Kintampo in the Bono East Region is one of four towns in line to have Zipline drone centers, the Vice President has announced. Since its partnership in Ghana in 2019, Zipline drone services have been used in the delivery of over 450,000 medical commodities in Ghana. Zipline distributed nearly 1 …

Authorities of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital have announced that the facility will begin liver transplant procedures this week. This will be the first time a hospital in Ghana will carry out a liver transplant. The  CEO of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah, said this was a key …

More than 100 persons have been arrested by the Central East Police Command in a dawn swoop last Friday. The persons were arrested at SMG arena pub on the Gomoa Nyanyano stretch as part of police operations to clamp down on criminal activities happening in Kasoa and its surrounding communities. …

An Ophthalmic Nurse at the Hohoe Municipal Hospital, Mrs Ama Henrietta Serchie, has cautioned the public on the popular perception that breast milk can cure certain eye problems. Mrs Ama Henrietta Serchie called on the public to desist from putting drops of breast milk on their eyes as a means …

Don’t just say yes without being sure of what you are getting into. When you are single, ready, and aching for love and a relationship, you may be tempted to settle for anything and anyone that comes along, without considering the serious questions you should be asking or actually giving …

The Out-patient Department of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, continues to remain empty five days into the strike action by members of the Health Services Workers Union (HSWU). The nationwide strike action, which was declared on Tuesday, October 26, this year is in protest of an alleged …

The Divisional Chief of Piengua traditional area Nene Tetteh Zogli III and about ten(10) others including his elders and followers have reportedly been attacked by some unknown armed men at Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region on Saturday. A group of young men wielding guns, sticks and machetes …

An Adentan Circuit Court has sentenced a 22-year-old tricycle rider to 10 years imprisonment over defilement. Benjamin Akrofi Otumfuor is said to have defiled the victim aged 14 in a classroom at a school in Otinibi, near Danfa in Accra. Charged with defilement, Otumfuor, pleaded guilty and he was convicted …

The Kintampo Police in Bono East Region have re-arrested a robbery and kidnapping suspect, Ali Igudu, who escaped from the exchange of gunfire with officers from the Police Intelligence Directorate at the Bole District of the Savannah Region. According to information from the Kintampo Police, they gathered intelligence that suspects …

Eight persons have died from suspected Yellow Fever (YF) outbreak in the Savannah Region, the Ghana Health Service(GHS) has said. This follows interim laboratory results of an unusual disease from the region, a press release from the Service, copied to the Ghana News Agency said. It said the disease was …

Police in the Ketu South Municipality in the Volta Region have arrested a man for allegedly possessing some five slabs of narcotic substances believed to be transported from Accra. The arrest was made during one of the Police’s Patrol Duties on the Accra-Aflao highway on October 28, 2021, at about …

The Pupils of Obonsu D/A Primary School have appealed to authorities to operationalize a six-classroom block completed in the area so they would start using it. The pupils are currently studying under trees because the old school block is in a deplorable state. Rainbow Radio’s Fiifi Ankomah, who reported from …

Some residents from the Commonwealth Hall and the Mensah Sarbah Hall at the University of Ghana clashed over delays in the release of the final results from the Students Representative Council run-off elections. The residents from the two halls threw broken bottles and stones at each other in front of …

Two motor riders were on Thursday, October 28, burnt to death by irate residents of Nairobi’s Buruburu estate after they allegedly grabbed a phone from a pedestrian along the busy Jogoo Road. According to their colleague riders, the culprits snatched the phone from a lady who was walking on the …

Two taxi drivers, Patrick Afful 18 years and Samuel Adams 19 years have been sentenced to 60 years imprisonment by the Awutu Ofaakor Circuit Court for robbing and rapping a passenger at Kasoa Crispo City in the Central Region. According to the Kasoa District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Timothy Dassah, …

