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Ghana Card won’t be used for Election 2024 – Deputy EC Chairman

The Electoral Commission (EC) has assured Ghanaians that it has no intention to use the Ghana Card as a source of identification for the...

List of alleged corruption cases Special Prosecutor is probing

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has furnished the public with cases which have engaged its attention so far. This forms part of the...

NIA resumes services at Elwak Sports Stadium

The National Identification Authority (NIA) says it has resumed its services at the Elwak Sports Stadium, Accra effective Monday, August 15, 2022. The resumption...

Illegal miners arrested; mining equipment destroyed on River Offin [Photos]

About nine illegal miners have been arrested and their equipment decommissioned on River Offin in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region. They...

Special Prosecutor publishes half-year report

The Office of the Special Prosecutor says it has so far not been able to secure any conviction or acquittal in respect of cases...

4 arrested for refurbishing, selling abandoned LPG cylinders

The Kaneshie District Police has arrested four persons for refurbishing old and abandoned Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders for sale at Swanlake Masalachi in...

Mahama mourns with A.B. Crentsil’s family at one week observation [Photos]

The one-week observation of veteran highlife legend, Alfred Benjamin Crentsil, known in showbiz circles as A.B. Crentsil, has been held. The ceremony took place on...

Atewa Forest is a ‘no go area’ for mining; GIADEC and strategic partner must walk away immediately – A Rocha Ghana

A Rocha Ghana, an environmental NGO, has urgently reminded all investors and mining companies – especially the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) ‘preferred...

Labianca case: GRA dissociates itself from Col. Damoah’s comments against Special Prosecutor

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has distanced itself from some comments made by the Commissioner of Customs concerning the findings of a case involving...

ECG begins repair works on transformers in Kroboland

Residents of the Yilo and Manya Krobo municipalities of the Eastern region may soon heave a sigh of relief, as the Electricity Company of...

NDC senior member passes on

A senior member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Nuamah Donkor, has passed on. He was 63. His death was announced by his party...

Homowo is a beautiful festival – Bawumia

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was left impressed when he joined the chiefs and people of Ga Mashie (British Accra) to celebrate the Homowo...

Kakum Forest elephants destroy farmlands at Assin South

Rampaging elephants from the Kakum National Park Forest extension have raided more than three-acre farmlands estimated at GH¢60,000 in some farming communities in the...

I’m fully aware that things are difficult – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo says he is fully aware that things are difficult for Ghanaians and so he is working to lift them out of...

General Legal Council barring re-marking justified – GBA President

The President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) says people criticising the General Legal Council (GCL’s) decision to ban re-marking of the entrance examination...

EOCO must take up Labianca case – Murtala Mohammed

A former Deputy Trades and Industry Minister has asked for the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to take over the alleged corruption case...

Missing 14-year-old girl found at Sehwi Asawinso

A 14-year-old girl, Tayibatu Zakaria, who went missing on Thursday after close from school, has been found alive at Sehwi Asawinso. Zakaria reportedly refused to...

Rainwater no longer safe to drink anywhere on earth – Study

Rainwater is no longer safe to drink anywhere on earth, due to 'forever chemicals' linked to cancer, study suggests. Rainwater is no longer safe to...

Scores of mourners pay last respects to late Abesim Queen-mother

The pre-burial funeral and funeral of the late Nana Yaa Pomaa, the 'Abesimhemaa' (Queen-mother) ended peacefully, at Abesim, near Sunyani over the weekend. Osagyefo Oseadeeyo...

Govt delivering on promise to equip military – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo says his government, since assuming office in 2017, has been delivering on its promise to retool and re-equip the Ghana Armed Forces,...

8-year-old girl drowns in cesspit in Wa

An eight-year-old girl, on Saturday night, drowned in a cesspit. The incident happened at Bamahu in the Wa municipality of the Upper West Region. The cesspit...

We promise to support you – Bawumia to Ga state

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has declared support for sustainable development and a united Ga state on the occasion of this year’s Homowo festival...

Juaben MCE promises to run an open-door administration

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Juaben in the Ashanti Region, Omane Aboagye, has promised to run an open-door administration to drive development in...

Ga Mashie celebrates Homowo in style [Photos+videos]

The weekend, the people of Ga Mashie took their turn in the Homowo festivities for this year. The streets of Jamestown were filled with the...

New police officers can swim and drive – IGP

All new officers who pass out of the police training school can now swim and drive as the Police training module has been reviewed...

Hilla Limann Technical University defaults in employees pension contributions

The management of the Hilla Limann Technical University in Wa has failed to pay statutory Tier One and Two pension contributions of some casual...

Railway Workers Union threatens strike

The Railway Workers Union has threatened a strike action effective August 22, 2022, over issues with the management of the Ghana Railway Company. In a...

‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ actually in need of more aid – Bokpin [Video]

President Nana Akufo-Addo has since he was sworn into office, pledged to rid the country of the need for hand-outs. He touted his administration...

Why pay us less? – Teachers in nursing training schools fume as 7-day protest begins

https://www.youtube.com/embed/pag1mVqgEBg The Nurse Educator’s Group, a specialised group under Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, has commenced a seven-day industrial action targeted at drawing the...

Labianca case: Special Prosecutor’s findings not surprising – GII

The Programmes Manager of Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) is not surprised about the Special Prosecutor’s claim of alleged corrupt activities involving Labianca Group of...

Family of UEW driver who crushed Apostolic pastor to death speaks

The family of the driver of the University of Education Winneba (UEW), Ajumako Campus, who crushed an Apostolic Pastor at Ajumako Techiman to death,...

Govt reacts to claims foreigners have Ghanaian passports

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has started investigations into claims that some foreign nationals in the United Arab Emirates and other...

Scores displaced in fire outbreak at Adjiringanor [Photos]

Fire has completely destroyed over 200 wooden structures at Adjiringanor, East Legon in Accra. The incident, which occurred on Friday night, has left scores...

Man arrested for allegedly mixing corn dough with poisonous substance [Photos]

A 35-year-old man, Felix Yawso, has been arrested for allegedly mixing a poisonous substance with corn dough that his mother sells in the market....

Mensah Sarbah Hall alumni to replace stolen bust

Alumni of the Mensah Sarbah Hall are taking steps to erect a statue in honour of John Mensah Sarbah in replacement of the bust...

The new Ashanti Regional Hospital at Sewua [Photos+Video]

https://youtu.be/nSCCsuLr9TU This is the Ashanti Regional Hospital, located at Sewua in the Bosomtwe District. Physical works on the 250-bed capacity hospital have been completed awaiting the provision of...

Machine explosion kills SHS student at Abesim

A vulcanising machine explosion has killed an 18-year-old Senior High School (SHS) male student at Alaska Junction, Abesim near Sunyani in the Bono region....

We use torchlights to learn at night – Krobo Girls SHS students [Video]

https://youtu.be/_OAcbZWd6js Just like townfolks in the Yilo and Manya Krobo municipalities, students of Krobo Girls Senior High School (SHS) at Odumase are suffering the brunt of...

GJA condemns ban on Radio Ada

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has described the decision by the Ada Traditional Council to ban Radio Ada from providing coverage of the Asafotufiami Festival...

Abirem North DCE speaks ‘on death, rape of 3 mentally challenged women’

District Chief Executive (DCE) of Abirem North, Raymond Nana Damteh, has refuted claims that some women with mental challenges were raped and killed under...