The Ghana immigration Service has rescued some 150 girls from human traffickers along the countries border post. The service embarked on the rescue mission few weeks ago. Ghana has been identified as one of the countries in the world with a high rate of human trafficking. Analysts have predicted that the situation if not checked ...

Pupils from the school for the deaf and blind in Mampong and Akropong in the Eastern Region were overwhelmed with gratitude when First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo on donated items worth thousands of Ghana cedis to the institutions. The items which included mattresses, dining tables and chairs, sanitary pads, clothes and provisions were to help the ...

Silky-voiced gospel minstrel, Abena Ruthy has released the video to her new single ‘Aseda.’ The song which is done in reggae vein talks about God’s abundant grace, kindness and tender mercies. ‘Aseda’ is taken off on her current ten-track CD album ‘Higher Praise’ and it features one of Ghana’s talented vocalists, Nacee. The video was ...

The Minority in Parliament is demanding an immediate intervention by government in the current impasse that has rocked the University of Education, Winneba. They want the Minister of Education Matthew Opoku Prempeh to mediate in the crisis which affected the smooth running of the school. A Winneba High Court on Friday ordered the Vice Chancellor ...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned home on Saturday after medical treatment in Singapore, the state broadcaster said, putting to rest speculation over the 93-year-old’s whereabouts. The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation said Mugabe, who left for Singapore last Saturday, “had eye surgery in the Asian country a few years ago” and had returned for a “routine medical ...

Microsoft has ended support for its Windows 8 smartphones, as the US tech giant focuses on other segments, amid ongoing speculation about its strategy for mobile. Users of Windows-powered phones – which have failed badly against rivals from Apple and Google Android – were invited to upgrade to its latest Windows 10 version after Microsoft ...

Meet Kofi, a twelve-year-old boy who works at a gold mine in the Central Region. On Monday Kofi is working to bring home some money for his parents and five siblings. By Wednesday he is dead. His body is dragged out from the crumbled remains of the mud wall that had collapsed in the large ...

Meet Kofi, a twelve-year-old boy who works at a gold mine in the Central Region. On Monday Kofi is working to bring home some money for his parents and five siblings. By Wednesday he is dead. His body is dragged out from the crumbled remains of the mud wall that had collapsed in the large ...

Largest privately owned Ghanaian bank, Fidelity Bank has expanded its agent network to make its services readily available to all customers and potential customers of the Bank. Under its Agency Banking Division, the Bank currently has over one thousand Agents across the ten (10) regions of Ghana. Fidelity Bank has also upgraded its Agent Management ...

A group affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) calling itself the Coalition of NPP Youth in the Northern Region, is on a regional campaign dubbed, “Retain Chairman Bugri.” The group’s mission is to convince the NPP regional Electoral College to renew Daniel Bugri Naabu’s mandate. The group is persuaded by the outspoken NPP ...

The Ministry of Health on Wednesday, received the first batch of ultra-modern digital radiology X-Ray equipment from the Delft Imaging Systems, a Dutch company, for the swift screening of suspected Tuberculosis (TB) cases across the country. The Delft technology, which is a highly effective means to improve patient diagnoses and referral of TB cases and ...

Hundreds of Ghanaians who trade at the Mallam market in Accra risk serious health implications if nothing is done about the illegal landfill site located in the market. Market women there as well as customers seem to be battling with the bad odor, but city authorities in charge of keeping the city clean have not ...

Ships carrying personnel for China’s first overseas military base have set sail to begin setting up the facility in Djibouti, as the country’s rapidly modernising military extends its global reach. The warships departed from Zhanjiang in southern China to set up a “support base” in the Horn of Africa nation, state media reported late on Tuesday. China’s agreement ...

Scores of Ghanaians within the sports fraternity on Saturday thronged the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to pay their last respect to their colleague, Christopher Opoku, who passed away some three months ago. Some of the sports journalists included Karl Tuffuor, Sammy Bartels, Veronica Commey, Nathan Quao, Benjamin Nketsia among others. Christopher ...

The Member of Parliament for the Okaikoi North constituency, Fuseini Issah, wants former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Inusah Fuseini, queried for not informing the security agencies before fixing an audio visual device at the ministry when he served in that office. “When it comes to devices being planted it looks all like a ...

Hundreds of mourners gathered at the funeral of the late sports journalist, Christopher Opoku, were moved to tears as emotional tributes about the broadcaster were read by his wife, family, Citi FM and other associates. The funeral, ongoing at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology  (KNUST) at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, has ...

An angry mob lynched three suspects recently at Nator Banori, a village near Nadowli, in the Upper West Region. The deceased are currently at the Upper West Regional Hospital Morgue in Wa. Briefing the media in Wa, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Edward Oduro Kwarteng, the Deputy Upper West Regional Police Commander, said at about ...

The Ghana Police has said it has begun an exercise to arrest drivers who drive on the shoulders of the road during rush hours as well as those who use sirens unnecessarily. According to the Police, they have so far arrested 17 drivers who have engaged in such acts in Cantonments in Accra. “So far, ...

8,275 out of school children in northern Ghana have successfully completed a 9-month learning course on literacy in numeracy. The children, aged between 8 and 14, were selected from seven districts in the Upper west region, 2 in the Brong Ahafo and 1 in the Northern region under the cycle four of the Complementary Basic ...

Ghana might witness more violent incidents involving extremely desperate individuals and armed criminals willing to fight the Police Service  in the coming years, if its officers are not equipped with the requisite logistics needed to effectively deliver on its mandate, Security Analyst, Kwesi Anning has warned. His caution follows Inspector General of Police, David Apeatu’s ...