An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday sentenced Baba Musah a 24-year-old mason to 27-years imprisonment in hard labour for robbing a pastor of his Holy Bible and another lady of her handbag. Musah was given 15-year-jail for robbing Madam Patience Adzimahe of her bag containing phones cash and …

      A motor vehicle accident on the Obogu-Banso road near Juaso in the Asante Akyem South District of the Ashanti Region has claimed the life of a female WASSCE candidate. Esther Nyamekye, 23, a student of Ofoase Senior High Technical School at Juaso, was killed in the accident …

    The Governing Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has elected Professor Rita Dickson as the new Vice-Chancellor. She becomes the first-ever female to lead the science and technology university after beating three others to it. She takes over from Prof Kwasi Obiri Danso, …

    A woman has died from Coronavirus in Atibie Government Hospital in Kwahu South District of the Eastern Region. The deceased, from Nkawkaw, went to the Atibie Hospital to seek healthcare since most health facilities in Nkawkaw are full following admission of over 100 Coronavirus patients. While on admission, …

    Sixteen grieving fathers have taken the Shaanxi Mining Ghana Limited to the High Court in Bolgatanga requesting damages for the deaths of their sons. Renowned lawyer, Godwin Kudzo Tameklo, is representing the 16 parents, most of them elderly, in court as they press for justice in tears. Their …

      Two young men who were caught mining for gold nuggets in the Tano-Anwia Forest Reserve have been granted bail in the sum of 10,000 Ghana cedis each by the District Magistrate Court in Enchi. They are; Lawrence Appiah alias owner, a 20-year-old student and Mathias Oppong Gyan, …

    The Okere District Education Directorate has been shut down indefinitely after a staff tested Positive for Coronavirus. The office was shut down upon advise by the Ghana Health Service on Wednesday. All staff at the facility including the District Education Director have been asked to the self-quarantine pending …

  A 15-year-old boy, Kwame Broni has defiled a three-year-old girl at Assin Sienchem in the Assin North District of the Central Region. The suspect is said to be fond of defiling young girls as he recently allegedly defiled two children from the nearby communities within the District but the …

The number of coronavirus cases recorded in the country has once again shot up from 14,568 on June 23, 2020, to 15,013 after barely 24 hours. Per the new updates by the Ghana Health Service, the number of recoveries and discharges have also seen a boost as 605 infected persons …

  The National Health Insurance Scheme was introduced in Ghana by one of the former presidents of the Republic of Ghana, H. E. John Agyekum Kuffour, who governed Ghana on the ticket of New Patriotic Party (NPP) between the year 2001 to 2008. It was so pathetic that, before the …

    The Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching hospital, Dr. Daniel Asare has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Citi News sources say the CEO has been out of office for the past 10 days as a result. In his stead, the Medical Director of the Korle …

      The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, is in isolation at the University of Ghana Medical Center (UGMC) in Accra after being suspected of contracting coronavirus. This follows a voluntary test he undertook of COVID-19 at the same centre on Monday evening after he returned from his constituency. The …

    A pregnant woman has died after she suffered knife wounds during a robbery attack at Heman/Ampatia New-Site, an urban community at Santasi near the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi. The incident occurred on Saturday, June 20, 2020 at about 1:30am, the police told Dailymailgh.com. The deceased, Juliana Adusei, 31, …

    A suspected baby thief, Perpetual Yankey, also known as Akesi, who allegedly stole a 10-month-old baby at New Takoradi is currently in the grips of the Takoradi Central Police Command. She was arrested on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, at her hideout at Asaasetre near Nkroful with the baby …

      The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has arrested two persons over the demolition of a building on the premises of the Nigeria High Commissioner in Accra. The two were arrested on Monday, June 22, according to a press release from the CID. “The …

  Four students at the Odorgonor Senior High School in Accra have been allegedly isolated because they registered high temperatures on thermometer guns. According to Accra-based Atinka News, this was the observation when its team visited schools in Accra on the first of day reopening on Monday, June 22, 2020. …

DGN Online has gathered that the failed robbery attempt at Melcom, reported last Sunday, June 21, 2020 in Ho was actually an attempted murder mission. Fresh details analysed from eyewitnesses and inside sources point to the fact that one of the two assailants arrested on that fateful day, was a former …

    Two people have been arrested following the murder of a 72-year-old woman, who was found dead with her hands bound by tape and her house ransacked in Overport, Durban. Premla Moodley was murdered on 3 May at her residence on Sparks Road. According to the police, the two …

    Over 100 final year students of the Sekondi College in the Western region were on Monday evening left stranded for close to three hours at the school’s main gate. The students, most of whom had come from outside the Region, were seen with their personal effects lined up …

    Apostle Kwabena Owusu Adjei who allegedly threatened the life of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, has been granted a GH¢100, 000 bail by the Accra Circuit Court. The accused person pleaded not guilty to threat of death, contrary to Section 75 of the …

    William Adomako, a 24-year-old security man, who kissed the cheeks of an eight-year-old girl and removed her pant at East Legon, has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment by an Accra circuit court. Adomako pleaded not guilty to his charge of indecent assault but at the end of …

      A man, Chris Ndukwe, has reportedly committed suicide after stabbing his lover, Olamide Alli, to death at his place of residence on the Victory Point Estate in the Ilasan area of Lagos State. Although the reasons for Mr Ndukwe’s action remain unclear, PUNCH Metro gathered that the 39-year-old and …

    An Accra Circuit Court has discharged John Kupa Azika, 40, a cleaner accused of defiling a 12-year-old girl who is HIV positive at North Legon, for want of prosecution. When the matter was called, it came to the court’s attention that the complainant and victim have both not …

    A Seventeen year old male student of the Odogono SHS, Master Richmond Gyangbe is reported missing since Sunday June 21 2020 from home. In an exclusive interview with the Father, Mr. Stephen Mensah, a Self-Employed man at Kasoa, he said their Hometown is Edura in Ashanti Region but …

  A proverb to me, “A mind is like an umbrella, only useful when open”.   On the 21-06-2020, the President of Ghana addressed the nation and he disclosed that the free SHS 3 students are “Akufo Addo graduates”. He added that he will pay the exam fees for the …

    President Nana Akufo-Addo has explained why Ghana’s COVID-19 recoveries more than doubled overnight on Saturday, 20 June 2020 by over 5,000. In his 12th address to the nation on Sunday, 21 June 2020, Mr Akufo-Addo said: “Our approach to dealing with the virus, as I have always said, …

    President Akufo-Addo has directed that one dormitory in every secondary school should be used AS COVID-19 isolation centre as schools reopen in the wake of the pandemic. “One dormitory block in each senior high school is to be used as an isolation centre, in the event of a …

The Ghana Health Service says although some recovered or discharged novel coronavirus patients may continue to have remnants of the deadly virus in their system, such persons are not a threat to others. Director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Badu Sarkodie who said this explained that …

  Mr. Nii Ankonu Annorbah-Sarpei, Director of Programmes, Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR) has urged the government to ensure that adolescents enjoyed some health benefits under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS. He said the benefits should provide adolescents in the country the opportunity to have access to a …

    Asante Kotoko defender Ibrahim Imoro says claims by the founder of Division two club Thunder FC that he relies on his teammates to survive in Kumasi are not true. Alhaji Abdulai Nash is quoted to have said Imoro who joined Kotoko from Thunder FC last December has not …