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Editor’s home at Greda Estates burgled, CCTV destroyed, laptop, phone stolen

The Greda Estates home of the Managing Editor of the Day Break Newspaper, Prince Prah, was on Wednesday dawn broken into by suspected robbers. The...

Ministry of Information cautions against fake recruitment portal

The Ministry of Information has cautioned the public against what it has described as a fake 2021 protocol e-recruitment portal. The portal is purported to...

Canadian girls kidnapping case: 3 guns, 52 live ammunition tendered in evidence

The prosecution in the trial of four men accused of kidnapping two Canadian girls in Kumasi has tendered in evidence. This includes three pistols and...

Taxi thief arrested

A 23-year-old man who attempted to rob a Kia Morning vehicle on the night of 19th July 2021 around Kpeshie Lagoon in Accra is...

Policewoman found dead in her car

A female police officer, Chief Inspector Victoria Ntowaah, has been found dead in her vehicle at Asokore Kobriso in the Ashanti Region. The car of...

Truck kills three women at Agona Swedru

A truck has run over three women at 99 Junction in Agona Swedru in the Central Region.The deceased are Edna Etison, 18; Issah Wasila,...

19-year-old lady narrates how her baby daddy abandoned her after pregnancy

Teenager and mother of one, Paulina Blay, has revealed that she had to name her child in the absence of her baby daddy because...

Chief in court for allegedly impregnating girl, 15

A Chief has been arraigned before the Koforidua Circuit Court for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 15-year-old girl. Mark Koranteng, 65, Dademantse of Mpanmu near...

Police send strong message to public over unauthorized discharging of firearms

The Police in the Eastern Region has arrested four young men for possessing and discharging firearms and ammunition without permission at Sekesua in the...

Las Palmas eatery shutdown over unsanitary conditions

Environmental Health Officers of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly have shut down the Las Palmas restaurant over sanitation breaches. This follows a visit to the Kwame...

Covid-19: Ghana records 342 cases in two days

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says the country’s Covid-19 active cases have increased by 342 within two days. According to the Service in its latest...

Doctor busted for clandestinely housing and treating robbery suspect

A doctor, George Dziblewo, based in Yeji of the Bono East Region, is in the grips of the police for allegedly housing a robbery...

Meet Acting Director-General of Prisons Service

President Akufo-Addo has appointed Isaac Kofi Egyir as the Acting Director-General of the Prisons Service effective Sunday, August 1, 2021. Until the appointment, Mr Egyir...

COVID-19: Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana expresses worry over increasing cases

The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has expressed concern over the increasing number of new cases of Covid-19 over the past few weeks. The PSGH...

Allotey Jacobs eulogies COP George Dampare [Audio]

Former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is elated at the appointment of COP George Dampare as the Inspector General of...

Two arrested over Aboabo Aboabo Eid-ul-Adha shooting

Two persons have been arrested in connection with a shooting incident at Aboabo No. 2 in the Asokore Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region. This...

Court orders 37 Military Hospital to pay over ¢1m for medical negligence

An Accra High court has fined the 37 Military Hospital an amount of ¢1,075,000 for medical negligence which resulted in the death of a...

Kumasi Girls’ SHS final year students allowed to go home after protest

Final year students of the Kumasi Girls Senior High School (SHS) in the Ashanti Region have been allowed to go home for their mid-semester...

Three dead, others injured as truck rams into walkway

A truck has run over three women at 99 Junction at Agona Swedru in the Central Region. The deceased are 18-year-old Edna Etison, Issah Wasila,...

Fraudsters inject 800 Ugandans with water instead of Covid shots

At least 800 people in Uganda received fake Covid-19 vaccines in June from “unscrupulous people” as employers rush to inoculate workers amid a spike...

Robbers allegedly drop letter to notify residents of an upcoming operation [Video]

Everyday in Abuja comes with its own drama, and that which was witnessed on Wednesday morning is an unusual letter in a building complex. Per...

Covid-19: We warned about third wave months ago – GMA

The Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) and a member of the Infectious Diseases Committee, has said that the third wave...

Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa gets PhD at 75

In 2005, the then almost 60-year-old George Ayisi-Boateng told himself it was never too late to go back to school for higher educational qualifications. If...

Covid: Half of Australians in lockdown again to fight Delta outbreak

Anger is growing in Australia as 13 million people - about half the population - endure fresh lockdowns to quash Covid outbreaks. A third state...

Rare photo of Ofosu-Ampofo’s mother warms hearts [Watch]

The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has given Ghanaians a peak of his family life with his latest post. The NDC stalwart...

Sputnik V Vaccine deal: Agyeman-Manu must resign or be sacked – CSO

The African Center for Health Policy Research and Analysis believes the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, must no longer be at post after he side-stepped...

Ghana Armed Forces: Check-out number of applicants shortlisted in Volta and Oti Regions

The Military Command has shortlisted some 3, 000 applicants from the Volta and Oti Regions for screening as part of an ongoing recruitment exercise. The...

One injured as notorious gang clashes with police at funeral

One person sustained injury from a gunshot during a shoot-out with Police from Asesewa District Command in the Eastern Region. The gang of four suspects,...

Hitz FM’s Doreen Avio to host ‘Ghana Party in the Park’ UK

Radio and television goddess, Doreen Avio, is billed to co-host the 16th edition of ‘Ghana Party in the Park’ UK slated for July 24,...

Ejura: Economic Fighters League donates GH¢11k to affected families

The Economic Fighters League has donated, through fundraising, GH¢11,120 to families affected by the Ejura disturbances. The presentation was made when a four-member delegation,...

Pastor dies as his uncompleted church building collapses

The pastor of Divine Light Prophetic Mission in Ikorodu area of Lagos State, Pastor Daniel Obasi, has died after his two-storey building under construction...

Armed robbers shoot nurse in the face in Bolgatanga

A nurse with the Bawku West District Hospital has been shot dead by armed robbers on the Bawku-Bolgatanga road in the Upper East Region...

COP George Dampare named acting IGP

The presidency has appointed COP Dr George Akuffo Dampare as Ag. Inspector General of Police (IGP) with effect from August 1. He takes over from...

John Mahama fills Ghanaians’ eyes with tears again

Former President John Mahama has left social media users in tears with his post to mark the birthday of late President Atta Mills. Prof. Mills...

Brother of 16-year-old killed in Eid-ul-Adha celebration speaks [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Brother of 16-year-old killed in Eid-ul-Adha celebration speaks Issah Abdul Wasid, the brother of a 16-year-old boy, who was hit by a stray...

Four arrested for unlawful possession and discharge of firearm

The Police in the Eastern Region have arrested four young men at Sekesua for possessing and discharging firearms and ammunition without permission. The four, who...

6 UGBS professors named among Ghana’s top 100 lecturers

Six professors of the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) have been named as part of the top 100 lecturers in the country. The World...

Eid-ul-Adha: History remade as Catholic priest storms mosque for prayers

History was recorded in a Mosque in Ogun State, Nigeria when a Catholic Priest showed up for prayers, one of its kind. Marking this year's...

Watch world’s richest man Jeff Bezos go to space and back in 11 minutes [Video]

Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, went to space and back Tuesday morning on an 11-minute, supersonic joy ride aboard the rocket and capsule...

Police deny assault on Kumasi Girls SHS students

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has denied claims of assault on rioting students at the Kumasi Girls’ Senior High School (SHS). Some students of the...