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One person has been confirmed dead while two others including a policeman identified as Corporal Seth Agbango have been injured after police clashed with locals in an attempt to arrest drug peddlers. The incident MyNewsGh.com, gathered occurred at Adomfe a town near Juaso in Asante Akim South District of the Ashanti …

Boxer Patrick Day has died aged 27 – four days after suffering a brain injury in a fight against Charles Conwell. The American was put into a coma on Saturday after he was knocked out in the 10th round of his super welterweight bout in Chicago. Promoter Lou DiBella confirmed …

Morocco’s king has pardoned Hajar Raissouni, a journalist sentenced to a year in prison last month for extramarital sex and an abortion, along with her fiance, a doctor and two of his colleagues, the justice ministry said on Wednesday. The case of Raissouni, who had denied the charges against her, …

Liberia has been named number one in the world when it comes to helping strangers, according to the World Giving Index, an annual ranking of people’s generosity. Helping strangers is one of the three criteria the UK-based Charities Aid Foundation used to draw up the overall index of generosity. It …

The Ghana Chambers of Mines says it has allocated an annual contribution of USD$442,000 to the newly launched Tertiary Educational Fund for five years. It said the move is aimed at keeping the country’s mining industry on an increasing course with a regular stream of highly qualified astute professionals. According …

Facebook has expanded its Third-Party Fact-Checking programme, aimed at preventing false or fake stories from going viral to 10 additional African countries including Ghana. The move forms part of efforts aimed at helping assess the accuracy and quality of news people find on Facebook, whilst reducing the spread of misinformation. …

GFA Presidential candidate, Fred Pappoe, has given his assessment of the second stint of Black Stars head coach, Kwesi Appiah. Since Appiah came back to the team, he has guided the team to one tournament which is the 2019 AFCON in Egypt. However, Ghana got eliminated in the Round of …

  Vincent Enyeama One of the finest African goalkeepers of all time, Enyeama was part of the Nigeria team that won the Africa Cup of Nations in 2013, and also represented the Super Eagles at two World Cups. In 2010, he was an Israeli champion with Hapoel Tel-Aviv, and then …

The BBC Africa Eye team has detailed its evidence in the recently released ‘Sex for Grades’ investigative documentary that shows that Professor Ransford Gyampo broke the University of Ghana’s rules on sexual misconduct. The team told GhanaWeb on Wednesday in a Q&A that Prof Gymapo was in clear violation of …

Tragedy struck when a policeman fell off a police operational vehicle and died in an accident involving a civilian vehicle at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) traffic intersection on the Liberia Road, near the Accra Technical University. Corporal George Nkwanna, alias Hero, was attached to the Special Weapons And Tactics …

The twists and turns of Brexit – after more than three years of negotiations – dominate an EU summit on Thursday, amid signs of an emerging deal. Intensive negotiations went on all day on Wednesday to nail down complex special arrangements for Northern Ireland, the main sticking point in the …

The Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) under the leadership of Kofi Akpaloo will legalise the cultivation and use of Marijuana in Ghana to accelerate economic growth. Mr John Amekah, the acting National Chairman of the Party, who told the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Wednesday, said LPG Government would …

The European Union delegation to Ghana has given the Fisheries Commission high marks for the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing practices. On Sunday, the Fisheries Commission imposed a fine of US$ 1 Million on a vessel that had juvenile small pelagic on board during the May-June closed season. …

A deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Adutwum, has dispelled claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that it could use 90 days to complete 100 E-Block Schools started by the John Mahama-led administration and were at various stages of completion before they left power to create enough space …

The hopes of the Takoradi kidnapped girls’ families to see the faces of all the three Nigerian suspects in court for the first time since the Police declared the kidnapped girls dead were dashed when information came in that the case had been adjourned to October 30, 2019. The families …

It’s not just the cows and chickens that are breeding down on the farm. A new study shows farmers have the most sex out of any other profession — as a third of those surveyed boast about having sex at least once a day. What’s more, a staggering 67% of …

General Secretary for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has said the NDC will not run a double-track system which is currently being run as a remedy for overcrowding in senior high schools. Mr Nketia says his party has identified the shift system as a factor that has …

Security Analyst Adam Bona has called on the Inspector General of Police to interdict the suspected police officers who are alleged to have butchered a bus driver at Adomfe in the Ashanti region. Nine policemen in the Ashanti region allegedly beat and butchered a 33-year-old driver Tuesday evening, causing his …

Founder and Leader of Glorious Word Power Ministry International, Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah says despite the sacrifices he made for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) prior to the 2016 elections, he has not received a penny from them since they assumed office. He said, though he is not expecting anything …

Deputy Minister for Defense, Major (retired) Derrick Oduro has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of former President John Mahama and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin over unsubstantiated claims government is training thugs at the military installation at Asutuare. “They should get them arrested for …

The Supreme Court has directed the Special Prosecutor, Mr Martin Alamisi Amidu, and the Attorney General (AG) to collaborate to retrieve £47million illegally paid to Waterville Holdings Company. That was after Mr Amidu told the court on Wednesday that he had evidence that could help the state retrieve the money. …

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah is proposing for new security arrangements in the country which will ensure that all water treatment facilities in the country together with its buffer zones be declared a National Security Zone. ‘The Regional Security Council will as soon as possible write to the President …

A seven-member Supreme Court panel has refused a stay of execution application from businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome on the auctioning of his properties by the state to offset his debts. Mr. Woyome through his lawyer Luda Addey Lawal moved the motion with an assurance to pay GHc10 million if the …

Deputy Minister for Defense, Major (retired) Derrick Oduro has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of former President John Mahama and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin over unsubstantiated claims government is training thugs at the military installation at Asutuare. “They should get them arrested for …

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has denied claims that hirelings of the New Patriotic Party are undergoing a secret military training at Asutuare in the Greater Accra region ahead of the 2020 general elections. Deputy Director of Public Relations of the GAF, Commander Andy La-Anyane was emphatic in an interview …