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HOT AUDIO: 'Enjoy' slaps from your wife in the interest of peace – MP urges men

Vice Chairperson of Parliamentary Select Committee on Gender, Abena Duruwaa Mensah has admonished men to refrain from any action which seeks to retaliate a...

Man commits suicide over GHC900 debt

A Trotro driver, Sampson Kwaku Ayisi, 61, has committed suicide at Alajo, a surburb of Accra. The sad incident occurred Thursday at Alajo Down Town,...

Elimination of child marriage my priority – First Lady

First Lady of the Republic, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has disclosed that the elimination of child marriages in Ghana and the retention of girls in school...

Ghana deports 100 illegal migrants

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) says it has deported 100 illegal African immigrants for engaging in fraudulent activities in the country. This represents a sharp...

Stop 'sex for jobs' or face prosecution – TUC warns male employers

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) says it will push for the prosecution of employers who engage in ‘sex for jobs’ – a practice where...

11 new magistrates sworn into office

The Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, has sworn into office 11 new Magistrates. During the swearing in ceremony on Thursday March 8, she entreated the new...

Woyome wins appeal against Judgment Debt Commission

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, setting aside some adverse findings contained in the Judgement Debt Commission...

AUDIO: Educate young girls on sex – NGOs urged

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the country have been urged to introduce children to sex education. The Market Queen at Makola, Aunty Bee, who disclosed this...

AUDIO: Let’s support our own – Charlotte Osei urges women

As the world marks International Women’s Day (IWD), Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, has urged Ghanaian women to support their own to...

AUDIO: Victims of sexual abuse need to be protected – Charlotte Osei

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, has called for full protection for young girls who are abused sexually. She called on religious bodies, the...

Journalist who wrote “ teacher walks 42km” story speaks

The journalist who wrote the story about a teacher being rewarded with a standing fan for walking 42 kilometers to school has responded to...

Women must be aggressive to national development

Director of National Population Council, Dr. Leticia Appiah, has charged women to be aggressive and assertive to contribute to the development of the nation. According...

Bloomberg sets up $20m fund for global anti-tobacco program

A $20 million fund has been set up to start a global anti-tobacco program dubbed, Stopping Tobacco Organisation and Products (STOP). The fund committed by...

PHOTOS: Vim lady hosts Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem

Outspoken female journalist, Afia Pokua will host Adom FM’s flagship morning show, Dwaso Nsem to mark this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD). Vim lady as...

Woman feared dead after falling into open manhole

There is an ongoing rescue mission at Agbogba in Accra to remove the body of a woman who reportedly fell into an open manhole...

Women Peace and Security calls for consciousness on gender progress

The Women Peace and Security Institute is calling for the elimination of gender based violence across the African continent as the world marks International...

Over 300 rendered homeless in Assin South after heavy downpour

Over 300 people have been rendered homeless in the Assin South District of the Central Region after a heavy downpour with thunderstorms hit 12...

Tatale Chiefs boycott Independence Day parade

Chiefs and elders of Tatale Sanguli District in the Northern Region have boycotted the 61st Independence Day celebration over alleged tribal bigotry of the...

HOT AUDIO: 8 church members sacked for using anointing oil

The Seventh Day Adventist Church, Atebubu branch of the Brong Ahafo Region has sacked eight of its members including some Church leaders for selling...

Ban Independence Day parade – Casely Hayford

Social commentator, Sidney Casely Hayford, is questioning the relevance of Ghana's Independence Day celebrations which costs the nation thousands, if not millions, of cedis...

I never said Shatta Wale will die – Prophet Nigel Gaisie

The head Pastor and Founder of the True Word Fire Prophetic Ministry, Prophet Nigel Gaisie has denied prophesying the death of dancehall king Shatta...

PHOTOS+VIDEO: Akufo-Addo unveils design of National Cathedral

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 6th March 2018, unveiled the design - architecture of the national Cathedral at a brief ceremony at...

‘Kitchen stool sex’ case moved to Accra

The case involving the headmaster, who recorded a video of himself having sex with a senior high school (SHS) student on a kitchen stool...

Deteriorated Sogakope Bridge poses danger to travellers

Some expansion joints on the Lower Volta Bridge at Sogakope in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region, have become a death trap...

Burning of Sand Winners' trucks: N/R Minister must resign – NDC

In the wake of the military burning some hardware over sand-winning in Dalun in the Northern Region, the Northern Regional Secretary of opposition National...

HOT AUDIO: Create jobs and stop sitting in air conditioners – Prophetess to Ministers

General Overseer of Grace Divine Healing Ministry at Ekumfi Adansi in the central Region, Prophetess Grace Affanyi Mensah, has charged Ministers of State and...

Headteacher in kitchen stool sex tape resurfaces to face GES

The runaway headteacher Mr. Robert Sepey, who bolted after his sex video with a senior high school student on a kitchen stool emerged in...

PHOTOS+AUDIOS: Tragedy – Swedru rainstorm causes havoc, kills one and injures many

AT A GLANCE Rainstorm has killed one person and injured 30 more people in the process The deceased is a 3-year-old boy who was...

One more dies after eating banku and okro soup

One more person is said to have died after eating banku and okro soup at Akakpokope, a village in the South Tongu District of...

VIDEO: Most homosexuals are satanists – Prof. Martey

Former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey has labeled persons in the practice of gayism as Satanists who must...

Doomsday prophecies are destroying relationships – Volta Clergy

The Coalition of Volta Clergy for Development, a think tank in the Volta Region, has expressed concern over the recent spate of doomsday prophecies...

Dominase Junction accident: Residents blame Ambulance Service for deaths

Some residents of Gomoa Dominase in the Central Region where a road accident claimed, at least, six lives on Saturday say some of the...

Banku and okro soup kill 4 in the V/R

Some four persons have died at Akakpokope, a village in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region after consuming popular delicacy, banku and...

PHOTOS: Military storm sand winners’ site, set machines ablaze

Military officers deplored by the Northern Regional Security Council (REGSEC) have embarked a massive locate-and-burn exercise in Afa Yili near Dalung in the Kumbugu...

Six dead, 18 in critical condition in Dominase Junction accident

Five persons died on the spot following another deadly car crash at Dominase Junction on the Winneba-Kasoa road in the Central Region. Another person was...

'Curses will chase you all your life' – Agyinasare to armed robbers

Armed robbers are not spared spiritual curses even in their old age, Bishop Charles Agyinasare has said. He has, therefore, advised armed robbers to repent...

Learn to tame the animal in you – Kweku Baako to Ghanaian Police Unit on UN missions

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Kweku Baako has admonished security personnel working with the U.N on peacekeeping assignments to exercise utmost discipline and...

Bible and Governance to hold conference on the role of Christians in Politics

The Bible and Governance in collaboration with the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship of Parliamentary is set to hold a Conference on the role of Christians...

AMA announces clean-up exercise on March 3

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has said there would a massive clean-up exercise in all of its 10 sub-metros on Saturday, March 3, 2018. The...

Patrick Darko Missah confirmed as Director-General of Prisons

His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, has upon the advice of the Prisons Service Council, given in...