Chiefs and elders of Awutu Bontrase in the Awutu Senya West District of the Central Region have ordered Apostle John Mark, who had sex with a married woman at Awutu Bontrase to pay Ghc 5,000, one sheep, one carton of schnapps as compensation. They’ve also asked the man of God …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is reminding Ghanaians that the fight against the coronavirus Disease remains unabated. This follows a sharp decline in hand washing with soap and the use of hand sanitisers. So far, the country has recorded 2,169 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 with 17 deaths and 212 recoveries. The …

The Somanya District Police Command has arrested fourteen (14) people for performing puberty rite known traditionally as “Dipo” in contravention of the ban on public gathering. The suspects were arrested on Saturday, May 2, 2020, at Sawer a suburb of Somanya in the Eastern Region. The suspects are Leaders, parents, …

An attempt to chase away a flock of sheep turned into a tragedy after a 32-year-old mother accidentally stoned her nine-year-old son to death. Elvis Minkah was pronounced dead on Thursday, April 30, 2020 by medics moments after he was rushed to the St. Peter’s Catholic Hospital. The suspect, Haggar …

Ironically, the couple are known to have been staying together peacefully at Konda with their 10-year-old son until the unfortunate incident. The woman has since been admitted at the emergency unit of the Upper West Regional Hospital and would likely be referred to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi for …

Two persons have been murdered in two separate incidents at Akyem Osiem and Nkawkaw in the Eastern region. The body of a young man shot dead was found Friday, May 1, 2020, along the Akyem Osiem to Ettukrom highway in Abuakwa North Municipality. The unidentified man was found in a …

Ofaakor Circuit court presided over by His Honour, Ebeneezer Osei Darko has sentenced 3 armed robbers to 75 years for robbing one Isaac Henry Oppong, a Ghanaian domiciled in Italy. The first and second accused Samuel Kweku Nhyira Amoankwando and Kofi Boateng Amoako respectively were charged with conspiracy to rob …

The Ghana Police Service (GPS) has rebuked Accra-based radio station, Adom FM, for breaching the law during the celebration of this year’s May Day. To celebrate frontline workers in the fight against Coronavirus, some presenters of the radio station dressed up in uniforms of nurses, doctors and security personnel for …

Headmistress of Nsawam Senior High School (SHS), Nsawam, Eastern Region, Madam Gladys Asiedu, has made a passionate appeal to the central government to fast-track the completion of its on-going new school facility which relocation is at Okobeyeyie on the Nsawam-Aburi road.   She explained that this has become necessary because …

Forty-Five(45) members Heavenslife Global Church at School Junction, a suburb of Ashaiman face up to four years imprisonment or a fine of up to GHS16,000 each for violating the Imposition of Restrictions Act 2020(Act 1012). The 45 persons who are members of Bishop Dr Eric Borngreat Aboagye’s church were arrested …

A request for waiver on income taxes amounting to GH¢ 288,644,003.34 submitted to the legislature by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, to help cushion health workers in both public and private health facilities, who are on the frontline fighting the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been granted. …

An Elder of the Church of Pentecost at Whindo, a farming community in the Effia Kwesimintsim Municipality of the Western Region has been shot by an unknown assailant, Assembly Member for the Asakai-Whindo electoral area Alex Nana Acheampong has disclosed. One Egya Esia has been picked up by the Kwesimintsim …

Four persons have been picked up by Akropong Police for violating ban on social gathering and distancing by holding estoolment ceremony. The were picked Friday afternoon by the Akropong Police led by the District Police Commander,Stephen Tetteh. All four persons picked by Police are traditional rulers who led the enstoolment …

Residents of Amaglo Kope, a small village in Akpatoe in the Ketu North Municipal Assembly of Volta Region are gripped with fear as a lifeless body of a man believed to be in his early 30s has been found in a farm. The deceased man was found hanging on a …

A man was caught after he chained his two children and broke one his children’s bone with a hammer and allegedly poured salt in their bleeding wounds. The unidentified man from Okigwe Local Government Area of Abia State was said to have been torturing his two children for their ‘mother’s …

The Tamale Teaching Hospital has commenced testing of Covid-19 samples for Northern, Savannah, Upper West, Upper East and North East regions in Tamale in the Northern region. Head of the Tamale Testing Center at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Dr. Abass Abdul Karim told DGN Online that the facility can test …

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Daffiama Bussie Issa in the Upper West Region, Dr. Sebastian Sandaare says the Deputy Health Minister, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye misled Parliament on his assessment of the meningitis situation in the regions of the north. On Thursday, April 30, Dr. Okoe Boye told Parliament …

At least three headless bodies have been exhumed in a bush at a village called Sakyikrom, near Adeiso in the Eastern Region. A Police team that carried out the operation hauled the person they suspected to have killed the two men and a woman to the scene to point the …

The University of Ghana has been ranked as the best university in the country according to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking. 2020’s ranking included almost 1,400 universities in 92 countries with the assessment on 13 performance indicators including teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. University of Ghana was …

As part of the measures put in place by the government through the Ministry of Health(MOH)  and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to help halt the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Ghana, it’s  sanctioned that all people living in Ghana must wash their hands frequently or sanitize their …

Two spiritualists have been arrested in a Joint Security Operation carried out by Armed Police and Military personnel from Accra in the Eastern Region. The Shrine of the two spiritualists named Power 1 Herbal and Spiritual Center was raided at Adu Kwadwo Community near Maame Dede in the Upper West …

Long-distance relationships are like those people in your class that no one talks to except when they absolutely have to. As lovers know all too well, relationships/marriages are not bed of roses and every relationship is susceptible to highs and lows. There’ll be patchy periods that you’ll need to navigate …

The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research has undertaken a total of one hundred thousand test samples of suspected COVID-19 cases especially across the southern parts of the Ghana since the outbreak of the disease some two months ago. Prof. Abraham Kwabena Annan who maintained that the cost of the …

The Accra Regional Police Command has arrested five persons who are believed to be part of a car snatching syndicate in the metropolis. The suspects are Ibrahim Muntari , 29 year old driver, Stephen Waje @ Borsoo 30 year old trader, Evans Nuerttey 27 year old driver, Abubakari Saddique @ …

A 17-year-old boy has been banished from the Tutukpene community in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti Region caught stealing. Prosper Amoah, father of the boy, told Ghana News Agency that his son, a primary six pupil of the Tutukpene Municipal Assembly Basic School, was on Friday April 24, …

Founder and General Overseer of the Zion Army Church at Awutu Bontrase in the Awutru Senya West District of the Central Region, Pastor John Mark has been accused by a church member of hypnotising and having sexual intercourse with her for a year. The female church member [name withheld] who …

Did you know you had a higher risk of opening up yourself to infections and the coronavirus with a weak immune system? A weak immune system opens you up to infections that your body cannot fight. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the immune system is a network …

A Police officer, Corporal Suleman Gbana Ayuba of the Tamale District police has been arrested in Tamale for alleged robbery. He is alleged to have particpated in a robbery attack on a forex dealer near Mum’s Hotel, off the Tamale-Bolgatanga highway, at about 9 a.m. on the day in question. …

Management and the staff of the Ankaase Methodist hospital in the Afigya Kwabre South District of the Ashanti Region say they will lay down their tools if persistent robbery attacks on their facility and their staff continue. The incessant attacks on the hospital led to the death of one member …

An unemployed man is in the grip of the police for allegedly stealing prepaid meters from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), and selling them to the public. A total of 11 meters valued at $2,600 (GH¢15,000) were retrieved from Edward Abeiku, who had sold each of the meters at …