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Teacher jailed 3 years for defiling 9-year-old girl

The Awutu Ofaakor Circuit Court has handed a three-year sentence to the teacher who defiled his nine-year-old pupil at Kasoa in the Central Region.The...

Man gets banned by all-you-can-eat restaurant for eating too much

Jaroslav Bobrowski, a young Ironman triathlete from Germany, was recently banned by an-all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant for eating around 100 plates of food, something the...

The Indian tribe that deals in venom

I didn’t know that the cobra could be so awe-inspiring.A few years ago, when I travelled through the dry, thorny scrublands of South India,...

Odd but true: Woman gives birth annually with or without sex in CR [Video]

A young woman from Kwesigyan No 1 in the Ajumako Enyan district near Mankessim in the Central Region, Joana Hayford, claims she has given...

Odd but true: Woman gives birth annually with or without sex in CR [Video]

A young woman from Kwesigyan No 1 in the Ajumako Enyan district near Mankessim in the Central Region, Joana Hayford, claims she has given...

Odd but true: Woman gives birth annually with or without sex in CR [Video]

A young woman from Kwesigyan No 1 in the Ajumako Enyan district near Mankessim in the Central Region, Joana Hayford, claims she has given...

Okada rider killed, dumped in uncompleted building [Audio]

A 30-year-old motorbike rider has been murdered by some unknown persons at Buduburam Estate in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region.The body,...

MCE charges teachers to support children to excel academically

The Municipal Chief Executive for Asante Akim Central, Susan Akomea has asked teachers to show compassion for school children and handle them with all...

South Africa legalises marijuana

Pro-marijuana activists cheered in the public gallery and chanted “Weed are free now” when the Constitutional Court gave its landmark ruling.In a unanimous ruling,...

Fabewoso: Asuogyaman District Assembly buys one desktop for GH₵4000 (VIDEO)

Assembly members at the Asuogyaman district assembly in the Eastern region are up in arms with the District Chief Executive, Samuel Kwame Agyekum over...

Only short-minded Ghanaians are complaining about Economic hardships – Mr Kusi Boafo

"This government is performing creditably well, it is on course and it is only short-minded Ghanaians who are complaining".Those are the exact words of...

Shatta Wale on suicide mission; nearly beheads himself

Twenty-seven-year-old Akwasi Offi, popularly known as Shatta Wale, nearly beheaded himself with a sharp knife at Nsuaem 2 in the Bosom Freho District of...

Audio: Husband of murdered prepaid vendor begs police for corpse

Husband of the prepaid vendor who was murdered at Awoshie, a suburb of Accra is appealing to the police to release her corpse for...

SHS 3 student who hid gun in luggage arrested

A final year student of Erimon Senior High Technical School in the Lawra Municipality of the Upper West Region is in the grips of...

Photo: Wanted drug dealer stabs man for stealing his cocaine

A 38-year-old man who has been on the police wanted list for dealing in cocaine has stabbed a 24-year-old man in the head with...

Comparisons with NDC in cedi depreciation is admission of failure – UG don to Bawumia

A professor at the University of Ghana (UG), Ransford Gyampo, has taken a swipe at the Akufo-Addo-led government for comparing the current state of...

9-year-old girl defiled and left to ‘rot’

A distraught family at Adjen Kotoku in the Greater Accra Region is calling for justice after their 9-year-old class four pupil was defiled by...

Spio-Garbrah shoots down decision to securitise GETFUND; says it shows limited range of thinking

A former minister of education and flagbearer contender of the National Democratic Congress, Dr Ekow Spio-Garbrah has described the decision by the government to...

‘Ignore fake NAM1 audio about Menzgold’

The general public has been urged to disregard reports circulating on social media to the effect that the Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Ghana...

Technician remanded for sexually molesting girl aged four

A 22-year-old Air Condition Technician who allegedly sexually molested a four year old girl at Ashaley Botwe was on Tuesday remanded into Police custody...

