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Welder jailed for unlawfully harming driver’s mate

A 29 year-old welder, Edmond Duncan, has been sentenced to 36 months imprisonment and a fine of GH¢1,200.00 for unlawfully harming a driver's mate. The...

Prez Nana Addo declares 2019 year of return for diasporans 

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has officially proclaimed...

Fabewoso: Freight Forwarders call for suspension of CTN [Video]

The Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF) is calling for the suspension of the Cargo Tracking Note (CTN) System at Ghana's ports. According to them,...

Why UPSA dismissed 3 lecturers

Three lecturers of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) have been dismissed for allegedly soliciting for sex from some female students. The dismissed lecturers...

Kumasi: Teachers interdicted for ‘raping students’

The Ashanti Regional Education Directorate has interdicted two teachers for allegedly raping some students. Douglas Adade of Saint Louis Senior High School, an English teacher,...

Ministry rubbishes claims of cancelling Double Track

The Ministry of Education has dismissed media reports that it has cancelled the double track policy in some schools in the Northern due to...

Agongo’s fertilizer boosted crop growth – Opuni lawyers tells court

Lawyers for former COCOBOD CEO, Dr Stephen Opuni, have told an Accra High Court that cocoa farmers who used Lithovit Foliar fertilizer approved for use by...

NPA outlines policies to curb gas explosions a year after Atomic explosion

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA), has outlined policies and actions aimed at curbing issues of gas and fuel station explosions in the future. One such...

Multimedia’s Chief HR officer ordained Reverend Minister

The Chief Human Resource Officer for the Multimedia Group, Samuel Nana Elegba, has been ordained as a Reverend Minister. The ordination ceremony took place at...

PPP Director of Operations joins founder’s crusade

The director of operations for the Progressive People’s Party’s (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu, has added his voice to former flagbearer of his party, Dr Paa...

Photos: Fire guts Ashanti Regional Education office

The office of the Regional Director of Education in the Ashanti Region has been gutted by fire. The fire which started on Sunday evening, Joy...

Akoto speaks about ordeal after Delta Force attack [Audio]

The member of parliament for Tafo-Pankrono in the Ashanti Region, Dr Anthony Akoto Osei has spoken on the attack he suffered in the hands...

Photos: 8-year-old girl’s anus ruptured after assault

An 8-year-old girl assaulted by her aunty at Amasaman in Accra now wears pampers due to a rupture on her bladder. This was after her...

Audio: Delta Force denies attacking MP

Delta Force, a pro-New Patriotic Party Vigilante group, has denied attacking Member of Parliament for Tafo-Pankrono in the Ashanti Region, Dr Anthony Akoto Osei. According to...

Cowbell in the Sky ends for celebrities; public next to take turn

Martha Ankomah, Mauvie Hayford and Okyeame Kwame, last Saturday, took their turns in the ongoing Cowbell in the Sky Hot Air Balloon adventure. An obviously elated Martha...

Minister orders probe into forestry officers aiding illegal logging

Forestry officials are suspected to be conniving with illegal loggers and other encroachers to destroy forest reserves in the Western Region.   Lands and Natural Resources...

Tension mounts at Moshie Zongo after man dies in police cells

Tension is mounting at Moshie Zongo in Kumasi following the death of a 55-year-old suspect who died in police custody. Police sources say the deceased,...

One Chinese arrested, six Ghanaians escape for illegal mining

The Excavator Tracking Taskforce of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining on Saturday arrested a Chinese and six Ghanaians at the Amansie West District...

Five perish in Assakai- Kwesimintsim road crash

Five persons on-board an Opel Vectra taxi with registration number WR 4957 -12 have died on the main Kwesimintsim – Assakai road after a...

Photos: ‘Billy’ Akufo-Addo meets 1962 classmates in London

President Akufo has gone back to his to his alma mater, Lancing College in England where his class of 1962 describe him as brilliant, unpretentious and...

Audio: Melani Trump responds to shithole comment

The First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump could not have completed her very first Africa tour without having to respond to teaming...

Chief Imam organizes peace walk

National chief Imam, Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu has organized peaceful walk to promote peace among all groups in the country. Organizer of the walk,...

Photos: Methodist Church Ghana celebrates Dr. Bawumia’s birthday

The Methodist Church, Ghana has surprised Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia with a special birthday celebration at the Wesley Cathedral in Cape Coast...

7 women and a pastor, arrested for praying naked during church service

A group of worshipers, all said to be women, have been arrested by police in an unregistered church during what was said to be...

A year after Atomic junction gas explosion, victims cry for compensation

The nation was shaken by the horrible gas explosion, forcing government to order the implementation of interim safety measures for all LPG infrastructure in...

Drama as man gives dog his neighbour’s name

One Mr. Okwudiri Okechukwu, is in trouble for allegedly giving his dog his neighbour’s name at Majaoba Street in Egan area of Igando, Lagos. The...

Second Lady calls for reforms to give women equal access to finance credit

Second lady, Samira Bawumia, has called for equal access to education, businesses, finance and land among others, to help propel them economically and to...

Farmer to spend ten months for stealing a motor bike

The Enchi District Magistrate court has sentenced a farmer to ten months imprisonment for stealing Haojin motor bike valued GH¢3,200. Emmanuel Amoako was sentenced to...

Court sentences man and woman for insulting another woman

An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday sentenced Patrick Ablor Laryea to six months imprisonment and gave Esther Odonkor two weeks for insulting Rabiatu Abeka...

Two-week-old baby fighting for life ‘after being raped’

A two-week-old baby has allegedly been raped and is fighting for its life in the hospital. The baby is in the paediatric unit at the Royal Belfast...

Grandmum, 60, poisons granddaughter, 7; commits suicide

A 60-year-old woman has allegedly poisoned herself and her 7-year-old granddaughter at Kumawu in the Sekyere Kumawu District of the Ashanti Region. Maame Ama Amoamah...

Wa East GES rescues six pregnant girls forced into marriage

The Ghana Education Service (GES) in Wa East District has set free six pregnant teenage girls forced into marriage and handed them over to...

VIDEO: Man strangled to death by his pet snake in Damongo

A snake lover in Damongo in the Northern region of Ghana has been strangled to death by his own pet python after it wrapped...

Community policeman caged for stabbing colleague

An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday remanded Philip Sackey, a 30-year-old Community Police Assistant, for stabbing Frank Agbevor, an upholsterer. He has, however, denied the...

‘Okada’ riders apprehend hit-and-run driver in Accra

But for the timely intervention of some commercial motorbike (okada) riders, a taxi driver who hit a woman after making an unauthorised U-turn on...

279 lawyers called to the Bar

Two hundred and seventy-nine new lawyers have been called to the Bar with a charge on them to respect their clients. Addressing the new lawyers...

Court sentences two for insulting woman

An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday sentenced Patrick Ablor Laryea to six months imprisonment and gave Esther Odonkor two weeks for insulting Rabiatu Abeka...

Brong-Ahafo Police arrest suspected car snatchers

The Brong-Ahafo Regional Police Command on Thursday arrested two suspected car snatchers and robbers in the Region. Abdul Razak Muhammed, 22 and Bashiru Rufai, 28...

LGS donates 11 pickups to RCC for effective monitoring

The Local Government Service (LGS) has donated eleven brand new pickups to the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) to effectively monitor the activities of the...

Bia East losing revenue due to illegal chainsaw operations

District Chief Executive for Bia East in the Western Region has commended the Forestry Commission’s joint operation with the military to clamp down on...