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Farmers ditching cocoa for rubber, cashew – COCOBOD CEO (Audio)

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo has explained why the government has decided to protect the interest...

Exclusive photos: Major Mahama’s statue unveiled in Accra [Photos]

The Defence Ministry, together with the Military High Command and other security agencies have unveiled a monument in honour of the late Major Maxwell...

Video: Crippled men rob bank at gunpoint

Three crippled armed robbers have been caught on camera as they rob a bank and hold people hostage. These men were seen entering the banking...

Audio: Highway robbers rob passengers; flee with one car at Potsin junction

Three commercial vehicles and commuters have been robbed by eight highway robbers at Tonisco near Potsin junction on the Kasoa Cape Coast highway in...

Photos: One dead after daylight robbery on Tema-Aflao highway

A man has been shot dead after armed robbers attacked him on the Tema-Aflao highway.  On Tuesday, two gunmen trailing the deceased are said...

WAEC initiates investigations into 2019 WASSCE leakage reports

The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has increased inspection and monitoring of the ongoing 2019 West African Senior School Certification Examination (WASSCE) for school...

Photos: 55 orphans sleep in single room built in 1824, appeal for help

Orphans at the Dodowa Rising Star Home are calling on the government, corporate bodies and philanthropists to support them with housing facilities. According to them, currently, about 55...

Video: Angry NPP youth chase out DCE ; lock office

Some youth in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Krachi West constituency in the Volta region on Tuesday locked the office of the...

Dep. Director of passport speaks of how easy it is to get Ghanaian passport

Deputy Director of Passport, Kwadwo Peprah Ampratwum has explained how easy it is for Ghanaians to acquire their passports in Ghana. Mr Ampratwum said in spite...

Sarkodie announces song with Ebony on ‘Alpha’ project

Rapper Sarkodie is one of the few musicians who recorded with late dancehall diva and Rufftown records signee, Ebony Reigns before her unfortunate demise...

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...