A suspected robber has been killed following a firece shootout with police officers on the Yeji-Prang highway in the Bono East Region. According to the Yeji Divisional Police Command, the suspect was part of a group of four armed persons who emerged from the bush around the Kofi Baasare bridge …

There were deep emotions at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Mausoleum in Accra on Monday, when the leadership of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), tearfully prayed for absolution on tomb of their ancestor on his 111th anniversary. Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, Presidential Candidate of the CPP, CPP Chair Leader Nana Akosua …

ECOWAS Chair and Ghana’s President, Akufo-Addo, has urged Presidents, Commissioners and Staff of ECOWAS  to work towards building a united, economically prosperous, politically stable, and secured Community that meets the aspirations of the citizens of member States. According to him, “As we round off the implementation of ECOWAS Vision 2020, …

The Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei Mensah has indicated he will set up a foundation on peaceful and responsible language with proceeds he will make from a defamation suit he has filed against the Insight News Paper and Strategic Thinkers Network should the ruling go in his favour. The Minister …

Officials of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), made up of Executive Council member Frederick Acheampong; Ashanti Regional Football Association Chairman, Osei Tutu Agyemang; members of the Offinso District Football Association, officials of the clubs in the affected District, members of the Juvenile Football Association, have visited families of the deceased …

One person was killed while seven others have been arrested when they attacked Fulani herdsmen at Tingakrom, in the Bono East Region, on the Kintampo-Bole Bamboi road, last Friday. The robbery gang, including a taxi driver, allegedly robbed Fulani herdsmen of their cattle. The suspects are Malik Idrissu, 25, Abdullai …

There are no Nurses at major hospitals in the Greater Accra Metropolis, the Ghana News Agency’s (GNA) investigation at the facilities on Monday has revealed. At the time of the visit, the GNA observed that only doctors were attending to patients, at facilities including; Accra Ridge hospital, Korle-Bu Teaching hospital …

Armed bandits have freed 40 people they had abducted from a village in north-western Nigeria’s Zamfara state on Saturday, police have said. The gunmen freed the villagers following the intervention of security agencies and a separate group of bandits who were involved in peace talks with the state government, police …

The deaths of more than 300 elephants in Botswana this year were caused by toxins produced by cyanobacteria in water, but there were still many unanswered questions, wildlife officials have been quoted by Reuters news agency as saying. The deaths in the Okavango Delta sparked widespread alarm and left conservationists …

About 500 pupils have been put into quarantine after a coronavirus outbreak at a school in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. A total of 98 pupils tested positive at the secondary school in the town of Burgersdorp, and officials say they fear the virus may have spread more widely into …