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At least 23 children have been killed in a fire at a boarding school in a suburb near the Liberian capital Monrovia. The fire is believed to have broken out in the early hours of the morning, when school students were sleeping in a building attached to a mosque. Police …

A father of three has been arraigned and subsequently remanded in prison custody by an Ughelli Magistrate Court for allegedly raping and sodomising his step-daughter, aged 9; daughter aged 4 and son whose age could not be ascertained as at press time. The suspect, Friday Okosisi Oneh, had been arrested …

A hunter, identified only as Kofi, has allegedly shot his 47-year-old friend, Yaw Atta to death at Asarekrom in the Adansi South Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti region over a misunderstanding between them. According to reports, the incident happened on Wednesday morning during a communal labour by residents at Asarekrom …

A physician assistant at the Upper East Regional Hospital is reported to have declared a child dead, unaware the infant was only in “coma” and, even after the baby reportedly jerked back to life, insisted the boy was dead and dispatched the body to the morgue. Grieving relatives are spitting …

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed an agreement with the China General Technology (Group) Holding (Genertec) for the establishment of a cocoa processing factory in Ghana. The factory, which will be located at Sefwi-Wiawso in the Western Region will be operated by COCOBOD and Genertec through a Public Private …

A 25-year-old man known as Labaran has allegedly killed and buried his mother Mame Gedo at a village called Pillar 10, a suburb of Miaso in Kwahu South District of the Eastern region. According to an eyewitness, Insha Allahu, the suspect went to the farm with his mother on Saturday, …

The Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Mr Adjenim Boateng Adjei, who was suspended over the ‘Contracts For Sale’ documentary aired by investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni in which he was alleged to have contravened procurement practices, has called for a public hearing by the Commission on …

In what appears to be impossible for thousands of rail transport patrons due to its collapse under the erstwhile NDC administration has been a thing of the past since the assumption into office of H.E Nana Akufo-Addo as President of Ghana and Hon Joe Ghartey as Minister for Railways. Expectant …

The family of Priscilla Kuranchie, one of the dead girls from Takoradi in the Western Region has welcomed the outcome of the DNA test conducted by the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service and initiated plans to hold a funeral service for their beloved daughter. According to the family, …

Kumasi Youth Association (KuYA) has issued seven (7) – day ultimatum to Omane Boamah, Former Communications Minister and Julius Deborah, Former Chief of Staff to apologise to Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu 11 for disrespecting the Asante monarch. According to the group, the comments by the two National Democratic Congress (NDC) …

General Manager of waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Mrs. Florence Larbi, has stressed the need to examine plans to implement a waste management system, which would integrate waste collection and treatment methods, environmental benefits as well as social acceptability in a practicable and sustainable manner. According to Mrs Larbi, the proposed …

The Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service ACP David Eklu says the service is open to a second opinion in the DNA outcome of the bodies that were retrieved at Kasawrodo in the Western region. According to him, the police has nothing to hide in the results …

A final year student at the Accra City Campus of the University of Ghana (Legon) has reportedly lost her life after collapsing on Tuesday, September 17, ABC News can report. According to reports by the University’s news portal, universnewsroom.com, the level 400 Religion and Economics student, Yvonne Owusu Nyantah, is …

Nana Yaa Asantewaa Bonsu, who is the queen mother of Pakyi No 1 in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti region who is an accomplice to the prime suspect in the murder of Otumfuo Asamponhene, Oheneba Kwadwo Afodour has collapsed in police custody, MyNewsGh.com. The Queen Mother who is …

Education Minister, Dr Mathew Opoku-Prempeh, has been reacting to calls for him to resign following the challenges that have rocked the Senior High School (SHS) placements nationwide. According to NAPO as he is affectionately called, some elements who want his downfall are waiting for him to resign but he will …

The Overload of Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area, Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has called on his subjects to be patient with the Akufo-Addo-led government as it fixes the challenges of the country. According to the Okyenhene, Rome was not built in a day therefore the Akufo-Addo government cannot fix all …

Mr Bruno Bajuase Chirani, Acting Finance Officer of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), has filed a writ at the Winneba High Court in the Central Region, calling for an audit into the university’s account. According to Mr Chirani (plaintiff), the court should order a forensic audit of all payments …

At least four persons have been injured in spontaneous clashes between the security detail of Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin and a feuding Chieftaincy faction at Akyem Kwabeng in the Eastern region. The protesters mainly from the feuding faction of Akanwenem Royal Family lined up at the roadside of Akyem …

The President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa has conveyed his apologies to President Akufo-Addo and the people of Ghana over the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa, that resulted in the deaths of and injuries to several African nationals, and the looting of their shops belonging to them. The message …

Two Nigerians; Ehikoya Israel Eigbibhahu and Achioneg Amos, living in the country illegally have been sentenced to a total of 9 months in prison with hard labour for possessing Ghanaian passports by false declaration and forged academic degrees from the University of Cape Coast and the Kwame Nkrumah University of …

Many groups and individuals continue to mark President Akufo-Addo down on his fight against corruption with the latest being the General Secretary of the Christian Council, saying he is unimpressed with governments attempt at curbing the menace. Rev. Dr. Cyril Fayose, also described the Special Prosecutor’s Office as mere “window …

The  Spokesperson of Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu Baffour Hyiaman Brentuo VI, says former President John mahama will be an ingrate if he underrates the interventions the Ashanti king has made in his political career so far. It comes in the wake of the back and forth between the Manyhia palace …

A yet to be identified woman has been reportedly murdered by suspected ritualists in Sapele, Delta State. The woman said to be in her twenties was found on Monday morning, along Ogorode Road, with a white rope tied around one of her ankles. Sapele, it will be noted has been …

The family of Ruth Love Quayson, one of the kidnapped Takoradi girls who have been declared dead, has snubbed a phone call placed to them by President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The President had placed the call through a senior police officer who was with the family moments after the police …

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has called for cool heads in the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II’s tiff with former President John Dramani Mahama. A Twitter post on Tuesday morning by the former President said: The Asantehene has made us proud with a highly educative address to the UN on …