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A 22-year-old woman has drowned while attempting to save a drowning 10-year-old boy at Asuogyaman in the Eastern region. Abigail Mensah Oklu was reportedly returning from the market when she saw the infant drowning in a running drainage around the Akosombo-Combine community area during a rainfall which lasted for an hour. The two died in the drainage. A search party ...

The Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has cautioned the public against sharing pornographic images, especially on social media and through electronic mediums. She stated that sharing pornographic images is against the laws of Ghana, asking anyone who receives them to delete and not share. Speaking at the Child Online Protection Conference in Accra on Wednesday, she said, “We also ...

High corruption is a flashing signal that something is wrong and that there is an injustice in society, Dr Paul Acquah, a former Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), has said. He said corruption, which was the use of public office for private benefit, and the prevalent violation of rules or norms of the society to gain private advantage ...

The Trades Unions Congress of Ghana (TUC) has tabled strong demands on key sectors of the Ghanaian economy before President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at a meeting at the Flagstaff House. In his remarks at a meeting with the President Monday afternoon, the Secretary General of the TUC, Dr. Yaw Baah identified seven issues the Congress would like government to ...

Lawyers for judgement debtor and embattled businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, yesterday told the Supreme Court that he was still ill and was unable to attend court. Osafo Buaben presented yet another excuse duty document to the single Supreme Court Justice handling the case in his chambers to support the request of his client to be given more time to make ...

The National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party and Board Chairman of the Youth Employment Agency Sammy Awuku has said the marauding youth of the governing party are emboldened by the inactions of the erstwhile NDC administration. According to him, the vigilante groups associated with the NPP are storming public offices and seizing items because the same practice was ...

Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, has asserted that some citizens are more Ghanaian than others, hence deserve better treatment and immediate attention from his outfit. According to him, the “more Ghanaian” people, loyalists of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), must have their interests prioritized by all government appointees. He made the remarks at a ceremony ...

Three soldiers from the Air Force Base in Takoradi have been arrested. The three officers are; A.C.2 Oliviete Solomon with service No.207333, AC2 Agantwuo Agana with number 207323 and Joseph Osei Abraham numbered 207356 AC2. They were arrested by the Tarkwa divisional police command for alleged extortions. The three who were on board a taxi cab on Saturday evening went ...

In an attempt to discredit the ‘leaked’ Kwesi Botchwey report that is being circulated in the media and also rubbish challenges being thrown at the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to make available the original, the Member of Parliament for Tamale North Constituency, made an analogy that nearly landed him in trouble. When pressed by TV3’s New Day Host Abena Tabi ...

The Techiman office of the National Disaster Management Organisation has been locked up by some individuals suspected to be members of the invincible Forces, a vigilante group associated with the New Patriotic Party. According to the NADMO Coordinator for the area Gibril Kesse, members of the group stormed the office Monday morning and ordered the staff who had reported for ...