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More deaths imminent over illegal pits – Mining firm warns

Management of Shaanxi Mining Company operating in the Gbane area of the Talensi District of the Upper East Region, have warned that illegal mining...

Men who impregnate girls under 18 in Sissala districts to pay money, buy cow

Traditional leaders have joined forces with parents in the Sissala East and West areas in the Upper West Region to devise some by-laws to...

Front pages: Monday, October 23, 2017

Volta Region GJA launches maiden awards

The Volta Region branch of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has launched an award ceremony in Ho over the weekend to appreciate journalists and...

Tension in Accra as new Ga Mantse is installed

Tension is building in Accra following the installation of another Ga Chief, Nii Tackie Teiko Tsuru II. The rituals began late Friday and were carried through...

Ayensu Starch factory begins production

Ghana's only starch producing company which was shutdown for maintenance has begun production. Managing Director of the company, Evans Kwame Ayim confirmed this to Adom...

Police Officers to receive GH¢50,000 insurance cover

Mr David Asante-Apeatu, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) has announced that every police officer would soon have GH¢ 50,000 insurance cover. He said the amount would...

I have not invited Bastie to eat Banku at Flagstaff House – Akufo-Addo

The President’s Social Media Management team says a purported tweet congratulating Bastie Samir for defeating popular boxer Braimah Kamoko (Bukom Banku) is fake. A disclaimer...

Is Social Media Contributing to Rising Teen Suicide Rate?

The bubbly 15-year-old dreamed of becoming a firefighter, a lawyer, or veterinarian. She was passionate about drawing and spending time outside with her dogs...

Hot video: Bukom goes agog after Banku’s defeat

Residents at Bukom as suburb in Accra are in a jubilant mood following the humiliating defeat of boxer, Braimah Kamoko popularly known as 'Bukom...

Five hotel myths that you shouldn’t take seriously

In today’s world, a lie said so many times without any correction becomes the ‘’truth’’. In the same way, any myth that isn’t debunked...

HPV Is Spread by Having Sex. So Why Don’t People Talk About That?

There’s a virus that almost everyone gets at some point in their lives. It can cause cancer, and rates of the cancers it causes are...

Soldiers, Police storm big boss as another student dies

Military personnel and police officers have taken over security at the Bolgatanga Senior High School (Big Boss), one of the premier institutions in the...

NCA shows mercy; slashes FM stations’ fines by 50%

In an act of leniency, the Ministry of Communications and the National Communications Authority (NCA), have slashed the fines for the sanctioned commercial FM...

Atomic Junction gas explosion: Tanker driver dies

The driver of the Gas Tanker which exploded at Atomic Junction, near Madina about a fortnight ago which claimed seven lives and injured 134...

Robbers’ Lawyer robbed

A lawyer representing two armed robbers was robbed of his belongings while on his way to court. Yaw Dankwa was travelling in a taxi to...

Hot Audio: Juju scare hits Kweikrom Basic School

Pupils and teachers of Gomoa Kweikrom basic school in the Central region are gripped with fear after fowls believed to have been slaughtered for...

HOT VIDEO: Rousing welcome ushers the King back to the Kingdom

The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II was given a rousing welcome by a massive crowd at the Kumasi Airport upon his return from Brazil...

Audio: Angry Kwadaso residents threaten to close dangerous bridge

Angry residents at Kwadaso Estate in Kumasi have vowed to close to traffic a partly collapsed bridge that links the community to the rest...

PHOTO: Man commits suicide 3 days after posting suicide note on Facebook

A Ghanaian young man whose name has been given as Kofi Shanti Boafo has committed suicide three days after saying goodbye to his friends...

Stop whatsapping while driving – NRSC

Impact Souls Mission, in collaboration with Intercity State Transport Company and National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), has launched a campaign dubbed ‘The Accident Victim’s...

Five top guesthouses in Ghana to consider on a tight budget

Guesthouses, often synonymous with inexpensive and sometimes quite unfortunately less quality facilities. Generally, many believe that a guesthouse is the ‘’poor man;s’’ hotel. In...

Amorous bull attempts mating with motor scooter

An escaped bull on a New Delhi road gave a couple of motor scooter riders a scare when it attempted to mate with the...

Atomic gas explosion: Tanker driver dead

The driver of the gas tanker that exploded at the Atomic Junction, Ussif, has died. This was confirmed by the Chairman of the Gas Tanker...

Nayele Ametefe mum fights state over assets

An Accra Financial High Court has dismissed a motion of stay of execution filed by lawyers of Akua Adubofour, mother of convicted cocaine baroness,...

Errand boy gets 13 years for defilement

Ishmael Oblitey, a Canopy Erector, who defiled a ten year old girl at Korle Gonno in Accra was on Thursday sentenced to 13 years...

PHOTOS: Water well at prayer camp in Asudei turns ‘blood’

It seems the Nsukwa river at Koforidua in the Eastern Region which turned 'blood' red will not be the last as residents of Asudei...

PHOTOS: Otumfuo arrives home to rousing welcome

Business activities came to a halt as scores of residents in the Kumasi Metropolis lined up on the streets to wave at the Asantehene...

Two teenage robbers jailed 30 years

Two robbers who attacked three women at Abokobi, near Accra, and made away with items worth GH¢7,000 were on Wednesday jailed 15 years each...

Okay FM, Hello FM off-air after NCA crackdown

Accra-based Okay FM and Kumasi-based Hello FM, both under the Despite group, have been shut down by the National Communications Authority (NCA), after their...

It’s absurd to read politics into sanction of 131 radio stations – Minister

Minister of Communications Ursula Owusu-Ekuful today said it is absurd for anyone to suggest that the 131 radio stations sanctioned by the National Communications...

Photos: Pupils of Tapa Amanya RC sit on stones to learn

There are no classrooms or desks but pupils of Tapa Amanya Roman Catholic School primary school in the Biakoye district of Volta region are...

STC asked to suspend operations at Asafo Terminal

Intercity STC has been instructed to suspend its operations at the Asafo Lorry Terminal following the impasse between its management and VIP. The instruction came...

Delta Force 13 sentenced

The 13 members of the Delta Force vigilante group in Kumasi have been sentenced to a fine of GHc1,800 each or in default, serve...

Video/Step by step guide: How to register on Digital Address system, other things you need to know

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched the National Digital Address System, “ghanapostGPS” in Accra. In partnership with the Communications Ministry and Ghana Post, the...

Bawumia’s convoy brouhaha: Can Prof Addai be complicit?

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr was an erstwhile Supreme Court Judge of United States of America. He was reported to have asserted that “certitude is...

Hot audio: Kwaku Bonsam to lead demo against ‘dangerous’ gas station

Popular fetish priest, Nana Kwaku Bonsam is lacing his boots to lead the people of Akomadan Afrancho to demonstrate against the citing of a...

CSO platform on SDGS establishes Northern Regional chapter

Civil Society Organizations in the Northern Region have set up a regional platform on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to coordinates the activities of...

Police foil reprisal attack at Kagaga SHS

Police in the Northern region Thursday prevented a planned reprisal attack by students of Karaga Senior High School (SHS) whose mobile phones were set...