HomeNewsLocal News

Local News

2022 BECE: Good news for candidates on selection of schools into SHSs

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has rolled out a new and easy strategy to aid parents and their wards who will be writing the...

GES sends strong warning to 2022 BECE candidates

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has cautioned candidates writing the upcoming Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to refrain from cheating in the exams. The exams have been...

All set for 2022 BECE

The 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will commence on October 17 and end on October 21, 2022. The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) announced...

St Peter’s SHS gets smart lab, E-library

A smart laboratory and an electronic-Library initiated to boost education have been commissioned for St. Peter's Senior High School (SHS) at Kwahu-Abetifi in the...

World Food Day: Consume local food – Minister urges Ghanaians

The 42nd World Food Day has been celebrated in Ghana with a call on food scientists, vendors and players to make food safe for...

Moroccan Ambassador to visit Yendi

Moroccan Ambassador to Ghana, Her Excellency Imane Quaadil, is scheduled to pay an official visit to Yendi from 15th-18th October, 2022 as part of...

GRA shuts 16 businesses

Assistant Commissioner of the VAT Administration wing of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Philip Acquah, says 16 businesses have been closed for non-compliance with...

Gifty Anti mourns after being hit with sad news

Ace broadcaster and media personality, Gifty Anti, is heartbroken over the loss of a beloved friend who she also calls a sister, Dr Ophelia Akosua...

Doreen Avio visits pupils of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child

Media personality Doreen Avio has paid a visit to the Luom Presbyterian Basic School as part of the International Day of the Girl Child...

People’s Forum: Angry Tantra Hills residents chase MP for better roads

Residents of Tantra Hills, Black Market in the Amasaman constituency have lamented over the deplorable state of their roads. 'No construction of roads no votes'...

Four suspected kidnappers arrested at Abirem Ekumfi

Four suspected kidnappers have been arrested at Abirem in the Ekumfi District of the Central Region. They were carrying sharp cutlasses, hoes, and other weapons...

Media Coalition Against Galamsey calls for Wontumi’s arrest

The Media Coalition Against Galamsey has called for the immediate arrest of the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), for his...

To ban surface mining or not; Lands Minister sets records straight

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has said it will take extensive research and data finding for government to decide...

Freddie Blay did no wrong defending Aisha Huang’s accomplices but … – Abu Jinapor

Lands Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has asserted that former National Chairman, Freddie Blay, did no wrong representing four of Aisha Huang’s accomplices on trial...

NoToGalamsey: Military High Command receives list of licensed mining firms

A comprehensive list of all licensed small-scale mining companies nationwide has been handed over to the Military High Command. This forms part of new measures...

Nana Agradaa denied bail again

The Circuit Court in Accra has for the second time refused a bail application for self-acclaimed evangelist Patricia Asiedua, popularly known as Nana Agradaa. This...

Govt intentionally delaying my trial – Barker-Vormawor

#FixTheCountry Movement convener Oliver Barker Vormawor who is standing trial for treason felony is accusing government of unnecessarily delaying his trial. This, he says, is...

Remove the Ghana flag from your neck – Judge orders Oliver Barker-Vormawor

A High Court Judge on Thursday morning ordered #FixTheCountry Movement convener, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, to “remove the Ghana flag from his neck.” The Cambridge PhD student...

School Feeding: Pupils forced to go home for food during break time

The Authorities of Pomposo Akaporiso Basic School at Obuasi have expressed concern over the neglect of pupils by officials in charge of the Ghana...

Passengers stranded as rains destroy portion of Sunyani-Techiman highway

Scores of commuters have been stranded for hours at the Kobedi stretch of the Sunyani-Techiman Highway after a thunderstorm destroyed portions of the highway. Several...

Ghana Chapter of World Bank-IMF Parliamentary Network launched

The Ghana Chapter of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Parliamentary Network has been launched. The network is a platform to provide...

Accident disrupts power supply in Oforikrom Municipality [Photos]

 A long truck transporting goods through Kumasi to Burkina Faso has hit high-tension electric poles at Oforikrom in Kumasi, causing a power outage to...

Govt engages 80,000 illegal miners under NAELP programme

Government has engaged about 80,000 people engaged in illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, under the Alternative Employment and Livelihood Programme (NAELP). The beneficiaries have...

Murder: Man jailed ‘by mistake’ freed after 33 years

A 75-year-old man, Emmanuel Tetteh, who was wrongly sentenced to death for murder has been finally released from prison after 33 years. Tetteh, Tengey ,...

Wontumi’s mining site in Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve set ablaze [Photos+Video]

Government is alleged to have ordered for the burning of the ‘galamsey’ site structures in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve. This follows a directive from...

IMF bailout: Budget to presidency should be cut – Mahama

Former President John Dramani Mahama says the budget for the Presidency should be cut as the government seeks assistance from the International Monetary Fund...

Dompim-Pepesa chief’s palace attack: Three suspects arrested

Police have arrested three suspects in connection with the Dompim-Pepesa chieftaincy disturbance.  The dispute resulted in severe injury to one person and damage to property. According...

Family house of Dompim-Pepesa chief burnt; body guard injured

The family house of a claimant to the Dompim-Pepesa stool, Nana Nyonwah Panyin IV, has been left in ruins following a chieftaincy related disturbance in...

Kumasi MMT staff join sit-down strike

Staff of the Metro Mass Transit Limited in Kumasi have joined their colleagues in Accra for a sit-down strike to demand payment of salary...

Why I quit as Agradaa’s lawyer – Effah-Dartey

Captain (Rtd.) Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey has revealed that he used to be the legal representative for Nana Agradaa, the embattled evangelist currently in police custody. The...

3 development chiefs inducted to lead dominating ethnic groups at Nungua

Nungua, a Ga community in Accra and dominated by other ethnic groups have inducted some chiefs and queen mothers to lead the groups. The dominating...

25 trafficked victims rescued, reunited with families at Ada East District

Some twenty-five (25) children have been rescued at Ada in the Ada East District of the Greater Accra Region. The victims, who were trafficked from...

Nhyira FM gears up for another edition of Akan Akansie

The second edition of Nhyira FM’s Akan Akansie is set to be staged on Nhyira FM and Adom TV, with the aim of educating...

12 suspected land guards with weapons arrested at Gomoa

The Central East Regional Police Command has arrested 12 suspected land guards at Millennium City in the Gomoa East District. The suspects, who were armed...

NSS releases postings for 2022/23

The National Service Scheme (NSS) has released postings for the 2022/23 service year. A total of 115,240 graduates from accredited tertiary institutions have been deployed...

Two Nigerians jailed 20 years for illegal mining

A Tarkwa Circuit Court Judge, Hathia Ama Manu, has sentenced two Nigerians to 20 years imprisonment for engaging in illegal mining, commonly known as...

We are ready to try Aisha Huang on a day-to-day basis – Attorney-General

The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice has said that his office is ready to prosecute ‘galamsey’ suspect, En Huang, popularly known as Aisha Huang. Godfred...

2024 Elections: We urge Parliament to pass new CI that backs EC to use Ghana Card – PPOP

Political parties without representation in Parliament have appealed to the members of the House to visit the Constitutional Instrument (CI) that backs the Electoral...

Metro Mass workers on strike, want MD out

The Divisional Senior and Junior Staff Union of the Metro Mass Transport Limited has declared a strike in protest against the Managing Director (MD),...

Former Groupe Nduom workers appeal for release of Provident Fund

Former workers of the defunct Groupe Nduom (GN) Savings and Loans Limited have appealed to the government to facilitate the immediate release of their...