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Why did Rawlings sack Graphic Editor?

Martyrs’ Day is June 30. At dawn of this day in 1982, some men with close connections to the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC),...

Decongesting Ghana's prisons: Judge wants fines for some convicts

An Appeals Court Judge, has called on interest groups in the legal system to do more in pushing for non-custodial sentences. Justice Clemence Hornyenugah believes...

Trial of Chinese illegal miners to begin on July 12

An Accra High Court has adjourned the case involving En Huang aka Aisha Hung and four other Chinese for their alleged involvement in illegal...

Police pick 2 for selling prohibited drugs

A joint team from the Ashanti regional Police Drug Law Enforcement Unit and the Food and Drugs Authority have picked up two persons for...

Nsuta Galamsey pit covered

A mining pit that collapsed at Nsuta near Prestea in the Prestea/Huni-Valley District in the Western Region last Sunday, trapping about 22 illegal miners...

Korle Bu Doctor found dead in hotel room

A dental surgeon at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr Dominic Avogo was found dead in at hotel room at Dansoman in Accra on Thursday...

Oil contamination cannot be business for BOST workers- Ace

Legal practitioner Ace Ankomah is incensed by what appears to be the deliberate contamination of Ghana’s fuel by workers of the Bulk Oil Storage...

Hot Audio: Pregnant teenage girl sleeps with 15 men a day for money

A jobless teenage mother is pregnant again two years after she gave birth to her first child. The man, Afia Nyarko claims impregnated her has...

Man drown's in River Pra over GH₵10.00 bet

A 22-year-old man is reported dead after drowning in Pra River during a swimming competition. The deceased, Kwame Porter is said to have gone to...

PM Express tonight: When the chief takes the mic to another chief

In a very rare setting, a chief has one of the most difficulties assigned to him- interview another chief. That is the charge Nana Ansah Kwao...

4 remand prisoners freed under Justice for All Programme

Four persons on remand at the Akuse Local Prison have been set free under the “Justice For All Programme” (JFAP), an initiative meant to...

Dozens displaced after River Pra spillover

Hundreds of residents at Twifo Praso in the Central region have been rendered homeless following a spill-over of the Pra River. More than a dozen...

Audio: Water shortage to hit Ashanti region – GWCL

Some parts of the Ashanti Region will soon be hit by acute water shortage. The head of corporate communications at Ghana Water Company Limited, Stanley...

Drama in court as alleged fraud syndicate at NSS are discharged, re-arrested

The Asokore Mampong District Courtroom was scene of drama as police re-arrested nine persons accused of fraud after they had been discharged by the...

Prestea galamseyers died out of disobedience – Owusu Bempah

Founder of the Glorious Word and Power Ministry International, Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah said the 22 people who perished after a galamsey pit they...

22 trapped miners declared dead, buried

Twenty-two people trapped in the Prestea-Nsuta mining pit disaster have been declared dead. On Friday 7 July, the chiefs and traditional leaders, together with families...

PHOTOS: Man of God carries God's love to Denkyira-Obuasi

At a time when the nation was a bundle of furious judgment, heaven was a bundle of generous mercy over a crime in Denkyira-Obuasi. One...

Good Evening Ghana’s Paul Adom Otchere appointed NCA Governing Board Member

Host of current affairs programme on Metro TV, Paul Adom Otchere has been appointed a member of the governing board of the National Communications...

Gov’t releases GH¢600m to pay road contractors

The government has paid road contractors about GH¢600 million for work done in various parts of the country. This is despite an earlier comment by...

Seven perish in Kpong-Tema road accident

Seven persons have died in a head-on collision on the Tema-Kpong road. Ten other persons who were seriously injured in the Wednesday crash are...

PHOTOS: First Lady tours lavender hill project

First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo today visited the Lavender Hill Sludge Treatment Project in Accra to familiarize herself with the level of work and...

Police caution public sector workers against fraudsters

The Police has warned the general public especially public sector workers to be wary of fraudsters parading themselves as staff of Controller and Accountant...

22 declared dead in Prestea-Nsuta disaster as rescue efforts come to a close

The number of persons feared dead in the Prestea-Nsuta mining pit collapse is estimated be at least 22, eight more than the 14 initailly...

ECG investigates outages during downpours

Electricity Company of Ghana has commissioned a team of engineers to investigate incessant power cuts during downpours. ECG Managing Director, Samuel Boakye-Appiah, who describes the...

Lawyer urges LLB students denied admission to sue General Legal Council

US-based Ghanaian law Professor Kwaku Asare is urging all LLB students who were denied entrance into the Ghana School of Law to sue the...

VIDEO+PHOTOS: Farmer, 22 welcomes quadruplets; calls for support

A 22-year-old farmer, Amadu Razak and his 19-old wife Amina Razak from Bodada in the Jasikan District of the Volta region have welcomed a...

Photos: Man holds crusade at Denkyira-Obuasi

At a time when the nation was a bundle of furious judgment, heaven was a bundle of generous mercy over a crime in Denkyira-Obuasi. One...

50-year old farmer sentenced 20 years for impregnating 13-year old

The Techiman Circuit Court has sentenced a 50-year-old farmer to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling, impregnating and eloping with a 13-year-old. Father...

PHOTOS: Akufo-Addo commissions 3rd FPSO

President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned Ghana's third oil Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel named after former President John Agyekum Kufuor. Watched on by...

17 Nkrumah Circle prostitutes nabbed

About 17 women suspected of engaging in prostitution have been nabbed by the Police in Accra. The number includes two nursing mothers and some other...

Audio: Lab technicians threaten strike

The Coalition of Cheated Medical Laboratory Technicians has issued a two-week ultimatum to the Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Health to rectify...

19-year-old delivers quadruplets

A 19-year-old subsistent farmer from Bodada in the Jasikan District of the Volta region has been delivered of a set of quadruplets at the...

Akufo-Addo’s African wear fake – Abraham Koomson

General Secretary of the Textile, Garment and Leather Employees Union (TEGLU) has claimed the African print shirts won by President Akufo-Addo are fake. Abraham Koomson...

Audio+Photos: Awutu Senya Assembly members angry over GHC 300,000 toilet project

Concerned Assembly Members in the Awutu-Senya West District of the Central Region have accused erstwhile National Democratic Congress government of squandering GHC 300,000 on...

MFWA Unveils Journalist of the Month

In recognition of his compelling television documentary that raised alarm and prompted action on the devastating maternal and child mortality situation in Ghana’s second...

Fetish priest forewarned perished galamseyers

It has been revealed that a fetish priest in the Nsuta area of the Western Region forewarned illegal miners (galamseyers) in the community not...

Photos: One in critical condition after head-on collision at Akosombo

One person is said to be in a critical condition after a head-on collision at Akosombo Textile Ltd junction. The incident left the five occupants...

Child beggars invade Accra

Some children from slum communities in Accra and some West and Central African countries have invaded the streets of Accra, begging for alms to...

Trainee Nurses, teachers involved in fatal accident en route to excursion

Trainee Nurses and lecturers from the Afua Kobi Nursing Training School at Tafo Nhyiaeso in Kumasi have been involved in a serious accident near...

Rescue efforts suspended at Prestea-Nsuta collapsed mining pit following heavy rains

Rescue efforts to rescue illegal miners trapped in a pit at Prestea-Nsuta in the Western Region have suspended operation following heavy rains in the area. The...