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Why Achimota Forest Reserve is trending on social media

The Achimota Forest Reserve has been trending on social media, especially Twitter and Facebook, since midday. This follows reports that government has through an Executive...

GCB Ladies donate over GH¢15,000.00 to Princess Marie Louise hospital & Sunyani Girl Child Education

GCB Bank Ladies Association over the weekend donated GH¢10,000.00 and assorted items worth GH¢8,000.00 to the Princess Marie Louise Children’s Hospital in Accra and...

Bank of Ghana hospital not for only the rich – Management

The Management of the Bank of Ghana hospital in the Greater Accra Region has debunked reports on social media that, they only cater for...

#FixTheCountry movement gets $50k donation

The Open Society Foundation has donated $50,000 to the #FixtheCountry Movement. Convener of the Movement, Oliver Barker-Vormawor made this known in a Facebook post while...

Supreme Court adjourns Gyakye Quayson’s review application for a second time

The Supreme Court has adjourned James Gyakye Quayson’s review application for the second time, seeking the Court to reconsider its order preventing him from...

Opuni trial: Nobody ever drank Agongo’s lithovit fertiliser as water – Cocoa farmer tells court

A cocoa farmer, Samuel Torbi, the second defence witness for Dr. Stephen Opuni, a former CEO of the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), who is...

Bulgarian Embassy demolition: Gov’t attempting to shield state officials – Minority alleges

The Minority in Parliament has accused government of attempting to shield officials in connection with the demolition of the Bulgarian Embassy. To them, government’s...

Oliver Barker-Vormawor breaks silence on his arrest

The lead convener of the #FixTheCountry Movement, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, has confirmed his arrest on Tuesday morning. Mr Barker-Vormawor said he has never been arrested...

Vigil held in honour of slain CCTU student

Students of Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU) have held a candlelight vigil in honour of slain Nana Ama Clark. All clad in black, the distraught...

Police Service needs a purge – Ablakwa on death of suspect in custody

Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said the Ghana Police Service needs a purge. His comment comes on the...

Death of suspect in police custody at Nkoranza; The inside story [Video]

https://youtu.be/zXAYSS8ut8o?t=23 The Member of Parliament for Nkoranza South constituency, Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, has given a blow by blow account of how a suspect, Albert Donkor...

Oliver Barker-Vormawor reportedly arrested again

#FixTheCountry Movement lead convener, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, has been arrested again. Felicity Nelson, one of the group’s conveners, told Joy News that he was picked up...

Upper East Police on manhunt for three suspects who escaped from cells

The Upper East Regional Police Command is on a manhunt for three suspects who escaped police custody. The suspects were held in the Tongo...

‘Tallest man’ Awuche commends Health Minister for intervening in his health condition

The 27-year-old, Awuche whose story went viral a year ago has praised the Health Minister for intervening in his deteriorating health. The Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu,...

Kumasi High Court quashes KATH whistleblower’s case seeking to reverse his dismissal

A High Court in Kumasi has dismissed an application filed by an accounts officer seeking to reverse his dismissal by the Komfo Anokye Teaching...

Samira Bawumia honoured with humanitarian award in US

Second Lady, Samira Bawumia, has been honoured by the Atlanta City Council and Macon-Bibb County in the United States of America for her contributions...

Benya FM attacked, presenter beaten [Photos]

A local radio station in Elmina, Benya FM, in the Central Region, was attacked on Monday by unknown people. The radio station was discussing matters...

Fix your inefficiencies; proposed increase in utility tariffs too high – Consumers tell ECG, GWCL

Consumers of water and electricity have asked the utility companies to significantly reduce the percentage they are demanding with regard to the upward adjustment...

Ghana’s education is in serious crisis and it is pathetic – GNAT

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) says the country’s pre-tertiary education sector is in dire crisis and needs to be salvaged as soon...

Man slashes his 56-year-old girlfriend with a machete for denying him sex

A 56-year-old woman, Akua Baduwa, has allegedly been slashed with a machete multiple times by her boyfriend, Bob, aged 45, for refusing him sex.The...

Family of suspect who died in Police custody petitions IGP to bring perpetrators to book

The family of a 28-year-old trader, alleged to have suffered police brutality leading to his death, says it will not relent in its pursuit...

Tension simmers in Nkoranza over alleged Police killing of trader

Tension is high at Nkoranza in the Bono East region as the community accuses police of killing an innocent trader in a suspected armed...

I attended Bible school to become a pastor but… – Chairman Wontumi

Ghanaian business mogul and politician, Bernard Antwi Bosiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi has revealed that he was once a preacher. His hope was to become a...

Ghana Armed Forces commence 2022 enlistment exercise

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has commenced the 2022 enlistment process for Regular Career Course and Short Service Commission Officers. A statement issued in Accra...

School Feeding Caterers Association drop bombshell

The School Feeding Caterers Association has said that with immediate effect, provision of meals to the beneficiaries has stopped, due to the lack of...

FDA, police arrest 8 for selling unlicensed drugs

The Ahafo Regional Directorate of Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) together with the Regional Police Command have arrested eight persons for allegedly possessing and...

Ablakwa demands payment of NSS allowances

North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has asked government to release funds for the payment of National Service allowance arrears for the...

Boyfriend of CCTU student found dead without private part remanded

The boyfriend of the Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU) student who was allegedly killed on Friday night has been remanded in Police custody. The suspect,...

How 3 suspects broke jail while singing praises and worship

Three suspects in police custody for alleged defilement and other related crimes in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region have broken jail,...

NAM1 trial: We’re still waiting for AG’s advice – Prosecution to court

The prosecution in the case in which Nana Appiah Mensah popularly known as NAM1 is standing trial has told the court they are still...

Bawumia, NPP gurus worship with Duncan-Williams at Action Chapel

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Sunday joined Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams to worship at the Action Chapel on the Spintex Road, Accra. The visit...

Groups in US and others offered me money to drop anti-LGBTQ+ bill – Sam George

One of the proponents of the anti-LGBTQI+ bill, Samuel Nartey George, has revealed that some US groups tried to influence him to stop the...

Task force seizes church instruments for violating ban on noisemaking

A task force from the Ga Traditional Council has seized instruments of some churches in Accra for flouting the ban on noisemaking and drumming...

Tears flow as KNUST final year student dies

Social media has been awash with tributes in honour of a Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) final year student. Though the...

CLOGSAG resumes work today

The Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG) is set to resume work today, May 16, 2022. This follows the suspension of the association's three-week-old...

You’ve been an elder brother, mentor – Mahama mourns Ndebugre

Former President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday visited the home of the late John Ndebugre in Accra to commiserate with his family. The former...

IAEA expert on nuclear technology for managing plastic waste visits Ghana

Dr. Chantara Thevy Ratnam, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expert in Polymer Technology, is in Ghana on a fact-finding mission from May 16...

From a diplomat’s wife to a ‘koko’ seller and back to ‘grace’ – The story of Ghana’s first female aircraft marshaller

Felicia Edem Attipoe, Ghana’s first female aircraft marshaller has shared an emotional story of how she fell from “grace to grass” on the first...

Four policemen interdicted after suspect dies in custody

Four policemen have been interdicted after a suspect died in police cells at Ashaiman, in the Tema Police Regional Command last week. The reason...

Collapse building kills two children after torrential rains

Two children aged, 12 and 14 have died at Bepoase in the Sekyere South District of the Ashanti Region when their house collapsed after...