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Photos: Adom FM excites listeners on Fathers’ Day

Adom FM, Ghana's number one radio station celebrated some fathers of some listeners in a unique way. The selected dads and their children engaged...

Celebrating fathers: Meet the single father nursing twins [Video]

Forty-two-year-old Edmund Tetteh Akrofi lost his wife almost a year ago after giving birth to twins. She left him a widower to take care...

Reggie Rockstone wades into LGBTQI debate

Musician Reggie Rockstone has waded into the LGBTQI conversation. He says in spite of everyone’s sexual orientation they should be treated with respect. “When you talk...

Fingerprints expose JB’s alleged killer

The prime suspect in the murder of JB Danquah-Adu, murdered Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North in the Eatern Region, has been identified...

Exporting ‘wee’ cannot save Ghana – NDC MP

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Adaklu has shot down suggestions to leverage the export of cannabis to resolve the challenges impeding the development...

Floods: Over 100 houses at Komenda destroyed [Photos]

More than 100 houses in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem Municipality in the Central Region are estimated to have been flattened following the overflow...

Sanitation Minister commends Zoomlion for reclamation of Oti landfill

The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Mrs. Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has applauded Zoomlion Ghana Limited for the rapid reclamation of the Oti Landfill. She...

GWCL cuts water supply to over 20 houses at Chorkor over illegal connections

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has disconnected 20 houses at Chorkor from the national water supply system after the occupants were found to...

Kasoa teen murder case: Judge sheds tears while reading brief

A High Court Judge, Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, on Thursday, shed tears when she read out the chilling accounts of how two teenagers allegedly...

Use Cape Coast-Yamoransa road to Twifo Praso – Ghana Highways Authority

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has advised motorists travelling between Cape Coast and Twifo Praso to use the Cape Coast-Yamoransa route. This follows the...

Let’s allow gays to be – Freddie Blay

The National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddy Blay, has called for gays to be allowed to express their desired sexual...

Ghana Airports Company reacts to death of passenger at Kotoka

Management of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has confirmed the death of a middle-aged male passenger at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). The passenger, according...

Islamic SHS protest: Heads must roll at Urban Roads – Parliament’s fact-finding committee

Parliament’s Defence, Interior and National Security Committee has faulted the Urban Roads Department for failing to act on a request by authorities of Islamic...

Islamic SHS protest: I was assaulted and denied access to hospital – Teacher recounts

A 40-year-old teacher has been recounting how he was allegedly battered by crowd-control Police during the protest by students of Islamic High School in Kumasi...

Do we have a new name for Black Star Square?

The Black Star Square in Accra remains one of Ghana’s most iconic landmarks. Completed in 1961 to coincide with the state visit of Queen Elizabeth...

ECG announces power outages; check out affected areas

Parts of the Volta Region will on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, experience a power outage from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. The Electricity Company of...

Road crashes reduce by 4% for 2022 first quarter

Road traffic accidents for the first half of 2022 have seen a four percent decline as compared to the same period in 2021. The...

SOS message to travellers en route Cape Coast-Twifo Praso road

The Ghana Highway Authority has cautioned commuters and motorists after hours of rainfall resulted in flooding in some parts of the Central Region. In a statement, the...

Kasoa ritual murder: Judge sheds tears in court

A High Court Judge, Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, Thursday, shed tears when she read out the chilling accounts of how two teenagers allegedly killed...

My retired JHS teacher in the village can’t afford basic necessities of life – Bokpin on high cost of living

Economist and Professor of Finance at the University of Ghana, Godfred Bokpin, says the high cost of living in the country is having an...

Part of bridge linking Cape Coast-Twifo Praso road caves in [Video]

https://youtu.be/UagDH8KiAmw A heavy downpour in the Central Region has washed away portion of a bridge linking the Cape Coast-Twifo Praso road cutting it into two. The...

Statement issued by National Cathedral secretariat insincere – Ablakwa

The North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has reacted to clarifications made by the Executive Director of the National Cathedral, Dr Paul Opoku-Mensah, to...

Prisons officer feared drowned in Cape Coast flood

A prisons Officer, whose identity is yet to be known, is feared drowned in Cape Coast following hours of downpour in the Central Region....

National Cathedral – meet the Board of Trustees

In the wake of the controversy surrounding the relevance or otherwise of the National Cathedral, and the purported resignation of one of the members...

Convert National Cathedral into a big hospital – Govt told

A panelist on JoyFM‘s GhanaConnect, Edwin Appiah, has suggested that government should abandon the construction of the National Cathedral and use the land earmarked for the...

68-day arrears owed school feeding caterers settled – Cecilia Dapaah

Caretaker Minister for the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, says the 68-day payment arrears owed school feeding caterers have...

GPRTU threatens to ignore conventional transport fare adjustment system

The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has threatened to boycott the conventional transport fare adjustment system if the government fails to address the...

Walahi! People are suffering – John Jinapor cries

The Ranking Member on the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament, John Abu Jinapor, is feeling the brunt of what he described as a...

More than 150,000 merchants enrolled onto GhQR platform

More than 150,000 merchants have been enrolled on the GhanaQR platform introduced by the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement System (GhiPSS), a subsidiary of...

Fuel in Togo, Burkina Faso cheaper than Ghana – COPEC

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers, Ghana (COPEC) has revealed that fuel prices in neighbouring countries like Togo and Burkina Faso are cheaper than Ghana. They claim...

Stop rezoning wetlands for residential areas – SPD cautioned

The President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Ghana, Henry Kwadwo Boateng, has expressed displeasure over the Spatial Planning Department (SPD) at the...

Police to file witness statement in case against Shatta Wale, others

Prosecution in the case of Charles Nil Armah Mensah, aka Shatta Wale, a dance hall artiste, and three others, has prayed an Accra Circuit...

Five gunned down as armed thugs invade Adanse Praso community

Five persons are currently on admission at the Assin Praso Presbyterian Hospital following an attack by a gang of armed thugs at Adanse Praso...

Gunmen kill driver, assault others, rob businessman of money

A gang of suspected armed robbers have invaded the house of Mr Atsu Makafui Kumordzi, a lotto operator, and shot to death a 51-year-old...

Akufo-Addo’s appointee apologises over ‘I’m dead’ comment

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Bosome Freho in the Ashanti Region, Yaw Danso, has rendered an unqualified apology to residents in the area. This...

From Nkrumah’s Cadillac to Kufuor’s Limousine – Why you must visit renovated National Museum

The National Museum, which was closed down for five years, has been reopened. This was after years of renovation which saw the facility move from...

National Cathedral: Why construction has stalled

The Executive Director of the National Cathedral of Ghana has confirmed that construction of the religious edifice has stalled. Dr. Paul Opoku-Mensah explained that the...

New twist to Mensa Otabil’s ‘exit’ from National Cathedral Board of Trustees

The Executive Director of the National Cathedral project has refuted reports that Dr. Mensa Otabil, one of the Members of its Board of Trustees resigned...

Capital Bank trial: High Court dismisses Ato Essien’s Stay of Proceedings

The High Court in Accra hearing the case in which William Ato Essien and two others are standing trial for their roles leading to...

Law students receive Lebanese Community Scholarship

Ten final-year students at the Ghana School of Law at Makola, have received scholarships from the Lebanese Community in Ghana for the 2021/22 academic...