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One dead, others injured as vehicle runs into drinking spot

One person has been confirmed dead with four others severely injured after a Toyota Highlander run into a drinking spot near the Effiduase major...

Stop illegal mining; take advantage of govt’s employment programs – Okyenhene to galamseyers

The overlord of Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area, Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panyin, has condemned individuals and groups who still engage in illegal mining in...

Nhyira FM’s Evangelist Oduro passes on

Popular resident preacher on Nhyira FM in Kumasi , Evangelist Stephen Oduro is dead. He died on Saturday at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in...

Otinibi residents ‘traumatised’ by presence of armed military personnel

Residents of Otinibi Hills in the La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly iof Accra, are calling on the Ghana Army to withdraw its armed personnel from the...

GRA boss Kofi Nti to retire on October 1

The Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr Kofi Nti will effect from October 1, 2019, retire from the revenue collection agency. In his...

Video: Prophet Badu Kobi speaks on alleged Interpol arrest

The Founder and Leader of Glorious Wave Ministry, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi, has reacted to the allegations leveled against him about a stolen car...

Photos: 38-year-old accountant enstooled Nkoranza Paramount Chief

The kingmakers of the Nkoranza Traditional Council in the Bono East region on Friday enstooled 38-year-old accountant, Prince Kwaku Soror, as the new Paramount...

Audio: Compensation in Emile Short report good news – beneficiary

One of the people to benefit from the government's compensation package for property destroyed during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election has described the decision...

DCE in car crash hours after campaign manager dies in accident

The District Chief Executive for Upper West Akyem, Eugene Sackey, has been hospitalised after he was involved in a near-fatal accident on the Suhum...

Maame Yaa Tiwaa touted the best to head CID

A security analyst, Adams Bonaa, has challenged critics to name a better senior police officer aside Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah to head the Criminal...

Prof Stephen Adei sworn in as new GRA Board Chair

Former Director-General and Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Prof Stephen Adei, has been sworn in as the new...

377 females deported from Gulf States in 2017 – GIS Report

The Migration Information Centre (MIC) of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) said 377 female Ghanaians were deported from the Gulf States in 2017. This was...

Special report: Accra roads to avoid to dodge the ‘crazy’ traffic jam (Video)

For over 120 years, successive governments have constructed hundreds of roads in Ghana’s capital city, Accra, to ease the flow of traffic. But, that...

Audio: Peace Council speaks on kidnappings in Ghana

The Chairman of the National Peace Council, Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, says the recent kidnappings, murders and political vigilantism in Ghana must be...

Watch: How a lady escaped after robbing a bank

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2n5GaWgKYU/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again A lady has been spotted in a viral video jumping from the window of a bank in Kumasi after robbing the bank.  READ: Photos+audio: NPP...

Man dies in galamsey pit

The body of a man has been recovered from a water-filled pit at a gold mining site in the Manso-Aboabo community in the Amansie...

Photos+audio: NPP MP, party executives beaten at Breman Asikuma

A constituency Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is fighting for his life after he, together with the Member of Parliament (MP)...

16 arrested in military and police exercise at Yeji

A joint police and military team has busted 16 suspects at Yeji in the Bono East region during a special exercise conducted to clamp...

I can help families of kidnapped girls retrieve their bones – Maurice Ampaw

Dr Maurice Ampaw, a private legal Practitioner, has said that he is capable of helping the families of the kidnapped Takoradi girls recover the...

Video: Konongo artisans threaten to burn police station

Hundreds of angry artisans at Konongo in the Ashanti region have besieged and threatened to burn the Konongo Police Station over the arrest of...

Video: Axim Chief appeals to govt to fix roads

The Paramount Chief of the Nzema Traditional Area, Awulae Ati Brukusu III, has appealed to President Nana Akufo-Addo, to as a matter of urgency,...

Counsellor George Lutterodt hot, banned from counselling on TV, radio

The Ghana Psychology Council has warned controversial Counsellor George Lutterodt for the last time to stop calling or holding himself as a counsellor and...

T’di Girls: Police not magicians, we’re all to blame – Sam Pyne

Ashanti Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Sam Pyne, says Ghanaians could have saved the situation of the four dead Takoradi girls if...

Missing girls: Police to allow independent DNA test

The Ghana Police Service has said it will not object to an independent DNA test on the remains of the four Takoradi girls now...

Audio: Dead Taadi girls: Ruth Abeka not adopted child – Family

Family of Ruth Abeka, one of the four murdered Takoradi girls, has rubbished claims that their daughter was adopted. Emmanuel Kwamena Baiden, uncle to Ruth...

Taadi girls: My instincts tell me my daughter is dead – Priscilla’s father

Father of one of the abducted Takoradi girls has said his instincts tell him his daughter is dead. Alex Koranchie, father of 18-year-old Priscilla Mantebea...

Missing girls: We apologise for our silence – Women MPs

The Women Caucus in Parliament has apologised to Ghanaians over their “silence” in the Takoradi missing girls saga. The caucus was never heard on the...

Photo: Pregnant bride dies minutes before her wedding

Jessica Guedes, a 30-year-old pregnant bride, has died moments to her wedding leaving her groom become a single father to their daughter who was delivered by...

Govt declares Monday, September 23 public holiday

The interior ministry has declared Monday September 23, 2019 as a public holiday. In a statement signed by the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery on Wednesday, it...

Prophet Badu Kobi speaks on death of 4 missing Takoradi girls

Controversial man of God, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi, Founder of Glorious Wave Church International, says he is not surprised about the kidnappings of the...

Photos: 4 perish in gory Yapei accident

Four people have been reported dead in a gory accident at Yapei in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah region. According to sources, the...

UEW saga: EOCO report exonerates Avoke

An Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) report has exonerated the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, Prof Mawutor Avoke, and other...

V/R: Over 10 communities cut-off from North Dayi due to poor roads

More than 10 farming and fishing communities in the North Dayi District have been cut off from the rest of the Volta region due to poor...

Nana Addo to look into D.K. Poison’s case

The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has promised he will look into the lingering case of the State possibly...

Y’asem Nie: Meet the UCC graduate who sells processed palm nut [video]

Tired of waiting for a white collar job, enterprising graduate of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) decided to try his luck by processing palm nut...

Pretty Legon student dies in bizarre ‘accident’; tears flow

Nana Ama Owusu-Nyantah, a final year student of the University of Ghana, has been reported dead. According to reports on social media, Nana Ama, who is...

Dead T’di girls: CID boss Tiwaa must take a bow – NIA boss (Listen)

Chief Executive of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Prof. Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, has joined many who are calling on the Director-General of the Criminal...

Video: Give families of dead Taadi girls money for second DNA test – Security Expert to govt

Security and Safety expert, Adam Bonaa, has urged the government to resource families of the missing Takoradi girls to conduct their own forensic tests...

Revealed: One of the skeletons of Taadi girls had waist beads [audio]

It has emerged that one of the human remains of the missing girls in Takoradi in the Western region had beads around the retrieved...

SHS placement: 90 per cent done

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said that majority of Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates who have thronged the Black Stars Square with...