Businessman jailed 25 years in absentia for defilement

Muntalla Mohammed Binlard, a businessman who defiled a seven-year-old girl at Nima has been sentenced to 25 years in absentia by an Accra Circuit...

4 female residents of Unity Hall sanctioned for accommodating male student

Halls of residence at tertiary institutions are known to be places where students have the absolute freedom to move around at any time, but...

6.8m Ghanaians poor — GSS report

A report on ‘Trends of Poverty and Inequality’ in Ghana has revealed that based on 2017 population projections, a total of 6.8 million people...

Why we are dragging Mahama, Julius Debrah to Amidu – Centre For National Affairs explains

A pressure group known as the Centre for National Affairs (CNA) has explained why it has petitioned the Office of the Special Prosecutor to...

COPEC calls for dialogue on escalating fuel prices

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC-Ghana) is calling for a stakeholder-dialogue on the recent fuel prices in the country.Speaking on Asempas FM’s Ekosii...

itel mobile launches latest S13, S33 smartphones across markets

Smartphone company, itel mobile, has launched its latest Selfie series Smartphones, S13 and S33 across the sub-region.According to PRO of itel Mobile in Ghana,...

Man worth £34,000,000 paid lawyers £100,000 to say he can’t pay ex-wife £200,000

A businessman worth £34,000,000 says he cannot afford to pay his former wife more than £200,000, a court has heard.The man, who is based...

Buipewura Celebrates 10th Anniversary

After ten years of his reign as an overlord, the Buipewura, Mahama Jimapor II has launched his 10th anniversary since taken over the skin...

Photos: 60 year-old man, son drown in river Offin

A 60-year-old father and his son have drowned in river Offin after the canoe they were crossing on to their farm capsized at Nnerebehi...

Help improve our finances – Felix Annan petitions Normalization Committee

Goalkeeper of Asante Kotoko, Felix Annan, has petitioned the Normalization Committee to help raise the standard of living of local players to make them...

Photos: Fuel prices up at pumps

There’s resentment in parts of the country as up to 3.5 percent fuel price increases take effect at the pumps today, crossing the dreaded...

Developing youth in Asuogyaman remains a priority – District YEA boss

Newly appointed District Director of Youth Employment Agency (YEA) for Asuogyaman, Marvin Akonor has assured youth in the district that his outfit will train...

School feeding settles all arrears to caterers

The Greater Accra Regional Coordinator of school feeding programme, Christiana-Lovia Nkansah, says the secretariat has settled all arrears to caterers.A third of the number...

Cedi depreciation: we have fixed the fundamentals – Oppong Nkrumah

Minister of Information designate, Kwadwo Oppong Nkrumah says the government has fixed the fundamentals of the economy to sustain the strength of the cedi.According...

Anas receives $11,000 journalism excellence award in India

Ghana's undercover investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has been awarded 2016  Excellence in Print Journalism at the 10th KCK Award for Excellence in Journalism.A...

Police arrests 6 persons focused on stealing church instruments

Police in the Eastern Region have arrested 6 suspects at Kwahu Bepong and Mpreaso for their alleged involvement in series of church break-in’s and...

Unemployed jailed 10 years for defiling minor

A Circuit Court in Accra has sentenced a 25- year old unemployed man to 10 years imprisonment for defiling and impregnating a 14-year old...

Parents, Imam and others in trouble for marrying off 12-year-old girl

Six persons, including an Imam, who forced a 12-year-old girl into marriage at Abeka Zongo, Accra have been put before court.The victim’s parents, together...

Bryan Acheampong Foundation supports over 14,000 pupils from 115 basic schools

FOURTEEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX pupils FROM 115 basic schools in Kwahu East have received free  uniforms from Bryan Acheampong Foundation as...

7 students killed in head-on collision in Tarkwa

Seven people, all students have been reported dead in a gory accident involving a truck carrying manganese and a Mercedes Sprinter mini bus at...