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Ex-convict jailed 10 years over marijuana

An ex-convict caught with 205 grams of marijuana has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour by the Juaso Circuit Court. Samuel Gidisu,...

Mother of 3, gets 5 years for stabbing rival to death

The Sekondi High Court, presided over by Mr Justice Edward Amoako Asante, has sentenced a 31-year-old woman to five years’ imprisonment for killing her...

Audio: Two hit by rubber bullet in Hweehwee

Two persons have been reportedly hit by a stray bullet during a demonstration by some youth in Hweehwee in the Eastern Region. The youth were...

Pastor arrested for ‘ritual’ killing

Police at Denu in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region have arrested 44-year old Pastor Felix Banfo for allegedly murdering 43-year old...

GBC staff deflate tyres of ECG vehicle over disconnection

Some staff of the Garden City Radio, a branch of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) in the Ashanti Regional Capital, Kumasi, on Thursday evening...

Energy experts must stop parroting and read – Energy Minister fires

Minister for Energy, Boakye Agyarko is amazed at the position of some supposed energy experts following government’s announcement of tariff reduction. According to him, the...

Two Ghanaian investigative journalists feature in African Investigative Journalism book

Two Ghanaian investigative journalists have their stories featured in African Muckraking, a book which collected outstanding investigative stories written by Africans in the last...

Front pages: Friday, November 17, 2017

 

Boy, 19, jailed for defiling 10-year-old girl

A 10-year-old class five Pupil of St. Mary’s Preparatory School in Koforidua in the Eastern region has been painfully defiled by a 19-year-old unemployed...

Hot Audio: Woman, land lady fight over rent

Terms of a tenancy agreement described as ‘wicked’ by a woman in her late fifties pitched her against her landlady. Esther Nyamekye is challenging her...

Sudden demise of Francis Appiah; the inside story

Death has taken away a dedicated Ghanaian who in his own small way quietly tried to control corruption in especially in the transport sector. Francis...

Hot Audio: Man arrested for threatening to behead chief

An 18-year-old man, Kwame Afrifa is currently in the grips of the Assin Damang police for allegedly threatening to behead Ebusuapanyin Kwasi Opong of...

Our lives are in danger – Aveyime police

Police officers stationed at Aveyime in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region are living in fear following persistence death and verbal threats...

Man forgets where he parks his car – then finds it 20 years later

Back in 1997 in the German city of Frankfurt, a man reported his car as stolen to the police. Twenty years later, the authorities in...

18-year-old girl dropped out of school to marry…

The Parents and guardians of an 18-year-old girl who live in Paga in the Upper East Region have stopped her from continuing her education...

Kumasi: ECG cuts power to GBC for non-payment of bills

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has ignored an appeal from the Ministry of Information against disconnecting power to the state broadcaster, the Ghana...

Video+Photos: Willie and Mike lead Adom Live Worship Team to win souls in Ashaiman Market

Kumasi based gospel duo, Asamoah Williams (Willie) and Adomako Michael (Mike) joined the Adom Live Worship team at Ashaiman Market to praise and worship...

Angry Chinese storms palace to arrest chief

A Chinese national has accused a sub-chief of Tamale of stealing his vehicle three months ago and stormed his palace Tuesday night to cause...

Fulani herdsmen burn 9 homes in Kwahu

Nine mud houses at Asumesu No2, a small village in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region, have been burnt allegedly by some...

Lack of ‘mental health fund’ making more Ghanaians ‘mad’ – Report

Even though, mental health illnesses have been with us since the dawn of time, the issue of funding support in the sector has been...

Photos: Late Aliu Mahama remembered 5 years on

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, some parliamentarians and well-wishers were at the Switchback Road residence of the late Aliu Mahama to mark five years of...

Mysterious condition leaves 30-year-old man looking and behaving like a toddler

A mysterious condition has left a 30-year-old man in rural eastern China looking and behaving like a small child. He cannot speak, can only...

Group questions electricity tariff reduction for 2018

The head of the Kumasi Institute of Technology and Environment is questioning the prudence and the sustainability of the electricity tariff reduction announced by...

Photos: Speeding trotro driver lands in gutter; passengers escape death

A commercial vehicle on Thursday afternoon veered off the road and enter into a big gutter near the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) in Accra. According...

Man found innocent after 50-year in jail

Nearly 50 years since a Louisiana man was sentenced to life in prison in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse,  a judge has...

PHOTO: 'Rapist' pastor arrested

A 20-year-old self-styled pastor, who is said to have drugged and raped two women at Mankranso in the Ahafo Ano South District of the...

NCA shuts down illegal radio station

National Communications Authority (NCA) has shut down Radio Dam, an illegal FM station that was broadcasting on 104.9FM, an unauthorized frequency. The station was discovered...

Free SHS impacts lives in Assin as hawkers return to classroom

Notwithstanding the barrage of infrastructural challenges, apprehensions and frustrations that characterised the implementation of Government's free Senior High School (SHS) policy, the story has...

Patrick Awuah wins prestigious WISE Prize for Education 2017

The prestigious WISE Prize for Education has been presented to Mr Patrick Awuah, founder and president of Ashesi University College, a private, not-for-profit institution...

Police hunt for ‘serial fraudster’ in Kumasi market stalls allocation

The Ashanti Regional Police Command is on manhunt for one Kwakye said to be leading a group of suspected criminals to be extorting monies...

Violent Shepherds: The ugly story of clashes between nomadic herdsmen and farmers

"Most of the armed robberies going on in the region and elsewhere, some are criminals. For instance in the northern region those I arrested last...

PHOTOS: Court sentences man for assaulting ECG staff

The Dzodze Magistrate Court, presided over by Mr Lawrence Buernor Buer, on November 13, 2017, sentenced a Primary 4 pupil teacher, Mac-Billy Ani, to...

NCA shuts down illegal 'living room' FM station

Officials of the National Communications Authority (NCA) on Wednesday, 15 November, shut down an illegal FM station at Donsoman in Accra. The NCA said the...

2 women die mysteriously in Ketu South

Two women have died under very bizarre circumstances in separate incidents in Horme and Viepe in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region....

Suitcase of sapphires and other gems worth 1 million pounds stolen from London train

The owner, a 35-year-old jewellery dealer, boarded a train to Birmingham on Nov. 8 but when the train arrived at Rugby in central England,...

Meet Ghana's 27-year-old PhD holder Gloria Opoku-Boateng Osardu

Dr. Gloria Opoku-Boateng Osardu is a PhD UX Researcher/ Scientist at Northrop Grumman, a leading global aerospace and security company. She received her PhD in...

Ghanaians, other African migrants being auctioned in Libya

Some African migrants including Ghanaians who are seeking greener pastures in Libya are being sold as slaves. This was revealed by international news network CNN...

Kwahu Fulani saga: Gunshots at chief's palace, two injured

At least two people have sustained gunshot wounds after a scuffle ensued between locals and guards of the Abene Chiefs Palace on Wednesday. The scuffle...

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Tonnes of cocoa beans left to rot due to bad cocoa road

Tonnes of cocoa beans have been left to rot in farms at Amenfi West in the Western Region due to poor road network. The road...