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Kwesi Pratt speaks on Ejisuman SHS viral video

 Veteran Journalist, Kwesi Pratt Junior, reacting to the deboardinisation of seven female students from the Ejisuman Senior High School (SHS), says it was a...

Child Rights Int’l calls for urgent reforms to address surge in SHS immorality

Child Rights International (CRI) is calling for an urgent reform in schools to address the surge in student impropriety in the country. Addressing a section...

Full document: NDC’s Energy Forum in Accra

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Wednesday held a forum on Ghana’s energy sector. The forum was addressed by John Jinapor and was themed, ‘State of Ghana’s...

Meteo Service warns of fire hazards during harmattan season

The Ghana Meteorological Agency has warned Ghanaians to be cautious during the harmattan season as fire outbreaks could be rampant. A statement by the...

Akufo-Addo appoints new Chief of Army Staff

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Major General Thomas Oppong-Peprah as the new Chief of Army Staff. In a statement signed by Eugene Arhin, the...

CHASS appeals for adequate funds for 2020 National Science and Maths Quiz

President of the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), Alhaji Yakub A.B. Abubakar, has hinted of the possibility of second-cycle institutions’ failure...

Bawumia presented truthful achievements at Town Hall meeting – Aide

Special aide to Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Gideon Boako, has described as ‘truth’ achievements presented by Dr Bawumia at this year’s maiden edition...

Audio: SHS students to enjoy free WIFI

Students in second cycle institutions across the country will soon enjoy free internet access. ALSO READ: Woman dumps sick husband, 4 physically-challenged children for another lover...

GIS denies Comptroller-General accident reports

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has dismissed reports which suggest that its Comptroller-General, Kwame Asuah Takyi, has caused an accident on the Suhum overhead...

Debt accumulation rate slowed to lowest in a decade – Bawumia

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) under President Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration has achieved the lowest debt accumulation rate...

Akufo-Addo’s govt best performer in cedi depreciation management – Bawumia

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, says the Akufo-Addo-led administration is the best performing government in the cedi depreciation management since 1992.   The Vice President...

South African elected first Secretary-General of AfCFTA

South African national, Wamkele Mene, has been voted as the first Secretary-General of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat (AfCFTA). READ THIS: Bawumia’s Town Hall...

Y’asem Nie: Surveyors reveal how fake people are destroying their work [video]

Some surveyors in the country have revealed how persons parading themselves as surveyors are hampering their work. Mr Kofi Obeng-Agyiebi and Mr Franklin Liggie-Kudonoo, chairman of...

NaCCA holds quality assurance review workshop on the New Common Core Programme

The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment NaCCA), has began a 5-day workshop in the Eastern Region to review the draft B7 to B10...

Bawumia’s Town Hall meeting ‘statistical galamsey’ – Kwakye Ofosu

A former Deputy Communications Minister under the erstwhile John Mahama administration has described Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s Kumasi Town Hall meeting as a statistical galamsey. According...

Duffuor, Asiama and 7 others granted GH¢60m bail

A former Finance Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, and eight others standing trial over the collapse of uniBank have been granted a GH¢60...

Security man dragged to court for accusing Minister of having extra-marital affair

An Accra Circuit Court has granted a GH¢30,000.00 bail with three sureties to a security man who allegedly verbally abused Fisheries Minister, Elizabeth...

Boy crashed to death at road construction site

A 12-year-old boy has been crushed to death at a road construction site in Zebilla in the Upper East Region. A pick-up vehicle belonging to...

Today in History – Hearts of Oak ranked 8th best club in the World

Today in History, exactly 19 years ago, Accra Hearts of Oak were ranked 8th best club in the World in the CNN/World Soccer weekly...

Speaker, Leadership of Parliament console Deputy Minority Leader

The Speaker, Reverend Professor Mike Oquaye, and Leadership of Parliament on Tuesday commiserated with Mr James Klutse Avedzi, the Deputy Minority Leader, on the...

Ofosu-Ampofo, Boahen’s trial adjourned to February 19

The Accra High Court has adjourned the trial of Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo and Anthony Kwaku Boahen, both Chairman and Deputy Communications Officer of the National...

Security man in trouble over verbal assault on MP [photo]

An Accra Circuit Court has granted a GH¢30,000.00 bail with three sureties to a security man who allegedly verbally abused Madam Elizabeth Afoley Quaye,...

Drinking Bar Operator jailed for noise making

The Nkawie Circuit Court has convicted a drinking bar operator who repeatedly played loud music from morning to dawn at her pub to disturb...

EOCO sent fertilizer sample for testing directly

COCOBOOD never sent fertilizer samples directly for testing but it was EOCO’s decision, Dr Yaw Adu-Ampomah, third prosecution witness in the trial of Dr...

Herbalist jailed five years for possessing human parts

A Cape Coast Circuit Court has sentenced Isaac Mensah, a 24 year old traditional medicine practitioner (Herbalist) to five years imprisonment in hard labour...

Ghana Health Service reacts to nurse’s murder

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Tuesday said it has received with shock the sad news of the murder of one of its dedicated...

Second cycle, tertiary institutions to be provided with free Wifi

Some selected Ghanaian Senior High Schools (SHSs) and tertiary institutions are to be provided with free Wifi services, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice-President,...

NCA orders shutdown of Radio Tongu in Sogakope

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has suspended the operations of Radio Tongu at Sogakope in the Volta Region “on the grounds of National Security...

Police guard accused of shooting resident in former Minister’s house

A policeman on guard duties at the home of former Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko, is reported to have allegedly shot and injured...

Wizard mysteriously trapped inside a locked car [photos]

Wonders never cease to end, as people of Ikhuewn community, BeninCity, Edo state are yet to come to terms with the story of...

Boy, 19, sets fire to girlfriend’s room after break up

A 19-year-old boy, Solomon Tetteh, has been arrested by the Police for setting fire into the room of his 28-year-old girlfriend, Abigail...

Two girls missing at Mallam, Gbawe

Two schoolgirls have been reported missing at and Gbawe, in the Greater Accra Region. According to a report from the Accra Regional...

Man accused of defilement tests HIV negative but victim tests positive

A 40-year-old cleaner is in the grips of the law following an accusation that he has defiled a 12-year-old girl at...

Police on manhunt for two who gang-raped 16-year-old

Police at Damongo in the West Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region are on a manhunt for two of three suspects who...

Taxi driver inflicts cutlass wounds on suspected rival [photos]

A taxi driver, said to have been driven by jealousy, has inflicted deep cutlass wounds on a man he suspected to be having an...

Man, 78, returns home after 26-year quarrel with wife

Some 26 years ago, Edward Mwangi, walked out of his home in Gikandu village in Murang’a after picking a quarrel with his wife. His first...

GHA announces road diversion ahead of Ashaiman underpass maintenance

The Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) will from Friday, February 21, 2020 commence maintenance work on the Ashaiman- Klagon underpass. The GHA announced the commencement...

Government to launch ECG credit mobile App

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed plans by government to launch a mobile application that will enable prepaid customers of the Electricity Company of...

Gov’t Town Hall Meeting: Bantamahene wants insecurity in Ashanti Region addressed [Audio]

Bantamahene, Baffour Owusu Amankwatia IV, has called on the government to immediately attend to the insecurity issues in the region. The traditional ruler is concerned...

Woman dumps sick husband, 4 physically-challenged children for another lover [Video]

A wife and mother of four physically challenged children, has left her family for another man. The four children; Kwabena, 20; Kojo, 15; Kwaku Tawia, 10,...