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Focus on domestication – GCPP urges govt

The leader of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr Henry Herbert Lartey, has stated that the country must focus more on production of...

Mahama, wife to commission maternity block at Bole to mark 30th marriage anniversary [Photos]

Former President John Mahama and his wife, Lordina, have paid a courtesy call on the Bolewura, Sarfo Kutuge Feso I at his Bole palace...

Amazon raises Prime subscription price

Amazon is to raise the price of its Prime service for UK customers. From September, monthly subscriptions will go up £1 to £8.99 and annual...

Screen Burkinabes in Ghana to prevent terrorist infiltration – Former Deputy Minister

A former Deputy Interior Minister, James Agalga, has asked authorities of the Ghana Refugee Board to thoroughly screen the Burkinabes who are seeking asylum...

Sack GES Director-General – NPP guru to Akufo-Addo

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr George Ayisi Boateng, has called for the dismissal of the Director-General of the Ghana...

Panic as boxer slumps and dies during training

A light-heavyweight boxer, identified as Miracle, has passed on after he slumped during a training match in Festac, Lagos. A source, who witnessed the incident, said:...

Police staff killed in ghastly accident

A Staff of the Ghana Police Service met his untimely death at Tema Community 25 Estate Junction on the Dawhenya stretch of the Tema-Aflao...

Husband flees after allegedly chopping off wife’s three fingers [Photo]

A young man identified as Robert Arhin is currently said to be on the run after allegedly chopping off three of his wife's fingers. Mr...

Irate Essipon residents apprehend cable thief

The alertness of residents of Essipon in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region has led to the arrest of a young man...

Luv FM journalists and driver attacked by purported security men of Sewua hospital

Two journalists and a driver of Luv FM, a subsidiary of the Multimedia Group Limited, have been attacked by purported watchmen of the Sewua...

Cancellation of road tolls: Deputy Roads Minister sets record straight

Deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, Stephen Jalula has explained that the government’s policy to cancel the collection of road tolls remains in force. His...

Police Officer who impersonated IGP granted GH¢100k bail

A Police Officer, who allegedly impersonated the Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare and Director-General of CID, COP Ken Yeboah, has been...

Four suspected armed land guards nearly lynched at Ashifla

Four persons suspected to be notorious armed land guards have escaped lynching at Ashifla in the Ga South Municipality. The men, armed with an AK-47...

K.T. Hammond’s wife appointed High Court judge

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed wife of Member of Parliament for Adansi-Asokwa constituency, Kobina Tahir Hammond Sahib, popularly called K.T. Hammond, as a Justice...

Inscribe late President Mills’ name on bust at Asomdwoe Park – Minority

The Minority in Parliament has expressed displeasure over the omission of the name of the late President John Evans Atta-Mills on the plaque placed...

NSS releases codes for 2022/2023 service personnel

The Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has released for registration a total of 127, 999 Pin Codes for eligible Ghanaians for the...

Contractors abandon major projects in Colleges of Education since 2016 – TTAG

The National President of the Teacher Trainees’ Association of Ghana (TTAG) Jonathan Dzunu has expressed worry over abandoned projects in Colleges of Education. Speaking at...

The state of economy is a painful one for me to report – Ofori-Atta

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has admitted that the Ghanaian economy is not in normal times. The situation, Mr Ofori-Atta, has blamed on the covid-19 pandemic...

Agenda 111: 87 hospitals at different stages of completion – Ken Ofori-Atta

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has revealed that about 87 hospitals under the government’s Agenda 111 initiative are under construction. According to him, about 87...

Free SHS under review or not: Ofori-Atta sets records straight

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said the Free Senior High School (SHS) and TVET education are not under review. Presenting the 2022 Mid-Year Budget...

Double your hard work to break the eight – NPP told

Okwahuhene, Daasebre Akuamoah Agyapong II, has admonished the newly-elected national executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to eschew differences to help the party...

Ghana records $1.43bn trade surplus in first half of 2022

Ghana recorded a trade surplus of $1.43 billion in the first half of this year, higher than the $886 million recorded during the same...

Man mauled to death by seven dogs

A 71-year-old man has died after being mauled by seven dogs on his way to his neighbourhood store, while the animals’ owner has been arrested. Freddy Garcia...

KNUST final year student shortlisted for $100k Chegg.org Global Student Prize

A final-year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been shortlisted among the top 50 individuals for the 2022...

Power theft: ECG disconnects power supply to Obaa hotel

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has disconnected Obaa’s Golden Plaza, a hotel operating at New Abirem in the Birim North District of the...

Full text: Ken Ofori-Atta’s 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review speech

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has presented the 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review to Parliament for approval. Below is the full statement delivered on July 25,...

Minority MPs chant ‘away’ as Ofori-Atta presents 2022 mid-year budget

The Members of Parliament (MPs) on the Minority side have chanted calls for the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, to resign. The call by the...

Ken Ofori-Atta sends important message to NABCO trainees

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has charged beneficiaries of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) to take advantage of the YouStart programme to build their...

Some Ghanaians frustrated as SIM card registration deadline beckons

Six days to the deadline for the registration of SIM cards, some Ghanaians have been left frustrated. A myriad of reasons have been hampering them...

Govt to re-introduce road tolls

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed government’s innovative strategy to raise funds to facilitate the construction, rehabilitation and extension of the Tema Motorway. According to...

Go and wipe my name from Atta Mills’ statue – Koku Anyidoho tells naysayers

Founder of the Atta Mills Institute, Samuel Koku Anyidoho, has sent a message to persons questioning why his name was engraved on a statue...

Koku Anyidoho reacts to Atta Mills’ name missing on new monument

Founder of Atta Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has reacted to late Prof John Evans Atta Mills' name missing on the new monument erected in his...

Man captured on video begging wife’s sister for s3x [Video]

A yet-to-be identified man has been captured on video begging his wife's sister for sex, before attempting to force her to sleep with him.  In a...

Finance Minister coming to mock God – MP on Mid-Year Budget Review [Video]

https://youtu.be/iHBuk0uxyow Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale Central, Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, has downplayed the content of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta's 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review later...

Trained nurses storm Parliament to demand urgent employment

Some aggrieved trained nurses have picketed at the Parliament House ahead of the presentation of the 2022 Mid-year budget review by Finance Minister, Ken...

Food shortage to hit Colleges of Education – TTAG

The Teacher Trainees’ Association of Ghana (TTAG) has indicated that, food shortage would be hitting the Colleges of Education (soon. Speaking at the Grand Durbar...

I pleaded with Mahama to erect tombstone on Mills’ grave – Koku Anyidoho

Samuel Koku Anyidoho, the founder of the Atta Mills Institute, has reacted to criticisms that he has arrogated the name former President John Evans...

Minority sends strong message to govt over Atta Mills’ statue [Video]

https://youtu.be/cKPk6puoNbw Minority in Parliament is furious with the government over the absence of late former President Atta Mills' name on a bust monument erected in...

Ghana to revert to May/June WASSCE

Ghana will revert to writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in May/June in 2024, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service...

Mahama commemorates 10th anniversary of Atta Mills’ death [Photos]

Former President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday commemorated the 10th anniversary of his former boss, John Evans Atta Mills. Accompanied by stalwarts and supporters from...