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PHOTOS: Lake Bosomtwe gets safety and emergency services team

The Bosomtwe District Assembly is to set up a standing emergency services team to protect holidaymakers and other visitors to Lake Bosomtwe. U.S-based Global Mission...

WFP commend Ghana for working to end hunger and malnutrition

The World Food Program is commending government of Ghana for prioritizing food security and nutrition and its determination to achieve zero hunger in Ghana. In...

PHOTOS: Violent clashes in Kwabre East leaves scores injured

Violence has broken out at Ahwiaa, a community in the Kwabre East district of Ashanti region between some youth in the Zongo community and...

Teachers who date students should be jailed – Majority Leader

Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has called on the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to sack and revoke certificates of...

VIDEO: Your ‘car’ should be driven by only one man, not mate – Agyinasare to married women

Presiding Bishop and Head Pastor of Perez Chapel International, Charles Agyinasare has advised married women to allow their ‘cars’ to be driven by only...

President leaves for Senegal

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Friday, to attend the Third International Global Partnership for Education conference in Dakar, Senegal. The conference, a...

HOT AUDIO: 5 drivers suspended for drunk-driving and fornication

Five commercial drivers in Agona Swedru in the Central region have been suspended by the Progressive Transport Owners Association for drunk driving. The drivers, who...

Hot video: 99% of prophets in Ghana use psychology- Pastor

A man of God has asserted that 99 percent of prophets in the country are fake. Rev Isaac Opoku, Head pastor of In Him is...

VIDEOS+PHOTOS: Watch these NPP members as they invoke river deity to kill executives

A video has surfaced of some New Patriotic Party (NPP) members in the Awutu Senya East District in the Central Region cursing party executives...

HOT VIDEO: Family of 14 perish in Anyinam accident

Fourteen (14) people belonging to the same family have been feared dead in a gory accident at Anyinam on the Kumasi-Accra Highway.According to the...

UPDATE: Four picked up in connection with Dome Market fire

Four People have been picked up in connection with the fire outbreak at Dome Market in Accra. The suspects who have all been granted bail...

Philip Osei Bonsu is new Eko Sii Sen host on Asempa FM

Western Region’s celebrated radio talk show host, Philip Osei Bonsu, is now host of Asempa FM’s late afternoon programme, Eko Sii Sen. Philip, a former...

HOT VIDEO: Stop sharing my husband’s sex tape – Wife of bonking headmaster begs

AT A GLANCE The woman whose husband was involved in the "kitchen stool sex tape" has been named as Madam Diana Krofie She has...

James Town gets new Chief

Kingmakers and heads of the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Area have customarily installed and enstooled Dr Prince William Ashely Bruce-Quaye as the James Town chief. His...

Pigs attack 4-year-old; in critical condition

A 4-year-old girl was nearly killed when she was mysteriously attacked by pigs Thursday. According to reports, the pigs nearly chewed off her head when...

HOT AUDIO: School Feeding Programme: Pupils fed with maize in Salaga

Pupils of Sisipe D/A Primary School in the East Gonja District of the Northern Region have in the last couple of weeks been fed...

PHOTOS: Police eject Kaiser Flat occupants

Dozens of heavily armed policemen and taskforce of the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) early Friday morning stormed the Kaizer Flats in Tema Community 4...

PHOTOS: Dome market fire, MCE says it's arson

MCE of Ga East Municipal, Janet Tulasi Mensah, says information gathered so far indicates someone intentionally set the market ablaze. She told Adom News Kwame...

HOT AUDIO: Witch doctor explains why men are not allowed into witch camps

Several witch camps in the Northern Region have refused to accept men into their care for fear of being beaten or over powered. Read more:...

AMA sacks 11 taskforce members

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has dismissed eleven members of its task force for   failing to discharge their duties. They are Theophilus Amar Kwasi, Samuel...

Over 400 residents face eviction from Kaizer Flats

AT A GLANCE A High Court in Teman has granted the TDC an eviction order to evict 187 residents Four of the Flats have failed...

PHOTOS: Fire guts Dome Market

The Dome Market in Accra is in ruins after a devastating fire, Wednesday evening. Market stalls, shops and other structures have been consumed by the...

Abortion and teenage pregnancy soar in Mampong

Rising cases of abortion, has become a major health concern in the Mampong Municipality and giving the health authorities sleepless nights. The facilities in the...

Scam alert: There is no ‘protocol list’ for recruitment – Immigration Service warns

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has issued an alert on a fraudulent recruitment scam involving the ongoing 2017/2018 recruitment exercise and has admonished all...

Man stoned to death in Kumasi

An able bodied man, believed to be about 30-years-old, was killed in a horrifying manner after he was stoned to death by a mob...

Offinso College Principal lauds restoration of trainee allowances

The acting Principal of the Offinso College of Education has expressed appreciation to government for restoring teacher trainee allowances. Mr. Daniel Adjei-Mensah revealed that, the...

Water for rural Africa calls for responsible use of water

The attention of the Water for Rural Africa (WRA) has been drawn to a press release by the Ghana Water Company Limited dated 25th...

Adom TV displaces UTV to become Ghana’s most watched TV – Geopoll report

AT A GLANCE 662,000 average viewers watched Multimedia’s Adom TV in 2017, making it the most viewed and leading TV station in Ghana for...

Sanitation Minister urged to step up his game

A local governance expert has urged sanitation Minister, Joseph Kofi Adda, to step up his game to address the poor sanitary conditions in the...

HOT AUDIO: Farmer commits suicide after drinking akpeteshie

A 51-year-old farmer at Assin Nyarme Bebu in the Assin South District of the Central Region, has committed suicide by hanging after allegedly taking...

Boy, 13, crashed to death by chain saw operator

A 13-year-old boy has been crashed to death by a chain saw operator at Assin Abodwese near Senchiam in the Assin North municipality of...

HOT PHOTOS: Watch photos of man who turns worn out tyres into furniture

An unknown Ghanaian youth is making use of the left side of his brain where skills abound by turning worn out car tyres into...

We can’t regulate private water tankers – GWCL

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) appears to be helpless in regulating the operations of private water tanker businesses in the country. Residents of Adentan...

Tribute by Prez Akufo-Addo at the funeral of Hugh Masakela

I had to come from the AU Summit in Addis Ababa on my way back home to Accra, so I could express my condolences...

PURC meets public over utility tariff review

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) is set to begin a nationwide stakeholder’s consultation on the proposed tariff review for both water and electricity. This...

PHOTOS: Kumasi Traditional Council orders demolition of litigated buildings at Kejetia Market project site

The Kumasi Traditional Council has ordered city authorities to demolish a storey building and other structures which impede work on the Kejetia Redevelopment Project. Members are...

Govt erred in announcing tariff reduction – ISODEC

The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) says government breached sections of the law by announcing electricity tariff reduction. According to its policy analyst, Dr. Steve...