A 51-year-old self-acclaimed contractor is in the grips of the police for allegedly defrauding two people of large sums of money with the promise of getting them recruited into the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). The culprit, George Ofori Attah, is alleged to be part of a …

The Health Facility Regulatory Agency (HeFRA) has shut down a clinic in Kumasi suspected to be carrying out illegal abortions. The Lake Road Clinic is part of nine facilities that were closed down by the agency. The exercise is aimed at ensuring that facilities comply with the standards of delivering …

A final year student of Kroma 2 JHS at Nungua, a suburb of Accra, has together with his gang attacked a teacher for punishing him over his failure to do his homework. Information gathered by Starr News indicates that the student, run home after he was punished, gathered his gang …

A 22-year-old tricycle rider identified only as Wisdom is in the grips of the police for setting his estranged girlfriend and her family ablaze. The incident according to an Adom Online report occurred on Sunday, February 21, 2021, at a town called S.S in the Dormaa Ahenkro, Bono Region. According …

An 18-year-old driver’s mate who has been jailed for attempted rape shocked the court when after being handed his term, promised to change from his old ways. Emmanuel Darko who pleaded guilty before an Accra Circuit Court presided over by Mrs Christiana Cann convicted Darko to charges of unlawful entry …

A farmer is currently on the run over an allegation of murdering a motor rider. The farmer allegedly murdered and buried the rider in a shallow grave at Nyamabekyere Asaaman. The okada rider, identified simply as Oboy Joe, was allegedly contacted by the farmer, identified as Michael Akrofi to transport …

Osei Bonsu Senior High School located in Bono East region specifically in Nkoranza North District has organized Mathematics Debate after celebration of the Global Mathematics Day to inculcate in the students the need to make Mathematics a favorite subject instead of seeing maths as difficult subject . The headmaster of …

Most senior High School graduates has been suffering because of their results that they get after school. Some of them cannot go to tertiary institutions because of their results. The last grade that tertiary institutions in Ghana accept is C6. So most of the SHS graduates cannot go to tertiary …

Public schools within the Ledzorkuku Krowor Municipal Assembly have all been shut down temporarily to make way for police investigations after some students reportedly assaulted a teacher. According to some students of the affected schools they were asked to return home when they reported yesterday and today by officials. This …

A Twenty-Two-year-old Toase Senior Senior High (SHS) form 3 student Kwame Boadu known as Odoa has hanged himself to death inside his room at Barekese, the district capital of Atwima Nwabiagya North in the Ashanti Region. The unfortunate incident which occurred on Wednesday January 24, 2021 has thrown family and …

Police and Residents of Asmah Camp near Dunkwa -On Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region are currently on a manhaunt for two Farmers, Solo and Kwabena VI who butchered one Kwabena Tawiah, a Cocoa Clerk and have gone into hiding. Information gathered indicate that the …

A 45-year-old farmer, Michael Akrofi, alias Kofi, is on the run after allegedly murdering his friend, Oboye Joe, 32, an Okada rider and burying him on his farm at Ebehn near Asenema in the Okere District of Eastern Region. The Police have since mounted a search for the farmer who …

A four-year-old girl is in ill health after a 19-year-old young man, Kwabena Dodzi, allegedly sodomised her in an uncompleted building. The mother of the victim, Margaret Apraku, told Adom News’ Seth Adjei her daughter’s inability to sit or ease herself made her suspicious of foul play. Interrogation, she said, …

The first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines will be received by Ghana’s health authorities today, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 at 7 am at the Kotoka International Airport. A press statement from the Ministry of Information announcing the delivery, said: “The Government of Ghana will, on Wednesday, 24 February 2021, receive the …

Dorcas Dzam, an employee of the Volta Forest Products Limited in Hohoe who lost four fingers in an accident on the job half a decade ago is finally to receive GHS 100,000 in general compensation from the firm. This was after the Legal Aid Commission (LAC) took the case on …

A Circuit Court in Accra has handed down 10 years imprisonment on a 22-year-old Barber for having sex with a 14-year-old girl, at Abeka in Accra. Yaw Sontah, charged with defilement, pleaded not guilty but the Court after the trial, found him guilty and sentenced him accordingly. Before being sentenced, …

A car snatching syndicate that can pass for the biggest in the history of the country has been arrested in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital, MyNewsGh.com has confirmed. Police indicated following numerous complaints from residents about their vehicles being snatched at gunpoint by miscreants mostly robbers, they devised a strategy …

An Accra Circuit Court has granted a GHC60,000 bail with two sureties to a driver who allegedly negligently caused harm to four pedestrians resulting in the death of one. The Court presided over by Afia Owusua Appiah ordered that one of the sureties should be justified. Emmanuel Omabu should also …

The acting District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Bawku West District, Victoria Ayamba, is reported to have unilaterally sacked an accredited Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) caterer and reallocated her contract to the wife of a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Zebilla, Grace Fuseini Adongo. About 600 children went …

The world is becoming so evil to the extent that people can do all manner of bad deeds to get what they want. Since the youth nowadays are ‘craving’ for riches and are not ready to work hard, they engage in all kinds of evil lifestyles to get what they …

Trainees allowance has become a talking point in Ghana and some political parties have now used it to garner political points or canvas votes from the vulnerable people in the society. A student who is aspiring to be a trainee in a year to come has expressed his views on …

A police officer, who allegedly fired his pump action gun into a crowd of mourners and thereby injuring one person on the Accra-Tema Motorway, has been arrested by the East Legon Police Command. District Commander Superintendent Kwame Gyasi Asare said investigations were ongoing after which the culprit will be made …

The Ashanti Regional Police Command have arrested five suspected armed robbers believed to have killed a police officer in a bullion van attack at Adanse Fomena  on January 19, 2021. Addressing  journalists on Monday February 22, 2021 at the Central Police Command monitored by OTEC News’ Kwame Agyenim Boateng, police …

Fire has destroyed portions of the Sunyani Municipal Primary School on Sunday in the Bono Region. The fire according to sources started around 4 p.m. It took fire personnel from the Bono Regional Branch of the Ghana National Fire Service about an hour to bring the fire under control. Three …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has urged all stakeholders to remain calm as it prepares to release the computerised school placement “soon”. There have been numerous reports about the school placements but by a press release on Sunday, February 21, the GES hinted that the exercise has not been done …

An accomplished entrepreneur, Consultant in ICT, Energy and National Infrastructure Development in GHANA and abroad with over 30 years working experience in related endeavors, A leading member of the National Democratic Congress, Mr. Laslie Mensah Tamekloe has narrated how shortage of beds hits hospitals in Ghana including manhyia Government hospital, …

A new school, J.A Kufuor Senior High School has been completed and ready for use. The school is located in Sokoban in Kumasi of the Ashanti Region. All structures have been put in place for the 2020/2021 placement. A statement issued by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to the National …

Ghana health service (GHS) was established in 1996. It is Ghanaian government body as part of the health sector reform. The Ghana health service is responsible for the comprehensive health service at all levels in Ghana. The GHS also establish effective mechanism for disease surveillance, prevention and control in Ghana. …

Ghana health service (GHS) was established in 1996. It is Ghanaian government body as part of the health sector reform. The Ghana health service is responsible for the comprehensive health service at all levels in Ghana. The GHS also establish effective mechanism for disease surveillance, prevention and control in Ghana. …

A middle-aged man has been beaten to pulp in a botched robbery operation. The young man, whose name was only given as Issah, a native of Twifo Praso, is said to have been invited by a friend for the operation. But luck eluded him when they were caught while stealing …