First-year students at Ashesi University have built their first-ever drones. The engineering class of the class of 2023, built delivery drones from scratch. In freshman year, engineering students take a course called Introduction to Engineering; where they are introduced to the various aspects of the engineering programme offered at the …

A Takoradi District Magistrate court has once again adjourned a case in which two Nigerians are standing trial for allegedly kidnapping and murdering four girls from Western Region’s city of Takoradi to March 19, 2020. On February 5 the State Attorney, Adeliade Kobiri-Woode, dropped the previous charge of kidnappings against …

A 49-year-old man, Adamu Tawiah, has been accused of serially sodomising a 19-year old man. The incident occurred at Peace Town, Kasoa-Amanfrom, in the Central Region. Narrating the incident to Accra 100.5FM’s Opanyin Darko on Tuesday, 18 February 2020, the victim said: “The man asked for my name and I …

TheGhanaReport profiles a list of six prisoners, who escaped from custody while on labour duty outside some prisons in parts of the country. They have been declared wanted by the Ghana Prisons Service. The fugitives are convicted persons, serving various terms for stealing, conspiracy and robbery. The escapees, who ran …

Over 800 students of the Takoradi Technical University (TTU) have been deferred for failing to register with the school during the 2019/2020 academic year. During a press conference on Monday, the University’s Registrar, Moses Maclean Abnory, noted that students were given ample time to register from September 2019 to January …

Two girls both aged 15, reported missing by the Ghana Police Service a week ago, have been found at Gomoa Nyanyanor in the company of six young men who took turns to sexually abuse them. According to the Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Afia …

Pupils and teachers of the Salebuga Junior High School in the Upper East Region have to walk 1 or 2 kilometres to have access to potable water and use the toilet on a daily basis. Speaking on the Executive Breakfast Show on Class91.3FM on Tuesday, 18 February 2020, a teacher …

The Head of the Virology Department of Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Professor William Kwabena Ampofo, says seven out of the 21 cases tested for coronavirus showed symptoms as outlined by the Ghana Health Service despite all proving negative. He, therefore, called for vigilance and heightened effort as the …

The Anyah District Police in Greater Accra is investigating a case of incest against a 42-year-old father who is said to have sexually abused his biological daughter and impregnated her. The 14-year old daughter is a primary six pupil and is currently five months pregnant while the father [name withheld] …

Two(2) students of Nyankumasi Ahenkro Senior High School (SHS) have died out of Meningitis out of seven reported cases in the Assin South District of the Central Region, MyNewsGh.com has confirmed. Health authorities disclosed that cases of Meningitis were reported in three communities within Assin South involving a farmer, some traders and …

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the core function of every university is to solve problems and advance the frontiers of knowledge. They do not just award degrees, but they carry out research regularly to suggest solutions to the problems of the people. Right now as I write, the …

Two girls who were reported missing on February 8, 2019, have been found, Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Afia Tenge has said. Their disappearance which was largely attributed to a case of kidnap apparently was misconstrued. According to DSP Afia Tenge, the girls who were found at a …

  Two persons, Kofi Yeboah alias Lepetin and Shadrack Yeboah aka Obeng, have been remanded in prison custody to reappear on February 25, 2020, for possessing firearms and ammunitions without lawful authority. The court presided over by his worship Fred Obikyere remanded them on their own plea of guilty. Complainants …

Police in Akim Oda in the Eastern Region on Monday, February 17, 2020, arrested a 19-year-old Ebenezer Oko, on suspicion of kidnapping a nine-year-old boy at Jamaica, a suburb of Akim Asuboa. According to a statement, “On the morning of Sunday, February 16, 2020, the suspect claiming to be a …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it has started investigations into the case of a teacher assaulting a nine-year-old pupil who criticised the taste of her ‘sobolo’ drink. Jonathan Korsinah, the Nkwanata South Education Director, said it was an unfortunate development and they will get to the bottom of the …

