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Video: Legon students mock ‘chalewote’ girlfriend

A video has emerged of some University of Ghana students making a mockery of a colleague lady who was recently in the news for...

Upper East Floods: Graveyards collapse, water sources possibly contaminated [audio]

Heavy and consistent rains in the Upper East region have flooded cemeteries in the area. According to reports, several caskets were lifted out of the...

Listen: Family recounts how police officers slashed innocent relative with machete to death

The family of a 33-year-old driver, who was allegedly butchered by six men claiming to be police officers, say Kofi Ampoma was killed an...

Policeman dies after falling off operational vehicle

Tragedy struck when a policeman fell off a police operational vehicle and died in an accident involving a civilian vehicle at the Trades Union...

ASEPA report recommends promotion for Yaw Adutwum, Godfred Dame as substantive ministers as they emerge as Best-Performing Deputy Ministers

The 2019 Ministerial tracking report by ASEPA which assesses the performance of Ministries and Ministers has cited Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Deputy Minister for Education...

Supreme Court dismisses Woyome’s application to pay judgement debt in installment

The Five–member Supreme Court panel, chaired by Justice Paul Baffoe Bonnie, has dismissed an application by Alfred Agbesi Woyome to pay the Gh¢46 million...

Families of Takoradi girls left stranded at Sekondi High Court

Families of the Takoradi Girls were on Wednesday left stranded for four hours at the Sekondi High Court on a day the court was...

Boxer in trouble over sex with minor

A 45-year-old Boxer accused of having sex with an 11-year-old girl at Otordzo, near Dansoman in Accra has been admitted to bail by an...

Refer all protocol port clearing to me – Prof Adei

Professor Emeritus Stephen Adei, Board Chairman,  Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has directed customs officials to re-direct all purported protocol clearance of goods to his...

Nurse opens up on being raped six times in a day

The issue of sexual harassment and abuse has become very topical in Ghana over the past few weeks. In the wake of the botched introduction...

23-year-old vulcanizer grabbed for alleged defilement of six-year-old

A Vulcanizer apprentice, who allegedly defiled a six-year-old girl at Teshie, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with defilement. Issac Duvor, 23, has...

Ken Ofori Atta, Hajia Alima and Cecilia Dapaah are worst-performing ministers in new ASEPA survey

A 2019 Ministerial Performance Tracking report launched by Alliance Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has indicted Ghana's sanitation ministry as worse-performing. The report, which...

Video: Police patrol team accused of beating man to death at Asante Akyem

A police patrol team has been accused of beating to death a 33-year-old man identified as Kofi Ampomah at Asante Adomfe in the Asante...

Video+Photos: Heavy rains leave 20 dead in Upper East Region

At least 20 people have died in floods across the Upper East Region in the last month due to heavy rainfall, the National Disaster...

Water shortage to hit Korle Bu, Dansoman, Gbawe, others – GWCL announces

The Ghana Water Company, (GWCL) has announced that water shortage will hit parts of Accra following a maintenance work scheduled to take place in...

Supreme Court directs AG, Amidu to collaborate in retrieving €47m for state

The Supreme Court has asked the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, to dialogue with the Attorney General to provide the needed information which will help...

Video: Efua Sutherland’s family threatens to withdraw name from Children’s Park

Parks are great places for children to make important connections with their parents, peers, and the environment. And playing outside, in the sands and sun, has...

Listen: Mother of tortured Miss Commonwealth pageant reacts

The mother of 24-year-old Nana Ama Essien who contested in the 2019 Miss Commonwealth pageant and was allegedly taken through 'trial by ordeal' over...

Listen: Akufo-Addo lauds, endorses NSMQ

President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has lauded and endorsed the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ), describing it as a healthy competition...

Video: Horrifying snake sacrifice found in front of woman’s shop

Most women would go extra length to protect their marriages from the snares of ‘side lovers’. An unidentified woman allegedly planted a sacrifice with snake...

