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ACP Kofi Sarpong graduates from GIMPA with first class honours [Photos]

Celebrated gospel musician and police officer, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Kofi Sarpong, on Friday graduated from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public...

Man found dead in his room after drinking with friends [Video]

https://youtu.be/uhXKNx6Lavo A 25-year-old car sprayer, Christian Ayeh, has allegedly committed suicide at Kasoa Rock City in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central Region. Information...

Low turnout in Kumasi after SIM re-registration deadline extension

The number of people queuing to register their SIM cards has reduced at the premises of telecommunication service providers in Kumasi. This is after the...

Buried body of 62-year-old security man exhumed in Wa

The Upper West Regional Police Command has commenced investigations into the alleged murder of a private security man, Mumuni Jartoe at Kpaguri, a suburb...

Nkawie police rescue 11-year-old girl abducted at Atwima Akrofuom

The Nkawie police in the Ashanti Region have rescued an 11-year-old girl at Akrofuom in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality. Her hands and legs were tied...

Police step up investigations into shooting of a student at Sofoline in Kumasi

The Suntreso Police in the Ashanti Region have stepped up investigations into the killing of a student of the Oyoko School of Dispensing Optics by...

I’m not and have never been corrupt – Abuga Pele

Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Chiana-Paga, Abuga Pele, has disclosed that he is not and has never been corrupt both in private and public...

Zipline appoints Mawuli Atiemo as new General Manager

Zipline has appointed Mawuli Atiemo as the new General Manager of its Ghana operations, effective July 2022. He is joining Zipline from AstraZeneca, where he...

Two jailed for flouting AMA sanitation bye-laws

An Accra Magistrate Court has sentenced two persons to a fine of GHC 10,000 or in default spend three months imprisonment with hard labour. The...

If you’re offered bribe, don’t take it – Martin Kpebu to police officers

Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has advised police personnel across the country to outrightly reject bribes. According to him, this is the only way...

Former Chief of Staff loses brother

The brother of the former Chief of Staff in the erstwhile John Mahama government, Julius Debrah, has passed on. The incident, sources say, happened on...

2022 WASSCE begins today

This year’s West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) is scheduled to start today, Monday, August 1 with project work subjects. According to the schedule...

Missing Newmont security officer found

A security officer at Newmont Africa’s Ahafo mine reported missing on the evening of Wednesday, 27th July 2022 has been found. A joint search party,...

Uneasy calm at Okuapeman as traditional council cancels 2022 Odwira festival

There is uneasy calm at Okuapeman as traditional council declares null and void the launch of the 2022 Odwira festival by some chiefs and...

Three dead in accident at Juaso

Three persons have been confirmed dead in an accident at Juaso in the Ashanti Region on Sunday. The accident, which occurred around 8:00 am, was...

Monkeypox kills soldier in Bolgatanga

A soldier with the Ghana Armed Forces has died of Monkeypox in Bolgatanga, the Upper East Regional Health Directorate has said. He was admitted at the Bolgatanga Regional...

Presby minister killed in car crash

A fatal accident that occurred at Oforikrom on the Techiman-Nkoranza highway in the Bono East Region on Saturday claimed the life of the Tuobodom...

Plaintiff enforces order of substituted service against ‘disputed’ GJA president

The plaintiff in the case involving the current Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) President, Albert Kwabena Dwumfour and the former President Roland Affail Monnie, has...

Fire officer injured while dousing fire at CMB [Photos +Video]

Fire has destroyed several property at CMB, Abuja market in Accra. The inferno ravaged the market on the dawn of Sunday, July 31. A fire officer,...

Three injured in accident on KNUST campus [Photos]

A Toyota Corolla with registration number AW 5256-21 has been involved in an accident on the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)...

Woman inflicts serious wounds on daughter over 50p toffee

An eight-year-old girl (name withheld) is battling for her life after her mother, Janet Awo, assaulted her over 50 pesewas toffee. The incident happened at...

How Speaker Bagbin consulted the ‘old lady’ on Adwoa Safo’s fate

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has deferred the decision on the fate of Sarah Adwoa Safo and two other legislators referred to the Privileges...

British High Commissioner enstooled queen mother of Gbese [Photos]

The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson, has been enstooled as Development Queen mother of Gbese in Accra. Madam Thompson will serve with the...

All set for 2022 Bible and Governance Conference awards

The 2022 edition of the Bible and Governance Conference awards has been slated for August 4, at the Justice D.F. Annan auditorium (Job...

Extend SIM re-registration exercise to 2023 – MoMo agents tell govt

The Mobile Money Agents Association of Ghana (MMAAG) has called on government to consider another extension of the deadline for the SIM card re-registration...

How State Housing bounced back and collected over 30-year-old debt after near collapse [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · How State Housing bounced back and collected over 30-yr-old debt after near collapse Managing Director of State Housing Company Limited, Kwabena Ampofo Appiah,...

SIM card re-registration extended to Sept 30

The nationwide SIM cards re-registration exercise has been extended to September 30, 2022 The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful announced this at a...

Bawumia and NPP gurus mourn with Dr Boadi Nyamekye [Photos]

Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has led high-ranking government officials to grace the one-week ceremony of the late father of lead Pastor of The...

We are in a system of beneficiaries and victims – Sulemana Braimah

Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, has described the reaction of Members of Parliament (MP) regarding the ongoing...

Let religion be a force of unity, not a force to divide us – Bawumia

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has made a clarion call to Ghanaians not to allow religion to create division amongst them. Religion, Dr...

Deadline for SIM re-registration not needed – Technology Analyst

A Technology Analyst, Maximus Ametorgoh, has called for the deadline for SIM re-registration to be scrapped. According to him, he does not see the...

Dean of Obuasi Press Corps passes on; Okyeame Darkwah pens heartfelt tribute in his honour

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope that my slumber shall not be broken; and that, though I will be all-forgetting, yet...

Tanker drivers declare strike

Members of the Tanker Drivers Association will effective Monday, August 1, 2022, embark on a sit-down strike. The strike action, according to the unions, is...

Suspected ritualist slits throat of tricycle rider

A suspected ritualist has slit the throat of a tricycle rider aka yellow yellow believed to be in his early 20s at Gumo in...

Military vehicle and ‘trotro’ crash on Dawhenya road [Video]

https://youtu.be/oxlIj7wVCKs A military vehicle and a commercial bus (trotro) have been involved in an accident on the Dawhenya road in the Greater Accra Region. The incident...

Kofi Boakye’s son graduates as best recruit from Police Training School

Kwaku Aduenin Boakye, son of the Director-General of Prosecution and Legal of the Ghana Police Service, COP Kofi Boakye, has graduated from the Police...

Central region is third richest in Ghana – Survey

Contrary to the assertion that the Central Region is the fourth poorest in Ghana, the narrative has changed for good but unfortunately on the...

Road accidents: Ghana records a reduction in first quarter of 2022

Ghana, between January and June 2022, recorded a decrease in reported road crashes as compared to the same period in 2021, the National Road...

Two arrested over ‘murder’ of Canada-based Ghanaian on vacation

The Police have arrested Safina Mohammed Adizatu, a student and Michael Fiifi Ampofo Arku, a Technical Officer for their alleged involvement in the murder...

The cocaine addict who refuses to bath [Video]

A 30-year-old man, Bismark Appiah, has shared his cocaine addiction story with Step One TV. Speaking to Barima Agyemang in his upcoming documentary on drug...