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Renewable Energy Challenge: Walewale SHTS develops biogas digester for sustainable farming

Walewale Senior High Technical School has developed a biogas digester designed to support hydroponic farming while simultaneously generating renewable energy. The system utilises organic waste...

Muntaka recounts Omane Boamah’s reluctant helicopter flight and tragic death

Minister for the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, has shared details of the late Dr. Edward Omane Boamah’s deep reservations about using helicopters, a mode of...

Helicopter crash: Media guidelines issued for August 15 state funeral

The Presidency has released arrangements for media coverage of the state funeral for the eight victims of the August 6 helicopter crash, scheduled for...

Date for Asantehemaa’s one-week observance announced

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has announced preparation for the one-week observation of the late Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III, scheduled for Thursday,...

NPP opts out of Tamale Central by-election

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has announced that it will not participate in the Tamale Central Constituency by-election to elect the successor to the...

Presidency to announce prophecy hotline soon

In the wake of the Ghana Armed Forces helicopter crash on Wednesday, which claimed eight lives, including Defence Minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah and...

JOSCO Principal appeals to gov’t to complete stalled projects

The Principal of St. Joseph College of Education (JOSCO) in Bechem, Ahafo Region, Dr. Isaac Godfred Antwi, has called on the government to prioritise...

Residents of Mepe appeal for modern market and lorry station

Residents of Mepe in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region are appealing to the government and development partners for the construction of...

Reviewing prophecies is Biblical, not a threat to religious freedom – Afriyie Ankrah

Presidential Envoy for Interfaith and Ecumenical Relations, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has defended government’s call for religious leaders to submit sensitive prophecies that concerns the...

Asutifi North Education Directorate worried about children roaming streets

The Asutifi North Education Directorate in the Ahafo Region has expressed concern about the rising number of schoolchildren seen roaming the streets of Kenyasi...

Don’t ignore prophecies – Speaker Bagbin advises

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has called on Ghanaians to take genuine prophecies seriously and not dismiss spiritual warnings from credible religious leaders. Speaking at...

Susuanso roads get facelift as NADeF steps in

The Newmont Ahafo Development Foundation (NADeF) has begun reshaping deteriorated roads in Susuanso, a community in the Ahafo Region, aiming to ease the transportation...

Why use national tragedy for self-promotion? Prof. Asante slams prophetic claims after helicopter crash

Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, former Chairman of Ghana’s National Peace Council and past Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, has expressed deep concern...

It’s populist – Former Peace Council Chair on prophecies directive [Audio]

Former Chairman of the National Peace Council and past Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Ghana, Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, has criticised the...

Teacher Safo Kantanka writes: Tale of Asantehemaa, Nana Ama Konadu Yiadom III

Nana Ama Konadu Yiadom III was born in 1927 to the 13th Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem III (1977-2016), and Opanin Kofi Foffie,...

Helicopter crash: Former Presiding Bishop urges better emergency services

Former Chairman of the National Peace Council and former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Ghana, Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, has spoken critically...

Former Peace Council Chair calls for psychological support for families of helicopter crash victims

Former Chairman of the National Peace Council and former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, has stressed the urgent...

Peter Anala’s widow breaks down during wreath-laying ceremony [Watch]

The widow of the late Squadron Leader Peter Anala was overcome with emotion during a solemn flower-laying ceremony at Jubilee House on Monday. Dressed in...

INCEDI 2025 opens with call for context-specific education reforms in global south

The 2025 International Conference on Education and Development Initiatives (INCEDI) opened with a call to tailor education reforms in the Global South to the...

Atuabo Gas Processing Plant to shut down for maintenance from August 16 to 30

The Ministry of Energy and Green Transition has approved a scheduled maintenance shutdown of the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant from August 16 to 30,...

Asantehene convenes emergency Traditional Council meeting at Manhyia Palace

Scores of paramount, divisional, and sub-chiefs from across the Ashanti Kingdom have gathered at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi for an emergency sitting of...

Tima Kumkum Foundation partners with SYA Black Empowerment Network to raise G6PD awareness in Canada

The Tima Kumkum Foundation, in collaboration with the SYA Black Empowerment Network (Canada), held a powerful advocacy program on Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) awareness at...

Private Employment Agencies support Nima Police with 100 chairs 

The Ghana Association of Private Employment Agencies (GHAPEA) has donated 100 plastic chairs to the Nima Police Criminal Clearance Section, Headquarters Annex, to improve...

Crew escape unhurt in another helicopter emergency landing in Adansi

Another helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing at Mensonso, near Obuasi in the Adansi District of the Ashanti Region. The Member of Parliament...

Public invited to send tributes for helicopter crash victims

The Funeral Planning Committee has invited the public to submit messages of condolence and heartfelt tributes in honour of the eight victims of the...

Mepe chiefs and residents mark 69th Afenortor Festival in mourning of helicopter crash victims

The chiefs and people of Mepe in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region celebrated this year’s 69th Afenortor Festival in 2025 under...

Helicopter makes emergency landing again at Nkawkaw [Video] 

A helicopter with registration number 9G-AFW made an emergency landing on Monday morning at Ampekrom, a suburb of Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region. This incident...

Helicopter crash: Volta Regional Coordinating Council holds vigil in memory of victims

On the night of 10th August 2025, the Volta Regional Minister, James Gunu, the Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC), and residents of the Volta...

Fire destroys four shops in Bibiani

A devastating fire gutted four shops in Nantwikumye, a suburb of Bibiani in the Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai Municipality of the Western North Region. The blaze,...

IGP promotes two officers for rescuing robbery victims

Chief Inspector Patience Kotoka has been recommended to join the next Police Cadet Course at the Police Academy to be commissioned into the Senior...

Ho Central MP hails late Dr. Murtala Mohammed as distinguished historian

The Member of Parliament for Ho Central, Richmond Edem Kofi Kpotosu, has described Dr. Murtala Mohammed as a distinguished historian, during a solemn period...

Wholesome Mind Xperience to lead rebuild of Accra Psychiatric Hospital Ward

Ghana’s premier mental health advocacy summit, the Wholesome Mind Xperience, returned on 10 October 2025 with a renewed purpose. This year’s edition marked a major...

Titus Glover recounts near-death experience on flight

Former Deputy Transport Minister and ex-MP for Tema East, Titus Nii Kwartei Glover, has shared a harrowing near-death experience he survived while on official...

Obogu: NDC donates GH₵60k to families of accident victims and Saviour Church

The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, on Saturday, August 10, led a delegation to console families of 16...

Prioritise child health in development agenda – Eastern Health Director

The Eastern Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Damien Punguyire, has called on citizens, stakeholders, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to place child health at...

Assemblies of God Church proposes state support packages for families of helicopter crash victims

The Assemblies of God Church, Ghana, has called on the government to establish dedicated support schemes and award packages for the dependants of the...

HIV does not kill, stigma does – Ghana AIDS Commission

The Ghana AIDS Commission has stated that People Living with HIV (PLHIV) do not die from the virus itself, but from the stigma society...

Video of Omane Boamah’s last moments stirs emotions

A video showing the last moments of the late Defence Minister, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, has surfaced on social media, leaving many Ghanaians in...

Ghana records 18 new Mpox cases, total hits 346

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed 18 new cases of Mpox, bringing the total number of infections nationwide to 346. The death toll remains...

Tolomedzi residents live in fear over hippopotamus invasion

Residents of Tolomedzi, a fishing community in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti Region, are living in fear following an invasion of hippopotamuses...