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21-year-old mother in police grips for dumping day-old baby in toilet

The Jasikan Police have arrested a 21-year-old woman for allegedly dumping her day-old baby in a pit toilet. She was arrested alongside an elderly...

NABCO trainees to hit the streets over unpaid allowances

The Coalition of NABCO Trainees has threatened to embark on a demonstration on June 10, over unpaid allowances. The Coalition said the economic situation of...

Pressure group bares teeth at govt over Achimota Forest land

Pressure group OneGhana Movement has called for the immediate cessation of all processes intended to transfer portions of the State's interests in the Achimota...

Popular female presenter passes on

Popular Takoradi-based female presenter, Naa Ayorkor, has passed on. She reportedly died Monday morning, May 30, 2022, after a short illness. Naa was a popular broadcaster...

Govt releases over 400 acres of state lands to Asantehene

Government has releaseda portion of state lands at the Ridge Residential Area in Kumasi to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. According to the Ashanti Regional Coordinating...

21-year-old mother arrested for dumping day-old baby in pit toilet

The Jasikan Police have arrested a 21-year-old woman for allegedly dumping her day-old baby in a pit toilet. She was arrested alongside an elderly woman,...

SHS student killed by thunder in Ho

Thunder has struck and killed a 17-year-old male student of the Sokode Senior High School in the Volta Region. The incident which happened near the...

500 life guards deployed to protect lives on Volta Lake

A total of 500 trained life guards passed out at the Eastern Naval Base in Tema New Town. The trained life guards, drawn from about...

Two suspects arrested with weapons at Banda Nkwanta, two others on the run

Police at Banda Nkwanta in the Bole District of the Savannah Region have arrested and detained two suspects, including a female while two others, both...

Sad moment as 3 siblings crashed to death at Ejisu are laid to rest [Photos]

All three siblings, who were crashed to death by a speeding car at Ejisu-Besease in the Ashanti region, have been laid to rest. Hamidu Mohammed,...

Ghana Bar Association places ¢20k bounty on lawyer’s killers

The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has placed a GH¢20,000 bounty on the heads of armed robbers who killed a private legal practitioner, Richard Badombia on...

Adwoa Safo gives good news about her son

Kelvin Ohene Safo-Agyapong, son of Dome-Kwabenya Member of Parliament (MP), Sarah Adwoa Safo has once again made his mother proud. Kelvin, according to his mother, has...

Death toll in Ejisu accident reaches 3

One more person has died in an accident which claimed the lives of two siblings at Ejisu-Besease in the Ashanti region. The third victim is...

Lawyer’s murder: 3 suspects arrested

Three suspects, including Benin and Mali nationals have been arrested by the Savannah Regional Police Patrol team in connection with the murder of an...

Aburi Gardens, other tourist sites undergo renovation

The government has announced a lot of tourist centres in the country are undergoing major renovation works. Notably among them are the Aburi Botanical...

Man stabs friend to death over girlfriend

A 32-year-old Dominic Kwame Ofori, popularly known as Koliko, has been fatally stabbed in a fight over a woman at Akyem Achiase of the...

Brother of murdered lawyer shares harrowing details [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · ‘Blood was just gushing out’ – Brother of murdered lawyer gives full details Fresh details involving the murder of an Accra-based lawyer, Richard...

Chief of Staff sends SOS message to PURC

The Chief of Staff has urged the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) to actively engage all stakeholders before announcing new utility tariffs. Madam Frema Osei-Opare...

3 including UCC security man killed in Cape Coast flood

Three persons have been washed away by flood at Kwaprow, a suburb of Cape Coast in the Central Region, after heavy rains on Friday...

Gunshot wound exposes runaway armed robber

Police in the Effiduase District of the Ashanti Region have arrested a 27-year-old armed robbery suspect who fled after being shot during an operation.Darlington...

Govt releases GH¢50 million to NHIS

The government has released an amount of GH¢50 million to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Nsawam-Adoayiri Member of Parliament (MP), Frank Annoh-Dompreh, has...

Remove luxury tax component on sanitary pads – Govt told

The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Network, – a civil society organisation in the Upper East Region, has urged the government to...

Ghana Armed Forces personnel to get UN certification

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Thomas Oppong-Peprah, has disclosed that personnel who undergo pre-deployment training and concentration at the Bundase Peace...

Three remanded for lynching suspected plantain thief

The Mankessim District Magistrate Court has remanded three persons into prison custody for a month for allegedly lynching a neighbour suspected to be a...

Tension as one is shot at Sekyikrom chief’s palace

One person has been shot in the leg at Sekyikrom in the Nsawam Adoagyri Municipality of the Eastern Region. This was after some persons...

Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park closed down

The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, has announced the temporal closure of the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Accra. The closure, according to...

Bawumia hails new Ghanaian Cardinal

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has extended his warmest congratulations to the Catholic Bishop of the Wa Diocese, Bishop Richard Kuuia Baawobr, following...

Subsidise sanitary pads to make them affordable

The Upper West Regional Coordinator of Global Communities, Martin Sumbo, has appealed to the government to subsidise or remove taxes on sanitary pads to...

Man in court for rearing dogs in Tema residential area without permit

The Tema District Community Centre Court has fined Essien Terry, a dog keeper GHS 5,000.00 for rearing dogs for commercial purposes in a residential...

OccupyGhana demands quick passage of 2022 Conduct of Public Officers Bill into law

Policy think tank, OccupyGhana, is demanding the immediate passage of the 2022 Conduct of Public Officers Bill into law. “This draft Bill proposes, among others,...

Yoo Naa gifts Buipewura Jinapor a horse

The Paramount Chief of Savelugu Traditional Area, Na Bakpeng Yoo Naa Abdulai Andani, continues to grow his relationship with the Paramount Chief of Buipe...

Police on manhunt for armed robbers who killed lawyer on Bole-Bamboi Highway

The Savannah Regional Police Command says it has mounted a manhunt for three suspected armed robbers responsible for the murder of an Accra-based lawyer...

Lands Commission begins tracing state lands captured in Sir John’s will

The Lands Commission has officially commenced processes to trace the lands captured in the final will of the late Chief Executive of the Forestry...

100,000 teachers from northern Ghana to be trained in digital literacy this year

The Deputy Minister for Education (MoE), John Ntim Fordjour, has hinted that the Education Ministry will begin the training of 100,000 public pre-tertiary teachers...

Pope Francis appoints Wa Bishop as Cardinal

Bishop Richard Kuuia Baawobr of the Wa Catholic Diocese has been appointed a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He is among 21 other new cardinals...

Speeding car kills two siblings at Ejisu

Two siblings have been crashed to death by a speeding vehicle after the driver lost control at Ejisu-Besease on Sunday morning. The accident is said...

Plane with 22 passengers on board goes missing

A plane operated by Nepal's Tara Air carrying 22 people went missing on Sunday morning, an airline spokesperson confirmed to CNN. The plane was flying...

DNI Foundation donates sanitary pads to physically challenged women in Amasaman

A Non-governmental Organization, Disability Not Inability (DNI), has donated sanitary pads to women and children with disabilities in the Amasaman district. The outreach programme which...

Lawyer killed in robber attack on Bole-Bamboi highway

A private legal practitioner identified as Richard Badombia has been shot and killed in a robbery attack on Bole-Bamboi Highway According to the Police situational...

Man nearly lynched for stealing motorbike on UDS campus

A suspected motorcycle thief was nearly lynched on Friday 27th May 2022 at the Dungu campus of the University For Development Studies (UDS). The suspect...