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AMA Health Inspectors shut public urinals at ‘circle station’ [Photos]

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly’s (AMA) Public Health Inspectors on Wednesday closed down public urinals at the Kwame Nkrumah interchange-Kaneshie-Ordorkor lorry park in Accra, for...

Boy, 4, suffers horror burns in explosion caused by dad

A four-year-old boy suffered horrifying burns in an explosion his father is accused of deliberately causing as he was angry his wife had left...

Minority in Parliament initiates move for review of 1992 constitution

Minority in Parliament has put together a motion demanding immediate steps to review the 1992 constitution. The motion, expected to be moved when the...

How Ghana Navy foiled attempted pirate attack on fishing vessel

The Ghana Navy on Monday, October 11, 2021, successfully foiled a piracy attempt on a Tuna Fishing Vessel, AFKO 805. They did so by warding...

Shiashie-Tetteh Quarshie road to be closed for repair works

The Shiashie-Tetteh Quarshie Interchange is expected to be closed to the general public from midnight on Friday, October 15 to Sunday, October 17, 2021....

Former Aviation Minister, Kofi Adda passes on

Former Aviation Minister, Kofi Adda, has died, Starr News has reported. The former lawmaker reportedly died Thursday dawn at a hospital in Accra after...

NDC quashes beleaguered Central Regional Communications Officer’s suspension

The Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has quashed the decision by the Central Regional Executive Committee to suspend its...

Prestea underground mine workers chase Management over unpaid compensation

Over one thousand workers of Prestea Gold Resources are up in arms with their Management over their unpaid compensation. The workers say said they have...

New Kejetia market plunged into darkness due to unpaid bills

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has disconnected power supply to the state-of-art Kejetia Market over accumulated debt. Commercial activities have been disrupted as the...

Man commits suicide after setting house on fire [Video]

https://youtu.be/g_-De_Fo8Rs A man, believed to be in his 30’s, has committed suicide after setting his family house on fire at Kpone in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality...

Man jailed for killing wife with cobra

An Indian man, who was convicted for murdering his wife by making a cobra bite her while she was sleeping, has been handed a...

Occupants escape unhurt as container falls on vehicle

Three occupants in a Toyota Camry vehicle escaped unhurt after a 40-feet container fell on their vehicle in Nigeria. According to the report by...

Saglemi Housing saga: New judge to takeover case

A new judge is to take over the case involving Alhaji Collins Dauda, a former Minister of Works and Housing and four others. This is...

Terrified woman flees home after finding 4ft python trapped in toilet

A woman was shocked after she went to use her toilet in the early hours of the morning only to find a snake in...

Judge summoned after being accused of failing to check bank balance in fraud case

A Nairobi court has summoned Kitale High Court judge, his wife, and his son to appear in court on November 12, 2021, in a...

Wilmar Africa Limited rewards winners with cars, ‘aboboyaas’ in ‘Akyedee Soronko’ promo [Video]

Wilmar Africa Limited, producers of Frytol & Fortune rice among others, has honoured its promise by giving out cars, tricycles (Aboboyaa) and presents among...

16-year-old motor rider, one other crashed to death at Agona Gyasi

Two persons on an unregistered motorbike have been crushed to death in an accident at Agona Gyasi on the Bawjiase to Agona Swedru Road...

Police officer in court for having inappropriate relationships with two women he met while working

A police officer has pleaded guilty to having 'inappropriate relationships' with two women he met while working. Paul Chadwick, who served as a constable with...

Police impound 344 motorbikes in Tamale

The Northern Regional Police Command has impounded about 344 unregistered and uninsured motorbikes as part of efforts to clamp down on criminal activities and...

Sunyani records 321 HIV cases within six months

The Sunyani Municipal Health Directorate has raised alarm about the increasing rate of HIV infections in the area. From January to June 2021 alone,...

Robbers attack students, passengers on Akatiso-Bonsu Nkwanta road

Three armed suspected robbers have attacked students, passengers, and drivers on the Akatiso-Bonsu Nkwanta road. The attack, according to reports, took place in the early...

NDC official accused of incest, abortion granted bail

Central Regional Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kwesi Dawood, has been granted bail by a Cape Coast circuit court. Mr. Dawood pleaded...

Three in court for allegedly stealing 10 AirPods and 15 iPhones

Three men were on Wednesday arraigned in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, Nigeria for allegedly stealing 10 earbuds, 10 Bluetooth speakers, and 15 iPhone...

Election 2020: Why NPP performed poorly in Greater Accra [Audio]

The Chairman of the Greater Accra Regional Branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Divine Otoo Agorhom, has said the party lost massively in...

Dad arrested after two-year-old son shoots mum in the head during Zoom call

The father of a two-year-old who fatally shot his mother has been charged over the woman’s death. Veondre Avery, 22, faces charges of manslaughter and failure to securely store...

GHS reacts to WHO’s approval of vaccines for children under 5

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said the widespread approval of malaria vaccines for children under five will be a major game-changer in the...

MFWA slams ‘discriminatory NCA’ over 133 approved licenses [Audio]

Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Suleiman Braimah, has said a statement by the National Communications Authority (NCA) on the...

Govt to freeze salaries of Govt Workers without Ghana Card

Government workers without the Ghana Card by December 1, 2021, will be denied their salaries, the Controller and Accountant Generals Department has announced. According...

Sierra Leone’s IGP pays courtesy call on Dr Dampare [Photos]

Dr Ambrose Michael Sovula, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) of Sierra Leone, has paid a courtesy call on the IGP, Dr George Akuffo Dampare....

Ofosu-Ampofo leaked tape trial back in court

The case of an alleged leaked audio recording of the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, is back in court...

Tragedy as man, wife, daughter, maid die after eating poisoned food

Tragedy struck in Ugbo Paul, a suburb of Abakpa Nike, in the Enugu East council area of Enugu State, following the death of three...

Man hires hoodlums to attack teacher for beating daughter

A 35-year-old man, Abidemi Oluwaseun, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly hiring hoodlums to attack a teacher...

Man dies just weeks after heart transplant he waited three years for

A 'gentle giant' died aged 25 just weeks after undergoing a heart transplant which he had spent three years waiting for. Liam Taylor, from Darlington,...

Mother jumps to her death with two kids in her arms

A mother allegedly jumped almost 200ft to her death with her newborn baby and toddler son in her arms, killing both children, say police. Olga...

Man kills son after the boy caught him eating in used diapers

A father killed his teenage son after being confronted over photos that showed the dad dressed in women's underwear and eating faeces from a...

GES clears air on SHS calendar

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has asked students, staff, and parents of the various Senior High Schools in the country to stick to the...

Blame parents for indiscipline in schools – Retired educationist

A section of the Ghanaian public believes the growing indiscipline among students can be attributed to educational regulation banning corporal punishment in schools. A retired...

Check out number of inmates on Ghana’s death row

By the end of the year 2020, there were 160 inmates including five females on Ghana's death row, Amnesty International (AI) Ghana Office has...

Court remands farmer for stealing goat

A Circuit Court in Sunyani has remanded a farmer, aged 26, into prison custody for stealing a goat worth GHC600.00 at Wawasua, in the...

4 arrested for allegedly stabbing teenager to death, injuring one other at Bomaa

Four people have been arrested at Bomaa in the Tano North District of the Ahafo Region after a confrontation led to the stabbing to...