Staff of the Ghana Standards Authority’s (GSA’s) and personnel of the Ghana Police Service have raided some individuals producing unapproved pesticides, insecticides and household chemicals at South Odorkor, a suburb of Accra. The raid became necessary following reports from residents that the operations of the individuals in question were posing …

The bravery of a police officer has led to the arrest of one out of three suspected highway armed robbers who attacked a distribution van on the Bole- Bamboi highway in the Savannah Region on Friday afternoon, January 17, 2020. The Police officer, General Lance (G/L) Corporal (cpl), Edmond Kyei …

The Somanya District Police Command has arrested one person in connection with the ransacking of the office of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Yilo Krobo Constituency. Officers charged to hold balloting for three candidates ahead of the party’s parliamentary primary in the Constituency were shocked on Saturday morning …

Nations across the world showcase their cultural identities in so many ways. The culture of every nation includes its set of languages. More than 250 languages and dialects are spoken in Ghana with 9 of them formally taught in schools. There are several ways and stages of acquiring languages. Apart …

The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of secondary education, Dr.Yaw Osei Adutwum, says the implementation of the Free Senior High School Education policy will break the cycle of poverty in the country. Ghana has reduced poverty levels by half between 1991 and 2014. But it estimated that more than …

Dr Jeffery Elorm Akortia, the District Veterinary Officer for Central Tongu, said the District has not recorded any case of foot and mouth disease in cattle. “We depend on some dams in South Tongu for water in the dry season, that is why we have been observing all the cattle …

Health workers at the Ejura Municipal Government Hospital in the Ashanti region have been forced to admit and treat pregnant women on plastic chairs over lack of space in the hospital’s maternity ward. Ejura Government Hospital, which is the largest hospital in the Ejura-Sekyedumasi Municipality, has a lot of challenges including …

An initiative by the University of Cape Coast to encourage education in the country’s prisons has seen some 59 inmates benefitting. The University opened a prison campus inside the Nsawam prisons to help inmates qualified for diploma courses to also enroll and 59 of these persons have been welcomed already …

The Fomena District Police Command has arrested an 18-year-old student of T I Ahmadiyya Senior High School for allegedly faking her own kidnap. Esther Boadiwaa, according to the police, hatched a plan to visit her boyfriend at Hohoe in the Volta Region and in the process lied to her parents …

Patients on admission at the La General Hospital have been hit with double agony after thieves broke into the ward and stole their valuables. Mobile phones, bags containing money, ID cards and other valuables were all missing from the ward when the patients woke up on Friday. The burglary is …

The affable and accessible Mr Francis Owusu-Akyaw a former Parliamentary Candidate aspirant in New Patriotic Party at the Juaben Constituency within the Ashanti region of Ghana has put smiles on the faces of the good people of Bomfa by renovating their M/A Primary School, Bomfa is a town within the Juaben …

A Senior state attorney, yesterday told the Accra High Court that Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Benjamin Agordzo will interfere with investigation if he is granted bail. Mrs Hilda Craig argued that accused, who was charged with abetment of treason felony, was likely to get in the way of police …

Two suspected car snatchers have been arrested by the Central Regional Police Command for attempting to sell a Hyundai Getz Taxi cab with registration number ER 797-18 at Ola-Black Star, a suburb of Cape Coast. The suspects, Prince Tettey, Gaetan Eke and a third accomplice who is currently on the run …

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, will expand the School Feeding Programme to all schools across the country, Madam Cynthia Morrison, sector Minister has said, following its successful implementation since 2005. “If everyone is enjoying free senior high school, it is equally fair for everyone to enjoy school …

The driver who is believed to have caused Tuesday’s fatal accident at Dompoase has been remanded in police custody for two weeks pending investigation. Kasapa FM’s correspondent Yaw Boagyan reported from the Central region Friday. A government delegation led by Roads and Highways Minister Kwaku Amoako Attah today visited the …

