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Two persons have sustained gunshot wounds and after a group of armed men believed to be landguards attacked them on their land at Gomoa Fetteh Kakraba, in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. The injured are currently receiving treatment at the Winneba Trauma Hospital. Citi News sources say …

At least 20 people, many of them women and children, have been killed in a stampede in south-eastern Niger, reports say. Refugees from neighbouring Nigeria were queuing for food and money in the town of Diffa when the incident took place, according to local sources. Ten other people were injured. …

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, …

Ghanaian slay queen, Efia Odo, has been warned to stay away from Kennedy Osei after the later’s marriage with Tracy Ameyaw. In a recent post which came as a warning to slay queens from Afia Schwarzenegger, Efia Odo was tagged. As sighted by Gossips24.com on Instagram, Afia Schwarzenegger wrote; ” What God has put …

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 …

A Tarkwa based mining firm called Mohammed Mining Company has been busted by the Electricity Company of Ghana for illegal connection. The task force who acted on a tip-off upon the arrival at the company’s site observed that power had been tapped from the main source without the consent of …

Actor Kofi Adjorlolo has once again warned movie producers who owe him to pay or else he will use other means to retrieve his money. A few days ago, the award-winning actor came out to say some film producers owe him for some works he did for them and that …

The 66 Artillery Regiment in Ho has evacuated some 21 persons including a lady believed to be receiving military training from a secessionists group – Homeland Study Group Foundation, in thickets around Dzodze in the Ketu North Municipality. The ‘recruits’ were rounded up in a dawn operation by the military …

The University of Ghana (UG) has suspended Professor Ransford Gyampo and Dr Paul Butakor for six months and four months respectively for their roles in a sexual harassment scandal which hit the school last October. The suspensions which are without pay take effect from January 1, 2020. A statement by …

The Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG, has hinted that it is lobbying Parliament to pass a law that will criminalize nonpayment of electricity bills. Ghana has about 85% electricity penetration rate but the nonpayment of Electricity bills by consumers continue to suffocate the power distributor hence the move to pass …

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 …

Member of Parliament(MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has cautioned men who are led by their libidos to be responsible for their children and not expect Members of Parliament (MPs) to help them take care of their families. According to him, MPs and politicians in general, are not obliged to …

Father of late dancehall diva, Ebony Reigns, Nana Opoku Kwarteng says her daughter’s last prayer request was to arrive safely from the unfortunate road trip that killed her. He made this revelation in an interview with Joy News during her 2-year celebration after her demise. The nation was shocked two …

The Calvary Temple Assemblies of God Church (CTAG) at Bantama in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti region on Sunday February 16, 2020, launched its 40th anniversary celebrations. Congregants seated during Ministration The launch which was held at the church premise is on the theme: “Forty Years of His faithfulness”, …

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 …

This year’s Maulud Nabiyi, to wit the celebration of the birthday of the Holy Prophet Mohammed, was held in Kumasi where Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia and former President John Mahama suffered major protocol breaches. The programme hosted by one of the leading clerics of the Tijanniyya sect, Sheikh Wadudu Cisey, saw …

Ghana and three other African countries – the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Zambia – have licensed and can now distribute an Ebola vaccine, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has hailed as a “milestone”. Preliminary study results indicate the Ervebo vaccine, manufactured by Merck, has a 97.5% efficacy …

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 …

A teacher at Nkwanata South M/A Redeem Basic of the Oti region has canned a nine-year-old pupil to the point of injury for criticising the taste of her ‘sobolo’ drink. The pupil (name withheld) sustained multiples injuries on her body as she was severely beaten by her class teacher whose name given …

Two leading minority Members of Parliament, Ahmed Ibrahim, and Muntaka Mubarak almost lost their lives in a near-fatal accident. The NDC party members were on their way to a funeral in Sunyani when their SUV got involved in an accident. According to reports, the SUV veered off the road and …

hanaian dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has been arrested by the police according to a video that has just surfaced on social media in a breaking news. The video sighted by us at OccupyGh.com shows the ‘Borjor‘ hitmaker who featured Vybz Kartel on ‘All-Out’ single being whisked away by the Nima police officers. …

At the end of December 2019, total mobile data subscriptions stood at about 30.4 million, which is 101 per cent penetration compared to the country’s population. Mobile cellular voice subscriptions have for many years been more than the country’s population, but mobile data subscription had not topped the population until …

The popular saying “the Police is your friend” is often negated by the conduct of the Ghana Police Service, and only of decreasing minority have a good word to say about these men in uniform in terms of upholding professional conduct with the general public. One major characteristic of a …

At least 22 people have been killed in an attack on a village in north-west Cameroon, the UN says. Over half those killed in Ntumbo were children, and local media report that several victims were burned alive. No-one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident, but an opposition party blamed the …

The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has announced the “readiness” of the Akufo-Addo government to ship loads of Ghanaian staple foods like “shito, gari and kenkey that can last over 2 weeks without going bad”, to the over 300 Ghanaian students who have been trapped in the Chinese province …