An initiative by the University of Cape Coast to encourage education in the country’s prisons has seen some 59 inmates benefitting. The University opened a prison campus inside the Nsawam prisons to help inmates qualified for diploma courses to also enroll and 59 of these persons have been welcomed already …

A Policeman escorting a van full of assorted drinks from Bandankwanta to Tinga in the Savannah Region was forced to engage three robbers in a gun battle. Reports indicate the policeman was on the distribution van with the driver and a sales person when the three masked armed robbers emerged …

A 55-year-old man was accidentally killed after a sharp blade tied to a rooster cut his abdomen during a cockfight in India. The said fight took place in Pragadavaram village in West Godavari, in the state of Andhra Pradesh despite a ban on the practice by the Supreme Court. The …

Prices of fuel in Ghana have this week gone up marginally, vindicating the prediction made by the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) on Tuesday, January 14, 2020. Petrol as of Friday, January 17 was selling at GH 5.50 per litre at various pumps, up GHC 9 pesewas from its previous …

The massive destruction of the Oda River Forest Reserve in the Bekwai Forest District of the Ashanti Region by illegal miners has infuriated the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh. The illegal miners believed to be Chinese, in collaboration with their supposed Ghanaian facilitators, are using heavy-duty pieces …

Ex-Ghana winger Quincy Owusu-Abeyie has quit football at age 33 to become a rap star and has released a solo mix tape. The former Arsenal man, who now goes by the name Blow, has been recording tracks for years now. Abeyie, now Blow, raps about his upbringing in the tough …

It has emerged that the Essikado-Ketan Constituency treasurer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) was among those who died in the gory accident that occurred at Dompoase, near Komenda in the Central Region on Tuesday dawn. The deceased, Hajia Hadijah was a business woman who was dealing in paints, …

It’s exactly 6 years since the unfortunate demise of Komla Dumor, an astute international journalist of Ghanaian descent. Although death is inevitable and is no respecter of persons, news of his sudden departure shook the world, courting tributes from prominent figures across the world. Below is how BBC, an organization …

Contractors have resumed work on the Eastern Corridor road and users are assured of a facelift on that stretch soon. The Roads and Highways Minister, Kwesi Amoako Atta, announced this on the last day of the Results Fair. The Sector Minister said the completion of the road would shorten the …

Patients on admission at the La General Hospital have been hit with double agony after thieves broke into the ward and stole their valuables. Mobile phones, bags containing money, ID cards and other valuables were all missing from the ward when the patients woke up on Friday. The burglary is …