Egya No. 1: MP to impress upon GHA to construct ramps after death of 4 children [Audio]

Member of Parliament (MP) for Mfantseman constituency is calling for the urgent construction of speed ramps and pedestrian crossing on the Cape-Coast-Accra Highway. Hon. Ekow...

US visa sanctions on Ghana may be lifted soon – Ambassador

The Ghana Mission in the United States of America (USA) has expressed hope that the US government will soon lift the visa restrictions sanction...

Fabewoso: GH₵2 million Ebenezer SHS dormitory left to rot [video]

A two million worth 18 –unit storey building for Ebenezer Senior High School (SHS) at Dansoman in Accra has been left to rot. The project, started by...

Miss Commonwealth juju saga: Fetish priest breaks silence [audio]

The fetish priest at the centre of the trial by ordeal of a contestant in the just ended Miss Commonwealth beauty pageant has described...

Most Ghanaians in US not registered with embassy – Ambassador

Ghana's Ambassador to the United States of America (USA), Dr Baffour Adjei Bawuah, has said most Ghanaians in the United States have not registered...

Gari fotor introduced into school feeding menu

A two-day nutrition training programme has been organised for caterers at Agona Bobikuma and Agona Kwaman in the Agona West Municipality in the Central...

Robber killed in gun battle

A suspected armed robber has been killed in a gun battle with officers of a police patrol team on the Obuasi-Dunkwa-on-Offin road. Ashanti Regional Police...

Video+Photos: Speeding driver kills 4 children at Egya No. 1

Four children have been killed by a speeding driver at Egya No. 1, a suburb of Anomabo along the Cape-Coast-Accra Highway. One other child, according to...

Four charged with stealing 40 tyres belonging to PDS

Four persons have been granted a GH¢50,000.00 bail with two sureties each for allegedly stealing 40 pieces of tyres valued at GH¢50,000.00 belonging to...

Man takes ‘a shit’ in front of Flagstaff House

Perhaps the most audacious and insulting act to the presidency, an unidentified man was spotted taking a dump in front of the seat of...

Nduom reacts to demo by Gold Coast Customers

Chairman of Groupe Nduom, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has expressed shock at the demonstration organised by customers of Gold Coast Fund Management over their...

‘Year of Return’ has been successful – Ghana’s Ambassador to US

Ghana's Ambassador to the United States (US), Dr Baffour Adjei Bawuah, says the 'Year of Return' has been a success more especially in the...

Watch: National service person confesses to impregnating neighbour’s maid

A National Service Person identified only as Stephan is in the news for the wrong reasons as he has confessed to impregnating a neighbour's...

Watch: Woman, 38, fights younger lover over child responsibilities

A 38-year-old woman, identified as Yaa Mansah, is fighting her younger lover, 31-year-old Rashid over his failure to cater for their nine-year-old daughter at...

94-year-old father of 100 marries four new wives

Nulu Ssemakula, a Ugandan man with more than 100 children and over 19 wives has expanded his already huge family with an addition of...

Man, 60, dead over ‘love’

A fisherman cum herbalist said to have been entrapped in a love triangle, has been found dead in what Ningo locals believe to be...

Photos+audio: Miss Commonwealth runner-up tortured in a shrine over missing GH₵500

A contestant in this year's Miss Commonwealth Ghana beauty pageant has narrated a chilling account of how she was allegedly tortured for what organisers...

SHS double-track system difficult to understand – Shatta Wale

Dancehall act, Shatta Wale, says he doesn’t understand the double-track system being implemented at various Senior High Schools (SHS) across the country. According to...

Aggrieved customers of Gold Coast Fund hit street over locked cash

Aggrieved customers of the defunct investment firm, Gold Coast Fund Management, have taken to the streets to demonstrate and present a petition to President...

IGP issues new directives to check extortion, unprofessional conduct in Police Service

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, has issued new directives to guide police traffic duties and highway patrols barrier duties among others in...