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Nigerian army general shot dead in attack

A senior Nigerian army officer has been shot dead by gunmen while travelling from the central city of Lokoja to the capital Abuja. Maj-Gen Hassan...

One suspect in Canadian girls kidnapping case identified

Elvis Ojiyorwe, a suspect standing trial with three others on kidnapping charges, was identified by one of the Canadian girls abducted in Kumasi in...

More pressure should be placed on Privileges Committee to bring Kennedy Agyapong to book – Ken Ashigbey

The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications Chief Executive Officer, Dr Ken Ashigbey, has called for stringent measures to be taken against Assin North Member Parliament...

First Lady returning allowances sign of high emotional intelligence – Kpebu

Private Legal Practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has lauded the decision by the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, to reject and refund emoluments paid to her. Her decision...

Reporters Without Borders calls for prosecution of Kennedy Agyapong

Reporters Without Borders has urged Ghanaian authorities to prosecute Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Agyapong, for threatening a journalist with The Multimedia...

The 18-year-old boy who won’t grow [Photos]

He has never kicked a ball, never made friends, nor nursed a teenage crush. He has never seen the four walls of a classroom. His...

I don’t do ‘galamsey’ but I have party friends who are … [Video]

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, John Boadu, has outrightly dismissed claims of his involvement in illegal mining locally known as galamsey. According to...

Three perish, others injured in accident on Obuasi – Dunkwa highway [Video+Photos]

https://youtu.be/m0Fndq-7BU8 Three people have been reported dead in an accident at Ampunyasi Nkwanta on the Obuasi-Dunkwa highway. The accident involved a Samreboi bound Kia Grandbird bus...

Thieves raid Assemblies of God Church; bolt with musical instruments

Thieves have raided a local Assembly of the Assemblies of God Church at Ogome at Odumase Krobo in the Eastern Region. They made away with...

Bird Flu hits Accra, Central and Volta Regions

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has announced the outbreak of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza disease, also known as Bird Flu, in three...

Akufo-Addo should condemn Kennedy Agyapong’s attacks on Erastus Asare Donkor – Dr Wereko-Brobbey

A policy analyst has asked President Akufo-Addo to publicly condemn the Assin Central MP, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong’s life-threatening attack on Luv FM journalist, Erastus...

Group calls for dismissal of presidential staffer over abusive sexual comments

A woman empowerment organisation, Damsel Foundation, has called on President Akufo-Addo to dismiss one of his staff, Nana Hesse Ogyiri over alleged abusive sexual...

3 grabbed for possessing firearms

The Rapid Deployment Force unit of the Volta Regional Police Command has arrested three men in possession of firearms and other ammunition. Laptops and...

Finance Minister to present mid-year budget review on July 29

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, is expected to present the Mid-Year Review of the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of government and Supplementary Estimate for...

KNUST students protest high hostel rent, petition management

Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have embarked on a demonstration against what they described as, ‘killer increment’ in...

Ken Agyapong calls bluff of Privileges Committee

The Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has called the bluff of Parliament’s Privileges Committee and is asking them to do...

Four reported dead, others injured in accident involving 3 cars

Four persons have reportedly died with others injured in an accident involving three cars on the Obuasi Anwiankwanta-Kumasi road in the Ashanti Region. The accident...

Stanbic Bank, IGP reward police officer who returned GH¢2,000 [Photos]

Stanbic Bank Ghana has rewarded a police officer who found GH¢2,000.00 discharged by the bank's ATM at Abeka Total with nobody in sight. Constable Prince...

President Akufo-Addo commissions National Mosque complex

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Friday commissioned the National Mosque of Ghana Complex at a brief ceremony at Nima. The edifice contains a grand mosque which...

Pirates on rampage in Gulf of Guinea – Abducts Ghanaian fishing vessel crew

Pirates have abducted nine crew members of Ghanaian-registered fishing vessels in separate attacks off the Gulf of Guinea. Five abductees in the first attack have...

