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Families of Taadi girls meet IGP, demand independent DNA test

Families of the four Takoradi kidnapped girls confirmed dead on Thursday visited the Inspector General of Police (IGP), James Oppong Boanuh to request for the skeletal...

Police arrest, detain 5 suspected lotto scammers

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested and detained five persons suspected to be behind a nationwide lotto scam. Karim Mohammed, Nana Kwadwo, Yaw Baffour,...

Man stabbed to death for refusal to pay ‘sex worker’

Some youth resident at the Sokoban Wood Village in Kumasi last Thursday went on the rampage and set some wooden structures suspected to be...

4,310 employers dragged to court for defaulting SSNIT contributions

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has dragged 4,310 employers to court for defaulting on SSNIT payments of employees and other offences...

Businesswoman in court for defrauding 22 people

A businesswoman has been arraigned for allegedly defrauding about 22 people under the pretext of aiding their enlistment into the various security services. Anita Odoi...

Danger on N1 as major traffic light ‘disappears’ at Lapaz

Drivers, who usually ply Lapaz (Las Palmas) stretch on the N1 highway from Mallam-Nyamekye junction towards the Accra Mall, would realise that there are...

Watch: Pantang Hospital in distress

The Pantang Hospital is appealing to the public for support to aid it in the effective running of the hospital. Marking its mental health week celebration...

3 hostels near KNUST face legal action over toilet spillage

Three caretakers of private hostels near the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) face legal action over accusation that loo spillage from...

Video: John Dumelo carts garbage after clean up exercise

Popular actor and politician John Dumelo has been spotted pushing a refuse truck. The actor was seen in a video pushing the refuse truck after he...

Angry youth attack prostitutes after colleague’s demise at brothel

A brothel at Sokoban Wood village in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti region, has been set ablaze by some aggrieved youth after their colleague was...

Accra Book Fest 2019 opens, list of speakers out

The 2019 Accra International Book Festival was opened on Thursday with the Kwame Nkrumah Writers’ Workshop at the University of Ghana, Legon. The four-day Book...

Book Aid Int’l donates books to Eastern Regional library

Book Aid International as part of an annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and RELX has donated over two thousand books to the Eastern Regional Children's Library...

Law students sue AG, GLC over mass failures

The law students, who sat for the July 2019 Ghana School of Law entrance exam, have sued the General Legal Council and...

Drama as two pastors allegedly use same woman for same miracle

Trending Videos of two Nigerian Pastors allegedly using same woman for same miracle have gone viral on social media. ALSO: PDS fiasco: NPP man blasts...

Arrears of road contractors to be paid by government

The government has secured GHC 2.2 billion to defray part of arrears owed to road contractors which is the first time such bulk payment...

Ashanti: Police arrest fake ‘money doublers’, ‘lotto number experts’

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested five suspected fraudsters during an operation undertaken by officers at the Tafo-Pankrono Divisional Police Command. The suspects; were...

Inventor accused of conning farmers by promising to bring the rain

David Miles, an Australian inventor who has been peddling weather modification technology for almost 20 years, has been accused of preying on desperate farmers...

Man who specialises in stealing instruments in churches slapped with 3-year jail term

Kwame Owusu, a 23-year-old driver in Kumasi has been jailed for three years for stealing musical instruments from different churches. The GNA describes him as...

Photos: Pupils forced to sit on bare floor to learn

Pupils of Buya D/A Primary School in the Kpandai District of the Northern region, who are forced to sit on bare floors to learn...

Report lecturers who invite you to cook for them – Governing Board chair

Kwabena Sarpong, chairman of the Governing Board of Baldwin University College, has urged female students of the university, to as a matter of urgency,...

74-year-old landlady fined GHC480 for failing to provide toilet facility

The La District Magistrate court has handed a fine of ¢480 to a 74-year-old landlord for owning a house without a toilet facility. Madam Rachael...

PDS fiasco: NPP man blasts MCC over $190m withdrawal

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Constituency Chairman for New Juaben North in the Eastern Region, Kwadwo Boateng-Agyemang, has chided the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) over...

GFA Elections: Check out new Division 1 reps on ExCo

Ghana Football Association's elections for the positions of presidency and Executive Committee memberships are ongoing and early results coming in have put some known...

PDS brouhaha: Kennedy Agyapong praises NDC’s Sammy Gyamfi

Controversial New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central,  Kennedy Agyapong, has heaped praises on Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer of the...

SHOCKING: How barbers dispose of hair at the barbering shop (Video)

Ever wondered how your hair is disposed of after a haircut? Well, a barber with over 20 years experience has made a staggering revelation. Yesu...

Interpol to chase Safari Bet for client’s GHS 57 million

An Accra High Court has given a default judgement that will make it possible for Interpol to chase Safari Bet, wherever they may be...

Calls to prosecute persons involved in PDS fiasco are misguided – Franklin Cudjoe

The Founding President of think tank, IMANI Africa, has said calls for the prosecution of officials involved in the Power Distribution Services ...

Photo: Woman, 71, grabbed with wee

A 71-year-old woman, Abena Abuyaa, and her accomplice, Kwadwo Kinto, alias Ghana Boy, have been arrested by the police for allegedly dealing in Indian...

Audio: Chief assaulted for seizing timber from illegal chainsaw operators

The Krontihene of Nwomoasi, a suburb of Atebubu, Nana Kwame Tutu, has accused some police officers at the Atebubu District Police Command of assaulting...

Accra Kanda Rotary Club improves sanitation at the Kanda AMA basic school

The Rotary Club of Accra, Kanda branch has donated some veronica buckets, hand washing soaps as well as napkins to the Kanda AMA Basic...

Five arrested and ordered to desilt gutters for engaging in open defecation

A sanitation monitoring  taskforce in the Gomoa  East District  sub-metro  at Gomoa  Buduburam in the Central region  has arrested five people for allegedly indulging...

Heart-broken fiance marries his girlfriend’s corpse during her funeral

A Chinese man has married his partner’s corpse during her funeral to show his devotion to her after she died from breast cancer in...

PDS saga won’t affect Ghana-US relations – Oppong-Nkrumah

Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said the termination of the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS) won’t affect Ghana’s relations with...

Photos: Man dies a day after lying in a coffin to take pictures

A 21-year-old man has reportedly died just a day after lying in a coffin to take pictures. According to reports, pictures of Isaac Terkende from Benue...

Shocking video of woman spraying Insecticide Spray on meat for sale pops up

A woman has been captured in a viral video spraying insecticide mosquito spray on meat in the open market for sale. ALSO: Statement: US Embassy...

Suspected T’di girls kidnapper charged with human trafficking

Samuel Udeotuk-Wills, the prime suspect in the kidnap and murder of the three girls in Takoradi, has been charged with human trafficking...

KTI students sell school gate to scrap dealer

Some students of Kumasi Technical Institute have dislodged their school’s gate and deposited it with a scrap dealer for a bargain, Ghanaweb reports. The metal...

Late Council of State member laid to rest

The Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday, 23 October 2019 represented President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the people of Ghana at...

Rawlings applauds $1m penalty against fishing company

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has commended the fisheries authorities for slapping a whopping $1 million penalty on a fishing company for contravening Ghana’s fishing laws. The...

Court adjourns NAM1 case, prosecutor out of jurisdiction

An Accra Circuit Court has adjourned the case involving the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, also known as NAM 1,...