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SHS placement: GES cautions headmasters against turning away students

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has asked heads of second cycle schools to visit the GES website and...

Man cracks open egg to find second, smaller egg

A Chinese man cracked open an egg that he purchased from a market to discover something unusual and unexpected -- a second egg.A video...

Scammed mobile money vendor collapses

A scammer nearly caused the death of a mobile money vendor in Takoradi after he had been duped of GH¢6,000 in a fake transaction.The...

Front pages: Monday, September 18, 2017

I forcefully took off a 40-year-old woman’s panty for juju – 18-year-old prisoner

At the age of eighteen, Sam wanted to have control and power over his family members and the only option that came to mind...

Audio: Fire guts VIP bus en route to Kumasi; 29 escape death

A VIP bus en route to the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi caught when it developed a mechanical fault in a town near Nkawkaw SundayFortunately,...

Nurse’s post over death of 10yr old boy sparks social media outrage

A mean-spirited post about the death of a 10-year-old boy at the Tema General Hospital, by a supposed nurse, has sparked outrage on social...

Photos: Four dead in canoe disaster on White Volta.

The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has retrieved four dead bodies after a boat carrying five people sunk in the White Volta around Bimbini...

Hot audio: Free SHS: Maths teacher arrested for extortion

Head of the Mathematics department at the Dadieso Senior High School (SHS) has been picked up by the Dadieso police for alleged extortion.Mr. Akpor...

Stop sabotaging President’s Free SHS policy – Tema Mantse

Dr. Nii Adjei Kraku ll, the Paramount Chief of Tema, has decried a trend of extortions in second cycle institutions in the wake of...

“We are excited with the Free SHS”- Togbe Afede

Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli State and President of the National House of Chiefs, has lauded government for implementing its flagship Free Senior...

ECOWAS must play lead role in Togo – Togbe Afede

Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli and President of the National House of Chiefs, has reiterated the call on the Economic Community of West...

Hot Audio: Girl stripped naked in school for bed wetting

A woman, believed to be in her 40s has allegedly stripped her 11 year-old girl naked in her school at Assin Krofofordo in the...

Okyenhene wants Akyem-Abuakwa chiefs to retire at 75

The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, is pushing for a mandatory abdication of chiefs on attainment of the ripe age of 75 years.He said...

Electrician ‘caged’ 10 years for defilement

Thomas Tetteh broke down in tears immediately the Accra Circuit Court slapped him with a 10-year jail term in hard labour for defiling an...

Stop sabotaging President’s Free SHS policy – Chief

Dr. Nii Adjei Kraku ll, the Paramount Chief of Tema, has decried a trend of extortions in second cycle institutions in the wake of...

Sacking of headteachers over free SHS may be illegal – Law lecturer

Private legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong has faulted the Ghana Education Service after it sacked two headteachers of Senior High Schools for charging unapproved fees.The...

Minister in trouble over Komenda Sugar Factory

Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, is in fresh trouble over what an ex-worker of the Komenda Sugar Factory in the Central Region, described...

Man marries 120 women and they all know about each other

Polygamy is illegal in Thailand, but that didn’t stop a modern-day Casanova from taking a whopping 120 wives and having 28 children with them....

24 inmates test HIV positive at Kumasi prison…

A total of 24 inmates at the Kumasi Central Prison have tested positive for HIV, the Ashanti Regional Prisons Commander, DDP Lord Nii Boye...

108 Ghanaians deported from Benin

One hundred and eight Ghanaians have been deported from Benin following the takeover of their residence by the Beninoise government for the construction of...

Court acquits father over stolen daughter

An electrical engineer who was accused of stealing his three-year-old daughter and the belongings of his wife has been acquitted and discharged by an...

Akufo-Addo leaves Accra for United Nations General Assembly

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is scheduled to deliver his maiden address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, September 21.According to a...

New GhanaCard is an improvement over previous one – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed that the new national identification card tagged ‘GhanaCard’ with its unique features and functions posit as a vast...

“GazPROM LNG supply deal important for Ghana’s economy’ – Akufo-Addo

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has described the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) sales agreement reached between the Ghana National Petroleum...

HOT VIDEO: Meet the housemaid who used rats to cook jollof for her madam

How far are you willing to go to punish your boss who has offended you?A housemaid decided to punish her madam by adding 2...

PHOTO: Major Mahama ‘killer’ arrested at Elubo

A man suspected to be among the alleged killers of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama has been arrested and arraigned on murder charged in an...

Jealous housewife throws two stepchildren into well

The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested a 20 -year -old housewife , Aisha Isah , for allegedly throwing her two stepdaughters , Zainab...

Hot video+photos: Man turns into cow to avoid lynching

A man is said to have turned into a cow to escape mob lynching when the youth in the town decided to beat him...

President Akufo-Addo receives new ‘Ghana Card’

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has received his National Identification Card, dubbed the new “Ghana Card”, at a ceremony held...

Putting us on the map; the role of Ghana’s tourism ambassadors

Tourism Ambassadors! Who are they and what is their purpose? Do they actually live up to expectation and produce results or are they just...

NPP secretary ‘caged’ for insulting party executive

A polling station secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party in the Nsuta-Kwamang-Beposo Constituency has been remanded into prison custody for an offensive conduct.Samuel...

Hot Audio: Student with dreadlocks denied SHS admission

A parent seeking a Free Senior High School admission for his ward at Accra Girls Senior High School has been denied because she had...

HOT AUDIO: Official Free SHS song composed by Minister of State, Prof Kwesi Yankah

The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Prof. Kwesi Yankah, has said he wrote the title song for government’s education policy –...

Scrap MPs Common Funds for free SHS

Government has been urged to scrap the Members of Parliament Common Fund and invest the monies in the free Senior High School policy.Mr. Daniel...

JB ‘killers’: Magistrate loses patience over delay in ruling

The magistrate presiding over the case involving the two men accused of the murder of a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North,...

GNAT blasts GES for sacking school heads

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has described as harsh decision by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to sack two school heads over...

Farmer Gets 23 Years For Sodomy

The Odumase-Krobo Circuit Court has sentenced a 43-year-old farmer at Kordunya, a suburb of Odumase-Krobo, to 23 years imprisonment with hard labour for sodomising...

Foreign students won’t enjoy Free SHS – GES

Only Ghanaian students will have the opportunity to enjoy the government’s Free SHS policy.The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Rev...

Rigworld donates GHC50,000 to Axim Govt Hospital

Rigworld Training Centre has donated GHC50,000 cedis towards the renovation of the surgical ward of Axim Government Hospital in the Western Region.Human Resource Manager...