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NMC appoints new boards for state-owned media

The National Media Commission (NMC) has appointed new governing boards for public corporations, managing the four state-owned media. They are the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Ghana...

Man killed during fight over dog meat

It has emerged that a 46-year-old man has lost his life in a fight over dog meat at Assin Atweneboanda in the Assin North...

Without E-levy govt cannot pay workers – PNC General Secretary

General Secretary of the People's National Convention (PNC), Mrs Janet Nabla, has reaffirmed that the government will be incapable of paying the salaries of...

YouStart programme to commence in April – Ken Ofori-Atta

The government has completed the piloting of its flagship YouStart programme and says it is ready to be rolled out in April this year. According...

Damba festival lights up Obuasi amid rich display of culture

The entire mining town of Obuasi went agog as hundreds of people from all walks of life troop to the Zongo Play Grounds to...

Kadjebi residents left without electricity after Monday’s rainstorm

Residents of Kadjebi Akan in the Oti Region have had to live at least three days and counting without electricity to major parts of...

Private legal practitioner sends SOS message to Barker-Vormawor’s lawyers

A private legal practitioner is baffled at the legal procedures being adopted by lawyers of embattled FixTheCountry Movement convener, Oliver Barker-Vormawor. Nana Adjei Baffour Awuah...

I don’t want coup in Ghana; God forbid it – Effah-Dartey [Audio]

Private legal practitioner, Captain Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey (rtd), has said he never wishes for a coup to occur in Ghana again. The former Deputy Minister...

Suspected armed robber lynched at Denkyira Abuakwa Nkwanta

A suspected armed robber has been lynched by residents of Denkyira Abuakwa Nkwanta in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region. The...

Police roll out community policing nationwide

The Police Administration has decided to expand community policing to all district police commands across the country. This is a significant scale-up of the concept...

Woman killed in road accident at Sewuah Junction [Video+Photos]

A young lady has died in an accident involving a sprinter bus that collided with a stationary commercial minibus at Kumasi’s Sewuah Junction. Two...

Chief, 8 others arrested for alleged murder of man over dog meat [Video]

The Chief of Assin Atwereboanda, George Ahiato, and eight others have been arrested in connection with the death of one Daniel Akoto who was...

Buffer Stock truck transporting flour to schools involved in accident

A truck transporting flour from the National Buffer Stock to Senior High Schools (SHS') has been involved in an accident at Akyem Asiakwa in...

Passengers laud Ghana Card process at Kotoka Airport

Ghanaian passengers who were admitted into the country for the first time with the Ghana Card, instead of passports, have described the system as...

Germany donates vehicle to Narcotic Commission

The German government has presented a customised Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vehicle valued at €77,000 to the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) at the Ministry of the...

Staff of 3 state institutions to be prosecuted for misappropriating Covid funds

The Director-General of the Internal Audit Agency (IAA), Dr Eric Oduro Osae, has revealed that staff of three state institutions will soon be prosecuted...

Pupils escape death as school building collapses at Assin Dawomako [Photos]

Six pupils from Assin Dawomako D/A Basic School in the Assin South District of the Central Region have escaped death after a nine-unit dilapidated...

High Court judge sentences bank cleaner to 25 years for role in ¢600k robbery

A Cape Coast High Court, presided over by Justice Kwasi Boakye, singled out a bank cleaner in a robbery of ¢600,000 and gave him...

17-year-old herdsman gunned down at Sibiriso

A 17-year-old Fulani herdsman, Sani Mohammed, has been gunned down at Sibriso, a village near Kwamekrom in the Biakoye District of the Oti Region. The...

Presidential spouses emoluments: Supreme Court sets date to give ruling

The Supreme Court has scheduled May 4, 2022, to offer its verdict on the payment of allowances to the First and Second Ladies of...

Coup plotters’ roles revealed

An official of the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) on Monday told an Accra High Court about how the 10 persons standing trial for allegedly...

Supreme Court strikes out suit against Prof Avoke’s reinstatement

The Supreme Court has struck out a suit challenging the reinstatement of Professor Mawutor Avoke as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba...

Suspects who allegedly killed, burnt TV repairer arrested

The Central East Regional Police Command has arrested three suspects in connection with the death of a TV repairer. The charred body of Francis Dawson...

Continuously keeping Barker-Vormawor in custody needless and petty – H. Kwasi Prempeh

Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Prof. Henry Kwasi Prempeh, is unimpressed about how #FixTheCountry Movement convenor is being treated...

Freelance journalist rearrested

Freelance journalist, Sacut Amenga-Etegu, who was discharged by the Criminal Court Division 5 in Accra on Tuesday has been rearrested again by the Police....

Wives, your husband is the boss don’t provoke them – Duncan-Williams

Wives must not fight or challenge their husbands since God gave authority to men as the head of the family, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has...

Ga Mantse makes historic visit to ancestral home [Photos]

The Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II has visited his ancestral home in Nigeria. He visited the Ile-Ife palace where he met the Arole...

Ukraine crisis: Some Ghanaians students unwilling to return home – Foreign Affairs Minister

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayokor Botchway, has revealed some Ukraine-based Ghanaian students have expressed unwillingness to return to Ghana....

Inject more dollars into economy – BoG urged

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has been urged in the short term to inject more dollars into the economy to address the depreciating cedi. According...

NASCO Feeding Minds donates desktop computers to Gindabuo schools

NASCO Feeding Minds donated 32 desktop computers to schools at Gindabou during a launch of a new ICT centre in the Sawla district, Savannah...

4 missing children found dead in Yeji lake

A search launched for four missing children has come to an end as their bodies have been discovered in the Volta Lake at Yeji. The...

Some Ghanaians in Ukraine say they don’t want to return – Ayorkor Botchwey

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has revealed that there are some Ghanaians in Ukraine who have indicated that...

Ukraine crisis: About 500 Ghanaians have crossed to neighbouring countries – Foreign Ministry

The Foreign Affairs Ministry has disclosed that as of March 1, about 500 Ghanaians have been evacuated from Ukraine to neighbouring countries. The Ministry said...

2022 Green Ghana Day launched

Government has set up a target to plant 20 million trees this year as part of the green Ghana day initiative. The trees, according...

Man who dated ‘maame water’ for 3 years at Odorkor shares shocking story [Video]

A young man named Kalida has disclosed how he spent three years with a lady who took him through a spiritual journey at Odorkor,...

Over 60 motorbikes impounded at Gomoa Buduburam [Video]

The Central East Regional Police Command has impounded over 60 motorbikes in a swoop at Gomoa Buduburam in the Central Region. The exercise is...

I’m fit – Henry Quartey dismisses illness reports

The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, has urged Ghanaians to disregard media reports suggesting he has been sick. According to him, he is fit...

Over 500k Ghanaians are divorced – Census report reveals

The latest data from the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) have revealed that 553,065 persons in Ghana have had their marriages dissolved while...

Police kill highway robber on Bolgatanga-Nyariga road; others on the run

Police in the Upper East Region have gunned down a suspected robber during a shootout at the Nyariga Forest along the Bolgatanga-Nyariga stretch. The Police team, while...

Drummer jailed for defiling minor in church office

A 26-year-old church drummer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for defiling a six-year-old girl on the church premises at Laterbiokoshie in...