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Angry students face off with matron over food items [Photos]

Chaos broke out at the St Paul's Technical School (SPATS) at Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region when the school matron attempted to transport some...

Akufo-Addo, Bawumia, others pay last respects to Dr Amoako Tuffour [Photos]

A founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Kwame Amoako Tuffour, has been laid to rest.The final funeral rites held on Saturday,...

The judge who kept his wife as his inmate and threw her food across the floor

In their marriage photos, Rachel Adu Brown – brown in name, complexion and to her very dress, looks piercingly into the camera, fascinator to...

Pupils at Fodome-Kordzeto turn shed into classrooms

Pupils at the Fodome-Kordzeto Junior High and M/A Primary School continue to learn under the community-built shed with class attendance determined by weather patterns.The...

Sulley Muntari hit with sad news

The mother of ex-Ghana international, Sulley Muntari, has reportedly passed on in the Ashanti Regional town of Konongo.According to reports, the incident occurred on...

Akufo-Addo charges ECOWAS leaders to be resolute in bringing peace to Mali

President Nana Akufo-Addo has charged leaders from across the ECOWAS sub-region, who are meeting in Accra, to be unyielding in ensuring that the government...

Not eating your wife’s food is a form of domestic abuse – Legal expert

Director for Legal Assistance Network-Ghana, Irene Aborchie-Nyahe, has intimated that husbands who refuse to eat food prepared by their wives are engaging in domestic...

Ghana Medical Association demands return of lab physicians

The Ghana Medical Association is demanding the return of all Laboratory Physicians who have been forced out of their places of work within the...

25-year-old jailed for stealing Zoomlion vehicle

A 25-year-old Abdul Wahab Bashiru, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment with hard labour by a Ho Circuit Court for stealing a vehicle...

Parents of 11-month-old daughter abused by caregiver break silence

The parents of the deceased 11-month-old baby, who died from being maltreated by her caregiver, have admonished members of the general public to desist...

AngloGold Ashanti’s missing miner found

The miner, who was reported trapped in an underground site after parts of AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi mine caved in, has been found dead.He was...

Trader held for sexually molesting a 6-year-old girl

A 25-year-old trader has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defiling a six-year-old girl, at Airport Residential Area in Accra.Osei Boateng pleaded...

Major Mahama’s wife marks 4th anniversary with touching photo

Wife of late Major Maxwell Mahama has marked four years after his unfortunate demise with touching photos.Barbara Mahama took to her Instagram page...

Chelsea fan stabbed to death by former lover at Teshie

Police in Teshie in the Greater Accra Region are on the hunt for a woman who has allegedly stabbed her former lover to death.The...

Caregiver remanded over 11-month baby’s death

The caregiver at Happy Bloomers Creche at Agbogba, Clara Ayani-Ampah, who was arrested over the death of an 11-month-old baby girl, has been remanded...

Thunder strikes 24-year-old woman dead at Nkwanta North

A 24-year-old woman has been struck dead by thunderstorm at Kpassa in the Nkwanta North district of the Oti Region.The incident occurred on Friday evening...

Akufo-Addo gets doctor of philosophy degree

The University of Cape Coast on Saturday, May 29, 2021, conferred a Doctor of Philosophy degree on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.This is to...

Akufo-Addo takes on Joy FM over alleged campaign against Free SHS, unaware that GES was part of discussion

JoyNews/AdomNews · Akufo-Addo takes on Joy FM, accusing it of waging campaign against Free SHS policyPresident Nana Akufo-Addo has accused Joy FM of waging...

Kokrobite youth angry over destruction of gods

Some youth at Kokrobite are angry over the grading and destruction of their gods.According to them, they have been deprived of worshipping and paying...

Police at Suhum fires warning shots to disperse angry Amanase residents

Police at Suhum in the Eastern Region fired several warning shots to disperse angry residents of Amanase, a suburb of Suhum before there was...

COVID-19: 1 more dead as Ghana’s active cases reach 1,138

One more person has died of the novel coronavirus bringing the death toll to 784, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).This comes as...

OSIWA partners Crime Check to end criminalization of poverty

The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and the Crime Check Foundation (CCF) have rolled out an initiative in their quest to end...

Census: Get counted – Akufo-Addo urges Ghanaians

President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched 30 days countdown to 2021 Population and Housing Census with a call on all to get counted when...

Carpenter bags 25 years for robbery

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly court, presided over by Abdul Razak Musah, has sentenced a 36-year-old carpenter to 25 years imprisonment for robbery.Kwesi Amoako, also...

NLC secures injunction against striking lab scientists

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has secured an interlocutory injunction to compel laboratory scientists across the country to call of their strike.The court order...

Another ‘galamsey’ pit collapse at Campso; one dead [Photos]

One person has been confirmed dead after an illegal mining (galamsey) pit collapsed on him at Campso, a farming community in the Juaboso district...

Man ties farmer up, butchers him in cold blood

A man in his mid fifties has been butchered in cold blood at Inchaban Nkwanta, a community near Takoradi in the Shama District of...

DSP Azugu transferred!

DSP Samuel K. Azugu has been transferred from the National Security Secretariat at the Blue Gate as the Commander of the SWAT unit, Citi...

AMA embarks on demolition along Accra Brewery-Railway line [Photos]

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has embarked on an exercise to rid the Accra Brewery-Railway line enclave of illegal occupants and encroachers.The exercise took...

Nationwide LSM training ends in Greater Accra region

The three-week nationwide Larval Source Management (LSM) training across the country ended on Thursday, May 27th, 2021 in the Greater Accra Region with a...

Amanase residents go berserk after hit-and-run driver kills man

A group of irate youth at Amanase on the Accra-Kumasi highway on Thursday embarked on a massive demonstration after a hit-and-run driver killed a man.The...

Former PNC National Chairman, Bernard Mornah in trouble! [Video]

Former National Chairman of the People's National Convention (PNC) has been reportedly assaulted by security personnel in Burkina Faso.Bernard Mornah, who is...

Plan International saves rural girls from menstural ‘shame’

Some female students in Tafi Mador RC DA Basic School and Leklebi DA Basic School in the Afadzato South District have narrated how they...

Galamsey: OccupyGhana chides Akufo-Addo over burning of excavators

Pressure Group, OccupyGhana, has described President Nana Akufo-Addo’s endorsement of the ‘burn-on-sight’ approach adopted by operatives of Operation Halt, as unfortunate.OccupyGhana also decried the...

Group condemns arrest of LGBTQ+ persons in Volta Region

The Center for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria has called on the Attorney General to withdraw the charges levelled against alleged LGBTIQ+...

Fire Service personnel arrive in taxi to douse flames at Akyem Begoro [Video]

Social media has been inundated with a video of fire service personnel arriving at an emergency scene in a chartered taxi to douse flames...

6 prisoners regain freedom as NGO pays court fines

Some six prisoners have regained their freedom after being convicted of petty offences but were unable to pay the court fines between GH¢320.00 and...

Three NPP executives arraigned over alleged assault

Three Sunyani East Constituency executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) were on Wednesday arraigned at Fiapre in the Sunyani West Municipality.This was for...

Policemen detained over alleged extortion denied bail

The Accra Circuit Court 2 has denied bail to the five policemen who were arrested  following a report of alleged extortion against them.The five...

Galamsey: Over 400 military men commence fourth phase of Operation Halt II

Over four hundred officers of the Ghana Armed Forces have been deployed for the fourth phase of the fight against illegal mining dubbed Operation...