HomeNewsLocal News

Local News

GES partners Zoomlion to step up sanitation education in SHSs

Waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, in collaboration with the Schools Health Education Programme (SHEP) of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has begun a...

Motorbike thief bags 24 months in jail

The Ashaiman District Court has sentenced, John Gospel, a 19-year-old driver’s mate, to 24 months imprisonment for stealing a motorbike. The court, presided over by...

Court orders psychiatric test on woman who stabbed mum over ‘spiritual marriage’

An Adentan Circuit Court has ordered for a psychiatric examination to be conducted on a 24-year-old unemployed woman who stabbed her mother she claimed...

NIA postpones card replacement, update of personal records

The National Identification Authority (NIA) announces for the information of the general public that it has postponed until further notice its services for updating...

Court issues warrant for Sosu’s arrest

The Kaneshie District Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu. This was after the MP...

Increase in HIV infections in persons less than 25 years worrying – Commission

Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Kyeremeh Atuahene, has expressed concern about the rate at which young people between 15 and 24 years are...

COVID-19: Over 142,000 vaccines are being administered daily – GHS

Ghana’s daily vaccination rate has shot up to about 142,000. This is according to the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick...

COVID-19: GHS declares December as month of vaccination

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has declared December as the ‘month of vaccination.' This was announced by the Director-General of the GHS, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, at...

Buses carrying 202 foreigners intercepted at Aflao

Buses conveying 202 foreigners were intercepted by the Aflao Immigration Service on Saturday, November 27. The foreigners, mostly citizens of Niger, were held up at the Aflao main...

New book calls on corporate leaders to be abreast with change management

VUCA World and the Future of Corporate Strategy and Leadership authored by Dr Victor Abbey, a retired military officer and corporate strategist, has called...

COVID-19: Omicron Variant not in Ghana – GHS

The Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has assured that Ghana has not recorded the Omicron variant of the...

E/R: IGP commiserates with police accident victims

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has commiserated with police personnel who sustained injuries in an accident on the Akuapem-Apirede to...

COVID-19: Unvaccinated persons are 7 times more likely to die – GHS

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has stated that persons who are unvaccinated against Covid-19 are more susceptible to death if infected by the virus. According...

Anas Aremeyaw Anas wins 2021 Foreign Journalist Award in US

Ace Ghanaian investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has been named the 2021 NABJ Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist of the Year. He will receive the award at...

17 police officers involved in accident, 3 in critical condition

A commercial Mercedes-Benz Sprinter bus carrying police officers belonging to the Koforidua Regional police band has been involved in a road crash at Somanya...

Police officer arrested for harassing female victim

A police officer with the Operations Unit of the Bono Regional Police Command, seen in a viral video sexually harassing a woman, has been...

Muslim community prays for peace at Bawku

The Muslim community at Bawku in the Upper East Region has commenced the recitations of the Holy Quran in dedication to the total peace...

Visually challenged man wins best farmer in AAK District

Lydia Ama Aberesi, a 24-year-old blind farmer, emerged the overall best farmer in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese (AAK) District of the Central Region. Madam Aberesi and her...

ECG disconnects over 50 homes at Kasoa over power theft

More than 50 households at Kasoa in the Central Region have been disconnected from the national grid by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG)...

Kumasi: Shocking as two coffins go missing from a carpentry shop [Video]

Residents of Mamponteng in the Ashanti Region have expressed their surprise about how some unidentified persons got away with two coffins in a carpentry...

279 Ghanaians, 107 foreigners arrested, mining equipment destroyed

A total of 279 Ghanaians and 107 foreigners were arrested in a joint security operation in the five regions of the North and in...

Mahama hands over renovated boys dormitory block to Ghanasco [Photos]

Former President John Dramani Mahama on Friday handed over to his alma mater, Ghana Senior High School (Ghanasco), a renovated Boys Dormitory block for...

2021 NMSQ: Napo reacts to Prempeh College win

The Energy Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, has congratulated his alma mater, Prempeh College, for emerging as the winners of the 2021 National Maths and...

FDA retrieves 270 cartons of expired Charme Sparkling juice

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has retrieved some 270 cartons of Charme Sparkling non-alcoholic red and white grape juice from the market. According to...

Police bid farewell to officer who died in accident while pursuing robbers

Ghanaian police officer, Chief Inspector James Issaka Aromah, who died in a motor accident on October 21, 2021, has been laid to rest. Affectionately...

Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill: Fundamental Baptist Churches send strong message to Ghanaians

The Fundamental Baptist Churches have cautioned Ghanaians not to abuse the anti-homosexual bill if passed. According to the churches, though the activities of homosexuals are...

NADMO boss opens up on staff capacity [Audio]

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has over 7,000 staff across the country. Director-General, Eric Nana Agyemang-Prempeh, disclosed this on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen show...

Police publish list of 5 wanted vehicles for flouting road regulations

Close Circuit TV (CCTV) cameras of the Monitoring and Surveillance Centre of the Motor Traffic and Transport Department ( MTTD) of the Ghana Police...

Right To Play launches 16 days of Activism against SGBV, urges justice for survivors

Right To Play is appealing to the government, district education officials, parents and caregivers to eliminate all forms of violence against girls and boys...

Mining pit victims identified

Seven out of the 10 persons who were reportedly killed after a mining pit collapsed on Wednesday evening at Wassa Esikuma near Wassa Nkran...

Multimedia Group partners GHS to administer covid-19 vaccines [Photos]

The Multimedia Group has collaborated with the Ayawaso Central Ghana Health Service (GHS) to administer the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine to the...

NPP will not shy away from unpopular decisions- John Boadu

The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has stated that the party will not shy away from bold and unpopular decisions. ...

6% of Ghanaians have been fully vaccinated – GHS

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has indicated that 6% of the population has been fully vaccinated. Speaking on the Super Morning Show, on November 26,...

Fight at mortuary over hearse at Gomoa Akotsi; one feared dead

One person is feared dead after fight broke out at Adoko funeral home and mortuary at Gomoa Akotsi in the Central Region. According to reports,...

Retired Senior Police Officer banned from holding, obtaining driving license

A Circuit Court in Accra has banned a Senior Police Officer from holding or obtaining a driving license for 53 months after knocking down...

Prempeh College wins 2021 NSMQ

The much touted phrase ‘serving a living God’ by the Presbyterian Boys Secondary School did not materialise as God, instead decided to ‘Glory5’ Prempeh...

Funeral director shares little-known secrets of her job and odd burial requests

It seems not a day goes by when we don't learn something new on TikTok, with life hacks and behind-the-scenes footage being shared. A number...

KNUST lecturer remanded again over wife’s disappearance

The Asokwa Circuit Court has for the third time remanded the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) lecturer facing kidnapping charges following...

Prof. Atuguba to push for passage of anti-adultery Bill into law

A law lecturer of the University of Ghana, Professor Raymond Akongburo Atuguba, has hinted that he has approached some Members of Parliament (MPs) to...

Zoomlion top executives honoured at Women’s Choice Awards Africa

Two executives of Zoomlion Ghana Limited were honoured at this year’s Women’s Choice Awards Africa 2021. They were the Managing Director of Zoomlion Ghana Limited,...