Learning was paralysed in public schools Tuesday after teachers proceeded with their planned strike across the country to demands for the payment of Cost of Living Allowance (COLA). When the OTEC FM News crew visited public schools in Kumasi metropolis in the Ashanti Region, pupils turned their classrooms into playing grounds as while others were …

A visit to selected basic and second cycle schools in the Ashanti region by GBCNews showed a mixed reaction of the interested parties to the strike action declared by labour unions at the pre-tertiary educational level. While a greater majority of teachers were complying with the industrial action with only …

Tuesday’s rains came and went, leaving behind a trail of damage in most parts of Accra. The University of Ghana was not an exception as the Mensah Sarbah Hall is reported to have flooded. The flood was as a result of the overflowing of the gutters due to the heavy …

Some eight people have been arrested for suspected illegal chainsaw operations in the Tano Offin Forest reserve in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti region. The suspects arrested for their illegal entry into the restricted forest reserve are Attah Abeka 30, Prince Abeka 16, Shaibu Frank 17, Nkrumah …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed Heads of Senior High Schools to mobilise their management teams to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all students in schools. GES further directed heads of basic schools not to shut down their facilities, despite the ongoing strike by teachers. This comes after …

A 75-year-old woman has been found dead under mysterious circumstances at Okaikrom, near Afigyase District in the Ashanti Region. According to a Kessbenonline.com report, the elderly woman was found dead in her room with a rope around her neck. For some residents, the death of the old woman comes as …

The Ghana National Association of Teachers, National Association of Graduate Teachers, Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana and the Teachers and Educational Workers Union have effective today, Monday, June 4, 2021, commenced a nationwide strike action. The strike according to the leadership of the Teacher Unions, is a result of the …

Two Ghanaian footballers were arrested by Meghalaya Police in the northeastern part of India for not possessing valid travel documents on Saturday. A police team intercepted a tourist vehicle bearing registration number ML 05 T 3049 in NH 6 along Ummulong and detected six African nationals. Out of the six …

The Assin Fosu Police Command, led by the Assin Fosu Divisional commander, DSP Daniel Kwabena Darkoh, has arrested a 28-year-old man, Akwasi Sadique for inflicting cutlass wounds on his stepfather. This was during a fun time at a drinking spot at Assin Nunua in the Assin South District of the …

The Nima Police is holding a nursing mother in custody who is said to have delivered about a month ago at the Labour Ward of the Greater Accra Region Hospital, Ridge for stealing mobile phones among others. According to a statement by the hospital, the patient suspect was apprehended by …

The headless body of a young woman has reportedly been found around an uncompleted building at Sefwi Bekwai in the Western North Region. As confirmed by the Assemblyman of Old Clinic electoral area, Martin Darko in an interview with Adom News said the body of the deceased was discovered by …

On June 10, 2022, armed robbers raided the premises of a gold ore mining company making away with an unspecified amount of gold. The affected company, GoldStone Resources Limited near Akrokeri in the Ashanti region, has now confirmed the value of the gold the robbers bolted with. They made away …

A young man identified as Bismarck and believed to be in his early 20s undergoing spiritual mental treatment at a prayer camp in Sawla has been found hanging dead on the outskirts of the Sawla township. The unfortunate incident happened at about 3:00 pm yesterday Tuesday, June 28, 2022, at …

The wife of the brother of the District Chief Executive for Kwahu Afram Plains South District in the Eastern Region has been shot dead by her debtor. According to reports available to DGN Online, the sad incident happened last Saturday when the debtor allegedly invited the woman (deceased) Akosua Esi …

A 52- year-old farmer, Uncle Amoah has committed suicide by hanging on a pit latrine at Breman Essiam in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region. The incident happened on Sunday June, 26, 2022 around 8:30 PM. Report gathered by EIB Network Central Regional Correspondent, Yaw Boagyan revealed …

Two Togolese nationals whose name has been withheld have been caught selling drugs in Ghana that makes people go mad. They later demand huge sums of money to cure them. A video sighted on social media saw some men arrested for alleged fraud. Further reports suggest that these guys have …

A Kumasi-based lady has given an uncomfortable confession of how she was sexually assaulted by a fetish priest in her quest to end a spiritual attachment. Ama (not real name), who believed the setback in her love life was caused by her union with a spiritual deity, said she approached …

The Treason trial involving ten accused persons was on Monday halted when Warrant Officer Class Two (WOII) Esther Saan, the only female among them, started throwing-up. She was rushed to the Court’s clinic to be attended to. The cause of the throwing-up was not immediately known but the High Court’s …

A mobile money vendor is currently battling for his life after he was shot by armed robbers at his Mobile Money Shop located at Adjei Kojo, near Ashaiman. The incident is reported to have happened 24 hours on Thursday evening, less than 24 hours to his call to the bar …

On the eve of his expected call to the bar, 30-year-old Daniel Ledi was left battling for his life after armed robbers shot him several times at Adjei Kojo, near Ashaiman on Thursday. The robbers left Daniel with an injury to the head and a fractured arm when they attacked …

Twenty-seven teachers in some basic schools in the North East Region have been dismissed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) for allegedly joining the service with fake appointment letters. The victims are said to have secured postings to the various schools with fake appointment and posting letters bearing the signature …

Persons affected by the viral disease; Monkeypox in Ghana include a 9-month-old baby, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has disclosed. The country has recorded 72 cases of Monkeypox so far, with 18 positive tests as of Tuesday, June 14 2022. Speaking at a media engagement on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, …

Pupils of Pechie Basic School in the Krachi West Municipality of the Oti Region are forced to sit on cement blocks and on the bare floor to study due to lack of proper infrastructure. The situation, according to community members, is negatively impacting the quality of their children’s education. A …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says there is no case of Ebola in Ghana, contrary to earlier media reports. The Director General of GHS, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye at a meet the press session on Wednesday, said the supposed Ebola case in Tamale was a simulation exercise. According to him, various …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says confirmed cases of Monkeypox has increased from five in the last update to 18 which represent 25.0 per cent. Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the Director General of the GHS, said the confirmed cases were among the 72 suspected cases of Monkeypox which was investigated as …

Following a claim by Michael Owusu Afriyie aka Teacher Kwadwo that he was dismissed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) primarily because he refused to delete a video he had recorded which could incriminate some local officials, the government agency has rebutted, insisting that the former employee was sacked for …

A planning lecturer at the Department of Planning at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Stephen Takyi, has called on the government of Ghana to apply the same level of dexterity used to complete the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) on the KNUST Teaching Hospital …

President of ANAQ Foundation, Mrs Ama Nyarko Attafuah Quainoo, has appealed to fathers not abandoned children with sickle cell disease. She said, instead, they must care for them emotionally and support the mothers financially to keep the children healthy and alive. Mrs. Ama Nyarko Attafuah Quainoo, who is a sickle …

Headmistress of Aggrey Memorial Senior High School in Cape Coast, Mrs. Kate Wilberforce Annan, has confirmed the news that a female student of the school was raped by a security man at post on Friday June 17, 2022 on the school campus. GhanaWeb picked up information about the said sexual …

A 40-year-old man identified as Ebenezer Eshun has allegedly poisoned himself and his two children to death at Shama Junction in the Shama District of the Western Region. According to reports, the man who is separated from the mother of his children Comfort Arthur, picked up the children, a boy …