First-year Senior High School (SHS) students across the country are expected to report to school from Thursday, 18 March to Sunday, 21 March 2021 the Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced. First-year SHS students across the country were initially scheduled to report to school on Wednesday, 10 March 2021. However, …

The Deputy Director for the National Disaster Management Organisation (NaDMO) in the Nabdam District has been murdered by three unidentified armed men in the Upper East Region. The gruesome incident is said to have occurred at the Pelungu market on Saturday, February 27. Mr Dominic Kulkong, 31, was shot during …

Residents of Korle-Nkwanta a suburb of New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region capital have been gripped with fear following the murder of another taxi driver in the community. The Taxi driver identified only as Joshua Amevegbe alias Joe B believed to be 25-years-old was a resident of Ada …

The Head of the Bethel Prayer Centre at Morle in the Jaman North District in the Bono Region, Prophet Osei Blankson, has allegedly slashed the thumb of an 11-year-old boy with a blade. The man of God carried out the act after he accused the boy of stealing his GH¢10. …

Residents of Korle-Nkwanta a suburb of New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region capital have been gripped with fear following the murder of another taxi driver in the community. The Taxi driver identified only as Joshua Amevegbe alias Joe B believed to be 25-years-old was a resident of Ada …

A man was found decapitated and set on fire at the Tesano-Achimota overhead bridge on Independence Day. The man was found without the decapitated head and is yet to be identified. But the Tesano Police Command investigating the case believe he may have been a cobbler. The attackers are also …

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has opened registration for the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for private junior high school candidates. According to WAEC, first-time candidates as well as those seeking to improve on their grades had up to March 19, 2021, to register for the examination which …

The world has gotten to a stage where children are experimenting everything including proposing love to themselves in their various schools. What makes the development quite worrying and disturbing is that many of these children are not even in their adolescent stages yet, they can be found in the lower/upper …

A self-styled policeman and two others have been hauled before a court over their alleged involvement in a GHc147,000 recruitment scam. 26-year-old Albert Bruce who parades himself as a senior police officer with the connivance of two others succeeded in duping about 51 persons under the guise of getting them …

The Accra Juvenile Court “C” has remanded a Junior High School (JHS) final year pupil of the Nungua Kroma Two JHS, for allegedly assaulting a teacher who punished him for failure to do his homework. He has denied conspiring with 15 other men to assault the teacher and has been …

Two Nigerians, Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Oji were on Friday, March 5, 2020 condemned to death by a Sekondi High Court. The two were found guilty of the kidnap and subsequent murder of Ruth Abakah, 19; Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21; Ruth Love Quayson,18 and Priscilla Koranchie, 15 between July …

Police have upon a tip off arrested some Yarigabisi Zuarungu-based armed robbers Sunday Nia and Ishmael Yetinga who were the gang that attacked and robbed one Anafo Charles of huge sums of money some time ago. The leader of the gang one Yaw Bapila alias bodyman, who police were almost …

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) court has sentenced two persons to 10 years imprisonment each for robbing a mechanic at the Atafoa Forest Reserve, near Kumasi. Atta Thomas, 23 and Kwaku Mensah, 19, pleaded not guilty to the charge but were convicted by the court after trial, presided over by …

A one-week-old baby boy was on Thursday, March 4, 2021, found dead and abandoned at Teshie in Accra. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Effia Tenge, Head of Public Affairs Unit of the Accra Regional Police Command, said on Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 0900 hours, the Teshie District Police received …

Dr. Lydia Dsane-Selby, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has announced the extension of the period of services of the Authority to the public, ahead of the reopening of Senior High Schools. She said the Authority had included Saturday, March 6, 2021, and Monday, March …

A clique of Senior High School (SHS) girls has been caught twerking like professional slay queens in a new video that has just pop up online. The viral video sighted by OccupyGh.com captures these young ladies, numbers 5, dancing and twerking like professional dancers. They went on twerking so professionally …

I was a boy, thirteen or fifteen years when I watched a TV program where the host asked the women the kind of men they’ll like to be with. All the ladies started their sentence with, “I want a tall guy blah blah blah.” I was young and didn’t know …

A Sekondi High court has sentenced to death, the two accused persons behind the kidnapping and subsequent murder of the 4 Takoradi girls. However, the Judge has given a 30 day window for the accused to appeal, if need be. Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, second accused, both Nigerians, …

A woman in her mid-thirties has been found dead at Nana Gyimah Hotel located at Kokomlemle, a suburb of Accra. According to the hotel’s management, a man booked a room on Monday, March 1, 2021, and had a female visitor. The client left the next day and did not return. …

The Boahen Korkor Presby Junior High School in Sunyani on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, was nearly set ablaze by an unknown person. This school, which is situated at the premises of the Presbyterian Church, which is directly opposite the Radio BAR, is amongst a cluster of schools on the same …

A 31-year-old man in Zomba, Mumuderanji Kayere, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for defiling a 4-month old baby. Senior Resident Magistrate Rodrick Michongwe said he run out of the best words to express the behavior of the convict considering the age difference and what he really wanted …

Prince Adu, also known as Dracula, a notorious armed robber, who was jailed to a cumulative 63 years by a Ho Circuit Court for three robbery offences, has his jail term increased to 90 years, when the court sentenced him to an additional 27 years in hard labour for similar …

A five-member committee, set up by the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) in consultation with the University of Ghana, has dismissed claims that the Institute engaged in the falsification of Covid-19 test results. The Noguchi Institute, in a press release dated Wednesday, March 3, has disclosed that investigations …

An unknown gunman has shot and killed a 30-year-old man at Afrancho Dam Junction in Offinso in the Ashanti Region and absconded. The unfortunate killing of the man, whose identity is not known, has compelled the police in Offinso to mount a wild search to arrest the killer. The body …

One person has been butchered, another hospitalized as family members clash at Juaboso Bonsu-Nkwanta. The deceased, 51-year-old Joseph Aye Tossah, was murdered by his biological brother and son over a misunderstanding over construction of a toilet facility. Reports say the deceased’s elder brother, Richard Aye, 54, and his son, Enoch …

POLICE HAVE initiated investigations to arrest a suspected hit and run driver who reportedly killed a policeman on Ashotiano and Asuhyiae stretch in the Dormaa East District of the Bono Region, according to information gathered by DGN online. The officer, General Constable Amos Maatey Nigaoko, number 56637 of the Wamfie …

The body of a missing woman has been found in a bush at Antoa in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region in an advanced decomposing state The deceased identified as Mummy and 21-years-old was found dead in a bush near a stream between Antoa and Tikrom enclave after …

A man believed to be in his 40s has been arrested after he stabbed his 78-year-old mother and chopped off his sister’s hand at Ajumako Bedukrom in the Central Region. Information gathered by EIB Network’s Central Regional Correspondent Yaw Boagyan indicates that the suspect named Nanif who’s unemployed, armed with …

The Anyaa Police in the Greater Accra Region is after a taxi driver who is on the run after allegedly butchering his wife and locking up her mutilated body in a room for four days. Kofi Aboagye, 33, took to his heels after he allegedly stabbed the wife, Margarette during …

Scores of students and teachers of the Nalerigu Nursing and Midwifery College are to be sanctioned by the school authorities for organizing a twerking competition in campus despite a ban on mass gathering due to covid-19. The students on Saturday night organized and participated in the dancing contest which brought …