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Adoagyiri murder: Two suspects arrested, one at large

Two persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of Odehye Kwame Sarkodie at Adoagyiri in the Eastern region.The prime suspect Daniel Osei...

Police restore calm at Ofankor

The Police have restored law and order at Ofankor following a riot which resulted in the burning of tyres and blocking of public road.According...

Come out clean – Cecilia Dapaah, bank told

Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma Central, Ebenezer Gilbert Narh Nartey says he is overwhelmed by the recent revelations by the Office of...

Heavy unusual ‘traffic jam’ on Pokuase – Achimota highway Wednesday morning

Vehicles along the Nsawam road in Accra, that is from Pokuase to Achimota on the N6 highway have been affected by a heavy gridlock...

29-year-old man allegedly kills mother in Ahafo region

A 29-year-old man, Kwame Boateng has allegedly hacked his mother, Leticia Dufie to death.This unfortunate incident occurred at Wurumrumso, a farming community in the...

Lands Commission to roll out $85m project

The Lands Commission will, beginning next year, partner a private company to roll out an $85-million project aimed at transforming land administration in the...

EOCO, WHO to tackle illicit tobacco trade

The Executive Director of the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, has reiterated the commitment of her outfit to...

COP Mensah finally reacts to his ‘interdiction’

Former Commissioner of Police, George Alex Mensah (rtd) has reacted to the decision by the Ghana Police Service to withdraw his interdiction.In an...

Ghanaian policewomen supporting peace, security in Somalia

Ghanaian policewomen deployed to serve in Somalia are making meaningful contributions to the fight against Al-Shabaab and other armed rebels in Somalia.Out of the...

Education Ministry urges students to prioritise science in school selection

The Ministry of Education has urged all prospective first-year Senior High School (SHS) students, parents or guardians to prioritise the selection of science courses...

Fishermen ‘clash’ on live radio over alleged misuse of premix fuel

Some leaders of the fishing industry clashed on radio over the alleged misuse of premix fuel.This was after the leader of fishermen at Elmina...

Statistician proffers solutions for bridging gender pay gap in Ghana

A Statistician with the Ghana Statistical Service, Anthony Oduro-Denkyira, has highlighted some ways the gender pay gap in Ghana can be closed.Speaking on PM...

Farmer jailed three years for defiling eight-year-old girl  

A Bolgatanga Circuit Court has sentenced a farmer to three years imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old girl at Kanga, a suburb of Zorko in...

Regional Minister and his abuser to settle matter out-of-court

A criminal matter in which the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, was allegedly abused and slapped by a pensioner, is to be settled...

Minerals Commission received royalties from the gold sales of my company – Nam 1

The trial of Nana Appiah Mensah, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of defunct gold dealership firm, Menzgold, took a dramatic turn on Tuesday as his...

Report illegal power, water connection – PURC advises tertiary students

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has urged students in tertiary institutions to help in reporting illegal power and water connections.The Executive Secretary of...

Cecilia Dapaah’s $1M case: I won’t kowtow to public pressure – Judge

The presiding judge at the Circuit Court ‘1’ in Accra, Her Honour Mrs Afia Owusuaa Appiah has said she will treat the case in...

Cash in Cecilia Dapaah’s house was craftily concealed in wraps, clothes and buried in obscure places – OSP

The Office of the Special Prosecutor has disclosed where its officers found monies hidden in former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Dapaah’s house during a search...

X (formerly Twitter) considers charging users for platform access

Elon Musk has suggested that all users of X, formerly called Twitter, may have to pay for access to the platform.In a conversation with...

Gomoa East Assembly demolishes road-blocking structure in Gomoa Akotsi

The Gomoa East District Assembly led by its District Chief Executive, Solomon Darko Quarm, has demolished a building and fence walls obstructing visibility on...

5 miners jailed 100 years for mining without authority  

The Tarkwa Circuit Court has sentenced five persons to a total of 100 years imprisonment in hard labour for mining without authority.  They are Sampson Mefe, Eric...

Government still owes us – National Identification Authority

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has maintained that the government has outstanding arrears of approximately $80 million owed to the Authority for the production...

Tanker Owners Union bares teeth at govt over Chinese trucks

The Executive Secretary of the Tanker Owners Union, Ignatius Koku Doe, has raised concerns over the influx of tanker trucks owned by Chinese companies.According to him, their checks...

Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly refunds GH₵283,000 to DACF

The Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly has reimbursed a total of GH₵283,000 initially allocated for administrative purposes from the Assembly’s Common Fund.During a Public Accounts...

Promotions above Chief Inspector rank done by Police Council not IGP – Defence

The suit filed by forty Chief Inspectors of the Ghana Police Service against the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, the...

Tech transfer, infrastructure devt, deliberate financing key to achieving net-zero – Energy Minister

Energy Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh says the collective effort at achieving net-zero in line with the Paris agreement must be premised on technology...

Attorney General to apply for daily hearing in NAM 1’s case

The Deputy Attorney General, Alfred Tuah Yeboah, has announced that his office will be applying for a daily hearing in the case of Nana...

Africa offers great potential for Wagner recruits – Prof. Vladimir Antwi-Danso

Africa offers a great potential for the Wagner private military group to recruit due to the large army of unemployed youth on the continent.This,...

Cecilia Dapaah’s dead brother’s account still sending money to former Minister – OSP

The latest court documents filed by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) reveal that a bank account belonging to the deceased brother of...

Beware of scammers – GTEC cautions mature students

The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has cautioned the public to be wary of scammers who hide under the cover of entrance examination banners...

I paid people to destroy their gods to gain popularity – Kyiri Abosom

The founder of Life Assembly Worship Center, Christian Kwabena Andrews, popularly known as Osofo Kyiri Abosom has revealed the strategy that made him popular.According...

Limited voter registration: 25 foreigners, minors arrested

Twenty-five foreigners and minors have been arrested at the Suame Municipality in the Ashanti region in their attempt to register in the ongoing limited...

Boy, 12, electrocuted at Kasoa

A 12-year-old boy, Kofi Richard has been electrocuted at Yellow Container, a suburb of Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central...

BoG advised me to streamline Menzgold operations – NAM 1

Founder of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah aka NAM 1, who is standing trial for allegedly using the company to defraud over 16,000 people of...

NAM 1 granted GH¢500m bail

Chief Executive Officer of defunct Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah, has been granted bail to the tune of GH¢500 million with four sureties,...

NAM 1 pleads not guilty to 39 charges of fraud, money laundering

Chief Executive Officer of defunct gold dealership firm Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM 1, has pleaded not guilty to all 39...

Get your first debt restructuring right – IMF to debt trapped nations

Ghana is debt-trapped and has maintained its position as Africa’s highest borrower from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).After trimming about ¢90 billion of its...

I look well but can no longer perform in bed – Appiatse explosion survivor [Video]

https://youtu.be/6KDmZtr7ThsI look well but can no longer perform in bed. I can barely see at night,” a survivor of the tragic Appiatse explosion, William...

Three arrested for allegedly planning to launch Wagner-backed military group

The Western Regional Police Command is prosecuting three youth arrested in Diabene, Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, who are suspected of having ties to Russia’s Wagner mercenary...

Mahama to speak at Humanity Summit 2023 today

Former president and flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, will speak at the Humanity Summit 2023 in Faro, Portugal,...