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Students who engage in inter-hall fights will be sacked – UCC Acting Vice Chancellor warns

Professor Denis Worlanyo Aheto, the Acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), has issued a stern warning against violent student confrontations...

Family demands answers after mysterious death of KNUST final-year student

A Level 400 student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ransford Asomani Amankwaa, has died under circumstances that remain unclear. Speaking...

Gov’t launches nationwide training programme for coconut farmers

The government has launched a nationwide training and capacity-building program for coconut farmers under the presidential initiative for coconut development. The first phase of the...

Kpandai resident petitions NACOC, Police and 12 others over rising opioid abuse

A concerned resident of Kpandai in the Northern Region, Haruna Tajudeen, has petitioned the District Chief Executive, Haruna Karim, as well as key state...

Sentencing is not a lottery – Lawyer defends Agradaa’s jail-term reduction

Daniel Korang, an author and partner at Adom Legal Consult, has defended the Amasaman High Court’s decision to reduce the 15-year jail term of...

COCOBOD begins paying LBCs to clear arrears owed cocoa farmers

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says it has commenced payments to Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs) to enable them to settle outstanding amounts owed to...

NDC appoints Inusah Fuseini to replace Ayariga on Ayawaso East vote-buying probe committee

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has appointed former Member of Parliament and Minister Inusah Fuseini has been appointed to replace Majority Leader Mahama Ayariga...

Baba Jamal denies vote-buying allegations in Ayawaso East NDC Primary

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Ayawaso East, Mohammed Baba Jamal Ahmed, has denied allegations of vote buying during the party’s February...

Lands Minister Armah-Kofi Buah arrives in South Africa to lead Ghana’s delegation at Mining Indaba

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources and Acting Minister for Environment, Science and Technology, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has arrived in South Africa to...

Gunmen kill 3 people, abduct Catholic priest and several others in northern Nigeria

Gunmen killed three people and abducted a Catholic priest during an early morning attack on the clergyman's residence in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state,...

Mahama Ayariga withdraws from NDC Ayawaso East primary probe

Majority Leader and Leader of Government Business in Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, has withdrawn from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) investigation committee probing alleged vote...

Majority Caucus calls for annulment of Ayawaso East Parliamentary Primary

The Majority Caucus in Parliament has called for the immediate cancellation of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s recent parliamentary primary in the Ayawaso East...

Abossey Okai spare parts dealers threaten one-week strike over new VAT regime

The Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association has warned of a possible one-week strike if the government fails to urgently review the newly implemented...

South Africa to withdraw its troops from UN peacekeeping mission in Congo

South Africa will withdraw its troops from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Cyril Ramaphosa's office said in...

PCG–Mim District launches ‘Nananom Fellowship’ to strengthen Chiefs’ relationship with God

The Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) Mim District in the Ahafo Region has launched a new initiative, dubbed the Nananom Fellowship, aimed at deepening...

UENR SRC begins distribution of 15,000 exercise books to schools in Sunyani East and West

The Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) has begun distributing 15,000 exercise books to selected basic and...

List of areas to be affected by ECG’s planned maintenance between February 8-13

Residents across multiple regions of Ghana should prepare for scheduled power interruptions next week as the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) rolls out a...

Two men arrested over illegal grave digging at Osu cemetery

Two men have been arrested at the Osu Cemetery for illegally digging a grave as the Korle Klottey Municipal Assembly (KKMA) steps up efforts...

Unemployed graduates with disabilities give government one-month ultimatum

A coalition of unemployed tertiary graduates with disabilities has given the Government of Ghana a one-month ultimatum to present a concrete employment plan or...

Over 1,000 youth equipped as National Apprenticeship Programme starts in Ashanti region

The pilot phase of the National Youth Apprenticeship Programme has commenced in the Ashanti Region, with over 1,000 young people receiving tools and equipment...

Hamamat Montia, Wiyaala to be commissioned as tourism ambassadors

The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), Abeiku Santana, has announced that model and entrepreneur Hamamat Montia and award-winning musician...

