Global extreme poverty is expected to rise in 2020 for the first time in over 20 years as the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic compounds the forces of conflict and climate change, which were already slowing poverty reduction progress, the World Bank has said. The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to …

An aircraft almost crashed into a school building at Ajumako Okyeso in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region Wednesday morning after it made a forced landing. According to reports, this was after the aircraft had developed a mechanical fault. The development threw the JHS Two students who …

A 40-year-old farmer at Assin Brofoyedru in the Assin Fosu Municipality of the Central Region, Robert Kwame Ziga, has suffered severe burns after he mistakenly set fire to petrol when he was about to cook. According to the victim, after trying unsuccessfully to lit fire to cook, he saw a …

The fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former COCOBOD CEO and two others was found wanting after it emerged that she issued different fertilizer certificates to Sidalco without recourse to an Act of parliament regulating how her office is administered. The witness, Dr. Felicia Ansah-Amprofi, who is the …

The Western Togoland separatist group has called out flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over comments made about them. According to them, the attention of the Governing Council of Western Togoland had been drawn to a video purported to originate from XYZ TV station which is making rounds on social media. …

The Chief Labour Officer at the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, Eugene Narh Korletey, has disclosed that a total of 7,054 workers lost their jobs in the public sector between April and June, this year. He noted that this number covers about 13 industrial sectors of the Ghanaian economy …

A video wide spreading on social media (initially on twitter) gives clues that the future will be so much filthy if care is not taken. The video captures three youths, 2 boys, a girl happily smoking weed as they film themselves. The saddest thing is seeing the lady posses nakedly …

A KIA truck with registration number GR 3052-17 and heading from Yama in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region to Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region has killed two people. The unfortunate incident occurred at the far west corner of the Walewale market on the road leading …

Media personality Afia Schwarzenegger says the NDC party made her a hungry celebrity. In a Facebook Live video to react to NDC faithfuls’ claim that she left their party to campaign for NPP because she is hungry, Afia Schwarzenegger said the NDC party made her hungry. According to Afia Schwarzenegger, …

Two mansions belonging to NDC financier Alfred Agbesi Woyome have been sold to defray part of the GH¢51.2 million he fraudulently took from the state in 2011. The mansions at Trassaco Valley, Accra, which is Ghana’s most expensive residential area, were sold at a public auction on September 11 following …