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Two owners of a warehouse and their five employees have been arrested in a joint operation by the police and the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) for allegedly re-packaging low quality and low-cost rice...

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) would by 19 December 2018 fully implement an electronic renewal system across the country where NHIS card holders can renew their cards via mobile by paying from their...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has removed the last three high court judges in connection with the Anas Aremeyaw Anas investigations from office on the grounds of bribery and corruption. They...

A group calling itself concerned women of the New Patriotic Party has commended the Minister for Gender,Children and Social protection, Cynthia Morrison for cracking the whip on National Coordinator for the Ghana School Feeding...

Some staff of troubled gold investment firm Menzgold have accused management of the company of clandestinely paying off the premium of some customers. According to the staff, the management is...

The Eastern Regional Police on Thursday dawn, gunned down a suspected armed robber when his gang engaged the police in a shoot-out at Apenkwa, a suburb of Koforidua Municipality. The police...

The Minister for Communications and MP for Ablekuma West Constituency Ursula Owusu-Ekufful on Friday donated about 200 computers to schools in the Ablekuma West constituency under the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC)...

Ghanaian farmers are unable to harvest 60 percent of their crops every year due to malaria, the Technical Adviser to the Private Sector Malaria Prevention (PSMP) programme, Tetteh Ogun has said. ...

Provost of the College of Education Studies, University of Cape Coast, Prof Eric Magnus Wilmot, has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to reconsider its stance against the use of mobile phones in...

The Ashanti Regional Minster Mr. Simon Osei Mensah has ordered Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to prosecute people who violate sanitation bye laws within their respective jurisdictions. This step according to...

A peace campaign, “Watch Your Tongue” (WYT) which aims at highlighting the negative effects of bad utterances on people and society at large has begun. The initiator of the campaign, Corporal Daniel Ofori-Appiah, a...

Four suspected armed robbers last Thursday afternoon stormed the offices of the District Yonkopa Cocoa, a licensed cocoa buying company (LCBC), in New Edubiase and robbed it of GH¢380,000. The robbers...

Professor Joshua Alabi, a flagbearer hopeful in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has promised to continue the program of building party offices for the NDC as initiated by former President John Evans Atta Mills....

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ended his three-day official visit to Japan on Thursday, 13 December 2018, with a visit to Inawashiro, the birth place of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi. Dr Noguchi...

The ban on small-scale mining will be lifted on Monday, December 17, 2018, the Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng has announced. Only companies that have had...

The police have said some suspects have been picked up in connection with the gunning down and killing of the clan head of the Prampram Traditional Area, Nene Atsure Benta III. ...

Government has lifted the ban on small scale mining. The ban has been in place for close to two years after the government announced a crackdown on illegal mining.The ban was...

The Upper West Regional Hospital in Wa has run out of anti-snake venom (ASV). The ASV is a potent medication used for the treatment of snake bites and doctors have explained...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says the need for community vigilantism is “an absolute necessity” and “an absolute must”. To him, vigilantes protecting the environment, for instance, can help prevent random...

Close to hundred (100)students of Koforidua Technical University (KTU) have been arrested in a raid by SWAT team from the Eastern Regional Police Headquarters. The exercise was carried out Friday dawn...

Kwaku Asaafo Agyei, the Ashanti Regional Deputy Communication Director for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said the Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako is subjecting...

Member of Parliament of the Ellembele Constituency in the western region Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah have urged government to increase the producer price of cocoa to match the increment in fuel and transportation. ...

With preparations underway for the commencement of the final funeral rites of Yaa Naa Muhammadu Abdulai in Yendi Friday, the leadership of the Abudu Royal Family have expressed their commitment to abide by the...

A robber was killed on Friday dawn after a fierce exchange of fire between police and a group of robbers at Apenkwa, a suburb of Koforidua in the New Juaben Municipality of the Eastern...

