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Touching: First words of bride whose husband died on their wedding day

The widow whose husband sadly died on the day of their wedding has broken her silence for the first time since the traumatic incident...

Pregnant woman arrested for assaulting niece

A pregnant woman is in the grips of Amasaman police for torturing her 7-year-old niece by cutting her fingers with cutlass as punishment. According to...

Photos: Kakum elephants destroying cocoa farms at Assin Abodwesaso

Some Cocoa Farmers at Assin Abodwesaso in the Assin South District of the Central Region, are expressing concern about rampaging elephants destroying their cocoa...

Photos: When Pilot Capt Quainoo made his historic A380 landing at Terminal 3

Captain Solomon Quainoo has become the first pilot to successfully land the biggest passenger aircraft at the Kotoka International Airport in Ghana. Captain Quainoo taxied the...

Open defecation soars in schools

Data released by the coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) has revealed that public schools in the two hundred and...

The baby who will not forget Melania Trump’s hug

The visiting American First Lady, Melania Trump on Tuesday had a historical moment with mothers and babies at the Greater Accra Regional (Ridge) Hospital...

Aged Expert calls on government to build special hospitals for the aged

A Pastoral Gerontologist at the Centre for Aging Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, Rev. Dr Samuel Ayete-Nyampong, has called on the government...

Photo: Don’t blame NDC for KIA’s Terminal 3 flood – A Plus

Ghanaian musician cum politician, A Plus has urged supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to stop blaming former president John Dramani Mahama for...

PHOTOS: GRA confiscates over 20 trucks of Pepsi products

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has seized over twenty (20) trucks of soft drinks they say are without excise tax stamps. The drinks which were...

What was wrong under Mahama can’t be right under Akufo-Addo – A Plus

Musician and political activists, Kwame A Plus, has written a long piece on why he thinks Ghana's development has stalled. The piece also details his...

Fake News: No flooding at KIA’s Terminal 3

The Ghana Airport Company Limited which manages the Kotoka International Airport has rubbished reports circulating on social media that the KIA’s newly-built Terminal 3...

What is China doing in Africa?

Chinese corporations are all over Africa.  In June 2017 a McKinsey & Company report estimated that there are more than 10,000 Chinese-owned firms operating in Africa. What are Chinese...

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah replies Duncan Williams’s “crisis” statement

Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, says Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams’s declaration of a 72-hour fasting and prayer for Ghana won’t affect the incumbent government. Speaking on...

We were promised 1 District 1 Dam, not 1 House 1 Dam – Circle residents cry after Monday’s downpour [Video]

Some residents of Adabraka in Accra have taken a swipe at the government for failing to take steps to prevent flooding in the area...

Hweehwee RC teachers, students engage in open defecation

Both teachers and students of Wheewhee Roman Catholic Junior High School (JHS) in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region engage in open...

Agogo State College shut down ; 22 students arrested over protest

Some 22 students of the Agogo State College in the Asante Akim North District of the Ashanti region, have been arrested by police. The number,...

Video: Fabewoso demo gets results; EOCO retrieves $200m

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) is said to have retrieved about 200 million dollars from individuals and institutions said to have misappropriated...

Plane crash: Titus Glover recounts near-death experience [Audio]

The Member of Parliament for Tema East and Deputy Transport Minister, Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover has recounted his near-death experience when an Antrak airline he...

Samira Bawumia honoured as ‘2018 African Woman of Excellence’

The Second Lady of the Republic of Ghana and Global Ambassador for the Global Alliance for Clean cookstoves, Hajia Mrs Samira Bawumia, has been...

Groom crushed to death en route to wedding reception [Photo]

Tears flowed at a wedding reception after the groom was crushed to death and the bride is battling for his life at the hospital following...

Police gun down two suspected robbers at Denkyira

The Upper Denkyira Divisional Police Command in the Central Region on Thursday gunned down two highway robbers in separate operations. The robbers engaged the armed...

Six pupils, two teachers killed in accident at Tarkwa buried

The six pupils and two teachers of Learners Bridge Academy at Dompim in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region, who died in...

Audio: Ghana is in crisis – Duncan Williams declares 72- hour fasting and prayers

Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has declared a 72-hours fasting and prayers for Ghana. Beginning Monday, October...

Ursula Owusu Ekuful now Nkosuohemaa of Akyem Asuom

The traditional leaders and people of Akyem Asuom in the Eastern Region have installed Minister of Communication Ursula Owusu-Ekuful as Nkosuohemaa – development queen. She...

Audio: Man beats wife to pulp for allegedly cheating on him

READ ALSO: Notorious armed robber gunned down at Kasoa A 30-year-old woman, Adwoa Dzigbodzi, is fighting for her life at Adansi Obonsu Health Centre...

Akufo-Addo’s Presidential jet saved from near disaster

Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the delegation that travelled with him to the United States have escaped what could have been a...

Labourer jailed for stealing palm fruits

A farm labourer, Mahama Zackaria, who stole 72 bunches of palm fruits, has been sentenced to a fine of GH¢ 960.00 by a Kade...

PHOTOS: EU donates 50 recycling bins to Ga East schools

The European Union (EU) has donated 50 recycling bins to ten schools in the Ga East Municipality of the Greater Accra Region to help...

Muslim youth attack Darkuman Mosque

A mosque at Darkuman, a suburb of Accra has been attacked by youth believed to be Muslims. According to an eyewitness, the youth stormed the...

Court grants injunction; NCA can’t close down Joy, Asempa FMs

An Accra High Court has injuncted the National Communications Authority (NCA) against shutting down Joy FM and sister station, Asempa FM. The court granted an...

Nyantakyi sues Anas, 2 others over Number 12

Suspended Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi has sued ace investigator Anas Aremeyaw Anas for ridiculing him in the infamous Number 12 investigative sting. With...

Martin Amidu’s lamentations not surprising – Franklin Cudjoe

Founder and President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe says he is not surprised about the seeming frustration expressed by the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu...

Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall begin historic tour of Ghana, 2 other countries

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are set to visit Ghana and two other West African countries in October, the Royal...

TD Mobile, Zoomlion hold cleanup exercise

TD Mobile, a subsidiary of Technology Distributions (TD) a Nigerian IT Distributor as part of its social responsibility has held a cleanup exercise at...

Audio: Chinese Ambassador angry over fake documents by Ghanaian visa applicants

Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Shi Ting Wang, has expressed serious dismay at the attitude of some Ghanaians who apply for entry visas to the...

Accra Technical University, AMA sign MOU to improve city

The Accra Technical University (ATU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to undertake joint researches and projects to...

Video: Chinese man forced to collect his faeces after he was caught openly defecating

A middle-aged Chinese man has been captured on camera openly defecating in the garden of some Ghanaians with whom his property shares a boundary. It...

Menzgold playing hide and seek with us, still holding vital information to their chest – SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has indicated that it is yet to hear from gold trading company Menzgold Ghana Limited after it ordered...

Tourism fetched $2.2m for Ghana in 2015 – Lecturer

A Senior Lecturer at the University of Energy and Natural Resources has said the tourism sector is Ghana’s fourth largest foreign exchange earner, fetching...