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Eku Juice reaches UK [Photos]

Eku Juice from the Ekumfi Juice factory, which falls under the One-District-One-Factory (1D1F) policy of the Akufo-Addo-led government, has found its way to...

Mother of baby abandoned in bush breaks silence [Audio]

Mother of a two-day-old baby boy dumped in a bush at Awutu Ofaakor in the Central region is has appealed for clemency. ALSO READ: Patience...

Otumfuo withdraws reps from KMA, other assemblies

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has withdrawn his representatives from the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) and other assemblies in the Ashanti region. According to...

Sam George in dance battle with constituents on 35th birthday [video]

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Constituency, Sam Nartey George on Wednesday January 22, 2020 celebrated his birthday in colour ceremony with his constituents. The legislator who turned...

CSO petition Gender Ministry over rising inequalities

Hundreds of citizens have hit the streets of Accra in a peaceful march to petition the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection over...

Man jailed 12 months for impersonating Ken Ofori-Atta

A young man identified as Nuetey Latif Ahinguah has been slapped with a 12-month prison sentence with hard labour for impersonating Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta on...

UK, US officials recite Akan proverbs to illustrate their positions; find out which proverbs [Watch]

Akan proverbs have been gaining popularity among United Kingdom and United States of America officials in the past few days. Thanks to UK Prime...

Ghana still dangerously corrupt: Latest Corruption Perception Index reveals

The latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) report released by Transparency International, has seen Ghana score just 41 points out of a 100,...

Ghana gets centre to combat terrorism, illegal migration

A new centre, dubbed the National Border Fusion Centre has been inaugurated to assist in sharing critical information amongst Ghana’s security agencies to help...

Man reports himself to police as suspect in Dzolokpuita killing

The Volta Regional Police Command has revealed that the suspect in the death of a resident of Dzolo-Kpuita in the Ho West District of...

Don’t allow unqualified persons to register for LEAP – Minister tells MMDCEs

Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cynthia Mamle Morrison has charged Municipal and District Chief Executives in the Upper East Region, to adopt...

Tiwaa Addo-Danquah’s main regret as CID boss

The outgone Director-General of Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Commissioner of Police (COP) Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, has revealed that...

Interior Minister renews Bole curfew

The Minister for Interior has renewed the curfew imposed on the Bole township and its environs in the Savannah region from 10:00 p.m. to...

MEMHREP calls on govt to pay attention to the mentally ill

A non-governmental organisation, MEMHREP, has appealed to government to help build more rehabilitation for mental health patients. Chief Executive Officer of the organisation, Mr...

Military aircraft accident in Accra: Armed Forces Command seeks answers

The Public Relations Department of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has given more details about its aircraft CASA C295 with registration number GHF552 which overrun the apron...

Irate Ho West youth burn Assembly vehicle over death of resident

Some irate youth at Dzolokpuita in the Volta region on Wednesday stormed the offices of the Ho West District Assembly, in protest of the...

IGP puts GH¢10, 000 bounty on Mankessim cop killers

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), James Oppong Boanuh, has announced a reward of GH¢10,000.00 to any person who gives credible information leading to the...

Taxi driver narrates how ‘friend’ almost burnt him to death [Video]

A Taxi driver, Kwadwo Owusu, has narrated given a sad account of how he almost died in a domestic fire explosion. Speaking on Adom FM’s...

Audio: Awutu Ofaakor residents rescue two-day-old baby dumped in bush

Residents of Awutu Ofaakor in the Central region have rescued a two-day-old baby who was dumped in a bush in the area. According to some...

Gold dealer allegedly beaten to death by customers [audio]

A gold dealer, believed to be 23 years old, has allegedly been beaten to death by customers at Subin Akwabreso near Dunkwa in the...

Peace Council to ‘solve’ vigilantism menace with new documents

The National Peace Council has revealed plans to issue two documents to supplement the Vigilantism and Offences Act (Act 999) passed by Parliament in 2019. According to...

EC pleads with political parties ahead of 2020 elections

The Electoral Commission (EC), at a stakeholder forum on Wednesday, urged Civil Society Organisations, the media, security agencies and the various political parties to...

Chairman Wontumi questions Kwesi Pratt’s loyalty to CPP [Audio]

New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly called Chairman Wontumi, has questioned the loyalty of journalist Kwesi Pratt to his...

Military aircraft overruns tarmac at Accra Air Force Base

A military aircraft on Wednesday morning overrun the apron and crashed into the grass parchment at the Air Force Base Accra. The incident occurred around...

Twenty-two-year-old apprentice killed by taxi cab

A twenty-two-year-old apprentice met his untimely death, when a Toyota Corolla taxi cab with registration number WR 2343-18 crashed him at Akoon in the...

Staff without Master Degree not qualified for promotion – Local Govt Service

The Office of the Head of Local Government Service has directed Regional Coordinating Directors to stop promoting officers without a Master Degree to the...

Revealed: MCE uses Assembly funds to buy ritual items to pacify gods

The Breman Asikuma Municipal Assembly says it used public funds to purchase ritual items to pacify gods at Breman Benin before a newly constructed...

Man, 20, allegedly murders mum at Aboabo

A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the alleged murder of his 55-year-old mother, Kubura Alhassan, in her home Tuesday morning. Police...

Illegal miners trapped to death in Western Region

The Western Regional Police Command has confirmed the death of four illegal miners on Monday at Obengkrom in the Axim District. DSP Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, PRO of the...

Atewa residents hit street to demand forest protection

A group calling itself Concerned Citizens of Atewa Landscape have taken to the streets to demand the protection of the Atewa forest reserve. Tuesday’s open...

AfCFTA surest way to Africa’s economic transformation – Akufo-Addo

The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) signed by 54 member African States to facilitate free access to commodities, goods and services across the...

Read: Why Osafo-Maafo, others filed contempt suit against Domelevo

Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo along with three public officers at the Ministry of Finance, have filed for a court order citing the Auditor-General, Mr...

Dompoase accident: Survivor describes crash as ‘silly mistake’ [audio]

A survivor of last week Tuesday's accident on the Accra-Cape Coast Highway, Charles Osei, has described as ‘silly mistake’ the crash which resulted in...

I saw truck run over victims – Dompoase accident survivor

A survivor of the Dompoase junction accident on the Cape Coast-Takoradi highway has revealed that he saw a truck run over victims...

GRA exceeds target, makes govt GH¢ 1.6 billion richer

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) exceeded its revenue collection target for 2019 by 3.2 per cent. The Authority, against a target of GH¢ 42.08 billion,...

Father of lady murdered at New Edubiase collapses [audio]

The father of the 22-year-old woman, Ama Ataa, whose decomposed body was discovered at New Edubiase, in the Ashanti region, is reported to have...

Ali-Gabass appointed tutor at UCC’s Nsawam campus [Video]

Imprisoned Medical Doctor, Sulley Ali-Gabass, has been appointed as a tutor at the University of Cape Coast's (UCC) new campus at the Nsawam prisons. Dr...

Video: Thousands paint Kumasi red against EC’s new Voters Register

After its first demonstration held against the Electoral Commission’s (EC) quest for the compilation of a new Voters Register, the Inter-Party Resistance Against New...

Police gun down two robbery suspects

The Accra Regional Police Command in the early hours of Monday, gunned-down two suspected armed robbers believed to be part of a notorious gang...

24 police officers get UN medal

Twenty-four of the finest police officers of Ghana, half of them women, were on Monday, January 20, awarded well-deserved UN medals. The officers were decorated...