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KNUST SRC President ordered to step aside

The Students' Representative Council (SRC) President of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Michael Adofo Abuah, has been asked to step...

Mother of boy whose step mum beat to death cries uncontrollably as she breaks silence [Video]

"I am unable to pay the bills at the hospital, please help me so that I would be able to bury my son," these...

Fairtrade Africa holds General Assembly in Accra

Fairtrade Africa has organised its General Assembly (GA) last week in Accra, Ghana for Fairtrade certified producer organisations across the continent. The General Assembly...

Happiness 3.0: Key to living life as an expression of happiness

The Art of Living, an international non-religious and non-profit organisation that focuses on building mental health, held a lively and insightful evening with Gurudev...

Anglogold Ashanti holds symposium on 10-year socio-economic development plan

AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine on Wednesday, August 24, held a Development Partnership Symposium for the Implementation of its 10-Year Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP) in...

NLA boss Sammy Awuku eulogises Obour

The good works of Ghana Post Managing Director (MD), Bice Osei Kuffour aka Obour, particularly for reforming, restructuring the postal and parcel courier service,...

Farmer gets 4 years for attacking colleague with machete

A 26-year-old farmer at Onyinafonso, a suburb of  Asamankese in the Eastern Region, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for causing harm to...

GIISDEC’s masterplan to enrich Ghana’s Iron and Steel Industry

The Board Chairman of the Ghana Integrated Iron and Steel Development Corporation (GIISDEC), Farouk Aliu Mahama, has assured that his outfit is poised to...

Oyerepa FM shuts down in compliance with Kumasi Traditional Council’s order

A radio station in Kumasi, Oyerepa FM, has halted broadcast today, Friday. This is in compliance with an order from the Kumasi Traditional Council that...

Mr Eazi pays courtesy call on Accra Mayor

Renowned Nigerian afro-pop musician and shareholder of Betpawa, Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, aka Mr Eazi, has paid a courtesy call on the Chief Executive of...

One dead, others injured in clash between two communities at Chereponi

One person is reported dead with several others injured following renewed clashes between two communities in the Chereponi District of the North East Region. The...

JHS pupils undergo cleansing after colleague invoked curses on them

Chiefs and Elders of Akwasiho in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region have officially poured libation to cleanse pupils over curses invoked...

Date for Bernard Avle’s wife’s funeral announced

Justine Avle, wife of celebrated broadcaster Bernard Avle, will be buried on September 8 at a private ceremony. The pre-burial service will take place at...

Check out profile of Inusah Fuseini’s son

Abdul Inusah is the son of a top Ghanaian politician and lawyer Inusah Fuseini who had served as a Member of Parliament for Tamale...

Dan Botwe reacts to death of Hackman Owusu-Agyemang’s wife

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dan Botwe, has commiserated with Council of Elders Chairman, Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, over the death of...

NPP’s Hackman Owusu-Agyemang hit with sad news

Chairman of the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Council of Elders, Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, has lost his wife. The wife, Mrs Comfort Owusu-Agyemang, is said to...

Merge flood control responsibility with Ghana Hydrological Authority – IET tells govt

The President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Ghana, Egnr. Henry Kwadwo Boateng, has urged the Minister for Works and Housing, Francis...

Attacks on MPs will get worse – Adam Bonaa

Security analyst, Adam Bonaa, has said attacks on Members of Parliament (MPs) will get worse if they do not change their mode of campaigning....

Nullify banishment before I can come and apologise – Odike to Kumasi Traditional Council

The Founder and Leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai ‘Odike’ has explained his inability to appear before the Kumasi Traditional Council...

Kumasi Traditional Council orders Oyerepa FM to halt broadcast over Odike [Listen]

The Kumasi Traditional Council has requested that Oyerepa FM, a radio station situated in Kumasi, stops broadcasting on Friday, August 26, until further notice. When...

Man arrested for bathing wife with acid

A 35-year-old man, identified as Ishmael Atitso Agbeko, is in the grips of the Kasoa police for bathing his lover with acid. The suspect allegedly...

Police take over Ofaakor palace after violent clashes left one injured [Video]

https://youtu.be/J8wGtHG5Y_I There is heavy security deployment at Kasoa Odupong Ofaakor palace following violent clashes that have left one person injured. The victim, identified as Kwame Odeneho,...

Human trafficking shoots up, Gender Ministry worried over trend

Ghana is recording an upsurge in cases of human trafficking, according to data available to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. Records show...

Ghana intensifies measures to eliminate leprosy

The National Leprosy Control Programme (NLCP) says it has intensified contact tracing for people exposed to leprosy to aid the fight against the disease...

Tarkwa SHS launches 60th anniversary

As part of its 60th anniversary celebration, Tarkwa Senior Secondary School (TARSCO) Past Students Association (TARPSA), in conjunction with the Board of Directors of...

The People’s Forum: Light fishing killing us – Gomoa Fetteh fishermen lament

Fishermen at Gomoa Fetteh in the Central Region are lamenting over the illegal activities of trawlers and unorthodox fishing methods. According to them, the use...

Maamobi residents paint Accra red [Photos]

Scores of Maamobi residents in the Ayawaso North Municipality in the Greater Accra Region have hit the streets to protest a planned demolition exercise...

Customs boss reacts to tax evasion allegations

In October 2021, then Deputy National Security Coordinator, Edward Asomani, wrote a letter to the Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). It was...

I’m building ginger processing factory in Oti Region – John Dumelo

Aspiring Member of Parliament and actor, John Dumelo, has disclosed he is working to bring relief to the good people of Ghana. The actor turned...

FDA Ghana’s lab first to attain WHO prequalification in the ECOWAS sub-region

The Drugs Laboratory at the Centre for Laboratory Services and Research (CLSR) of the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has been awarded a...

Falling concrete pillar crushes woman, 47, to death

A falling concrete balcony pillar has crushed a woman to death at Akyem Asuom in the Kwaebibirim District in the Eastern Region. The victim,...

1 killed in renewed land dispute between Jejung and Timbong

One person has been killed in a renewed land dispute between Jejung and Timbong communities in the North East Region. The land dispute between the...

Operation Clean Your Frontage taskforce protests claim of extortion

Personnel deployed to ensure the improvement in sanitation are already crying foul. Some members of the taskforce in parts of the Greater Accra Region are...

Allegations that I aided tax evasion frivolous and vexatious – Col Damoah

In October 2021, then Deputy National Security Coordinator, Edward Asomani wrote a letter to the Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). It was to...

How Col Damoah, others allegedly aided importers to evade tax in 2021 – National Security

Fresh revelations at the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) point to alleged infractions involving the Commissioner of Customs, Col. Kwadwo Damoah...

Bawumia has an office which is totally redundant – KKD

Renowned media personality, Kwasi Kyei Darkwah, popularly known as ‘KKD’, has described the office of the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, as unnecessary. According...

CCTV captures moment man in Fire Service uniform stole from supermarket [Video]

https://youtu.be/s0RnThpY-mc A fireman with the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), who did the unexpected inside a supermarket, thinking his action was hidden, held his head...

Justice Adoboe’s suit: Lawyers for GJA President enter appearance

Lawyers for the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) President, Albert Kwabena Dwumfour, have entered appearance in the suit brought against the GJA, Affail Monney and...

Inusah Fuseini’s son speaks on fraud charges

Abdul Inusah, son of former Tamale Central Member of Parliament (MP), Inusah Fuseini, has broken his silence on fraud and money laundering charges against...

Restructure Council of State or scrap it – Abu Sakara

The convener of the National Interest Movement, Dr Michale Abu Sakara Foster, has called for a review of the composition of the Council of...