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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...

Religious institutions taking threat of terrorist attack seriously – Vladimir Antwi-Danso

The Dean of the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College (GAFCSC), Dr Vladimir Antwi-Danso says churches in the country are taking the threat of terrorist...

DOVVSU Officer ‘snatches complainant’s husband

“I introduced my husband to her while she was investigating a case I was involved in. She requested that my husband rather assisted her...

Govt mourns with people of Koforidua [Photos]

President Akufo-Addo and Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Saturday joined thousands of mourners to pay their last respects to Daasebre Oti Boateng who...

Damongo SHS student arrested for stealing tricycle

A final year student of Damongo Senior High School (SHS) is in the grips of the district police for allegedly stealing a tricycle. Seidu Yussif...

Nkoranza South MP demands justice for resident who died in Police custody

The Member of Parliament for Nkoranza South, Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, and the people in the Constituency are demanding justice and accountability from the Ghana...

Covid-19: Stranded Ghanaians in China cry over neglect by Embassy

Over 500 Ghanaians majority of whom are students in China say they have been neglected by the Ghana Embassy in China. The aggrieved persons say...

Abola Traditional Council supports Jospong Group to make Accra clean

The Abola Traditional Council (ATC) has strongly affirmed its support for the efforts by the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) to ensure that Accra,...

Wife of taxi driver who returned missing GH¢8,400 narrates her side of the story

Francisca Ackon, the wife of the famous taxi driver, who earned the admiration of many by returning a whopping GH¢8,000 cedis found in his...

National Security announces measures to enhance safety at places of worship amid terrorists attacks in sub-region

The National Security Ministry says it is instituting new measures at public places of worship to avert terrorist attacks in the country. In a letter...

About 500 police personnel deployed for Daasebre Oti Boateng’s funeral

The Eastern Regional Police Command is deploying about 500 police personnel for the final funeral rite of the late Paramount Chief of New Juaben...

30 suspected criminals arrested in swoop at Aboabo forest [Video]

About 30 suspected criminals have been arrested after a swoop by the Northern Regional police command at Aboabo forest near Aliu Mahama Sports Stadium...

Five injured in accident at Gomoa Buduatta junction [Video]

Five persons have been injured in an accident at Gomoa Buduatta in the Central Region. Two are said to be in critical conditions while three...

PURC to come up with new utility tariffs on this date

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) is expected to announce new utility tariffs by July 1, 2022, after the Ghana Water Company Limited and...

EPA tracking source of chemical pollution in Tema Newtown

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is tracking the source of a suspected chemical substance that polluted the air in parts of Tema Newtown on...

Ghanaians urged to report engineers doing shoddy works for punishment

Ghanaians have been charged to report engineers who neglect their duties and those who do inferior work for necessary punishment. This, according to the President...

NEIP trains 24,000 Ghanaians in ‘Youth in Innovative Agriculture Programme’

The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP) has commenced training of over 24,000 applicants in the Youth in Innovative Agriculture Programme under Ghana Cares...

Parts of Accra flooded after dawn rains

Following almost four hours of rain, parts of Accra and other urban centres in the Greater Accra Region including Kaneshie and Tema have been...

I regret choosing drugs over school – UK-based Ghanaian

UK-based Ghanaian, Robert Wayo, has disclosed that after his father took him to London, he did not heed his father’s advice to pursue a...

I was told senior military officers were involved in coup plot – Witness tells court

Corporal Godwin Nii Korankye Ankrah, the twelfth prosecution's witness in the treason trial, has told the High Court that he was informed that senior...