The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has backed claims by staff in the Sewum Health Centre in the Western North region that chemicals used for illegal mining are causing the birth of defective babies in the area since expectant mothers drink from polluted water. According to the Health Centre, pregnant …

A Neurosurgeon at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Dr Hadi Abdallah has recounted the experience when he failed to secure a bed in his own ward when he fell and sick and needed urgent treatment at the neurosurgery unit of the hospital. Dr Abdallah said he had to be taken …

  A cocoa purchasing clerk was killed after a motorbike he was riding rammed into a pick-up with registration number NR 4141-Y. The pick-up according to eyewitnesses, was from Juaboso heading to Bonsu Nkwanta, while the clerk was heading in the opposite direction. However, the clerk overtook another vehicle and …

The Obuasi Divisional Police patrol team on Wednesday, 10 May, 2021, gunned down two suspected armed robbers at Akonfokrom near Mile 9 in the Obuasi Municipality of the Ashanti Region. This was disclosed by the PRO of the Ashanti Region Police command, ASP Godwin Ahianyo at a conference held on …

  Residents in the Oti Region town of Dambai are still shocked following the death of a 10-year-old boy whose body was found hanging on a nearby mango tree on Thursday. It still remains unclear what caused the tragic death of the class three pupil who has been named as …

A week ago, GhPage reported an unfortunate incident about how a man poured acid on his wife while she was taking her bath. The man identified as Papa Nii has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Weija Circuit Court. In a post shared on Facebook by Crime Check …

  Former Vice Chairman of Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Sakiru Asekun, has been arrested while allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine concealed in slippers. Mr Asekun was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at Murtala Muhammed International Airport on his way to …

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has released the timetable for the second covid-19 vaccination exercise. The initial date for the second doses was April 27 but the new schedule for the second dose will be starting on May 19. Ghana received 350,000 doses of the AstraZeneca (AZN.L) coronavirus vaccine earlier …

An armed robber, among a gang of four, has been killed during a shootout with police at Heman and Akokoaso section of the Anwiankwanta-Obuasi highway in the Ashanti Region. A gun battle broke out between police and armed robbers who are believed to be of Fulani extraction on Tuesday on …

Surgeons at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi are protesting over the unsafe theatre used for surgeries. The Surgeons are also complaining about the lack of basic equipment at the Surgery department. They claim that several complaints lodged with the management have not been resolved adding that the …

Students of School for the Blind in Akropong in AkuapemUnited North Municipality in Eastern Region on Friday morning embarked on a demonstration for the removal of the Headmistress of the School. The students accused the headmistress Mahela Narh of mismanagement leading to the gradual collapse of the school and poor …

  Assisted Secondary Schools across the country have run out of food owing to failure by the Buffer Stock company to supply them non-perishable foods. The situation has been exacerbated by delays in the release of funds to the schools by government. The heads have been running the schools on …

 Mfantsipim School Mfantsipim School are the winners of the 2021 Central Regional Championship of the National Science & Maths Quiz. They crushed their archrivals Adisadel College, University Practice and Assin State College to clinch their first ever trophy at the regional level. The Botwe Boys put up a spirited performance …

The Accra Regional Police Command is after some suspects who allegedly exhumed a body at the Abokobi-Boi public cemetery in Accra.The corpse of Theophilus Budu, 49, who died on Monday, 10 May 2021, was buried at the cemetery prompting calls to the police on 11 May 2021. However, at about …

Over 200 male students of the Sandema Senior High Technical School in the Builsa North Municipality have been displaced by a rainstorm that destroyed two dormitory blocks yesterday. The Tuesday night storm which rocked the area around 10 pm destroyed the roofs of the Rawlings and Azanti low Houses which …

Four fetish priests, including the couple whose activities allegedly enthralled two teenagers to kill an 11-year-old boy, purposely for money rituals, have been attacked by irate youth at Amanase near Suhum in the Eastern Region. The violence was so intense that it took the intervention of the police from three …