It has emerged that the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) is indebted to mission hospitals across the country to the tune of GH¢87 million. A news item published in the Catholic Standard, the official newspaper of the Catholic Church in Ghana, indicates that Bishop of Koforidua, Most Rev. Joseph Afrifah-Agyekum, …

In a shocking incident, a five-month-old baby girl was allegedly raped on Sunday night by her cousin brother who took the baby to play with her. The child was found late on Sunday night and taken to a hospital where she died during treatment according to initial information filed by …

The Police Command in the Ashanti Region has arrested one more suspect in the alleged murder of Ruth Eshun, a community nurse with the Sewua Health Center. The police in a statement said on Thursday, February 13, 2020 acting on information they arrested suspect Kofi Garba alias Amanya Attiuwenti 37 …

First-year Home Economics students of the Ningo Senior High Technical School at Ningo in the Greater Accra Region have to sit on the floor for classes due to lack of desks. The students, who number over 40, sit on the bare floor for lessons as the classroom has less than …

Fear has gripped residents of Twifu Agona in the Twifu Atti-Morkwa District of the Central Region after a 14-year-old girl, Maame Esi a student at Agona D/A Basic School was murdered and dumped in a bush. Information suggests that four suspects namely Kwabena Asamoah, Abraham Anti, Kofi Owusu and Akwesi …

Chief Executives of two food import companies are being investigated by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for importing four 40-footer containers of salmonella infested gizzard into the country. Veterinary officials said they were able to impound one of the containers but three others which can feed millions of people have …

Saturday was a disastrous day for a criminal who works at circle after he was caught in the act in his odious act in the wake of attempting to steal from a pedestrian. Upon his trepidation, a cop present at the scene attempted to send him to the station for …

A middle aged man has been arrested by Awutu Breku police for inflicting cutlass wounds on the husband of his girlfriend at Gomoa Nkwantanan in the Central region. The suspect, according to reports, was apprehended by his girlfriend’s husband, William Appiah on their matrimonial bed. The livid husband engaged the …

A man in the United State of America, set his children’s mother on fire as he forced the kids to watch in freezing temperatures in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Valentine’s Day. Family members say they got a call that the victim, Savannah Bailey, was set on fire, along with her home. …

Nurses in the Ashanti region have given the police a two-week ultimatum to find the killers of Ruth Eshun Arhin, a community health nurse who was murdered on February 3. The Community Health Nurses Association and (CHNAG) Ghana Registered Nurses Association (GRNA) want answers regarding the assailants or they will withdraw their …

Untreated sewage from a non-functioning sewer treatment plant that serves the Volta barracks of the 66 Artillery Regiment of the Ghana Armed Forces, is flowing into a river in the Ho Dome community. The treatment plant, the Ghana News Agency (GNA) was told, had stopped working since 2016, causing overflowing …

A suspect trying to get away from capture clubbed the station official of Tapa Abotoase close to the Biakoye District of the Oti Region with a metal bar, My News Ghana  reports. The episode happened at about 5am on Friday February 14, 2020 when Chief Inpector K.  Kpodo joined by two others …

An Accra Circuit Court on Friday acquitted and discharged Pastor Emmanuel Obeng Bekoe of a GH¢115,000.00 fraud charge brought against him over the sale of fertiliser. Pastor Bekoe, with Baba Charles Yides, a caretaker, was charged with conspiracy to commit crime and defrauding by false pretence; but he was found …

A second-year female student of the Islamic Senior High School in Tamale in the Northern Region, on Thursday, 13 February 2020, allegedly stabbed a colleague in the head over a biology textbook. The victim has been taken to the hospital for treatment. The incident occurred around 11 p.m. Thursday. According …

A Chinese, who allegedly stabbed his compatriot at Asankragwa in the Western Region, during a disagreement over a woman, has been arrested by the Ashanti Regional Immigration Command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS). The suspect, Wei Yanwen, 25, absconded after the incident, but was arrested in the late hours …