Atinga Anyiri David, a senior registered health nurse at the Kpasera CHPS Compound in the Mpaha Health Zone of the Central Gonja District has reportedly committed suicide. The deceased, according to a report by 3news.com, sighted by GhanaWeb took his own life following threats by his girlfriend to ditch him. …

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has been cited for contempt of court for his handling of a restraining order document issued by a court in Accra. The MP was captured in a viral video rejecting the document from the secretary to the Board of Trustees of the National …

The twin sister of former Black Stars and Hatayspor winger, Christian Atsu, has confirmed the player’s safety. Christiana Atsupie Twasam says her twin brother is “safe and sound.” Atsu together with his club director, Taner Savut, were trapped under debris for 26 hours when an earthquake hit Turkey Monday morning. …

G/CPL Richard Datsomor of the Kpetoe District of the Volta region has been killed in a motor-vehicle crash that occurred Monday evening. The deceased died when the motorbike he was riding crashed into a cab on a section of the Denu to Adina road. According to reports, suspect driver Seth …

An 80-year-old man and three others have been found guilty and jailed for inserting a stick into the anus of a teenager. The convicts had accused the 16-year-old boy of breaking into a store in Agogo Market belonging to an octogenarian. For his punishment, the convicts tied his hands to …

To start with, election candidacy ought not to be an impromptu decision. For inspiration, we may have to turn to Western civilization for succour. After all, our social structures and institutions are patterned after theirs. In the United Kingdom, as in other saner climes, young men and women who participate …

At least 34 people have been killed in fighting in Somalia’s northern breakaway region of Somaliland, two doctors at a public hospital in the town of Laascaanood say. Fighting broke out in eastern Somaliland on Monday morning between forces from the region, which declared its independence in 1991, and fighters …

The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has made new ministerial appointments. Kobina Tahiru Hammond has been appointed Minister of Trade and Industry, while Bryan Acheampong will now head the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Other appointments are Stephen Asamoah Boateng, for Ministry of Chieftaincy; Mohammed Amin Adam, Minister …

Illegal miners have restricted the free flow of the Birim River on the outskirts of Akyem Aboabo to enable them to carry out their outlawed activities. During a tour of the spot between Akyem Wenchi in the Denkyembour District and Oda, where the river course has been diverted and narrowed, …

The remains of late Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara are to be buried where a memorial to him already stands, but his family is boycotting the ceremony and says the site is “inadequate for all the burden it contains”. “We believed and continue to believe that it is fundamental that a space …