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Voters’ ID card registration: Check out all centres for phase 1, batch 2

The Electoral Commission (EC) has published the movement plan for the second batch of phase one of the ongoing voter registration exercise. The nationwide registration...

UN suspends 2 officials caught making love in its vehicle

The United Nations (UN) on Thursday said it had suspended two of its staffers for suspected sexual misconduct after a video clip surfaced last...

Driver’s mate suffers injuries in Kintampo highway accident [Video]

A driver’s conductor has sustained some severe injuries after the vehicle he was riding in was involved in a near-fatal accident on...

FBI releases the number of years Hushpuppi will spend in jail if convicted

Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, popularly known as Ray Hushpuppi, now faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in a United States (US) federal prison after being...

Carlos Ahenkorah’s campaign team member passes on …2 others receiving COVID-19 treatment

A member of Carlos Ahenkorah’s campaign team in the Tema West Constituency passed on on Thursday after he was rushed to the LEKMA Hospital...

NDC polling agent recounts how he was beaten at registration centre

“Hawa Koomson is a man, not a woman, because she has no compassion,” that was the statement made by a polling agent of the...

Luv FM’s Prince Appiah receives special recognition for 2020 IFAJ Star Prize Award

Luv FM’s Prince Appiah has been acknowledged with a special recognition award by the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) for 2020 IFAJ Star...

Covid-19: FDA warns against unauthorised rapid test kits

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is cautioning the public against the patronage of unauthorised Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) kits supposedly meant for COVID-19. According...

COVID-19: ‘More trouble’ for Carlos Ahenkorah over protocol breach

Pressure group, OccupyGhana, is calling for the prosecution of the Tema West Member of Parliament, Carlos Ahenkorah, for breaching the COVID-19 protocols. This comes after...

Y’asem Nie: Husband absconds after impregnating wife’s niece aged 13 [Video]

Comfort Adzidzi, an unemployed single mother of three children, has narrated how her husband of eight years abandoned her and their three children after...

Man covers his tricycle with mosquito net to protect himself against Coronavirus

A photo making rounds on social media has a man covering his tricycle with a mosquito net to possibly prevent himself from contracting killer...

Dubai Police, FBI agree to extradite Hushpuppi, partners to the US

Dubai Police has released a statement after it reached a consensus with Director of Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to hand over "notorious hacker"...

Carlos Ahenkorah’s driver tests positive for Covid-19

It has emerged that driver of former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah has also tested positive for the infectious Covid-19. ...

5-year-old girl sodomized at Sakumono [Video]

A 5-year-old girl has allegedly been sexually assaulted by a shop attendant at Sakumono in Accra. The girls family say the 16-year-old perpetrator sodomized their...

Nigeria: Law School audit uncovers unauthorised payments to ‘cleaner’

Several oddities have been uncovered in the financial records of the Nigerian Law School by the Office of Auditor-General of the Federation. The 2015 Audit...

Carlos Ahenkorah embarked on biological warfare – Segbefia

Tema West MP Carlos Ahenkorah has been accused of embarking on biological warfare after vising a crowded location despite being coronavirus positive. His resignation from...

MP Appiah-Kubi’s ‘boys’ deny being behind Wednesday’s gun battle

Supporters of the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante Akim North, Andy Appiah-Kubi, have denied media reports that they were responsible for the...

Kumasi Metro Mass staff strike over unpaid salaries [Video+Photos]

Commuters are stranded at Kumasi depot of the Metro Mass Transit following a decision by workers of the outfit to embark on...

Relive the interview that cost Carlos Ahenkorah his job

Sometimes it takes just a moment of letting down your guard for your whole world to come crashing. This was exactly the case when Philip...

Amma Frimpomaa donates water supply facility to Odumaseman Senior High School

The Girls Dormitory of the Odumaseman Senior High School, located at Odumasi in the Sunyani West Municipality in the Bono region, can now boast...

COVID-19 gaffe: Carlos Ahenkorah resigns!

The Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah has resigned from his position. This comes after he admitted breaching COVID-19 protocols by visiting a...

Man arrested for pushing 86-year-old from lift ‘to protect himself from virus’

A 72-year-old man has been arrested after pushing another, aged 86, from a Miami Beach apartment block lift, claiming he was protecting himself and...

Artist jailed for sexually abusing maternal granddaughter

A 32-year-old artist, who sexually abused his 13-year-old maternal granddaughter at La in Accra has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by Accra Circuit...

Carlos Ahenkorah to resign or be fired – Reports

Deputy Minister for Trade and Member of Parliament for Tema East, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah has been given an ultimatum by the President to resign or get...

2 remanded over attempt to sell 20-year-old Beninois

Two persons who allegedly lured a 20-year-old Beninois to Ghana to be sold at a cost of $160,000 to a Police Officer have appeared...

Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu re-appointed as Vice-Chancellor of University Of Ghana

The University of Ghana Council at its meeting held on 30th June, 2020, approved a second term for the Vice Chancellor, Professor Ebenezer Oduro...

Santasi robbery: Stabbed three-year-old girl dies (Photo)

Belonia Adusei, the three-year-old girl, who was knifed during a robbery incident at Hemang/Ampatia in Kumasi, has also died. Her death comes barely two weeks after her...

You made our politics interesting – Mahama mourns Sir John

Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress has joined scores of Ghanaians to mourn former boss of the Ghana Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie. According to...

Sir John’s brother speaks on his death

Father William Opoku Boateng, a junior brother to the late Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, affectionately called Sir John, says his brother was a man of...

Asiedu Nketia promises to ‘father’ Sir John’s family

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has promised to take over the family duties of his late friend and former...

Covid-19: Akufo-Addo grants amnesty to 794 prisoners

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has granted amnesty to 794 deserving prisoners in a bid to mitigate the dangers posed by congestion in Ghana's...

Asanteman pays tribute to Sir John

Tributes are pouring from across the length and breadth of Ashanti, the home region of Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John, who...

Prof Gyampo reveals Sir John’s message to him after NPP primaries

A political scientist with the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has showered praises on the late former General Secretary of the New Patriotic...

Hushpuppi handed over to United States for ‘fraud accusation’

Social media celebrity and his accomplice have been extradited to the United States of America (USA) after being arrested in Dubai last month. Raymond Abbas,...

Voters registration: Three Asawase NDC executives arrested [Video]

Three National Democratic Congress (NDC) branch executives at Asawase are in police grips over breach of protocols in the ongoing voter registration...

Akufo-Addo pens emotional tribute to Sir John [Read]

President Nana Akufo-Addo has penned an emotional tribute to mourn the death of late politician and lawyer, Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John. The...

Gunshots at Kasoa, NDC man injured at registration centre [Photos]

A polling station agent of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Awutu Senya East Constituency in the Central region, Ebenezer Tetteh, has been...

Togolese attempting to acquire voters’ ID arrested

Officers of the Ghana Immigration Service at the Pulimakom Border Post in the Upper East Region have arrested a Togolese for attempting to acquire...

Tears flow as mourners throng Sir John’s hometown [Video]

Following the death of Sir John, mourners have thronged his hometown, Sakora Wonoo of the Kwabre East District in the Ashanti region. Ghanaians were hit...

Tesla becomes the most valuable automobile company on the planet

Elon Musk's electric car business exceeds the value of almost every company in the S&P 500, including some iconic American companies. Shares of Tesla (TSLA) were up 4% in...