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BBC to axe 450 newsroom jobs in cost-cutting drive

Britain’s BBC said on Wednesday it would axe 450 jobs from its news division in a restructuring designed to cut costs and change the...

Truck crashes into building at Aboabo in Kumasi [photos]

A 28-year-old man is receiving medical attention at the Manhyia Government Hospital in Kumasi after the articulated he was driving, crashed into a storey...

Mobile Money Interoperability records impressive growth in value, volume

The Mobile Money Interoperability (MMI) platform recorded a whopping 317% growth in volume of transaction and 267% value of transaction between 2018 and 2019.This...

Cost of 307 ambulances revealed [Audio]

Minister for Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has pegged the cost of each of the 307 new ambulances procured at $133,000.According to...

University of Ghana Alumni Association honours Multimedia Group CEO

The Leadership of the University of Ghana Alumni Association has honoured Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Multimedia Group, Kwasi Twum.Vice President of the...

Curfew on Bole township lifted

The Ministry of Interior has lifted the curfew imposed on Bole and its environs in the Savannah region.This follows the resolve by the chiefs...

Fire engulfs Metro Mass bus on Tema Motorway [Video]

Fire has engulfed a Metro Mass transit bus on the Accra-Tema Motorway near the Ashaiman under-bridge.Though the cause of fire is yet to...

Good news for businesses, as RGD reviews two key requirements

The Registrar-General’s Department (RGD), in its quest to improve the ease of doing business in Ghana, has abolished some two key requirements before a...

Y’asem Nie: How a bank manager duped doctor to the tune GH¢92,000

A medical doctor has narrated how a branch manager of a reputable bank in Ghana duped him of GH¢92,000.00 in seven days.According to...

Y’asem Nie: Doctor narrates how a pregnant woman died due to lack of beds [listen]

A medical practitioner (name withheld) has narrated how a seven-month-old pregnant woman died as result of lackadaisical attitude portrayed by some health professionals in...

Teacher uses mobile phone to teach ICT

The Assistant Head Teacher of Bosuso D/A Junior High School (JHS) at Fanteakwa South District in the Eastern region, has been using his...

Just in: Court throws out application to search Sammy Gyamfi’s phone, Facebook records

An attempt by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to annex the phone records of the National Communications Officer of...

Ghana needs land cruiser-type ambulances, not these – ACHP [listen]

Executive Director of health policy think tank, the Africa Center for Health Policy, Research and Analysis, Dr Thomas Anaba, has described the new ambulances...

Court stops Opuni’s lawyer

Attempts by lawyer for the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr. Stephen Opuni, to cite a witness...

Akufo-Addo asks Diplomatic Corps to report corrupt officials

President Akufo-Addo has asked members of the Diplomatic Corps to report any of his appointees who engage in acts of corruption for the necessary...

Over 10,000 government employees to have their salaries stopped

A payroll audit by the Auditor General has uncovered that over 10,000 employees have either no justification or sufficient information to continue drawing salaries...

Man, 52, jailed for defiling 3-year-old girl

A 52 year old unemployed, who defiled a three-year-old girl at Apatrapa New Site, near Kumasi, has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by...

Kasoa Cops killer’s bill of indictment not ready – Police

Prosecution on Tuesday said the Bill of Indictment of Eric Kojo Duah, the man who allegedly shot and killed two Police officers on the...

Ghana announces 112 as new general emergency number

Ghana has launched a new general emergency number to replace the current emergency numbers for the various emergency service providers in the country.Effective today,...

13-year-old girl claims her 10-year-old boyfriend got her pregnant

In a controversial case that has been the talk of a whole country these last few days, a 13-year-old girl went on TV to...

Court remands suspects in Kpatinga conflict

A Tamale Circuit Court has remanded into prison custody five persons arrested in connection with the chieftaincy disturbances that broke out at Kpatinga in...

Accra Academy on fire again

Parts of the Accra Academy School near Kaneshie has been engulfed in fire.The fire started at Alema Hall, is reported to have started around...

Indonesia unveils new flogging squad

The masked woman nervously approaches her target, shuffles into position and then unleashes a flurry of lashes -- proving herself as the newest member...

Listen: It’s impossible to mix marijuana with faeces – Rastafarian debunks NACOB’s claim

A Rastafarian has debunked claims by the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) that some youth smoke marijuana mixed with dried faeces.ALSO READ:Kobe Bryant’s fans petition...

Audio: Chief to fine parents whose teenage girls get pregnant

The chief of Ayensu Adze in Gomoa Central, Nana Akyirpanyin IV, has introduced a fine as a measure to end the increasing rate of...

Ministry of Finance gives clearance for ambulance service recruitment

President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced the Finance Ministry has given clearance for the recruitment of 1,477 Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs).According to President Akufo-Addo, the...

I couldn’t walk the next day – Woman, 80, talks about her first sexual encounter with toyboy

Iris Jones, the 80-year-old British pensioner who is planning to marry her 35-year-old Egyptian toyboy despite the age difference between them, has opened...

307 ambulances: EMT dazzle patrons with emergency response demonstration

Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) on Tuesday, as part of the commissioning and distribution of 307 ambulances, put up impressive mock emergency response performances.The EMT,...

Avoid excessive partisan debates ahead of December polls – Speaker to MPs

Speaker of Ghana's Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye, has urged Members of Parliament to refrain from excessive partisan debates in the run-up to the 2020...

Dompoase accident: Family members fall on psychologist to break news of death of parents to children [Listen]

Family members of a man who died with his wife and eight months old baby in the Cape Coast-Takoradi Highway accident say they will...

Measures put in place will keep Ghana safe from coronavirus – GHS

Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Franklin Asiedu Bekoe, has described measures put in place to avert the spread...

Oil prices fall by 10% as coronavirus raises fears for global growth

China's coronavirus outbreak has rattled oil markets, sending prices sharply lower as investors worry that efforts to prevent it from spreading will harm the country's...

AMA arrests man for open defecation

A man in his mid twenties, identified only as Lukeman, has been arrested by the public health officers of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA)...

Coronavirus: Ghanaian students in China bemoan living conditions

Ghanaian students in China, following the outbreak of Coronavirus in the country, are lamenting about how the epidemic is affecting living conditions.Ghanaian students in...

307 ambulances Commissioned [Photos]

The 307 ambulances, procured by the Akufo-Addo-led government, have been commissioned at the Black Star Square in Accra.This is in fulfillment of the Akufo-Addo-led...

Coronavirus: Ridge, Tema General Hospitals named management centres

The Ministry of Health has announced the Ridge Hospital and the Tema General Hospital as centres to manage possible cases of coronavirus in Ghana.The move, according...

Railway service bounces back in Takoradi/Tarkwa after 12yrs break

For the first time in 12 years, a passenger train from Takoradi to Tarkwa has commenced operation.The transport service has been out of operation...

Woman ‘completely humiliated’ after being ‘banned’ from flight over outfit

A woman was "completely humiliated" after she was almost denied boarded a flight because of her outfit.Andrea Worldwide was stopped by a male employee just as...

Today in history – Achimota College was formally opened

Prince of Wales College and School, later Achimota College, was founded in Achimota, Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1924 by Dr James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, Rev....

Provide Ambulance bays or we’ll deny you – Minister to MMDCEs [listen]

Minister for Special Development Initiative, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has threatened the possible retainment of ambulances from constituencies with no ambulance bays.The Minister’s threat follows observation by...