A 39-year-old man, Kyei Baffour who posed as a lawyer has been arrested and charged for deceiving a public officer. The suspect was nabbed while representing his client in a murder case: The Republic Vrs. Selorm Agam at the Nyinahin District Court in the Ashanti Region on the orders of …

The Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at Supom in the Atewa Constituency, Yaw Sam Nyamade has been jailed for twelve months for attempting to bribe the District Chief Executive (DCE) of the area, Paul Asamoah to allow some illegal miners to carry out their job without hindrance. According …

Thirteen Nigerians who attacked Police personnel from the Greater Accra Region while executing their lawful duty at SCC, near Weija, have been remanded into Police custody after appearing in an Accra Circuit Court. The accused persons have been variously charged with carrying offensive weapons, assault on public officer, resisting arrest. …

A 15-year-old suspected lesbian has allegedly been defiled by two men at Nkurakan, a suburb of the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern region . The two accused person Julius Boateng Tettey, a 25-year-old barber and his accomplice identified only as Ire, currently on the run, allegedly committed the act …

Four persons, including a retired midwife, allegedly involved in the stealing and sale of babies at Atuabo and Half Assin in the Western Region, have been nabbed by the National Investigative Bureau (NIB). An Accra Circuit Court, on Tuesday, remanded the four into the custody of the NIB. The accused …

For stealing GH¢50.00 worth of plantain and cassava, the Tepa circuit court has given a 24-year-old unemployed man 14 years prison sentence. Justice Ezekiel, pleaded guilty to stealing the food items from a farm at Akwasiase, near Tepa in the Ahafo Ano North District and was convicted on his own …

A three-member panel of the Accra High Court has refused a request from Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Benjamin Agordzo to travel outside the country. The panel presided over by Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe held the conditions of the bail granted does not support his request. According to the court, …

The Accra Regional Police command has conducted an intelligence-led operation on some suspected mobile phone swindlers at Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra. The exercise which took place Monday, October 25, 2021 had eight persons, suspected to be mobile phone swindlers arrested. The suspects are: Albert Annor, Aged: 27 years Daniel …

The Accra Regional Police Command has arrested suspects Kenneth Anarfi, 51, and Philip Chorkson, 37, for allegedly trading with fake currency. On 24th September, 2021, the Police received complaint, that two suspects driving a Ford Pick Up Truck with registration number GE 9217-12 went to a shop at Tuba, a …

A Takoradi Harbour Circuit court, presided over by Michael Ampadu, has ordered that a pregnancy test be done on Joana Krah before convicting her. On Monday, when the accused person appeared in court, she pleaded guilty to all the two charges leveled against her by the police. Madam Krah and two …

Unknown assailants have shot one person dead at Prampram in the Greater Accra Region. The deceased has been identified as Nii Otu Sei Klo, the Head of Family of the Kley Wetsotse which is one of the clan houses in the Prampram Traditional Area. Police sources indicate the incident occurred at …

• Police discovered stolen cars in a bush • The cars had been robbed the same evening they were abandoned • They traced the car after a tip-off Two luxurious cars suspected to have been stolen from their owners have been found in a bush by the Ashanti Regional command. …

An 11-year-old girl suffered serious knife wounds after she was attacked by a male adult at Akwatialine, a suburb of the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi. The incident happened just before 8p.m., on Friday, October 22, when the victim, Adama Hudu was on her way to buy food. She was reportedly …

An Adentan Circuit Court has cautioned an evangelist accused of fondling a lady and inserting his finger into her vagina, to desist from such conduct. Peter Mensah is said to have anointed the lady with Borges oil with the intent of delivering her from “spiritual marriage.” When the judge asked …

A suspect linked to the murder of Reverend Father Michael Maingi Kyengo from Machakos county in Kenya, has said that he killed the Catholic Priest because he sodomised him. Michael Muthini said he got to know the Catholic Priest who was killed and buried in a shallow grave in Makima in 2017, during a mass …