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Lower Manya riots: PDS considering prepaid meters for residents

Management of Power Distribution Services (PDS) has revealed plans to install prepaid meters for residents of the Lower Manya Krobo municipality in the Eastern...

Video: Medikal promises to push five ‘Kasahari’ rappers after VGMA win

It’s not easy for stars to throw their light on others to make them shine but rapper Medikal has promised to recruit five rappers...

Kweku Baako sees silver lining in Stonebwoy-Shatta brawl

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper strongly believes that the unfortunate incident at Sunday’s Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) should serve as a wake-up call for...

Debt of Krobo residents has not been waived – PDS

Power Distribution Services (PDS) has refuted claims of waiving over GH¢ 100 million of the debt owed the company by residents of Krobo Odumase...

Video: Fabewoso: One District, One Dam projects turn death traps

The One-District-One-Dam projects undertaken in the three Northern regions have been described as death traps with six deaths recorded already.  The projects are intended to...

Song theft: Praye’s Choirmaster dares musician to swear in a shrine

Song theft in the music industry isn’t new and the latest to be caught in the web is music group, Praye and an upcoming musician...

Photo: See alleged killer of Chris Attoh’s wife

The police have released a sketch of a man believed to have killed Bettie Jenifer, wife of Ghanaian actor Chris Attoh, barely two weeks...

Audio: Opinion leaders to meet Konkombas and Chokosis over Chereponi clash

Opinion leaders in Chereponi in the Northern region will meet the Konkombas and Anufors (Chokosis) to discuss the ongoing conflict between the two factions. According...

Desilting gutters, Korle Lagoon waste of govt money – NPP MP

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Subin constituency in the Ashanti region, Mr Eugene Boakye Antwi, says desilting choked gutters is...

Expect heavy downpours today – Meteo

The country will experience heavy rains this morning and afternoon , Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMA) has cautioned the public.Per a band of clouds tracked...

I still love Shatta Wale but… – Sarkodie on complicated relationship

After releasing a diss track to jab his friend Shatta Wale, rapper Sarkodie says he currently does not know the type of relationship that...

Family cleans house, finds pet tortoise missing since 1982

It's no secret that tortoises are among the most resilient animals on Earth, perfectly adapted for life in natural environments that others would find inhospitable. But for...

Man spends birthday cleaning cemetery

A private businessman, Ali Suraj, on Sunday, 26 May 2019 celebrated his 40th birthday at the Tafo cemetery in the Old Tafo Municipality of...

Government to provide all regions with passport offices

The Foreign Affairs Ministry has said plans are in place to ensure that all regions in the country have offices to serve passport applicants. The...

Pastors worship with Moslems at Kukuom Central Mosque

The leadership of churches at Kukuom, the capital of the Asunafo South District of the Ahafo Region, on Sunday, May 26, 2019, made history when...

Woman arrested in failed ritual murder

The Police in Osenase, a community near Akwatia in the Eastern region have arrested a 32-year-old seamstress known as Humu Iddrisu for allegedly conspiring...

Must-read from a ‘migrant spy’: No greener pastures on the desert

It was close to midnight when the young man crawled into the desert. All around him was darkness. A hundred metres away, a handful...

Lower Manya Unrest: PURC, PDS roll out payment plan roadmap

The Public Utility and Regulatory Commission together with Power Distribution Service (PDS) under the Tema region after a successful meeting with the MP for Lower Manya...

Security guard jailed for threatening to kill former minister

A former security guard at the State Enterprise Commission has been jailed two years by the Accra Circuit Court for threatening to kill the...

Ghana card mass registration at Ga East ends today

The Ghana card registration for residents in the Ga East municipality will end today . The National Identification Authority has thus announced centres where residents...

NADMO to disburse GH¢1.05 million to victims

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) will disburse $200,000 (GH¢1.05 million) to 96 victims and bereaved families of the June 3 disaster, who have...

The 10 countries everyone should visit

The title of the world’s most travelled person is subject to much debate and competition. There is a list of those who claim to have...

NUGS President appointed Ghana’s representative to the Commonwealth Students Association

Tinkaro Asare Osei, President of the National Union of Ghana Students has been appointed by the Commonwealth Students Association to be the representative of...

Fallen cargo truck causes traffic at Nkrumah Interchange

There was huge traffic at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange on Friday afternoon (24 May 2019) as an articulated truck tumbled in an attempt to...

Woman reveals how her pastor husband sleeps with men

A woman has written to Ideal Home, a home affairs programme on 3FM in Accra, revealing how her husband has been having sex with...

Student gets 20 years for robbery

A 19-year-old student, who attacked and robbed a nurse of her handbag, inflicting knife wounds on her at Tikrom, near Ejisu, has been jailed...

Painter strangles grandmother; buries body in uncompleted building

A 22-year-old man, Shadrack Hushie, who allegedly murdered his grandmother and buried her at the backyard of their house at Zenu, in the Kpone...

Push tax on sanitary pads to alcohol – Girl Guides suggests to govt

The Ghana Girl Guides Association has appealed to the government to remove the tax on sanitary pads. According to the Chief Commissioner of the...

Police officer who killed 15-yr-old boy sentenced to 15 years

A Texas jury sentenced a former police officer to 15 years in prison Wednesday night for the shooting to death of an unarmed African-American...

Audio: How I’m securing my church – Prophet Nigel Gaisie

The founder and leader of True Word Prophetic Fire Ministries, Prophet Nigel Gaisie, is one of the many church leaders in Ghana who are...

VGMA clash would affect brands of Stonebwoy, Shatta – Mark Okraku

President of the Creative Arts Council, Mark Okraku Mantey, is of the view that Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy have equally dented their music brands...

Video+Photos: Container truck falls off Nkrumah Circle Interchange

A 40-footer container truck with registration number AS 4258 N has fallen on the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange in Accra from the Ring Road...

Audio: Prophet Nigel Gaisie breaks silence on kidnapped girls

Ghana’s hopes of finding and reuniting the kidnapped girls with their families may be an exercise in futility, the founder and leader of True...

DJ Switch makes it unto billboard in Times Square

Ghana’s youngest Disk Jockey, DJ Switch has made it unto a billboard in Times Square, New York. The young DJ was in New York where...

Video: Check out Mark Okraku’s take on King Promise’s VGMA performance

President of the Creative Arts Council, Mark Okraku Mantey has given props to artistes who graced the stage of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards...

Kwesi Arthur motivates pupils to win 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay

'Hip-hop Song of the Year' winner at the just ended VGMA 2019 has imbibed the winning mentality in pupils and charged them to win...

KiDi: Charterhouse should be sanctioned for role in VGMA brawl

Highlife sensation, KiDi has faulted organisers of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) for security lapses after disturbances at the event last Saturday. The artiste,...

Two Ghanaian drivers killed in terrorist attack near Burkina Faso

Two Ghanaian truck drivers were reportedly killed in a terrorist attack near the Burkina-Faso border on Thursday while transporting floor tiles from the Takoradi Port to...

Audio: PDS asked to halt mass disconnection over Manya Krobo riots

Power Distribution Services (PDS) has been directed to hold on with the mass disconnection exercise in the Lower Manya Krobo of the Eastern region. Deputy...

22 prostitutes, 75 others arrested at Odawna railway

A total of 97 suspected criminals have been arrested around the Odaw railway station in Accra. They include 22 women who were alleged to be...