5-year jail term after appeal

A convict, who had his five years’ term of imprisonment increased by the Court of Appeal to a further five years after he had...

NIA impostor who issued fake Ghana cards jailed

A 26-year-old man, Oheneba Emmanuel Kwaku, has been sentenced into prison custody for 12 months for impersonating staff of the National Identification Authority (NIA)...

Pan African Heritage World Museum signs MOU with South Africa’s Freedom Park Museum

The Pan African Heritage World Museum of Ghana (PAHM) and the Freedom Park Museum of South Africa have signed an MOU to collaborate, among...

Agric Minister tours five regions

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, on Monday, October 31, resumed his regional working tour to the Western, Western North,...

450 Ghanaians repatriated from UAE

The government says it has repatriated over 450 Ghanaians stranded in the United Arab Emirates in August this year. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and...

Dead body discovered on Kasoa-Cape Coast highway

Residents of Ekumfi Esuahyia woke up to the sight of a dead body along the Kasoa-Cape Coast Highway. No concrete details of the victim has...

Man allegedly kills second wife over land

A man in his fifties, Kwaku Seidu alias Kukrudu, has been arrested for allegedly killing his wife over land dispute at Tepa-Danyame in the...

Businessman tried to mediate on Ken Ofori-Atta’s behalf – Majority Leader reveals

Amid the calls for his resignation, Finance Minister’s predicament has courted him sympathisers in certain quarters of the business community. Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has...

Rethinking primary education in Ghana, time to say ‘goodbye’ to traditional teaching method

Ghana introduced a bold new curriculum of the future in 2019 labelled the ‘Standards-Based Curriculum’ (SBC) for kindergarten to primary six. While this new...

VALCO plant shut down over workers’ protest

Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO), the public aluminium manufacturing company plants have been shut down over agitation by the workers. The aggrieved workers say...

Akufo-Addo is in office, but not in power – KKD

Renowned media personality Kwasi Kyei Darkwah, popularly known as ‘KKD’, says President Nana Akufo-Addo is not in charge of the country. According to the ace...

Akufo-Addo to blame for current economic woes – John Jinapor

A member of the Finance Committee in Parliament has laid the country’s current economic crisis solely on the doorsteps of President Nana Akufo-Addo.  John Jinapor...

Education Ministry reacts to food shortage in Colleges of Education

The Ministry of Education says it is working to resolve its outstanding financial obligations to Colleges of Education.  According to the Ministry, this is to...

Mpraeso MP endorses Adom Praiz

Member of Parliament (MP) for Mpraeso constituency, Davis Opoku Ansah, has endorsed Adom FM’s annual gospel music festival dubbed Adom Praiz. He described as lauded...

Trader dies, others injured in accident at Kintampo

A trader has died and about five other persons injured in an accident on the Kintampo road Tuesday morning. The heavy truck loaded with foodstuffs...

Judges lack understanding of Parliament – Bagbin

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has said lack of information about the function of the legislature by judges has resulted in many “erroneous decisions”...

Funeral date for late Krachi East MCE announced

The mortal remains of the late Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Krachi East in the Oti region, Francis Kofi Okesu, are to be laid...

Labour Unions still on strike

The National Leaders of striking Labour Unions on the campuses of public universities in Ghana have announced the continuation of their strike action. Their industrial...

4 dead, 19 injured in accident on Mankessim-Apam road

A vehicular accident around Essuehyia on the Mankessim - Apam stretch of the Cape Coast - Accra highway on Monday afternoon has claimed four...

PRINCOF appeals to Education Minister to allow teacher trainees to feed themselves starting November 7

The National Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education – Ghana (PRINCOF) is requesting for teacher trainees to start to fund their own feeding...

Foreign Affairs Ministry clears air on UAE visa ban

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has dispelled rumours that Ghana has been slapped with a visa ban by the United Arab...

New twist to story of man who died over GH₵2 fare increment

New details emerging suggest no death has been recorded at the Lapaz bus terminal over fare increment. One of the executives at the terminal,...

Sad news hits NDC’s Ofosu-Ampofo

The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has lost his mother, Mary Gyawubea Badu. Auntie May as she was popularly...

Woman killed, 3 others injured in gory accident at Offinso

A mother of seven children has been killed in a gory accident on the Offinso – Aboffour highway. Three others sustained severe injuries in...

Govt’s assurance of no ‘haircuts’ covers just principal – Oppong Nkrumah

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has explained that President Akufo-Addo's assurance of no ‘haircuts’ with investments in bonds will cover just the principals. The Minister...

Why Akufo-Addo did not speak on Ofori-Atta’s sack in address

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has indicated President Akufo-Addo's address on Sunday was to focus on measures to turn the economy around amid the...

Akufo-Addo’s speech touched on everything except… – Sulemana Braimah

The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, says President Akufo-Addo’s address on Sunday evening, did not address the...

Excerpts from 1D1F Documentary: We have no raw materials for Komenda Sugar Factory – Minister

Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Michael Okyere Baafi has admitted to the lack of raw materials to feed the Komenda Sugar Factory despite...

Ban ritualists from TV to reduce ritual killings – Fetteh Kakraba chief to Akufo-Addo

The Chief of Fetteh Kakraba in the Central Region, Nana Essel Amoaquandoh III, says ritualists plying their trade on television are a major cause...

Akufo-Addo should have apologised to Ghanaians in his address – Okudzeto Ablakwa

North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP), Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has berated President Nana Akufo-Addo's address to the nation on the economy. The lawmaker says...

9-year-old girl whose hand was boiled by stepmother undergoes surgery

After close to six months in the hospital, the nine-year-old girl whose hand was literally boiled by her stepmother at Goaso in the Ahafo...

VALCO workers protest continuous stay of retirees

Workers of Tema-based Volta Aluminum Company (VALCO) are protesting the continuous stay in office of some top management personnel who they described as retirees. According...

Teacher Unions divided over appointment of new GES Director

The teacher unions in the country are divided over the suitability of Dr Eric Nkansah as acting Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES)....

Dr Siaw Agyepong adjudged CEO of the Decade

The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has been awarded the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the...

I think Akufo-Addo owes Ofori-Atta – KKD

Media personality, Kwasi Kyei Darkwah (KKD), has alleged that the President’s inability to sack the Finance Minister could be due to an undisclosed indebtedness...

Man commits suicide at Konongo

Police at Konongo have retrieved the body of a man believed to be in his forties who allegedly committed suicide. The deceased, whose identity is...