Stephen Dzisenu, a 37-year-old Disease Control Officer of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital is in the grips of the Gt. Accra Police for stealing 36 vials of Covishield. Cosmos Allotey a 42-year-old Occupational Health and Safety Officer, is said to have received the stolen Covishield from Pabitey and Dzisenu. Allotey …
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I wish Achimota School focuses on my brain and not my hair – Tyrone Iras Marhguy speaks
Tyrone Iras Marhguy, the Rastafarian student who has been denied admission to the Achimota School has expressed shock at the school’s disregard for his academics prowess and instead are focus on his dreadlocks. To him, his dream has always been to be a student of the Achimota School where a …
Read More »Suhum Police arrests woman for allegedly torturing stepson over theft
Police in Suhum in the Eastern Region have arrested a 45-year-old woman, Beatrice Amo, for battering her 13-year-old stepson for allegedly stealing her Ghc300. Beatrice, who is heavy with pregnancy, allegedly subjected her stepson to inhumane treatment over allegations which the boy now hospitalized at the Suhum Government Hospital, has …
Read More »Asuma Banda’s son, two others arrested for attempting to break into father’s house
Three persons have been picked up by the Airport Police in Accra for attempting to break into the house of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Antrak Group of Companies, Alhaji Asuma Banda at the Airport Residential Area. The three were named as Fadel Asuma Banda, 33, son of the …
Read More »VIDEO: Check Out The Main Reason Of The Fight Between KNUST’s Conti And Katanga
News reaching Fillabase indicates that a brawl occurred last night at Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science & Technology (KNUST) leaving some students injured. According to sources at the KNUST, a guy was wearing a Conti (Hostel) t-shirt, and decided to pass Katanga Hostel to his own hostel in Brunei, so on his …
Read More »3 out of 10 children in Ghana are stunted – Deputy Public Health Director
Sixteen percent of children in the Ashanti Region are stunted, the Ashanti Regional Deputy Director for Public Health, Dr Michael Rockson Adjei has said. The Ashanti Regional Deputy Director for Public Health disclosed this at a sensitisation workshop for the media held in Kumasi on Friday, 19 March 2021. The …
Read More »10-month-old baby girl found dead at Nyayano beach
A ten-month-old baby girl was on Thursday evening found dead at Nyanyano beach in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. The toddler found wrapped in white clothes with black polythene bag around her, had cotton wool in her mouth, nose and ears. Many residents who trooped to the …
Read More »Achimota School Saga – Blakk Rasta says Ghana deserve Re-enslavement
The headmistress of Achimota School is under fire for allegedly denying a guy admission because of his dreadlocks. Ghanaians are divided on whether it was a good step to deny a student the right to education based on his choice of hairstyle. Some are hailing the Headmistress for her bold …
Read More »Teacher uses social media to mobilise furniture for deprived school
A public school in the Upper East Region, where schoolchildren sit on the floor to learn for lack of furniture, has received 81 dual desks after a teacher made the children’s ordeal public through social media. A number of entities donated the writing desks to the Naaga Primary School after …
Read More »Man jailed 8 years for stealing GH¢159,300 from Damongo Bank
A Tamale High Court has sentenced a 32-year-old system administrator to eight (8) years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing GH¢159,300 from the coffers of his former employer, the Buuwulonso One Stop Rural Bank at Damongo in the Savannah Region. Cephas Agbodo, who had moved on to Borimanga Rural Bank …
Read More »First year SHS students report to school
First-year Senior High School (SHS) students Thursday reported to school to begin the 2021/22 academic year. A visit by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to the St Thomas Aquinas SHS and Accra High School saw the ‘freshers’ going through the registration process. Mr Paul K. Amoasi Baidoo, the Headmaster of …
Read More »VIDEO: Boy allegedly burns girlfriend after she jilts him
Two sisters, 18-year-old Emelia Adomaa and 14-year-old Portia Sadia who live in Dormaa in the Bono Region of Ghana have suffered severe burns after Emelia’s former boyfriend set their room ablaze. According to the girls’ elder sister, Formaa Ernestina, Emelia’s 22-year-old boyfriend got infuriated after she told him about her …
Read More »10-month-old baby buried at Gomoa Nyanyano
Residents of Gomoa Nyanyano in the Gomoa East District of Central Region have been thrown into a state of shock after they discovered the body of a 10-month-old baby buried at the seashore. The baby was wrapped with a white cloth inside a black polythene bag In an interview …
Read More »EOCO Rescues Three Stolen Babies As 11 Suspects Face Jail
The Economic and Organised Crime Office has saved three babies from a baby-selling syndicate barely two months after busting a baby-harvesting ring in Accra. This crime ring steals babies from their mothers in the hospitals after delivery and sells them between GHC28,000 and GHC30, 000. Eleven suspects have been arrested …
Read More »Man commits suicide at Wassa Akropong
An unknown man believed to be in his thirties has been found dead in a bush at Wassa Akropong in the Western Region. He is alleged to have committed suicide with his pair of trousers. According to an eyewitness, Asamoah Peter, he went to the bush to look for mushroom …