• Coalition of Muslim Organisations, Ghana is calling for the reconstitution of the Wesley Girls’ High School board • The advocacy comes after the school prevented a Muslim student from partaking in the Ramadan fast • Authorities of the school say the ‘no fasting’ policy is strictly for health reasons …

One person has been confirmed dead after a group of suspected armed robbers engaged in a shoot-out with police at Jacobu in the Ashanti Region. According to the police, the Jacobu patrol team, in their routine duties on the Anwiankwanta-Obuasi stretch at dawn on Tuesday, saw a group of four …

Eunice Adomako, a 29-year-old resident of Oduman near Ablekuma in Accra, has been arrested for allegedly stealing a six-month-old baby. According to reports, Eunice failed to inform her two boyfriends after she lost her baby at birth at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital last December 2020. Her two boyfriends, one …

  The on-the-run Fetish priest in Kasoa Murder, whose name was given as Wazinga, has been arrested in another case of attempted ritual killing. Wazinga was arrested after attempting to perform money rituals for another person. It will be recalled that two teenagers, aged 16 and 17 respectively, on Saturday, …

  Three illegal miners have been jailed five years each by a Circuit Court in Koforidua for engaging in illegal mining at Tentenku No.8 near Kofi Pare in the Kraboa Coaltar district of the Eastern Region. The convicts, Alhassan Abass, 28, Ibrahim Mohammed, 45, and Munkaila Djebo, 38, were apprehended …

A suspected armed robber has been gunned down by police officers of the Jacobu District Police Command on Tuesday May 11. date rush The Police also arrested three other suspects on the Obuasi-Anwiankwanta stretch of road in the Ashanti Region. Jacobu District Police commander, Superintendent Abdulai Iddrisu speaking on Akoma …

  Wonder Ahiadzro, a driver of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Customs Division, who stole and sold a Toyota LandCruiser at the cost of GHC20,000, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by the Kaneshie District Court. The original price of the vehicle, property of GRA, Customs Division, is stated at …

  Some students of the Takoradi Technical University (TTU) have rejected the Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering certificates issued to them by the university upon completion of the programme in 2020. They argued that before they enrolled for the course in August 2018, the authorities of TTU told them …

  Gunmen shot and killed a man in his 30s in a robbery attack on the Atebubu-Kwame-Danso highway, police in the Bono East Region has said. Police named the deceased as Elijah Asante, a headteacher with the Bantama S.D.A Basic School located in the Sene West District, about 143km from …

  A 37-year suspected goat thief, Godwin Amuzu who claims to be a resident of Mankessim Adumadze was nearly lynched for stealing goats at Ekumfi Dunkwa in Ekumfi District of the Central Region Friday. The angry community members failed to hand him over to the police after arresting him but …

  A young lady, Ofeibea Florence Aryee is in critical condition at the Accra Regional hospital, Ridge after her jealous husband, Papa Nii poured a substance believed to be acid on her face. The incident, she said happened at Kokrobite in Accra where they lived. In an interview with crimecheckghana, …

Four persons accused of evading tax to the tune of GH¢1.6 billion cedis, have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court. Frank Kwadwo Ofori, Chief Executive Officer of K. Ofori Enterprise and three other officials of United Steel Company, namely Hani Mikati, Marwam Hamwi and Sallam Mohammed Gharib are said to …

A teacher at St. Stephens Senior High and Technical School (STEPSS) in Akyem Asiakwa near Kyebi in the Eastern Region has given a male student 25 strokes of cane for assaulting another student. A leaked video captured the teacher identified only as Sir Amable whipping the student who was only …

A driver wearing a face mask is reflected in a mirror as he is stuck in a traffic jam near a checkpoint, on the first day of a national travel ban as Indonesia halts sea, land, air, and rail travel for the Eid al-Fitr celebrations in an effort to prevent …