Over 150 students have been displaced as a fire gutted a dormitory at the Islamic Girls Senior High school in the Wa Municipality. The fire broke today at midday, and no fatalities were recorded. The fire which lasted about an hour destroyed items and belongings of the students including bed, …

You don’t need to be a “Prophet” Reindolph Oduro Gyebi or an “Eagle Prophet” to be keenly aware of the fact that some disgruntled and murderous elements in Ghana’s political opposition and some of the latter’s treacherous collaborators inside government may very well be planning or conspiring to either endanger …

A 22-year-old Level 300 student of the University of Cape Coast is in the grips of the Sekondi police for kidnapping an 18-year-old Senior High School student. The suspect, Simeon Cephas Andoh Dadzie, was said to have lured the girl from Sekondi to his hostel in Cape Coast and camped …

A 22-year-old Level 300 student of the University of Cape Coast is in the grips of the Sekondi police for kidnapping an 18-year-old Senior High School student. The suspect, Simeon Cephas Andoh Dadzie, was said to have lured the girl from Sekondi to his hostel in Cape Coast and camped …

Bright Ashiagbor, 33, a native of Tegbi in the Volta Region is wanted by the Police for allegedly stealing building materials valued at GHc8,000. 00 belonging to Berock Ventures Limited, a building construction firm based at the Spintex Road in Accra. The suspect who was a storekeeper of Berock Ventures …

The 2019 teacher licensure exam recorded a 78.2 percent pass rate representing 27,171 out of 34,724 teachers who sat for the examination. This means 21.8 percent of the teachers, representing 7,553 teachers failed the exam, according to the National Teaching Council (NTC). The licensure exam is a prerequisite for all …

Two men accused of robbing a female mobile money vendor of GHC 900 in a moving taxi are in the grips of the Fomena District Police Command in the Ashanti Region, pending further investigation. Kwadwo Sarfo, 20, a cabbie, and Kofi Agyemang, 37, a steel bender, both residents of Kumasi-Abrepo …

A 32 year old woman, Ruth Pokuah, has been butchered by a 19 year old mentally challenged person in her house while bathing by a mentally challenged person at Nkawie in the Atwima Nwabiagya South district of the Ashanti region. The incident happened on Wednesday, January 15, 2020, at 8 …

The Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has called off its nationwide strike after the National Labour Commission (NLC) secured an interim injunction on the industrial action. The association in a statement said its decision to call off the strike was a “demonstration of good faith which must be reciprocated by …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has apologised to senior high school teachers for treating them poorly on Monday at the start of a four-day training programme. More than 200 teachers from the Greater Accra, Oti and Volta Regions who were invited on short notice to attend the training were left …

Parts of the Accra Academy located at Bubiashie in Accra is reportedly in flames. It is unclear what might have caused the fire in the school. Photos and videos are rife on social media with some claiming that dormitories in two halls of residence in the school, namely Alema and …

A Chinese Supervisor at Zhongmei Engineering Group Limited, the construction company constructing the Pokuase Interchange has allegedly assaulted one of the Ghanaian workers at the site. In an interview with the GNA, the Secretary General of the General Construction, Manufacturing and Quarry Workers Union (GCMQWU), Mrs Comfort Agambaa, said she …

Women who have sex at least once a month have a lower risk of entering menopause early than women with less active sex lives, scientists have found in research which they say points to a form of biological energy trade-off. A study of data from almost 3,000 women in the …

Fourteen alleged Ghanaian illegal miners in the general area of Kenyasi and its environs in the Adansie North Districts of the Ashanti Region have been nabbed by Ashanti Forward Operating Base (FOB Ashanti) patrol team. The illegal miners were arrested on Monday 13 January 2020 by a patrol team led …

A 12-year-old first-year Junior High School (JHS) student last Monday morning shocked the residents of Aiyinabo in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region after he was found dead hanging in his room. He had used the mother’s headscarf to commit the act. The student, identified as Samuel Opoku-Boateng of …