Read More »A 23-Year Suspected Motorbike thief Beaten to a pulp
A 23-year-old suspected motorbike thief has been beaten to a pulp at Fetteh Kakraba in the Gomoa East of the Central Region for stealing a motorbike. The incident happened today around 12PM. According to the owner of the motorbike, Yaw Frimpong, an Okada rider, the thieve named, Sampson Dogbe snatched …
Read More »Five grabbed for stealing twin babies at Sefwi-Punikrom
The Sefwi-Wiawso Divisional Police Command has picked up five persons for allegedly stealing two-week old twin babies at Punikrom in the Waiwso Municipality of the Western North Region. The suspects are Paulina Owusu 26, Haruna Yusif 36, Stephen Owusu 32, Kofi Nkrumah, 24 and Sampson Addai, 33 years. Confirming the …
Read More »Armed robbers kill Ali Ahmed Maikano, son of popular Sheikh Jallo Maikano of Prang
News reaching MyNewsGh.com indicates that armed robbers have attacked and killed Sheikh Ali Ahmed Maikano AbulFaili Jallo, the popular son of late Ghanaian Tijaniyya Cleric Ahmed Maikano Jallow of Prang. The sad incident which occurred this dawn reportedly took place on the Abromase road where Ali Maikano Jallow and his …
Read More »Man sets family ablaze; 11-year-old stepson dies from burns
A 35-year-old driver has been arrested by the police after he allegedly set his family ablaze at Meduma in the Kwabre East Municipality of the Ashanti region after accusing the wife of having an extramarital affair. The suspect’s 11-year-old stepson, Prince Oti was burnt to death while his wife, Patient …
Read More »Drama as man is arrested for refusing to pay for borrowed coffin
A man, believed to be in his forties, Kwaku Tawiah, has been arrested by the Wiawso Police Command for refusing to pay for a borrowed coffin. The coffin maker told Adom News that Mr Tawiah came and pleaded for a coffin to bury his sister who had passed on in …
Read More »PHOTOS: Spiritualist arrested over death of friend
A 30-year-old man has been arrested over the murder of his friend at Nyakpala in the Northern Region. The body of the deceased from Sierra Leone was dumped on the Tamale – Nyankpala road. According to police report, on March 15, 2021, at about 2110hrs, the police had information that …
Read More »Trotro driver burns 10-year-old boy to ashes, sets himself ablaze
One person is reportedly dead with three others in critical condition after a Trotro driver allegedly set the room of his girlfriend ablaze at Meduma in the Kwabre East Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The suspect, who was identified as Mr Agyeman, was said to have set himself ablaze after …
Read More »Man lynched for stealing motorbike
A yet-to-be-identified robber was lynched at Awutu Bereku in the Awutu Senya West Municipality for snatching a motorbike. According to a witness, the deceased acquired the services of an ‘okada’ rider with the motive of robbery. The rider was said to have been ordered to take an unusual route which …
Read More »Suspected motorbike thief lynched at Awutu Beraku
A man believed to be in his thirties has been lynched after he stole a motorbike at Awutu Beraku in the Awutu Senya West District of the Central Region. The suspect believed to be a Nigerian has allegedly stolen many motorbikes at Awutu Beraku, Gomoa Akoti and its environs. The …
Read More »AstraZeneca vaccine is safe; no side effects recorded yet – FDA
The Food and Drugs Authority has assured the Ghanaian public that the AstraZeneca vaccines are safe adding that no side effects have been recorded in Ghana yet. Over 300, 000 Ghanaians have been given the jab after the country took delivery of some 600, 000 doses of the vaccines last …
Read More »National Health Insurance levy increased by 1 percent
As part of measures to help recover Ghana’s economy, government has announced a one percent increment (1%) in the National Health Insurance Levy(NHIL). This is to say that the hitherto 2.5% NHIL charge on goods and services has increased to 3.5%. Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Majority Leader in Parliament …
Read More »Boy 17, Kills Mother with Pestle over Missing Memory Card
A 17-year-old Junior High School pupil, Emmanuel Gyan is in police custody for allegedly killing his own mother over his missing mobile phone memory card. My News Ghana reports According to eyewitnesses who reported to incident in a post sighted by My News Ghana, Gyan hit his 52-year-old mother, Faustina …
Read More »He asked me to sign terms and conditions right after our honeymoon
It started on the very first day that we returned from our honeymoon. We had barely taken our seats when he told me that he had something to discuss with me. He sounded very excited and that made me wonder what he had to tell me. He said, “This is …
Read More »Govt distributed 28.8 million condoms in 2020
The Ghana Aids Commission chalked some notable successes at the end of 2020 as it was focused on achieving its mandate. One of the most recognizable achievements was the reduction of new infections from 20,068 in 2019 to 17,581 in 2020. This was captured in the 2021 budget presented by …
Read More »Parliament to summon Education Minister over ‘Ewes’ in new textbook
Parliament is expected to invite the Minister of Education Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum to appear on the floor of the House to answer questions relating to newly-authored history textbooks for students. This comes after lawmaker for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said he has filed an urgent parliamentary question requesting the …
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