Police arrest 53-year-old man for threatening investigator with firearm

The Accra Regional Police Command has arrested a 53-year-old man, Seth Welbeck, for allegedly threatening a police investigator with a firearm and unlawfully possessing...

OSP probes alleged vote-buying in NPP, NDC primaries

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has launched investigations into alleged vote buying and vote selling during the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and...

Ntotroso sub-Chiefs pledge support for development

Sub-chiefs, including Abrempong and Adikrofo in the Ntotroso Traditional Area of the Ahafo Region, have pledged their commitment to supporting development efforts in the...

Kukuom Traditional Council launches apprenticeship support initiative for youth

The Kukuom Traditional Council in the Ahafo Region has launched an initiative aimed at supporting young people who wish to undergo apprenticeship training, as...

Local Government Ministry to intensify sanitation inspections; Unclean homes to face spot fines

The Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs (MLGCRA) is set to intensify sanitation enforcement nationwide through house-to-house inspections, with residents whose homes...

Bloodshed in Kpandai as rival chieftaincy factions clash over gravel pit

A violent confrontation between supporters of two rival chiefs in Kpandai, Northern Region, has left two men fighting for their lives and a trail...

Refer Ayawaso East vote-buying allegationsto OSP — Mussa Dankwah to Mahama

The fallout from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary primary in Ayawaso East has taken another turn, with Mussa Dankwah, the Executive Director of...

Ernest Chemists Ltd launches 40th anniversary celebrations

Ernest Chemists Ltd (ECL) held a grand media event in Accra on Friday, February 6, 2026, to launch its 40th Anniversary celebrations. The event was...

Arthur Kennedy urges Ghanaians to leave Kotoka International Airport name intact

Ghana has once again been gripped by debate over the potential renaming of Kotoka International Airport, named after General Emmanuel Kotoka, who was killed...

Berekum West: Amomaso residents complain of unbearable odour from poultry farm

Residents of Amomaso in the Berekum West District of the Bono Region have raised concerns over a strong and persistent stench emanating from a...

Koforidua Sectech gives update on cutlass attack at Super Zonals

Management of Koforidua Senior High Technical School (SECTECH) has expressed gratitude to God after one of its students who sustained deep cutlass wounds during...

15 injured as Ford Transit overturns at Gomoa Onyaazde

Fifteen passengers sustained serious injuries after a Ford Transit bus experienced a tyre burst at Gomoa Onyaazde on the Kasoa-Mankesim highway in the Central...

Nkwanta South MCE appeals to displaced Tuobodom residents to return home

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Nkwanta South, Joseph Antwi Awal, has appealed to residents who abandoned their homes and businesses in Tuobodom to...

Oti Minister urges MDCES to collaborate with coordinating directors to accelerate development

The Minister for the Oti Region, John Kwadwo Gyapong, has called on Municipal and District Chief Executives (MDCES) to strengthen collaboration with their Coordinating...

Kpandai Chiefs clash, three motorbikes burnt in violent confrontation

A violent confrontation broke out in Kpandai today between rival chiefs over a land dispute, resulting in the destruction of three motorbikes by fire. Eyewitnesses...

Honor the elderly, avoid insulting public officials on social media – Adukromhene

The Chief of Adukrom and Nifahene of the Akuapem Traditional Area, Osuodumgya Otutu Ababio V, has urged Ghanaian youth to respect their elders and...

Voting underway amid tight security at NDC Ayawaso East Parliamentary Primary

Voting is currently underway for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary primary in the Ayawaso East Constituency, with a total of 1,012 delegates expected...

Kwaku Azar slams court over Agradaa sentence reduction

Renowned legal scholar and governance advocate, Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare, popularly known as Kwaku Azar, has strongly criticised the Amasaman High Court’s decision to...

14-year-old boy drowns at Fiapre; GNFS recovers body

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has confirmed the tragic drowning of 14-year-old Matthew Mahama at Fiapre Catholic Junction on the Sunyani Ring Road...