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Anti-graft agency criticises Attorney General for accepting GHC10,000 Chinese gift

The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has frowned on a decision by the Attorney-General’s Department to accept a GHȻ10,000 grift from the Chinese Mission in...

Ahafo Chiefs back creation of Ahafo Region out of Brong Ahafo

The Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of Yamfo Traditional Area, and Chairman of the Ahafo Council of Chiefs in the Brong Ahafo Region, Nana Ansah Adu...

Audio: Fear grips Sayeegu residents following indiscriminate shooting

Residents of Sayeegu and Sambrik near Nakpanduri in the Northern region are living in fear following sporadic shooting in two communities on Monday. The two...

Disputed Alavanyo-Nkonya land to be used as Military training camp

The government has acquired the disputed 10 mile square land that lies between Alavanyo and Nkonya communities in the Volta Region which has been...

Hot Audio: Church elder’s wife tells mistress, husband is impotent

A church elder’s wife who is prevailing on her husband to refuse responsibility for a pregnancy has told the woman involved, that the elder...

Francis-Xavier appeals 4-year ban by Legal Council

The Human Rights Lawyer who was suspended for four years by the General Legal Council, has appealed against the decision. Francis-Xavier Sosu believes the Council...

Wife rubs ginger and hot pepper on drunk husband’s p*nis

A 48-year-old married woman Georgina Asor, who is fed up with her husband Kwaku Seidu’s drunkenness, in a bid to discipline him has rubbed...

Enterprise provides GH¢8.5m support for First Lady’s project

The fund, an initiative of the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, seeks to finance the building of a modern maternity wing to provide relief...

Seven ways to spot a Ghanaian abroad

Just like the MTN slogan ‘’Everywhere you go’’,...

Late Major Mahama to be given state burial

  The late Major Maxwell Mahama who was lynched by some residents of the Denkyira-Oboase would be given a state burial. This was contained in a...

Kintampo Waterfall report: Afeku has insulted our intelligence – Ablakwa

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Catherine Afeku has insulted the...

Don’t cry of witch-hunt when we start prosecutions – YEA Boss

The Chief Executive Officer Youth Employment Agency (YEA) is urging the public especially members of the opposition political parties not to accuse government of...

Audio: Police readies for Major Mahama’s funeral

The Ghana Police Service say they are well prepared for the funeral ceremony of the late Major Maxwell Mahama, which is scheduled for Friday...

Youth Employment Agency sheds off 16,839 names from payroll

The Youth Employment Agency says it has deleted the names of 16,839 from its 63,000 beneficiaries payroll after an audit found their employment to...

JB’s murder…: Police dump informant

THE INFORMANT who divulged sensitive information that led to the arrest of the suspect accused of murdering Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, then Member of Parliament...

Soldiers had wanted to wipe out Denkyira-Obuasi – Major Mahama’s family

Some military personnel close to slain Major Maxwell Adam Mahama had wanted to rally soldiers to storm and kill residents of Denkyira-Obuasi, a spokesperson...

Soldier lynching killer weapons revealed

Investigators working on the death of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, who was lynched by a mob at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Upper Denkyira West District...

Georgina Wood retires today

The Chief Justice Her Ladyship Georgina Theodora Wood will start her retirement on Wednesday June 7, 2017 after serving a ten-year term. She is the...

VIDEO: Must the Church Pay tax? – Afia Pokua clashes with Captain Smart

The debate has resurfaced again on whether the churches in the country should pay taxes to the state from the incomes they earn. This debate...

VIDEO: Death of Captain Mahama a disgrace to the country – Kufuor

Former President John Kufuor has bemoaned the increasing number of lawless acts recorded across the country in recent months. He explained that Ghana is a...

CHRAJ receives GHȻ1.2m for anti-graft campaign

The Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has been allocated GHȻ1.2 million out of a total budgetary allocation of GHȻ4.5 million for...

PHOTO: Otiko Djaba weeps at Major Mahama’s ‘one week’ observation

Minister for gender, Otiko Djaba, on Monday, broke down and wept at the "one week observation" of the Major Maxwell Mahama, the Ghana army...

3 arrested over lynching of ‘witch’ at Nabdam

The Upper East Regional Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three persons in connection with the lynching of a 67-year-old woman accused of...

Man who delivered ‘final blow’ to Captain Mahama arrested

The police have arrested a man who they say delivered the "final blow" that killed Captain Mahama when he was killed by a mob...

Mahama’s killing will drive away all foreign investors – Ayariga

Flag bearer of the All People's Congress (APC), Dr Hassan Ayariga has said that lynching of Major Maxwell Mahama by residents of Denkyira-Obuasi will...

Audio: Somanya riots: ECG office shut down

The Somanya office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has been shut down indefinitely. Deputy General Secretary of the Public Utility Workers' Union (PUWU), Richard Nyarbah...

VIDEO: Market woman cries for Major Mahama

A market woman in Accra has expressed great shock at the gruesome murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama of the 5th Infantry Battalion of the Ghana...

Kintampo disaster an act of God – Report

The disaster which occurred at the Kintampo Waterfalls claiming several lives in March this year has been described as an “Act of God”, a...

Audio: Residents warn police to stay off their properties

Residents of Gomoa Biakoye in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region are pleading with government to immediately call police officers in Kasoa...

Hot Audio: 4 soldiers escaped lynching at Adoboye not Denkyira Boase – Minister

Minister of Defense, Dominic Nitiwul has brought closure to claims that four soldiers escaped a mob attack at Denkyira Boase before Major Maxwell Mahama...

PHOTOS+AUDIO: Workers, BECE candidates stranded as Ashaiman-Klagon floods

Hundreds of workers and students have been cut off Accra after flooding rendered an uncompleted bridge impassable. Rains which began at dawn have washed into...

Mama Zimbi’s Widows Conference set for June 17

Akumaa Mama Zimbi's annual National Widows Alliance Conference (NAWAC-2017) has been set for Saturday, June 17, 2017. The event, according to the organisers, will take...

PHOTOS: Meet the alleged female killers of Major Mahama

Six females were part of the thirty-four suspects who allegedly played various roles in the brutal killing of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama at Denkyira-Obuasi...

PHOTO: Major Mahama’s mother consoles her daughter in-law.

Major Mahama's mother consoles her daughter in-law.  

PHOTO of the Week: Akua Donkor signs Major Mahama’s book of condolence

The indefatigable flagbearer of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Madam Akua Donkor, has resurfaced in the wake of the death of Captain Maxwell Mahama. Donkor...

NADMO staff threaten demo over unpaid salaries

Some staff of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), are threatening to demonstrate against the organisation over unpaid salaries. According to the workers, numbering over...

State to erect monument in honour of Major Mahama

President Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed plans to raise a monument in honour of Major Maxwell Mahama, the soldier lynched by residents of Denkyira Obuasi...

I’m confident government will stop galamsey – Okyenhene

Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panyin II, has urged all Ghanaians to confidence in the Akuffo Addo administration to bring an end to the galamsey...

Government secures $50m to rehabilitate missions abroad

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has disclosed that, her ministry has secured an amount of 50 million Dollars for...

Hot Audio: New twist to Captain Mahama death

There is a new twist to the circumstances that led to the brutal murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama at Denkyira Boase inthe Central region. Information...