The mobile renewal of health insurance registration is to help ensure efficiency by cutting down cost whiles improving operations for quality health care, Mr Oswald Essuah-Mensah, Deputy Director, Corporate Affairs Directorate of National Health...

The Mankralo of Prampram in the Greater Accra Region, Nene Atsure Benta III, has been shot dead by unknown gunmen at Dodowa in the Shai Osudoku District. The incident happened...

The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme, Kwame Adu-Nsiah has been asked to step aside while an investigation is carried out against his outfit for alleged fraudulent deals. The...

Flagbearer hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joshua Alabi is scheduled to submit his nomination forms on Monday, December 17. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, the former Vice Chancellor...

Four persons who were allegedly shot and killed by the Police at Foase in the Ashanti region have been laid to rest amidst wailing on Thursday. The deceased Kwadwo Fori, 47,...

There has been a fire outbreak at Kokomlemle near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle around City Lights in Accra on Thursday Afternoon. Eyewitnesses and Fire Service personnel who were present at the...

The National Coordinator for the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Dr. Kwame Adu-Nsiah has been asked to step aside after “fraudulent deals” were discovered in the running of the programme. This...

A bill has been laid before parliament to amend the Public Holiday Act 2001 to provide for three different holidays. The 7th of January will be observed as the Constitution Day,...

Government has laid a new bill before Parliament to amend the Public Holidays Act to include January 7, August 4 and September 21 as statutory public holidays. The new bill which...

A motor mechanic who allegedly defrauded a police officer of $7,600 under the pretext of purchasing a plot of land and renting two apartments to her in Accra but failed to do so has...

Government has started the training of mining guards to monitor and enforce mining regulations along mining centres in the country, a former Chief Executive of the Minerals Commission has disclosed. According...

Ghanaians have been urged to take keen interest and play active roles in cleaning their environment as a prerequisite for the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Chief Executive Officer...

Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation has encouraged Ghanaians to ensure that their buildings are earthquake resistant. His call comes on the heel of a tremor...

The human rights division of the Accra High Court has directed that the Habeas Corpus motion filed by lawyers of an Islamic Cleric Sheikh Sidi Bukuri and three others who were arrested on alleged...

The Minister of Defence and Member of Parliament (MP) for Bimbilla - Dominic Nitiwul, has called on the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) to extend their work to, once again, join hands with the Ghana...

The immediate past chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Charlotte Osei has rubbished reports that she was interested in the vacant Ayawaso West Wuogon Parliamentary seat on the ticket of the opposition National Democratic...

The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has arrested a 30-year-old Zimbabwean woman at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) for trafficking illicit drug. The suspect, Cynthia Lichonja, was arrested on Monday, December 3,...

A 20-year-old man has drowned while being baptised by a pastor in a river south of Ghana's capital, Accra. In a video circulating on social media, Yaw Kyeremeh is seen stationed...

Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) together with anti-corruption civil society groups have jointly petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo, Speaker of Parliament and the Chief Justice to tackle the issue of corruption in the country. ...

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has asked government to suspend the proposed medical drones deal. According to the GMA, the proposed services to be provided by the drones, do not conform...

Lydia Alhassan, one of the wives of the late Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon has broken her silence on agitations for her to step forward to take the challenge to replace Emmanuel...

The Vice Chancellor of Central University, Professor Bill Buenar Puplampu, says the university is not collapsing as being reported by a section of the media. He says the tertiary institution like...

The Minority in Parliament has stated that the cost components of the Sinohydro deal by the government was, "over bloated" and has, therefore, called for a reduction in the cost. It...

A family spokesperson for the wife of the late Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko has said Mrs Naana Baiden Agyarko has not expressed any interest in succeeding her husband...

The roof of the popular Kumasi city mall has caved in, authorities there have confirmed. The roof came down Tuesday morning. Read: 3 injured in Accra Mall roof collapseIt is unclear...

The National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP) online reporting Dash Board (NACoRD) was on Monday, 10 December 2018 outdoored by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in Accra. Speaking...