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Audio: Two hit by rubber bullet in Hweehwee

Two persons have been reportedly hit by a stray bullet during a demonstration by some youth in Hweehwee in the Eastern Region. The youth were...

GBC staff deflate tyres of ECG vehicle over disconnection

Some staff of the Garden City Radio, a branch of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) in the Ashanti Regional Capital, Kumasi, on Thursday evening...

Energy experts must stop parroting and read – Energy Minister fires

Minister for Energy, Boakye Agyarko is amazed at the position of some supposed energy experts following government’s announcement of tariff reduction. According to him, the...

Two Ghanaian investigative journalists feature in African Investigative Journalism book

Two Ghanaian investigative journalists have their stories featured in African Muckraking, a book which collected outstanding investigative stories written by Africans in the last...

Hot Audio: Woman, land lady fight over rent

Terms of a tenancy agreement described as ‘wicked’ by a woman in her late fifties pitched her against her landlady. Esther Nyamekye is challenging her...

Sudden demise of Francis Appiah; the inside story

Death has taken away a dedicated Ghanaian who in his own small way quietly tried to control corruption in especially in the transport sector. Francis...

Hot Audio: Man arrested for threatening to behead chief

An 18-year-old man, Kwame Afrifa is currently in the grips of the Assin Damang police for allegedly threatening to behead Ebusuapanyin Kwasi Opong of...

Our lives are in danger – Aveyime police

Police officers stationed at Aveyime in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region are living in fear following persistence death and verbal threats...

Man forgets where he parks his car – then finds it 20 years later

Back in 1997 in the German city of Frankfurt, a man reported his car as stolen to the police. Twenty years later, the authorities in...

18-year-old girl dropped out of school to marry…

The Parents and guardians of an 18-year-old girl who live in Paga in the Upper East Region have stopped her from continuing her education...

Kumasi: ECG cuts power to GBC for non-payment of bills

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has ignored an appeal from the Ministry of Information against disconnecting power to the state broadcaster, the Ghana...

Angry Chinese storms palace to arrest chief

A Chinese national has accused a sub-chief of Tamale of stealing his vehicle three months ago and stormed his palace Tuesday night to cause...

Fulani herdsmen burn 9 homes in Kwahu

Nine mud houses at Asumesu No2, a small village in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region, have been burnt allegedly by some...

Lack of ‘mental health fund’ making more Ghanaians ‘mad’ – Report

Even though, mental health illnesses have been with us since the dawn of time, the issue of funding support in the sector has been...

Photos: Late Aliu Mahama remembered 5 years on

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, some parliamentarians and well-wishers were at the Switchback Road residence of the late Aliu Mahama to mark five years of...

Group questions electricity tariff reduction for 2018

The head of the Kumasi Institute of Technology and Environment is questioning the prudence and the sustainability of the electricity tariff reduction announced by...

Photos: Speeding trotro driver lands in gutter; passengers escape death

A commercial vehicle on Thursday afternoon veered off the road and enter into a big gutter near the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) in Accra. According...

NCA shuts down illegal radio station

National Communications Authority (NCA) has shut down Radio Dam, an illegal FM station that was broadcasting on 104.9FM, an unauthorized frequency. The station was discovered...

Violent Shepherds: The ugly story of clashes between nomadic herdsmen and farmers

"Most of the armed robberies going on in the region and elsewhere, some are criminals. For instance in the northern region those I arrested last...

NCA shuts down illegal 'living room' FM station

Officials of the National Communications Authority (NCA) on Wednesday, 15 November, shut down an illegal FM station at Donsoman in Accra. The NCA said the...

2 women die mysteriously in Ketu South

Two women have died under very bizarre circumstances in separate incidents in Horme and Viepe in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region....

Ghanaians, other African migrants being auctioned in Libya

Some African migrants including Ghanaians who are seeking greener pastures in Libya are being sold as slaves. This was revealed by international news network CNN...

Kwahu Fulani saga: Gunshots at chief's palace, two injured

At least two people have sustained gunshot wounds after a scuffle ensued between locals and guards of the Abene Chiefs Palace on Wednesday. The scuffle...

Witches to hold delegates confab in December

You may believe it or not but that is what a renowned man of God, Apostle Anthony Sampson Asamoah, founder and leader of Apostolic...

HOT VIDEO: Fabewoso on Special Prosecutor

Host of Adom FM's anti-corruption programme Fabewoso has commended Parliament for the passage of the the Special Prosecutor's Bill. With the legal framework in Parliament...

100,000 graduates to be employed in 2018 – Finance Minister

The government has announced the creation of a Nation Builders' Corps (NBC), which is set to address graduate unemployment in the country. The corps, according...

Electricity tariffs to be reduced by 13%

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has proposed an average reduction of 13 percent in electricity tariffs for residential consumers of electricity. Consumers in the non-residential...

Gov’t to provide 200,000 household toilets in 2018

Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta has said the government is ready to provide 200,000 household toilets and 20,000 Institutional latrines through the “Toilet for...

Akufo-Addo has inspired us to achieve the impossible – Ken Ofori-Atta

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is thankful of a visionary leader like President Akufo-Addo. According to him, the President has inspired them especially at the Finance...

Free SHS policy is ‘destiny changing’ – Ofori-Atta

The flagship free Senior High School (SHS) policy by the Akufo-Addo led government has been described as “destiny changing”. According to Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta,...

Over 2000 graduate recruited under Planting for Food and Jobs

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed the flagship Planting for Food and Jobs programme has reduced graduate unemployment in the country. According to him, 2,...

Write books that will shape thinking – Former President Kufuor urges writers

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has encouraged young Ghanaian and African writers to write books that would help shape the thinking and perceptions of...

Fishmongers advocate freeze on sea "Galamsey"

Fishmongers in the Central Region have called on the government to place a moratorium on the illegal fishing in the sea known as "sea...

Sex tourism, downside of tourist influx in Africa?

We often talk about the benefits of tourism but there is an aspect rarely mentioned; which is sexual tourism. Most times, when we talk of...

Hot VIDEO: Only ‘stupid pastors’ condemn my G-string direction – Obinim

The founder and leader of the International Godsway Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim has described men of God condemning his ‘G-String direction’ as ‘foolish, stupid...

Major Mahama Trust Bill Discriminatory – Freeman Tettey

The former Deputy Director of the Public Affairs Department of the Ghana Police Service DSP Freeman Tettey, has slammed the Major Mahama Trust Bill...

RESEC seeking to foment trouble in Yilo-Paramount Chief

Paramount Chief of Yilo Krobo traditional area, Oklepeme Nuer Anorbaa Sasraku II is alleging that Eastern Regional Security Council (RESEC) is conspiring with some...

Audio: Chinese Jackpot seized in Assin South

The Assin South District Police command in collaboration with the Assin South district Assembly have seized 25 jackpot machines being operated by Chinese nationals. The...

32 'Nigerian prostitutes' arrested at Abeka Lapaz

“We were tricked into prostitution instead of working in a restaurant as promised us by our mistress. We want to go back to our...

Setting up free SHS secretariat a waste of public funds – Policy analyst

A member of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) and policy analyst with the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), Dr Steve Manteaw says...