All set for #FixTheCountry demo

The #FixTheCountry demo has finally been scheduled for August 4, 2021, which happens to be the Founders' Day holiday. The planned protest was in...

Chief Psychiatrist proposes use for allowances refunded by 1st and 2nd Ladies

Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr Akwasi Osei, has appealed to the government to donate the allowances refunded by Ghana’s 1st...

I was not kidnapped, I went into hiding – Apinto Gyaasehene tells police [Video]

The Western Region chief who disappeared after threats to assassinate him has broken his silence to the police. Western Regional Police Public Relations Officer, DSP...

AMA demolishes unauthorised structures at temporary ‘fishing bay’ at Jamestown

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has removed unauthorised structures at the Dogo Beach which serves as a temporary fishing bay for the fisherfolk at...

Where are last year’s ‘pasco’ you bought for WASSCE candidates? – MoE asked

Sekondi-Takoradi Zonal Chairman of the Ghana Private Schools Association, Charles Mintaba, is demanding from the Ministry of Education what happened to the past questions...

Kumchacha breaks silence on Moesha’s ‘spiritual awakening’ [Video]

Prophet Kumchacha has finally had his say on actress Moesha Boduong's recent trend where she was videoed sharing the word of God. According to the...

26-year-old man who defiled girl, 9, imprisoned

A Tamale Circuit Court has sentenced one Abdul Jbril Alhassan to 10 years imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old girl. The court heard that the 26-year-old...

‘Pay or Die’ documentary: Taifa Polyclinic exposed! [Video]

Ills at the Taifa Polyclinic in Accra have been exposed in a follow-up story after the Pay or Die documentary that uncovered rot in...

Cocaine disguised as charcoal worth up to $41 million seized by police

Cocaine disguised as charcoal with a potential street value of up to 35 million euros ($41.4 million) has been seized in a joint operation...

Parliament approves $28million car loan for MPs [Audio]

Parliament has approved the $28 million car loan presented by the Finance Ministry to facilitate the purchase of 275 vehicles for members of the...

Social media users roast Odartey Lamptey’s ex-wife after court ruling

There is rage on social media over the latest decision by the Appeal’s Court to throw out a request for claimant of a property...

Pirates on rampage in Gulf of Guinea – Abducts Ghanaian fishing vessel crew

Pirates have abducted nine crew members of Ghanaian-registered fishing vessels in separate attacks off the Gulf of Guinea. Five abductees in the first attack have...

Watch Funny Face direct traffic in latest video

A video of comic actor, Funny Face directing traffic on a busy road in Accra has warmed the hearts of many Ghanaians. In the video,...

Bank’s Chief Security Officer jailed over stolen laptops

A Chief Security Officer attached to a branch of Ecobank Ghana Limited, who stole two laptops from the Bank, has been sentenced to 15...

Moving from subsistence farming to mechanized darling – Heifer Ghana report shows way

Heifer International has launched its 'The Future of Africa's Agriculture' report with a focus on an assessment of the role of the youth and...

Military brutality at Wa: We’re looking for facts – Parliamentary Select Committee

The Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Defense and Interior has stated that the committee’s objective in Wa is not to accuse anybody...

TB Joshua’s successor: Synagogue Church sets records straight

The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) is asking the general public to disregard reports making rounds on social media about an alleged 'succession...

Haiti First lady breaks silence, gives details of assassination

The wife of assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise has spoken for the first time since gunmen stormed the couple’s home in Port-au-Prince, saying the attack that...

Kennedy Agyapong, members of Defence and Interior Committee meet IGP [Photos]

Members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and Interior, led by the Chairman, Kennedy Agyapong, have paid a visit to the Inspector-General of Police...

Missing Apinto Gyaasehene found [Audio]

The Western Region chief who disappeared after threats to assassinate him has been released by his captors. Dr Nana Adarkwa Bediako III who is the...