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Audio: Peter Amewu describes PDS’ Krobo billings as ‘nonsense’

Energy Minister, Peter Amewu, has described the electricity bills charged by the Power Distribution Service (PDS) in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the...

Driver in court for transporting wee in ambulance

Sampson Azago, 25, a driver who was arrested in 2017 for allegedly transporting cannabis in an ambulance has been re-arrested and put before a...

Chereponi violence: Defence Minister is perceived to be biased – Mornah (Audio)

National Chairman of the People's National Convention, Mr Bernard Mornah believes the Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul’s involvement in attempts to broker peace between the...

Debt of Krobo residents has not been waived – PDS

Power Distribution Services (PDS) has refuted claims of waiving over GH¢ 100 million of the debt owed the company by residents of Krobo Odumase...

Video: Fabewoso: One District, One Dam projects turn death traps

The One-District-One-Dam projects undertaken in the three Northern regions have been described as death traps with six deaths recorded already.  The projects are intended to...

Chereponi clash: Underlying tensions not being addressed – MP (Audio)

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini, believes resolving the violence in the Chereponi District of the North East region requires...

Audio: Opinion leaders to meet Konkombas and Chokosis over Chereponi clash

Opinion leaders in Chereponi in the Northern region will meet the Konkombas and Anufors (Chokosis) to discuss the ongoing conflict between the two factions. According...

Desilting gutters, Korle Lagoon waste of govt money – NPP MP

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Subin constituency in the Ashanti region, Mr Eugene Boakye Antwi, says desilting choked gutters is...

Woman arrested in failed ritual murder

The Police in Osenase, a community near Akwatia in the Eastern region have arrested a 32-year-old seamstress known as Humu Iddrisu for allegedly conspiring...

Must-read from a ‘migrant spy’: No greener pastures on the desert

It was close to midnight when the young man crawled into the desert. All around him was darkness. A hundred metres away, a handful...

Security guard jailed for threatening to kill former minister

A former security guard at the State Enterprise Commission has been jailed two years by the Accra Circuit Court for threatening to kill the...

Student gets 20 years for robbery

A 19-year-old student, who attacked and robbed a nurse of her handbag, inflicting knife wounds on her at Tikrom, near Ejisu, has been jailed...

Video+Photos: Container truck falls off Nkrumah Circle Interchange

A 40-footer container truck with registration number AS 4258 N has fallen on the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange in Accra from the Ring Road...

Company builds under high tension, abandons GH¢500,000 govt deal after electrocution

Park-side Limited, a construction company, has abandoned a GH¢503, 935.08 worth of contract for the construction of a public place of convenience (KVIP) at...

Audio: Boy, 6, drowns in Lake Volta during school hours

A six-year-old boy, identified as Benjamin Adu Gyamfi, a pupil of Roman Catholic Basic School in Yeji in the Bono East region, on Thursday...

Photos: Fire razes furniture shop at Sakaman

Fire has razed Central Furniture shop at Sakaman, a suburb in Accra destroying furniture worth thousands of cedis in the early hours of Friday. The...

VGMA clash: Shatta Wale plays too much, climbed stage aimlessly – Mark Okraku Mantey (Video)

Astute producer, Mark Okraku Mantey has waded into the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards brawl that ensued between Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale last weekend at...

Audio: Ghana’s drop in media freedom index due to Suale’s murder – Oppong Nkrumah

“Ahmed Suale’s death is a blot on the image of Ghana and that was what led to Ghana’s drop in position on the media...

Police suspicion leads to arrest of 3 laptops, phone thieves

Three men have been arrested by the Assin Fosu Police patrol team in the Central region for allegedly stealing valuable items worth thousands of...

Gun at VGMA: Charterhouse bans Shatta Wale, Stonebwoy indefinitely

Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy have been banned indefinitely from participating in the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs) with immediate effect. At a press conference...

Lower Manya chaos: 35 arrested, 100 police personnel deployed

Thirty-five people have been arrested in the Lower Manya Municipality in the Eastern region following a clash between police and some youth in the...

Shatta and Stonebwoy need counselling from Akufo-Addo – Lawyer

Private legal practitioner, Dr Maurice Ampaw has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to immediately invite Ghanaian reggae dancehall artistes Livingstone Etse Satekla,...

E/R: Youth, Police clash over PDS disconnection exercise, the inside story

Some Irate youth at Manya Kpongunor in the Lower Manya Krobo District of the Eastern region on Wednesday clashed with the police in the...

Ex-convict ‘murders’, secretly buries 72-yr-old grandmother

A 22-year-old ex-convict has been remanded for allegedly murdering and secretly burying his 72-year-old grandmother, Patience Hushie.  The sad incident is said to have taken place last month...

More details emerge about bribe-grabbing Policeman

The Central Regional Police Command has detained Sergeant Kwaku Owusu Ansah, the Police Officer captured in a viral video allegedly taking money from a...

Funny Face welcomes set of twin girls in new video

Ghanaian comedian, Funny Face, has welcomed a set of twin daughters into the world and has shared a video with his fans on social...

NDC will win 2020 polls only if… – John Boadu

“The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will only win the 2020 general election if the New Patriotic Party (NPP) decides not to contest,” John...

Why Asamoah Gyan rescinded his retirement decision

Ghana Black Stars Captain Asamoah Gyan has withdrawn his decision to retire from the senior national team following an intervention from President Nana Addo...

Flooding: Incorporate silt traps in our drainage system – Pratt to Govt

Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, says the government should adapt the use of silt traps in the country’s drainage system. According to Mr...

Tourism Ministry to provide counselling services to Shatta Wale, Stonebwoy

Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Barbara Oteng Gyasi has cautioned Dancehall Reggae artistes Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale to engage in a healthy competition...

Photos: Minority joins demo against shutdown of radio stations

The Minority in Parliament has thrown its weight behind the Free Media Vanguard's protest against the closure of some radio stations in the country...

Video: Policeman captured on camera taking bribe

A video is making the rounds on social media of police officer identified as Sergeant Kwaku Owusu Ansah allegedly taking bribe from some suspected...

Audio: Ex-footballer speaks on ‘juju’ in football

A former defender for Accra Hearts of Oak, Emmanuel Armah, popularly known as Armah Senegal, has testified to the use of juju by footballers...

Alhaji Nasiru reveals how to fight terrorism in Ghana

Alhaji Mohammed Nasiru, a member of the National Democratic Congress communications team has called on the government to create jobs for the youth, especially...

Audio: Shatta Wale pulled the trigger for VGMA clash – Kwame Sefa Kayi

Kwame Sefa Kayi, master of ceremony for this year's Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) 2019, has blamed the chaos that ensued at the...

12-year-old boy ‘commits’ suicide [Audio]

A 12-year-old class six pupil has allegedly committed suicide in an uncompleted building at Korle-Nkwanta in the New Juaben South Municipality in the Eastern...

Asamoah Gyan reveals why he retired from the Black Stars

Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has announced his retirement from the Black Stars with immediate effect. In a statement, the striker said he will also not...

Stop sunbathing babies with jaundice – Paediatric Society

The Paediatric Society of Ghana has cautioned parents against sunbathing their newborn babies in the name of getting Vitamin D to correct yellow colouration...