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Another market in Accra has recorded a fire incident. The Mallam Atta market, located at Accra New Town, shortly after noon on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, was filled with screams alerting traders to safeguard their wares as part of the market was up in flames. When GhanaWeb visited the scene, some traders …

A 41-year-old known as Kwaku Boateng has impregnated his two stepdaughters (names withheld) aged 15 and 13 years at Weija, SCC in Accra. The older girl has given birth to a 6-month-old baby boy, while the 13-year-old is 6 months pregnant. According to the girls, when their stepfather was having …

Several attempts to salvage the ferry which has ran aground on the Volta Lake at Ekye Amanfrom in the Kwahu Afram Plains District has been unsuccessful. Rescuers have become helpless after another Pantoon, Yapei Queen Ferry dispatched from Akosombo failed to pull the stuck ferry. Scores of passengers and goods …

The state is to pull down the four-decade-old uncompleted maternity and children’s block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) officials have announced. This, according to government officials is to allow for the reconstruction of an entirely new ultramodern edifice at the nation’s second referral centre. Speaking on the Happy …

Ms Chantelle Kudjawu has denied ever having an amorous relationship with National Security Minister-designate Albert Kan-Dapaah. In a defamation suit against Mrs Gloria Arhin, the estranged wife of Mr Eugene Arhin, the Acting Communication Director at the Presidency, Ms Kudjawu, who is a wife and mother-of-three, said a leaked video call involving …

The minister-designate for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has indicated her plans to bring some ‘rebranding’ to witches camps around the country. She said that while there have been several attempts at abolishing such camps and disallowing such practices across the country, all attempts in the past do …

The Minister-designate for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said the transaction fees generated by operators of mobile money should be taxed in the wake of declining traditional revenue streams in the telecommunication sector. According to her, a report from the Common Platform, which monitors mobile money transactions, indicated that monthly …

Gunmen have abducted an unspecified number of students and staff of Government Science College, Kagara in Nigeria’s Niger State. The presidency confirmed the incident and that President Muhammadu Buhari has “directed the Armed Forces and Police, to ensure immediate and safe return of all the captives.” “The President has also dispatched to …

South Africa will administer its first COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, with President Cyril Ramaphosa to get the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) shot alongside health workers. The first shot will be given at Khayelitsha District Hospital in Cape Town this afternoon, the government said. Ramaphosa said in a statement that 80,000 J&J doses …

AMG rapper Samuel Adu Frimpong better known by his stage name Medikal has responded to people comparing him with the CEO of Sarkcess Music and celebrated Ghanaian rapper Michael Owusu Addo popularly known as Sarkodie. Social media has been rife with comparisons between the two rappers and it has gotten to the attention …

What started as a little argument has escalated into a battle of insults as two key members of the Arab Money Gang (AMG) are at each other’s throats. The once beautiful relationship between Medikal and Okese1 has come to a sudden halt as the two were captured on Twitter in a back …

A traditional leader and chief of Suisi-Hiono in the Manya Krobo Traditional Area of the Eastern Region was on Monday, February 15 arrested by the Akuse Police after he allegedly tried to hire someone to kill Nene Olepeme Sakinor Nanor I, chief of Okuenya Adadlikuorsi, police sources say. Asafoatse Kwabla …

A mango tree at Korase, a farming community in the Jaman North District of the Bono Region is regarded as the oldest mango tree in the region. Data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) indicates that it is also the biggest mango tree in the Bono Region. Residents in the …

Wife of the Acting Director of Communications at Ghana’s seat of government, Gloria Assan Arhin has withdrawn some claims she initially made in a divorce suit with regards to properties supposedly owned by her estranged husband. In an amended petition filed at the Accra High Court on Monday, February 15, …

A piece of sad news reaching our news desk indicates that fire has raged and destroyed a 10-bedroom house in Bantama, a suburb in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. According to the details, the fire started in the early hours of Tuesday morning. A source close to the incident has …

The February 14, 2021 statement released by the Finance Ministry that Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta was flown to the United States over the weekend due to COVID-19 complications has sparked serious outrage and wild rumours in Ghana about his purported death. Even though his aides have debunked the rumours, the situation …

The police in Osun State have arrested a 40-year-old suspected ritualist, Adeboye Moshood, with human parts. The suspect was arrested by a Joint Task Force (JTF) on Tuesday, February 16, in his house at Gbayarin, in Gbongan community, Ayedaade Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that one of …

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has said he is not interested in becoming a party chairman for now. According to him, he is happy with being the General Secretary in view of the tremendous change that had taken place. “Contesting as a chairman will mean …

Okesse 1 and AMG Medikal have been engaged in a beef on twitter since yesterday. The banter was started by Okesse 1 who fired an attack on the “La Hustle” hitmaker for betraying him. During an Instagram live video on Monday, Okesse 1 made the claim against Medikal. After the video emerged, …

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has urged the Ghanaian public on the resurgence of the Ebola virus after confirmed cases were reported in Guinea and Nigeria. The GMA in a letter dated February 15, 2021, cautioned the public of their lifestyle as 7 cases of the virus confirmed by sister …

Some residents of Bolgatanga say armed robbers have worked out a new way of stealing from motorists on the roads of the Upper East regional capital. The gangsters, according to them, stand well-dressed by the roadside and, with pistols concealed under their clothes, draw closer in a friendly manner to …

A Community Protection Assistant (Community Police) is in the grips of Police in Dunkwa Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region for stabbing a co-tenant over a disagreement relating to the sharing of electricity bills and the failure of the deceased to his part of the …

A new mansion under construction to house Ghana’s Vice Presidents has for the past four years, been left uncompleted. The contract for the building which is located on the SwitchBack Road in Accra was awarded and started under the erstwhile John Mahama-led administration. The decision to construct a new residence …

Managers of the Kumawu Polyclinic in the Ashanti Region have been forced to halt some of its operations following Monday’s downpour that ripped off the facility’s roofing sheets. It also led to the destruction of files, medical supplies and equipment. Electricity connection in many parts of the facility has been …

Fire has destroyed an orphanage at Yamah, a village in Walewale in the West Mamprugu district of the North East Region. There are reports that the orphanage known as Yamah Orphanage and recreational centre serves as home for about 45 people. It was built by a philanthropist to support needy …