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VIDEO: Male KNUST students harass females in Conti

https://www.facebook.com/OurCollectiveV/videos/483430245466674/?t=24 Some male students believed to be residents of Unity Hall (Conti) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have been caught...

Bees besiege Times Square street, drawing swarm of tourists

It was a case of hold the honey, double the mustard in Times Square at lunchtime on Tuesday. Police shut part of 43rd Street near...

Crime dips by 0.2% in 2017 – Police

The Ghana Police Service received a total of 201,936 complaints throughout the country in the year 2017 as against 202,276 the previous year. “This represents...

Love charms work – Spiritualist asserts [Audio]

A man highly endowed in spiritual affairs, Peter Hammond, says love charms are real and never a fallacy. According to him, love charms, popularly known...

All you need to know: Friendship, the Dagaaba-Frafra way

True friendship, it is often said, is tested on the day one finds oneself in a crisis and needs the help of others one...

GOC suspends internal investigation into Australia visa scandal “Sine Die”

The Ghana Olympic Committee has suspended "sine die" internal investigation into the Australia visa scandal which rocked the country a few months ago. The decision...

Give us power to prosecute defrauders – NHIA to A-G

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Dr Samuel Annor has explained that prosecutorial powers from the Attorney General’s Department...

I have no threat in contest for NDC Eastern Regional Chairman – Basil Ahiable

The aspiring National Democratic Congress (NDC) Eastern Regional Chairman, Mr Basil Ahiable says he is sure of victory at the party's delegates conference which...

National cathedral a pact between government and Christian community – C’ttee member

Secretary to the Committee overseeing the construction of the National Cathedral says the erection of the national cathedral was a consensus between President Akufo-Addo...

German Chancellor travels to Ghana , Nigeria and Senegal for talks on migration, trade and more

Chancellor Angela Merkel left Germany on Wednesday morning for a multi-day diplomatic mission which will take her to the West African states of Senegal,...

Fifa’s Normalisation Committee to act as Electoral Committee for GFA

Fifa has provided the framework within which its Normalisation Committee for the running of Ghana football will be constituted and operate. A statemen by the...

PHOTOS: Angry fishermen protest over tree harvesting on Volta Lake

Angry fishermen along the Volta Lake in the Eastern region have hit the streets at Akateng, near Asesewa in the Manya Krobo District to...

Teacher trainees vow to remain unemployed over licensing exams [Audio]

Some teacher trainees say they are prepared to go hungry rather than write a licensing examination to guarantee them employment. A group calling itself Friends...

Ayariga slams GJA Prez [Audio]

The Founder and Leader of All Peoples Congress (APC), Dr Hassan Ayariga has slammed the president of Ghana Journalist Association (GJA), Affail Monney, for...

Ministry mute over digital migration

The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has been left in the dark as the Ministry of Communications remains mute over some critical concerns confronting...

SSNIT saves GH¢18.1m after deleting 8,366 ghost names from pension payroll

Measures introduced by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) in February 2018 to delete ghost names from the pension payroll have yielded...

Highway robbers kill student

A 21-year-old student of the Bole Senior High School (BOSEC), Mohammed Talhatu, who was among five persons shot by armed robbers on the Sawla-Fulfulso-Tamale,...

Porter sentenced to Ankaful asylum over anal sex

A 22-year old head porter who had anal sex with a seven-year-old boy at Community 18, Lashibi in Accra has been convicted as a...

Anas # 12: Amin Lamptey laments ‘many broken homes’

Controversies surrounding 'Number Twelve',  a documentary by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye Private Investigative team on corruption in football is...

SMASCO: An example of a school needing intensive care

Abandoned projects, completely deteriorated roads, bushy environs and dormitories invaded by bed bugs are the sights that greet you when you step feet at...

Funding for National Cathedral from private pockets – Committee member

Secretary to the Committee overseeing the construction of the National Cathedral has put to rest controversies surrounding sources of funding for the proposed National...

A-G’s offices burgled; 5 laptops, printer, TV stolen

Some unidentified persons have been staging frequent break-ins at the offices of the Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General in Accra, CorruptionWatch has found. One of...

Islamic organisation opposes erection of National Cathedral

The Coalition of Muslim Organisations (COMOG) has described the proposed construction of a National Cathedral by the government as amounting to state meddling in...

NDC will return collapsed banks to owners unless ‘tangible wrong’ established – MP

Bolgatanga Central Legislator, Isaac Adongo, has solidarised with shareholders of collapsed banks, explaining that the attempt to describe them as thieves was uncalled for...

VIDEO: Woman earns a living hugging total strangers

As human beings, one of the things we often overlook in our daily lives is physical touch; without it, we can fall into depression...

Man, 52, commits suicide after killing friend and two-year-old daughter

A 52-year-old man, Kwame Landi, has committed suicide after killing his two-year-old daughter and a 32-year-old friend at Duwan Nkwata near Teper Mankranso. The incidence...

Boy,13, drops dead after touching electrified coconut tree at Abirem

A 13-year-old boy dropped dead at Abirem in the Eastern region Monday after urinating beside a coconut tree which had been electrified by its...

Ghana’s cities must be robust and governance friendly – Good Governance Africa

“Young men and women form a group and decide to live in the slums where no one can control their lives. Through our work,...

MP urges Church of Pentecost to focus on building basic schools

The Member of Parliament for Bekwai constituency, Joseph Osei Owusu has entreated the Church of Pentecost to focus on building basic schools instead of...

GES to recruit over 8,000 teachers for double track system

The Ghana Education Service has begun processes to recruit over 8,000 graduate teachers for the double track system in various senior high schools. Head of...

Coalition of Concern Teachers gives gov’t October deadline

The Coalition of Concern Teachers (CCT) Ghana is calling on government to address issues of salary arrears owed to over 42,000 of its members are cleared...

3 Tramadol robbers caged

Three young men who robbed a trader at knifepoint at Amanfrom in the Greater Accra Region have been remanded in police custody by an...

Video: Child abused in prayer camp; police on manhunt for culprits

The Head of Cyber Crime Unit at the Ghana Police Service, Chief Supt. Herbert Gustave Johnson says the police is in search of the...

Photo: Mom sells 6-weeks-old baby; uses money to buy new phone

The Edo state police (Nigeria) command have apprehended a 23-year-old mother of two, Miracle Johnson, for selling her six-weeks-old baby and using proceeds from...

I’m sorry – Bagbin apologises for “indiscretionary” comments

The 2020 flagbearer aspirant for the opposition National Democratic Congress Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin has apologised for his "indiscretion" after his comments on disabled persons...

VIDEO: Model beats man to death for asking him for money

A video has emerged showing a model beating a homeless man to death because he asked him for money. Hivo Gonzalez, 32, is alleged to...

Armed robbers kill security man, bolt with cash in a fuel station attack

A security man at a fuel station at Kojokrom in the Sekodi-Takoradi metropolis has been killed by some unknown assailants in an alleged robbery...

Kasoa proposed as site for National Cathedral by Africania Mission [Audio]

The Afrikania Mission in Ghana has expressed its dissatisfaction with the construction of a national cathedral by the Nana Addo-led government with support from...

Martin Amidu is talking too much – Ras Mubarak

Member of Parliament, Ras Mubarak, has challenged Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu to focus on the job assigned him and stop “talking too much”. The legislator...

Investigate martin Amidu’s “strange money” claims – ISODEC

The Campaign Coordinator of the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), Dr Steve Manteaw has called for investigations into the claims by the Special Prosecutor...