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Update: Death toll rises to four in Japekrom, Drobo clash [Photos]

The death toll following Wednesday’s attack on some youth of Japekrom in the Brong Ahafo Region has risen to four. The deceased persons, which include the...

Couple sell off day-old baby for N 250, 000

The police in River State have arrested a couple in the Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State, for selling their day-old baby for...

You’ll be arrested, detained – Donald Trump to illegal immigrants

United States President Donald Trump has insisted that immigrants entering the country illegally will be arrested and detained. US authorities have, for months, been separating...

Two jailed 18 years for defilement

A Circuit Court in Accra on Wednesday sentenced Richard Addo, a 25-year-old barber, to 10 years imprisonment for defiling a 12-year-old girl at Ashaley...

Video: Man shocks bankers as he storms uniCredit with mattress

A young man shocked staff and other customers of UniCredit Apenkwa branch in Accra when he showed up at the bank with his mattress,...

Facebook enlists ‘war room’ to combat fake election news

On Oct. 7, during the first round of Brazil's presidential election, Facebook employees noticed something suspicious on the social network. A story posted on the social...

MP calls for curfew in two feuding Brong Ahafo towns

The Member of Parliament for Jaman South is calling for a curfew to be imposed on Drobo and Japekrom following clashes between the two...

Youth Chief of Japekrom killed; residents threaten reprisal attack

The youth chief of Japekrom has been confirmed dead in a clash of his town with a neighbouring town, Drobo in the Brong Ahafo...

Aggrieved workers besiege Zoomlion regional office in Sunyani

Aggrieved workers of Zoomlion, a waste management and sanitation firm in the Sunyani Municipality on Tuesday besieged the regional offices of the company to...

One dead, 15 wounded as two Brong Ahafo towns clash

One person is confirmed dead while 15 others have sustained gunshots wounds in a clash between neighboring towns of Drobo and Japekrom in the...

Rejoinder: UEW students-teachers accuse management of national service scheme of fraud

The attention of the Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has been drawn to a ghanaweb online news article on 16th October, 2018...

China to launch a fake “moon” into space to light up city

China is to launch a fake "moon" into space that it hopes will illuminate one of the country's biggest cities. Officials in Chengdu, a city of 14...

Factories to be ready by 2020 – 1D1F coordinator

The National Coordinator for the One-District-One-Factory (1D1F) policy initiative, Gifty Ohene Konadu, has stated that the government is still working towards the realisation of...

Photos: Man caught inserting his penis into car exhaust pipe

A drunk man, Ryan Scott Malek has been arrested by the police for inserting his penis into a car’s exhaust pipe to derive sexual...

E/R: Mother, daughter drown as floods swallow five communities

A 54-year-old mother, Akosua Sawo and her eight-year-old daughter, Grace Sawo have drowned after a deluge of flood water swept their home at Akanteng...

Buah challenges gov’t to lock him, others up for “missing” choppers and stop propaganda

Energy Minister under the previous government has called the bluff of the current government, nudging it to go ahead and prosecute past officials alleged...

Fabewoso: 207 Companies evade GH¢666m tax [Video]

The host of Adom FM’s anti-corruption segment, Fabewoso, has revealed some 207 companies that keep their imported products in bonded warehouses have evaded import duties...

Photo: Woman kills herself after husband’s ‘death’

A man in China whose wife killed herself and their two children after he allegedly faked his own death for an insurance payout has...

Newmont farmers say they were ignorant over compensation agreement [Audio]

Farmers who staged a demonstration against Newmont Akyem Mines for a new compensation package following the takeover of their farmlands say they did not...

Photos: Newborn baby found dead in a well

The body of a newborn baby was found in a well in the northern part of Nigeria and it is believed to have been...

Photos: Properties worth thousands destroyed as fire razes down workshop

Properties worth thousands have been destroyed in Assin Fosu after a fire outbreak razed down a refrigerator repairing shop. The incident happened in the absence...

Prempeh College suspends 14 students for breaking bounds

Prempeh College in Kumasi has handed a two-week suspension to 14 students for leaving campus without authorization. The students were said to have sneaked out...

Grandmother charged with murder after baby was found stabbed and placed in hot oven

A grandmother has been arrested after her granddaughter was stabbed and placed into a hot oven. The baby was found on Monday night and Carolyn...

Awesome: Jaw-dropping ancient photos of Ghana you can’t afford to miss

These vintage pictures of 19th Century and 20th century Ghana will fill you with astonishment. The pictures, which appear with captions, are being shared on...

World Food Day : Traders plead for plantain processing factory to prevent thousands going waste

Plantain farmers and traders in the Assin Fosu Municipality of the Central region are pleading with President Akufo-Addo and investors to establish a plantain...

Audio: Kennedy Agyapong calls Kweku Baako “corrupt”, “fool”; threatens to strip him naked

Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong, has threatened to expose the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, whom...

Jackpot thieves jailed

A Circuit Court in Bekwai in the Ashanti Region has sentenced Yaw Danso, 22, and Francis Obeng, 17, to a total of 28 years’...

Marijuana is now legal in Canada

As of 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, adults will be allowed to carry and share up to 30 grams of legal marijuana in public, according to a...

Photos: Disturbing images of Enyan Abaasa Sec Tech students studying under street lights

Students of Enyan Abaasa Technical Institute in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam district of the Central region have been left in total darkness due to the absence...

Fresh shake-up in Police

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has reassigned 38 senior police officers in a recent reshuffle less than a month after appointing...

Photos: Brothers’ war over family god leaves one dead, another battles for life

A 25-year-old-man who has only been identified as Agbomor has butchered his brother at Adansi Brekete in the Ashanti region. The deceased, whose name is...

SAD: 62-yr-old prisoner whose bills were paid by Christian Atsu dies

A 62-year-old prisoner, Mama Theresa, whose surgery bills were paid by Black Star midfielder, Christian Atsu, has passed on days after the operation, Ghanaian football...

Akufo-Addo to commission NABCO recruits today

President Nana Akufo-Addo will today, Wednesday, officially commission recruits for the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) initiative. The program seeks to employ 100,000 of the country’s...

Nigerian sentenced for assaulting teachers

David Simon Chukwu, 45, a Nigerian based in Dzodze in the Volta Region has been sentenced to a fine of GH¢1, 800.00 by an...

Missing pianist believed to be buried by wrong family

A grieving Canadian family has accidentally buried the wrong body. It was an error that only came to light when the missing relative thought to...

Three dead in accident at Oboho

Three persons have died after a Truck carrying lumber was involved in the fatal accident at Oboho, a community near Anum Apapam in the...

GNAT appeals to MMDAs to construct teachers’ bungalows

The Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been urged to construct teachers’ bungalows in deprived communities to solve the residential accommodation problems facing...

Baako sues Kennedy Agyepong for defamation

The Editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper has brought a defamation suit against maverick Kennedy Agyepong, over claims the newspaper editor is corrupt. Malik...

Ken Agyapong shoots down CSS report, calls it bogus [Audio]

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has described the outcome of a research by the Centre for...

Passenger arrested for rubbing his sperm on a baby’s tongue

A man was, on Friday, arrested inside a Danfo bus for allegedly rubbing his sperm on the tongue of a baby whose mom was...