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From village icon to global acclaim, the story of a soaring young Ghanaian

It’s no mean feat to be recognized by the most powerful countries in the world and the most influential leaders especially when you are...

Some Lawyers now conduits of bribes – Nene Amegatcher

Former president of the Ghana Bar Association and Supreme Court Judge Nominee, Mr Nene Amegatcher has admitted to claims that some Lawyers collect bribes...

Ghana stripped of hosting rights for Women’s AFCON 2018

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has stripped Ghana of the hosting rights of the 2018 African Women's Championship (AWCON) in November. With just three...

Snake slithers into Arkansas school, bites principal

A snake that turned up in an Arkansas second-grade classroom ended up biting the principal, a former Arkansas State Parks employee. Lisa Graves, a second-grade...

Dr. Paul Boafo elected new Presiding Bishop of Methodist Church

The Rt. Rev. Michael A. Bossman was also elected as the Administrative Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana. Paul Kwabena Boafo was born at Asankrangwa...

Boy, 17, caught sleeping with a pregnant sheep

A 17-year-old Junior High School student, Emmanuel Owusu, has been caught allegedly sleeping with a pregnant sheep at Asante Agogo in the Ashanti region. The...

Photos: Bawumia returns from Hajj

Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has arrived in Accra on Sunday from Mecca, Saudi Arabia after performing this year's Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj. He was...

Four Chinese caught mining in Ashanti Region forest

Four Chinese nationals have been arrested for mining deep in the Apontosu forest in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region. They were rounded...

Woman arrested for lacing husband’s dinner with tramadol

An adulterous wife, Madam Janfuah, is in the grips of the police for allegedly lacing her husband’s food with tramadol in order for him...

Committee set up to plan Kofi Annan’s funeral

A nine-member committee has been set up to plan the funeral of late UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The committee to be chaired by a diplomat...

Akufo-Addo applauds renaming Ho Technical University after Ephraim Amu

President Nana Akufo-Addo says the decision by the Governing Council of the Ho Technical University to rename the institution after the great Ghanaian cultural icon,...

Victim of Manso Nkwanta brutal police shooting laid to rest

One of the seven persons killed by the Police in Manso Nkwanta on suspicion that they were armed robbers has been laid to rest,...

Kufuor decorated with highest national award of Liberia

Former President John Kufuor was on Friday conferred with the highest national award of Liberia, The Collar of State – Most Venerable Order of the...

Did Chief Imam try to stop Anas’ #12 documentary?

It has emerged the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu, may have tried to persuade undercover Investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, not...

Audio: I’m empty – SDA pastor breaks silence

The Dansoman District pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church, Pastor Ato Kessie who lost five members of his immediate family in last...

Presby Church rejects calls for churches to pay taxes

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) has rejected the recent calls for Churches to pay taxes on tithes, pledges and...

Corruption eroding gains of government intervention programmes

Mr. Richard Quayson, Deputy Commissioner of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has said public expenditure exaggeration by people entrusted with...

Isaac Dogboe demolishes Hidenori Otake in one round

Isaac Dogboe’s first WBO super bantamweight title defense was on course as he stopped Japanese veteran Hidenori Otake in the first round. Otake went down twice before the...

Fake doctor arrested during abortion on 17-year-old final year SHS student

Fifty-nine-year-old fake doctor who has operated for over 20 years has been grabbed by the Kwabenya District Police with the help of Medical and...

Photos: Funeral for Dansoman fire victims underway

A funeral service for the family of five including a two-months-old baby who died in a fire outbreak at Dansoman, a suburb of Accra...

Man, 27, sodomises grandmother for ‘sakawa’ money

Akwesi Eshun, a 27-year-old man from Tarkwa in the Western Region, has allegedly sodomised his 70-year-old grandmother. Details available to Nyankonton Mu Nsem have it that,...

Did Chief Imam try to stop Anas’ #12 documentary?

It has emerged the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu, may have tried to persuade undercover Investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, not...

Uber removes driver accused of attacking rider

Ride-hailing firm, Uber, has removed the driver who was accused of assaulting a passenger after a dispute over a fare. Uber, according to a statement, took...

E/R: Two dead after consuming puffer fish

Two people are reported dead while four are on admission at the Presbyterian hospital at Donkorkrom in the Kwahu Affram Plains North district of...

PHOTOS: Otumfuo calls on Rawlings

Former President Jerry John Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings have praised the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and the Okyehene, Osagyefo Amoatia...

Kidnapped girl found mute utters first words after 6 days; sparks jubilation

It was a moment of celebration, tears of joy and champagne popping Wednesday when the 16-year-old girl who was kidnapped and returned dumb a...

PHOTOS: Otumfuo visits President Akufo-Addo at Jubilee House

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, on Friday, 24th August, 2018, paid a courtesy call on the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa...

2018 BECE: 83 results cancelled, 2,061 withheld

The entire results of 83 candidates who wrote the 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) have been cancelled. That is according to the examination body...

Suspected gay attacked by angry friends at Madina

The fight against same-sex relationships which is abhorred in Ghana was taken to an extreme on Thursday by a group of friends in the...

‘Legalize marijuana in honour of Kofi Annan’

Some users of marijuana have called on government to legalize the narcotic substance in honour of the late former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan. According...

Kofi Annan likely to be buried on September 13

The President, Nana Akufo Addo has declared a full state burial for the late UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, a ceremony befitting a global...

Pastor impregnates fetish priestess; threatened with a curse to marry her

A pastor with the Jesus Way International Church at Awia Nkwanta in the Ashanti region, Nicholas Obeng Nyame, has impregnated a traditional priestess in...

Mamma Beer – A beer developed specifically for cancer patients

Chemotherapy has many nasty side effects, and one that patients often find particularly frustrating is dysgeusia. This side effect causes food and drink to...

Man uses 300 billboards to ask forgiveness from girlfriend

A young Indian man, Mr Nilesh Khedekar who wanted to get back with his girlfriend after an argument, put up 300 billboards all over...

DKM customers clash with Minister over payment [Video]

The customers of DKM Financial Services are accusing President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his ministers of not honouring the promise of retrieving their...

Ex-convict jailed 20 years

The Wa Circuit Court has sentenced a 30-year-old ex-convict to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour for robbing a marketing officer of his personal...

PHOTO: KNUST’s single-sex halls begin intake of female students

Authorities of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have today commenced intake of female students in all three single-sex halls in...

Man 38, begs court for mercy

“My Lord I met the girl eight months ago and had sex with her, but I am surprised I have been arrested in 2018...

Pastor held over sexual abuse acquitted in absentia

An Accra Circuit Court has acquitted and discharged Pastor Blessing Owusu Ansah, who was held for sexually assaulting a 12-year old girl at Gbawe. Delivering...

Bloody clashes in Nandom; scores wounded, properties destroyed

Bloody clashes at Nandom in the Upper West Region have left scores of residents with machete wounds and several houses destroyed. It is unclear what...