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Osofo Kyiri Abosom outlines major policies he intends to implement as prez [Video]

Founder and leader of Ghana Union Movement (GUM), Rev Christian Kwabena Andrew has, among many policies, hinted of legalising illegal mining, known in...

Ofoase-Ayirebi constituents pick forms for Oppong Nkrumah

New Patriotic Party(NPP) Polling Station Executives in the Ofoase-Ayirebi Constituency in the Eastern Region stormed the party office to pick Parliamentary Primaries forms for...

Missing Excavators: Arrested persons to be dealt with if found culpable – Information Minister

Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has assured of justice delivery in the over 500 missing excavators.According to the Minister, police investigations have already...

Finance Minister defends borrowing habit despite concerns raised by IMF and World Bank [Video]

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has mounted a defense for government’s incessant borrowing despite cautions from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank to...

Couple fake engagement to get free drinks from strangers in bars

An American couple faked a proposal just one month into their relationship to get free drinks from strangers in two bars.The pair, Adam Carroll...

Dep. Chief of Staff files to contest Bantama seat [photos]

The Deputy Chief of Staff, Francis Asenso-Boakye has filed his forms to contest as MP for Bantama on the ticket of the New Patriotic...

Woman, 21, mauled to death by lions

A young woman working at a game reserve has been mauled to death by lions.Swans van Wyke, 21, was performing her daily duties in...

Couple’s farm produce go waste after death of children

About 30,000 yam mounds belonging to a family that lost two children in a farm fire that claimed the lives of four children on...

US fund managers dominated Ghana’s Eurobond sale – Finance Ministry

Fund Managers from the United States of America dominated the recent sale of Ghana’s Eurobond. This was based on information JoyBusiness picked from persons that...

Textbooks are reference materials for teachers – Education Minister

The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, says no teacher should feel incapacitated because of the absence of textbooks."It should not be made...

Sarkodie apologises to Yemi Alade

Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie and Nigerian singer Yemi Alade seem to be patching things up after falling out two years ago.On Thursday, Sarkodie asked Alade...

Facebook and Twitter decline Pelosi’s request to delete Trump video

A fierce behind-the-scenes dispute between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and Facebook erupted into public view Friday, as the speaker’s office demanded that Facebook removes...

Opuni Trial: Witness names farmers who drank liquid fertiliser

Dr Yaw Adu-Ampomah, the third prosecution witness in the trial of Dr Stephen Opuni, the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COCOBOD and...

Joyce Bawa writes on Airbus bribery scandal

Ghanaians are still scratching their heads over who Government Official 1 and Intermediary 5 are after the Airbus Scandal that dominated the headlines in...

Trump fires two impeachment witnesses

United States (US) President Donald Trump has dismissed two senior officials who testified against him at his impeachment trial.The US envoy to the EU,...

Bekwai NPP supporters threaten to ditch party for Independent Candidate

Some New Patriotic Party (NPP) members at Bekwai, Ashanti region, have threatened to ditch the party for an Independent candidate if issues of forms...

19-year-old Nigerian nabbed for murder

A 19-year-old Nigerian is in the grip of the Amasaman police following the death of one out of nine Nigerian young men he brought...

Young Africans receive US$500,000 scholarship funding

General Electric (NYSE:GE) and the Africa Leadership University (ALU) have announced the commencement of the third cohort of the Africa Industrial Internet Programme(AIIP) aimed...

MPs clash over mass failure

There was heated debate in Parliament yesterday, on the mass failure of students who wrote the entrance examinations into the Ghana School of Law...

Ameen Sangari Company workers demand payment of salary arrears

Dozens of workers of Ameen Sangari Company Limited, the only manufacturing company in Cape Coast, have staged a demonstration to press home their demand...

Otumfuo helps Ghana to get $174m from World Bank

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has used his revered office to secure a mouthwatering financial package from the World Bank to support the transformation...

Court incarcerates driver for defiling 10-year-old girl

An Accra Circuit Court on Friday sentenced Anthony Nii Aryee, a 52-year-old driver to ten years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling a ten-year-old...

Techiman fake lawyer remanded in police custody

The Techiman Circuit Court has remanded the 34-year old self acclaimed lawyer, Iddriss Yahaya into police custody to reappear on Thursday February 13.In an...

Soldier jailed 20 years for incest

A serving soldier who had bouts of sex with his nine-year-old daughter until she attained the age of 15 has been sentenced to 20...

Missing excavators: Minister lodges money laundering charge against journalist, security chief and ex-NPP chair

Minister for Environment, Science and Technology Innovations (MESTI), Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, has requested the Police Service to probe three men allegedly engaged in...

CID intensifies probe over missing excavators

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has intensified its investigations into the six persons who were arrested over missing illegal...

Amendment of assets declaration law will help reduce corruption – Majority Leader

Parliament, through the amendment of the conduct of public officers law, seeks to enforce the assets declaration law binding public officials to publicly declare...

Koku Anyidoho reports fake Facebook account to police

The Founder and Chief Executive of the Atta Mills Foundation, Mr Koku Anyidoho, has filed a complaint at the Cyber Crime Unit...

Priestess narrates ordeal with abusive boyfriend [Video]

A fetish priestess with shrine name Asuo Kobi Komfo has narrated the physical and psychological torment she faces in her matrimonial home.Asuo Kobi Komfo...

Ghana risks being classified high debt distress country – World Bank, IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have cautioned Ghana against excessive borrowing amidst concerns the country risks being classified as a high...

Thieves raid police MTTD Commander’s office in Tema

Suspected thieves on Thursday allegedly broke into the office of the Commander of the Tema Regional Police Motor Traffic and Transport Department...

Tension at Buglana following chieftaincy dispute

There is tension at Yong in the Tamale Metropolis District of the Northern Region after a youth group visited the Buglana Palace to present a petition...

Adansi-Asokwa constituents eager for change – K.T. Hammond’s contender

Sammy Bimfo Darkwah, a New Patriotic Party parliamentary candidate for the Adansi-Asokwa Constituency in the Ashanti region, has declared he will be crowned...

Video: Policemen arrest fellow officers for collecting bribe

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8PGPECHuxQ/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_againA video making rounds online, captured moment some policemen arrested their colleagues for collecting bribe. The policemen attached to the Nigeria Police special squad 'Operation Puff Adder’...

Six months old baby summoned to appear in court

A six-month-old baby, accused of having collected €500 of excess rent, was summoned to a Brussels court.The baby was summoned by the justice of the...

OMESS dormitory fire suspect escapes from police custody

A student, suspected to have masterminded the fire that gutted Oppong Memorial Senior High School (OMESS) dormitory, has escaped from police grips.ALSO READ:Napo reveals...

Techiman fake lawyer remanded in police custody

The Techiman Circuit Court has remanded the 34-year-old self-acclaimed lawyer, Iddriss Yahaya, into police custody to reappear on Thursday, February 13, 2020.State...

MP calls for parliamentary inquiry into Airbus scandal

Member of Parliament for Assin South Constituency, John Ntim Fordjour, has asked for a parliamentary inquiry into the Airbus bribery scandal said to involve...

Man miraculously escapes death at Achimota overhead [Photos]

A man in his early 50s, Mr James Awudi, surviving an accident off the N1 Highway at the Achimota overhead stretch on Friday, February...

Govt, UG split ownership of UG Medical Centre

The impasse between the leadership of the University of Ghana and the government over the ownership and management of the University of Ghana Medical...