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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/6KDmZtr7Ths I 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,...

Don’t allow children to go for sleepovers – Parents advised

Parents have been advised not to allow their children to go for sleepovers in their friends’ homes unless they are familiar with the people...

How KIA officials seized man’s gold ring, bangle – Kwesi Pratt

Senior journalist and Editor of The Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jr., has narrated how a Ghanaian man who was travelling out of the country...

Military takeovers not solution to Africa’s economic challenges – Asantehene

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has expressed deep concern over the increasing coup d’états on the African continent. He attributes these military takeovers to...

Tsito-Anyirawase section of Accra-Ho Highway closed

The Volta Regional Co-ordinating Council has announced the closure of the Tsito and Anyirawase section of the Accra-Ho Highway. According to the Council, there are...

Court defers sentence of couple over GH¢1.6 million fraud

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a couple into police custody for a double sale of their four-bedroom property at East Legon to two...

#OccupyBoG demo: Police file fresh injunction against Minority

The Ghana Police Service has filed a motion for an injunction against the organizers of the #OccupyBoG demonstration at the Financial and Economic Division...

Yango partners Leasafric to offer affordable vehicle financing for partners in Ghana

International ride-hailing service Yango in partnership with Leasafric Ghana Plc, a leading leasing and logistics company, have successfully added a second batch of vehicles...

My father rejected all my suitors – Single 96-year-old woman with no child cries out

A 96-year-old woman, Susanna Nwachukwu, has shared the story of her lifelong struggle with singleness, and the role her biological father played in her...

Chilling account of how house help murdered his madam in cold blood in Kumasi

Details have emerged of how a house help murdered his employer at Sokoban-Apaaso near Kumasi. The details, contained in court documents, revealed the accused, John...

Quality of life in Ghanaian cities declining – CDD Study 

A study conducted by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), indicates that the quality of life in urban areas is not the best.  The...

Class 6 pupils drowns while swimming with friends

A heartbreaking incident has occurred in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region, as a 14-year-old class six pupil named Akwasi Opoku tragically...

Don’t fail in English and Maths – CSSPS sends SOS message to students

The National Coordinator for the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), Mark Sasu Mensah, has explained how students are graded before being placed...

40 police Chief Inspectors sue IGP

Forty Police Chief Inspectors in the Ghana Police Service have sued the Inspector General of Police (IGP),Dr. George Akuffo Dampare over what they describe...

National Coordinator announces positive changes in School Placement System

The National Coordinator for the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), Mark Sasu Mensah, has given some updates regarding the Senior High School...