The Tradesmen of Kumasi
To mark the 60th anniversary of the end of colonial rule, London-based photographer Ricky Darko headed back to his birthplace of Kumasi, in the south of the country, to document what type of job...
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Wall Street Financier Busted For $800K Fake Loan Scheme
A Wall Street financier hatched an elaborate scheme to steal $800,000 from three clients, including a church, officials said. Anthony Nyame, CEO of General Capital Corporation, was arrested Wednesday...
School Proprietor Jailed 20 Years For Defiling 3-Year-Old
The Nsuta Circuit Court has sentenced the proprietor of the Grace Bible Preparatory School at Nsuta, in the Sekyere Central District, to 20 years imprisonment over child sex. Pastor Michael Oppong...
Akoto Osei Slams Colleague Ministers For Attending Event Late
The Minister of Monitoring and Evaluation, Dr Akoto Osei has slammed colleague Ministers for attending an event held for them and their Chief Directors, late. In his closing remarks as the...
Teacher Jailed 20 Years Over Defilement
The Nsuta Circuit Court has sentenced the proprietor of the Grace Bible Preparatory School at Nsuta, in the Sekyere Central District, to 20 years imprisonment over child sex. Pastor Michael Oppong...
Galamsey Is A Job and Not Wrong
Prophet Badu Kobi, General Overseer of Glorious Waves Church says ‘galamsey’ in itself is not wrong but a source of employment, however, what makes it bad is the destruction to water bodies. The...
Farmer, 31, Who Beheaded Son Remanded In Custody
The man who murdered his own son A 31-year-old farmer, Abdul Salam, who was arrested at Adidaase near Manso Amenfi in the Wassa Amenfi Central district of the Western Region for the gruesome murder...
I’ll Drop the Microphone and Make An Arrest If There Is Crime – SP Kofi Sarpong
Police Officer cum gospel musician, Supt. Kofi Sarpong, has revealed that performing on stage will not hinder him from performing his duty as a police officer. Addressing the media at the launch of...
Suspected Thief Lynched At Wassa Akropong
A 26-year-old taxi driver only identified as Kwame was on Thursday afternoon lynched at Wassa Akropong in the Amenfi East District of the Western region on suspicion of theft. The deceased was...
Residents ‘fight’ Queenmother Over Installation of New Chief
Tension is currently mounting at Kyempo near Juaso in the Ashanti Region as the Queenmother of the town. Nana Obiyaa Akyim 3rd is being accused of trying to install a chief for the town without...
Father Kills Son For Rituals In Asankrangwa
ASP Olivia Adiku who confirmed the story said the incident happened at Adidaase A 36-year-old man, Abdul Salam, has been arrested by the Asankrangwa Police for murdering his six-year-old son for...
19 Galamsey Machines Burnt
Operation Stop Galamsey Taskforce at Dunkwa Offin has burnt 19 illegal mining machines known in the local parlance as (Toetoeto) in Offin River. The machines were seized during their first operation...
Farmer Beheads Son In Western Region
The father says he murdered the boy in order to sell his body parts A 31-year-old farmer, Abdul Salam, has been arrested at Adidaase near Amanso Amenfi in the Wassa Amenfi East district of Western...
Man Murders Son For Rituals
Police in the Western region has arrested a middle-aged man for the alleged gruesome murder of his son for ritual purpose. The suspect, Abdul Salam, 36-year-old farmer buried the child in a shallow...
Tension At Wassa Fiase Over Installment of Rival Paramount Chief
Members of the Asomakoma royal family of Wassa Fiase were on Tuesday morning clad in red in a demonstration to send a warning to a rival family over the planned installment of a paramount chief for...
Aggrieved Illegal Miners Want Otumfuo To Get Gov’t To Soften Stands On Galamsey
Some aggrieved artisanal miners in the Ashanti region are to petition the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over government’s fight to halt illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, across the...
Natives of Sogakope Claim To Have Captured A Dwarf God
Sogakope, a town in the Volta Region was thrown into disarray after some locals claimed they had arrested a "dwarf god". If the sentence above reads preposterous to you, it is because it most likely...
Apologise To Okyenhene For Galamsey Comments – Group To Aburihene
The Okyeman Youth Association (OYA) has called on the Aburihene, Otobour Gyan Kwasi, to render apology to the Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, for passing a derogatory remark about him....
Asantehene Expresses Confidence In New NHIS Boss
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has expressed confidence in the Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority, Dr Samuel Yaw Annor to improve the scheme which is in a critical...
Group Wants GHAMRO Probed
A group calling itself Concerned Members of Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) in the Ashanti Region, has called for reforms into the operations of the association (GHAMRO) so as to deepen the...